Journo’s Everton red card stat says everything about this season
Everton fell to a 2-1 defeat against West Ham this afternoon as their Premier League relegation fears heightened at the London Stadium.
Aaron Cresswell and Jarrod Bowen scored the goals for the Hammers to cancel out Mason Holgate’s deflected strike to subject the Toffees to another loss on the road.
More worryingly, however, Michael Keane was sent off in the second half for a second bookable offence that not even the most biased of Everton fan could have defended.
Journalist Richard Jolly then revealed, via Twitter, an eye-opening statistic after the full-time whistle that will have made even Frank Lampard take notice.
Apparently, Everton have now received more red cards in their last three games than the manager did in his entire Premier League career.
Keane is now unavailable for midweek’s crucial game against Burnley that could play a massive role in the relegation battle.
Cut it out
It shouldn’t take a genius to realise that you’ve got a better chance of winning games if you have all 11 of your players on the pitch for the whole 90 minutes.
Showing a bit of fight and commitment is exactly what we want to see but it can go too far and that has happened far too often recently.
Admittedly, Keane’s wasn’t one moment of madness today, rather just two poorly timed challenges and you could see in his face he knew he’d messed up as soon as he brought Michail Antonio down.
The dismissal won’t have made much difference however as Everton never looked like scoring a second time and even the first came via a huge deflection.
Lampard needs to have stern words with his players now for not just their performances but also their discipline because that could be the difference between playing Premier League or Championship football next season.
In other Everton news, Jonathan Woodgate slammed one Toffees player after what he did after the game.
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