Everton

2022 - 3 - 14

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Everton can't really get themselves relegated, can they? (Deadspin)

In the previous decade, we could have asked this question about Aston Villa, West Ham, or Newcastle. All of those clubs are of the same size as Everton, ...

Everton don’t have to be good, they just have to be less clueless than those two. Which is hard to do when there’s a runway right to them through van de Beek and whichever goofus between Allan and Abdoulaye Doucouré is crammed into the midfield. And on the last day of the season. The additions of Dele Alli and Donny van de Beek was supposed to liven up things. They still have to see West Ham and Manchester United, and both will be chasing the last Champions League place. And that includes that game of laser-tag they got against Leeds. They’ve only scored four real goals, three of which came against Leeds. Their last four games have seen just four shots on target combined. All of it has left Everton in 17th, just one spot above the relegation zone, with the same amount of points as Watford below them and only goal-difference saving them from seeing a red square next to their name in the table. They still have to skip across Stanley Park to see Liverpool who will be trying to chase down City for the title. While Lampard had one good season as manager of Chelsea before it all went wrong, this idiot claimed he was a touch hard done by, thanks to the struggles (or inertia) of his goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. In that one season when Chelsea had a transfer-embargo, Lampard got some plaudits for being tactically flexible and switching his team to whatever system was required. His only win in the league was against a Leeds side that had already given up on Marcelo Bielsa and was providing all the defensive resistance of a puppy requesting belly rubs. Lampard has added two wins in the FA Cup, and one of those was against a semi-professional side. In the previous decade, we could have asked this question about Aston Villa, West Ham, or Newcastle. All of those clubs are of the same size as Everton, all should be comfortably in the second tier of the Premier League behind the big six, if not breaking into the big six themselves.

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Everton news and transfers - Lampard message, Calvert-Lewin latest (Liverpool Echo)

Everton transfer news, rumours, gossip and speculation including the latest on Ben Brereton-Diaz, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Cenk Tosun, and Moise Kean.

The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans." "At the moment they're chasing their tails. I think they've got to beat Newcastle. You've only got to look at their fixtures - they're atrocious. To read the full story, click here. 21/22 STH with 13+ credits from the 21/22 season from Friday 17 March at 10am *21/22 STH with 10+ credits from the 21/22 season from Friday 17 March at 2pm 21/22 STH with 16+ credits from the 21/22 season from Wednesday 16 March at 2pm To read the full story, click here. 21/22 STH with 18 credits from the 21/22 season from Wednesday 16 March at 10am The Blues struggled to gather any kind of momentum in the first half of the match due to countless stoppages in play and were unable to experience a change in fortunes after the restart. The Blues were beaten on Sunday afternoon to extend their poor run of form in the top-flight and increase relegation fears.

Everton vs Wolves live stream and how to watch Premier League online and on TV, team news (unknown)

Everton welcome Wolves to Goodison Park on Sunday for a massive game at both ends of the table. Wolves are looking to complete the double over the Toffees ...

Even if you have subscribed to the relevant Everton vs Wolves live stream rights holders, you won't be able to access them when outside your own country. The show won't be available straight after the programme finishes its live broadcast. talkSPORT is the only commercial radio broadcaster with live Premier League football rights. For Everton vs Wolves, you may wish to choose 'US' for Peacock TV. Let's not forget the wireless. US soccer fans can watch an Everton vs Wolves live stream on Peacock TV for just $4.99 per month, and many more Premier League games besides. All the information passing back and forth is entirely encrypted. Wolves were pushing for a Champions League place not too long ago, but recent defeats to Arsenal, West Ham and Crystal Palace have cut them adrift of the race for the top four. Illness meant Michael Keane could only play 45 mins against Tottenham and he's only on the bench today, but Demarai Gray is fit to start. Make sure you know how to watch an Everton vs Wolves live stream from anywhere. Wolves are looking to complete the double over the Toffees for the first time in 50 years, although they've only been beaten at home by Wolves once in their last 10 meetings. We recommend ExpressVPN as it's reliable and comes with a risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Frank Lampard could face tough Everton question we all now ... (Liverpool Echo)

Fans now have genuine fears Everton could be relegated after an eighth defeat in nine Premier League matches during 2022 leaves Frank Lampard's side outside ...

Those struggles weren’t in the spring though and if it does go to the final day, unlike those aforementioned ‘Great Escapes’ of ’94 and ’98, Everton are away to Arsenal, the fixture they’ve taken the least points per game from in Premier League history. The first was a real-life ‘Roy of the Rovers’ story as a Blues team full of characters – they proved their mettle the following year by beating Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United in the FA Cup final – came back from 2-0 down to triumph 3-2. If Everton are to survive then it looks like it could well be with much fewer than the traditional 40-point safety barometer and will be more down to the ineptitude of others than any sort of remarkable survival bid from themselves. Should we be encouraged by the Blues home-grown hero’s confidence or are he and his team-mates just blind to the facts of a situation now staring the rest of us in the face? Somehow, Everton survived three separate opportunities over the past fortnight for Burnley to leapfrog them in the table and put them into the relegation zone before they even kicked-off against Wolves but following Watford’s 2-1 victory at Southampton – a ground where the Blues, without a Premier League away win since August 28, fell to a sorry defeat less than a month ago – only goal difference currently keeps them out of the bottom three. We can attempt to shield our kids from many things and there’s a lot of issues in the news right now that put the fortunes of football teams into context – in recent weeks, I (probably along with millions of parents across Europe) have been asked by my teenagers to provide definitive assurances that there won’t be a Third World War – but when they see Everton losing week after week, it becomes ever more difficult to sugar-coat any ripostes.

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Report | Everton 0-1 Wolves (wolves.co.uk)

Conor Coady's brilliant header earned Wolves a second win in the space of four days at Goodison Park. The skipper rose highest to expertly glance home Ruben ...

Podence, who replaced Hwang in the early change, also shot wide from distance as Wolves enjoyed an improved second period. If things took a while to get going in the first-half, the second made up for it, as Wolves began on the front foot and were rewarded. Hee Chan Hwang’s early departure, having taken a whack from Kenny and tried to run it off, was the main talking point of the opening stages.

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Second-Half Strike Condemns Everton To Defeat (Everton Football)

This contest, against Wolverhampton Wanderers, was decided by Conor Coady's header four minutes after half-time. Everton, who finished the match with 10 men ...

Dele was an increasing influence on the game, meanwhile. There was an element of spice threaded through the game, right from the Hwang episode. What of Pickford in the opening half? Everton’s task grew harder when Kenny was sent off following two cautions in three minutes. He was barely needed. And their failure to take advantage gave Everton a glimmer of optimism in the last of four minutes of stoppage time when Moutinho tripped Coleman on the 18-yard line. They are a tough nut to crack and Everton's task became even more demanding when playing a man down. Andros Townsend, on for Gray, sent the dead ball travelling the wrong side of the post and Everton’s last hope of rescuing a point disappeared. Coleman took issue with a few Wolves players for a perceived injustice around the same time and, later in the half, the sight of Podence and Jordan Pickford squabbling while waiting for a corner epitomised the teams’ fractious relations. The South Korean forward was up and down like a jack in a box, genuinely hurt after sustaining a blow but hell bent on trying to continue. When an Everton player in possession lifted his head, then, the view was repeatedly filled with a bank of old gold. Everton collected nothing from the first half of a five-day Goodison Park double header – and must now dust themselves down in time for a visit from Newcastle United on Thursday.

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Lampard is too busy with alibis to change Everton's fate (Football365.com)

Frank Lampard has been distancing himself from the mess at Everton ever since his first defeat. They need coaching inspiration, not excuses.

Eddie Howe (1.56) has waved the same “magic wand” Lampard continues to protest is not available in the Premier League – and it would be foolish to put all that down to money instead of coaching and problem-solving. The Tottenham shellacking necessitated a formation switch to a three-man defence that engendered a vague improvement – although the bar set on Monday was dreadfully low. Wolves merely had to be efficient and organised to coast to victory. They understood it before I arrived because they had been on a long run without a win,” said Lampard after a crushing defeat to Tottenham in his fifth league match. There would be no shame in admitting, publicly or privately, that the challenge initially presented is both far greater than first thought and something he was never prepared for. I’ve come into the club when they were on a run of results that’s left them in the position we’re in. A club in constant search for greater meaning and identity has been psychologically self-impaired for decades. But nor were those defeats: four in a row without scoring under Lampard; more overall than every Premier League club bar Watford and Norwich. Everton have scored barely a goal a game while conceding close to two. “I have come to a situation where we have to get better in a lot of things. The Lampardian Transition will never be beaten but those 12 months out of management seem to have been spent painstakingly developing a new interview technique. No longer is Lampard indelibly tethered to the viral monster he helped create. His latest method is more fluid, free to manipulate and manoeuvre as the situation demands.

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Frank Lampard: Everton crowd have every right to boo team off at ... (Sky Sports)

Wolves plunged Everton further into relegation trouble as Conor Coadys second-half header left only goal difference keeping them out of the drop zone; ...

Yes, they have three games in hand on Watford and one on Burnley but games in hand are absolutely worthless if you can't win football matches. Frank Lampard has had little impact in changing their fortunes around either. It is now just goal difference separating them from the drop zone. A run of just nine points from the last 60 available and only two league wins since September has left a squad drained of confidence in danger of dropping out of the top flight for only the third time in their history and first since 1951. And the scenes at full-time in the stands at Goodison Park mirrored that fear and anger towards their team. It is now a hinderance.

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Lampard and the glazed expression of confused impotence at Everton (The Guardian)

After all, they'd surely pick up six points from their matches in the Goodison cauldron against Wolves and Newcastle, whereupon any notions of impending ...

Ralf Rangnick has a just-about-fully-fit Manchester United squad to choose from for their meeting with Atlético Madrid on Tuesday, but is concerned about tiny punctuation marks following one member of his squad. Time to forget about the league and concentrate on the cup? We’re all to blame, not one more than the other” – PSG defender Presnel Kimpembe on the jeers from home fans during the win against Bordeaux on Sunday, rather than the atmosphere in the dressing room after the defeat to Real Madrid. We think. What’s the record for most consecutive questions asked at one of Tommy T’s press conferences?” – Ed Taylor. Lampard, in one of those excruciating Fronting Up post-match interviews, insisted that “we have belief” and that his team will “keep fighting for it”. That’s the sort of tough talk that used to work so well at peak-Jose Chelsea – Claude Makélélé, John Terry, all that – but doesn’t land so firmly when you’re relying on Dele Alli and Jarrad Branthwaite. Everton still have matches in hand on those around them at the bottom, but should they fail to pick up all three points later this week against a Newcastle team suddenly good enough to give the European and world champions a game, that might not count for too much, because the rest of that run-in is testing, to say the very least. After all, they’d surely pick up six points from their matches in the Goodison cauldron against Wolves and Newcastle, whereupon any notions of impending relegation would become fanciful and the chance to riff, bebop and scat on Frank Lampard’s pain would be gone.

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Everton fans have become more apathetic than angry, but club still ... (iNews)

There is little sign of the Goodison roar which powered Everton to the early triumphs of Lampard's reign as the Toffees are pulled into a relegation ...

But the team is nigh for doing something about them, with a tricky run of fixtures following the Newcastle game. Anger is energy that can be channelled if the team find a spark from somewhere. A horrific week that began with a feckless defeat to Tottenham has pulled the club closer to a first relegation in nearly seven decades.

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