Here are your Everton FC evening headlines for Monday, December 14.
Bournemouth reaction
It’s been a very, very bad week for everyone at the football club from Frank Lampard, the players and the fans. Those same supporters have shown huge desire to go down to Bournemouth and back twice in the space of four days with the amount they’ll have spent on fuel and hotels in a cost of living crisis and we just hoped that they’d show a reaction to the Carabao Cup disappointment in the Premier League game.
Frank said after being knocked out of the cup that the squad members who had not been playing but who had been given a chance, had no excuses now but unfortunately, given how badly Saturday went, they could now be back into the mix again!
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The post-match exchange between some of Everton’s team and the supporters was not nice to see and I get both sides. I’ve been there as a player where I’ve felt embarrassed and I’d give a quick clap to the fans and just get down the tunnel because I didn’t want the confrontation.
You don’t know what kind of reaction you’re going to get from the fans and like it or lump it, as a player you’ve got to take it on the chin. If you go over to them in such circumstances, you’re liable to opening up a can of worms.
Read the rest of Michael Ball's column here.
U21s 'passion' defended
Everton Under-21s boss Paul Tait backed the "passion" behind the red cards handed to two of his frustrated starlets in the side's defeat to Southampton.
Sebastian Quirk and Isaac Price were both sent off in the closing stages of the 2-1 defeat, Quirk for a second yellow card and Price for dissent. There were positives to take from defeat despite the result, with Ben Godfrey making a major step in his comeback by playing for the first hour and, with two U21s having been involved with the first team, six second-year scholars and one first-year scholar earned vital experience.
The red cards came as Everton chased the group stage game, which they had led through Price. Of the dismissals, Tait said both must learn from the experience.
“It’s just passion, I’m not going to take that out of them," Tait said. "Seb’s on a yellow card, he’s got to learn to play on a yellow card, but he’s passionate, he’s a Blue, he wants to win, and he’s gone through someone, but he will learn from it. Isaac has said something to the referee because he’s frustrated. He was our best player by a mile and he’s flying at the moment.”
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