Simon Jordan thinks Everton survival hopes hang on result of next two games
Simon Jordan believes survival is still in the hands of Everton despite results over the weekend seeing them drop into the bottom three for the first time.
The Toffees were beaten 2-0 at Anfield in a controversial game, making it eight straight defeats on the road for Frank Lampard’s side.
But speaking on talkSPORT [April 25, 10:15], Jordan admitted he thinks the results of the next two games for Everton and Burnley are the most important of the season, with the blues ‘bang in trouble’ if they go against them.
“Nobody expected Everton to get a result at Liverpool, so with that in mind it’s difficult to suggest that you should be coming away from that game any more disappointed than you went into it,” he said.
“I should think you come away from that game thinking we’re not on the end of a 5-0 tanking, because we’re that far away from them.
“The next two games for me, Burnley away to Watford and home to Villa, and Everton at home to Chelsea and away to Leicester.
“If the situation stays as it is now, then Everton have had a result in terms of only two points behind them with a game in hand.
“If it gets wider and Everton lose both of those games and somehow or another Burnley get three points, I think Everton are really, really bang in trouble then.
“But I still think it’s in their hands. They still have the game in hand and it’s all about the next two results.”
Hope
Everton need anything they can get right now, with relegation seeming like a far more realistic option than it has done at any other point in recent memory.
But the one game in hand that the club have got is the strand of hope that the fans and anyone else associated with the club are clinging to in their chase for survival.
They currently sit two points behind Burnley, who have accumulated 22% of their season point tally in their last three games, and have the tougher run-in to end the season on.
But that game in hand provides a chance to turn it around, but before then they must stay in touch with them and the two games in between are now the most important.
If they lose those games and find themselves cut adrift by the time the game in hand comes around, then it won’t matter that they’ve played less games. Fingers crossed that isn’t the case.
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