After a slow start, Everton started to find their feet as the game went on and it reminded me of the kind of performance made famous by a good friend of Frank Lampard’s his former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. Tottenham had a lot of possession but they didn’t really threaten Jordan Pickford in that first half and when they got in between the lines, we were in the right spaces and pressing.
We were working hard as a team and it had all the hallmarks of a potentially fantastic away performances against tough opponents but the flip side was whether we had the quality to hurt them on the counter-attack when we got the opportunity. Unfortunately, despite carving out a couple of great chances, we didn’t show the kind of composure required to put them away in the net.
If we’d have gone in at the break a goal or two up, like we really could have been, then everyone would be saying how it was a Lampard masterplan, perfectly executed. That’s how Mourinho did it at Chelsea and he even played that way at Real Madrid with the best players in the world.
