For the first time in the club’s history, Everton changed their entire team for a League Cup tie and were unceremoniously dumped out of the competition with a 4-1 thrashing by a mostly second string Bournemouth side which begs the question, if they’re prepared to just toss away one of their two realistic opportunities for silverware, what exactly is the Blues’ raison d’etre in English football right now?
Let’s get this into context, Frank Lampard is the club’s most-popular and in tune manager for several years and deserves the time and support to turn things around, but he chose to name an entirely different 11 to the one that had started the Premier League game against Leicester City on Saturday evening for an away Carabao Cup tie against a fellow top flight opponent.
That is too many. Far too many, and so it was borne out with the result as Everton were handed a humiliating battering at the same ground they will now return to in just three days’ time for a crucial Premier League fixture.
