Here are your Everton morning headlines for Sunday, November 6.
Kevin Campbell delivers brutally honest Dominic Calvert-Lewin verdict
Kevin Campbell believes Dominic Calvert-Lewin's hopes of making England's World Cup squad are all but over after the striker's latest setback during Everton's loss to Leicester City.
The Blues were beaten by two goals at Goodison Park on Saturday evening, courtesy of strikes from Youri Tielemans and Harvey Barnes. Matters were made worse by injuries sustained by Amadou Onana, Idrissa Gueye and Calvert-Lewin, with the latter limping down the tunnel after 'feeling something in his hamstring'.
VERDICT: Everton must answer huge summer question that is harming Frank Lampard progress
REACTION: Alex Iwobi fires blunt 'problem' message to Everton team-mates after Leicester defeat
Everton's No.9 has endured his fair share of injury blows in recent times and only made his return to the first-team in October, having missed the opening eight Premier League fixtures of this campaign. The 25-year-old is now set to undergo a scan to ascertain the seriousness of his hamstring issue.
With the World Cup fast approaching, Calvert-Lewin may well may face a race against time to be in contention for Gareth Southgate's 26-man squad. Offering his assessment of the likely outcome awaiting the Toffees' talisman in respect of the tournament in Qatar, Campbell told Sky Sports: "Well, he's not going. It was a long shot to start with."
Tom Cavilla has the full story here.
Blunt Everton message sums up defeat
In his programme notes, manager Frank Lampard told fans: “I feel like an Evertonian and that wasn’t a throwaway remark”. So if the boss is now a true Blue he’ll understand the blunt single-word summary one supporter delivered to this correspondent after the final whistle. Sometimes football journalists pontificate over hundreds of words when delivering their assessment of events that unfolded on the pitch but this particular Goodison Park veteran – clearly long enough in the tooth to remember the glory days of the club’s title-winning years - was rather more succinct and to the point.
As this correspondent walked down the stairs of the Main Stand along the concourses between the Press Box and Media Room, on spotting the laptop computer I was carrying, he enquired: “Do you know how to spell s****?” Appointed on January 31, Lampard will have long since learned that passionate Evertonians do not tend to mince their words but after overcoming a hat-trick of defeats to opponents likely to finish above them this term, the Blues had bounced back with four points from their previous two fixtures and this seemed like a big opportunity lost.
Read Chris Beesley's full analysis here.
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