Nathan Patterson was given his second pre-season runout for Everton but it was a miserable night for the Scotland full-back and his Toffees team-mates as they went down to a 4-0 defeat by Minnesota United in America.
And afterwards a furious Frank Lampard pulled no punches as he delivered a damning verdict on the performance of his side, saying: “The players in the dressing room need to understand that they’ve put in a very poor performance individually and collectively."
The former England midfielder also warned they could be in another relegation dogfight next season having pulled off a great escape last season. He said: "If we don’t want to be in that situation again, they have to be better and I have to be better. As a club, it (the Minnesota game) reinforced the situation in terms of what we need to do with the squad, because it has to be stronger than what we saw tonight."
