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Everton boss Martinez: Ref never had control

Everton boss Roberto Martinez was unimpressed by ref John Moss' performance in defeat to Manchester City.

Everton took the lead, but were over-run by City to lose 3-1 at the Etihad.

The Spaniard said: "My overall disappointment is that the game wasn't controlled at all by the referee.

"There was an incident before we conceded the second goal where Seamus Coleman got involved with Alvaro Negredo, there was an argument.

"There were three players out of the action and you need to see that as a referee and do something about it.

"Then the penalty - if that's a penalty, it's going to be an impossible game. There's contact but there's no impeding. That should never be a penalty, and he didn't have the consistency to give a penalty for Lukaku and Nastastic."

City manager Manuel Pellegrini felt discussion of the referee's performance was incidental to the result, saying: "I never talk about referees but I am sure the difference between Manchester City and Everton today was not the referee.

"They had just one chance to score. We scored three goals and we had four or five other chances."

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