Your evening Everton headlines for Sunday, January 15.
Everton desperately need change to stop what all fans know will happen
The tragedy of when the Titanic sank was that a crew member had spotted the iceberg the ship was careering towards but it was too late to prevent disaster. The same notion applies to Everton’s current situation as the cataclysmic course they are set upon also leads down and in their case out of the top flight of English football for a first relegation in 72 years.
Last season, despite posting the joint lowest equivalent points total in the club’s 134-year Football League and Premier League history, the Blues narrowly avoided the drop, only staying up with a dramatic 3-2 comeback win over Crystal Palace in their final home game. The ECHO’s front page proclaimed: “We love you Everton – just don’t put us through this again!” and added: “Toffees secure Premier League survival on one of the most memorable nights in Goodison’s long history… but it shouldn’t have come to this.”
Yet here we are, at the halfway point of the very next season and Frank Lampard’s side have the fewest points of any Everton team midway through a Premier League campaign - a pathetic 15, which is the lowest in the division along with basement club Southampton, who have now caught them up, and their next opponents West Ham United, whom the Blues sit between in the drop zone. Whereas the general feeling in 2021/22 was that an under-achieving squad had lost its way and going down would still have been something of a shock, nobody at Goodison Park can pretend there hasn’t been forewarning this time around.
ANALYSIS: Blame game points to two targets as damning signal sent by Frank Lampard
VERDICT:Everton crisis hits new low as four nightmare themes haunt Frank Lampard
In the 23 matches that Everton have played since Lampard and the fans celebrated staying up after beating Palace, the corresponding fixture this season is the only other occasion on which they have scored three goals. After that, the 2-1 win at Southampton on October 1 was the only other time they have scored more than one goal in a game.
Read the full story, here.
Kevin Thelwell cuts lonely figure before £88m near miss as Everton fans send blunt message
Everton’s miserable season hit a new low on Saturday as Southampton became the second bottom-of-the-table side to triumph in the past three matches at Goodison Park with their 2-1 comeback win inflicting a fourth consecutive home defeat on the Blues for the first time since 1958. While the result left Frank Lampard’s side in the Premier League relegation zone at the halfway point of the campaign, here are some things you might not have spotted from the game.
Read the moments missed, here.
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