Everton does not overcome the 1-2 defeat against Burnley in the Premier League: coach Ancelotti does not explain that lack of forcefulness, he does not understand how the points escaped and the players also do not manage to give him answers.
There are already 6 defeats and 2 draws at Goodison Park for the Premier League and that is why nothing is ruled out: are the players blocked at home? Are you lonely without your fans in the stands? Does it have something to do with the stadium being built on top of a cemetery? Should a psychologist be called a ‘medium’?
Much has been written about the lack of the talent of a man like James Rodríguez, who has already completed 4 games out due to injury and who will remain absent until next month. But that is not what Everton would be missing the most: it is the team’s performance throughout the 90 minutes and, more than anything, the lack of forcefulness in the last 45.
“This weekend’s loss resulted in 11 straight home league games that Everton failed to score in the second half. The last time they did it, Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed in to equalize the Merseyside derby in October. Since then, Leeds, West Ham, Newcastle, Fulham and now Burnley have traveled to Goodison and left with all three points, “said the Liverpool Echo newspaper.
Something happens when the computer plays at home that does not finish charging the battery and seems to play half machine. It happened last Saturday against Burnley, after a first half for oblivion and a complement with no reaction. But it has happened before and there is no way that coach Ancelotti, with all his experience, can reverse it.
“Everton’s six second-half league goals at Goodison represent 31.6 percent of the total amount scored at home this period, which is far less than what they have achieved away from home,” the source states. In fact, 10 of the 21 goals came after the break, but with one caveat: three of them came in a single game, in the incredible comeback against Manchester United, with a goal from James Rodríguez.
What to do? For Ancelotti, a principle of solution is to win back the fans: “There are only 2,000, but in the last period, when our performances were not so good, we needed help. Especially at home against United and Leeds and we could have more points on the table with our fans, “said DT in December.
The news is that it is had, but it is delayed: there would be 10,000 fans in the duel against Wolves, although that will be until mid-May and only in the last home game. Delete him from the Ancelotti list.
What you have to do, knowing that there are alternatives for the injured because the squad has given sufficient proof of this, is to find a way to make the team consistent for 90 minutes, that is not a single time – sometimes none – and not the ‘toffee’ themselves that give their rivals tools to hurt them: “visiting teams are quickly learning that the second half is where they can really exploit the ‘Blues’,” says the Echo.
Whatever the mental block of the players, the chip that makes them explode at times and not in a sustained way throughout the game, the coach needs to find the medicine. Yes, James and his talent are missing. Worse, it is neither the only thing nor, clearly, it is enough to have it in the field to solve a failure that is structural. The Italian will have to work on that a lot with his players if he wants to continue dreaming of a return to the Champions League.
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