As the Blues digest a miserable 3-0 defeat at the hands of Bournemouth, it's time for your Everton morning headlines on Sunday, November 13.
Conor Coady reveals Everton dressing room inquest after Bournemouth hammering
Conor Coady has cited a drop in personal standards and pride among the Everton squad as reason for today's dismal 3-0 defeat at Bournemouth.
The Toffees lost at the Vitality Stadium for the second time in five days as goals from Marcus Tavernier, Kieffer Moore and Jaidon Anthony came without reply. Everton's profligacy in front of goal was clear to see once again and they have now failed to score in their last three league games, but more concerning for Frank Lampard will have been the mistakes from the usually-reliable defensive unit.
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Jordan Pickford spilled a shot into Tavernier's path for the opener, and the marking for the two goals that followed left alot to be desired - although James Tarkowski was on the ground with what looked like a head injury when Moore headed in from close range. But rather than point to individual errors or decisions going against his side, Coady lamented his side's efforts as 'nowhere near good enough'.
"You can say what you want about the second goal but it's nowhere near good enough from our point of view," Coady told Evertontv. "I don't want to speak about the referee not doing his job or whatever, we speak about referees after every game so I'm not going to do that when we've just put out a performance like that against Bournemouth."
Read the full story HERE.
Fans make Frank Lampard point as blunt Jordan Pickford message sent
Frank Lampard went into this week as arguably the most strongly-backed manager brought in by Farhad Moshiri but given the Everton owner’s track record for pressing the panic button, the current Blues boss could now be wary of the fan backlash that has accompanied these three successive defeats. Lampard has been onside with the majority of Evertonians from the start – along with Carlo Ancelotti whose unequalled credentials in football’s leading dugouts made him something of an untouchable at Goodison Park, he is the only one of Moshiri’s appointments to be afforded his own song – but the cheers have quickly turned to jeers this week through the sequence of bum notes on the pitch.
In many ways the antithesis of his emotionally-distant predecessor Rafael Benitez, Lampard has tapped into the passion of Everton and harnessed those emotions but ultimately like the former Liverpool manager, who lost nine of his last 13 Premier League matches in charge, and indeed as all in his profession are, he will be judged upon results. Half of the top flight’s bottom eight clubs – including Bournemouth – have sacked the manager they started this season with and while most of us who care for the Blues and watch them on a regular basis recognise the folly of the constant cycle of hiring and firing that has sent the club on a downward spiral on the field under the current regime, questions are now being asked by some.
The last thing Everton need is to rip it up and start again with continuity desperately required ahead of building a team worthy of gracing the magnificent stadium they are constructing to move into in the 2024/25 season but the Blues also need to ensure they’re competing in the Premier League when they decamp to their new 52,888 capacity home on the banks of the Mersey. As Lampard himself admitted after this game, while this was always going to be a season of rebuilding and transition, both he and his players still need to be doing better… certainly much better than this.
Read the full analysis from Chris Beesley, our Everton writer, HERE.
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