Frank Lampard in straight shootout in Everton clash v Bournemouth as pressure rises
Things are starting to look a lot less rosy for Everton and Frank Lampard after the club slumped to a lacklustre defeat to Leicester City on Saturday 5th November.
A win would have seen the Blues rise to the top half of the Premier League, instead, they are now looking anxiously down the face of the relegation zone.
Liverpool Echo journalist Chris Beesley has now suggested that there is ” increasing pressure” on Everton and Lampard to win against Bournemouth.
“The unprecedented nature of the calendar for the current campaign adds increasing pressure to this weekend’s loss,” said Beesley as quoted by the Liverpool Echo.
“Lampard and Gary O’Neil – Bournemouth’s caretaker boss since their 9-0 drubbing at Anfield – now face the prospect of a straight shoot-out next weekend to ensure their sides avoid falling into the danger zone at a pivotal and psychologically-damaging moment of the season.”
Back him.
Yes, the pressure is mounting on Lampard but suggesting that Everton’s poor defeat on Saturday is down completely to the manager is just wrong.
His current attacking options are simply not good enough to rely on week in, and week out in the Premier League.
Neal Maupay, Anthony Gordon, Dwight McNeil, Demarai Gray and Dominic Calvert-Lewin all still have question marks above their heads.
Lampard has shown briefly in the transfer market what he can achieve with signings made by him.
The likes of Conor Coady, James Tarkowski, Idrissa Gueye and Amadou Onana were all Lampard’s ideas and have given Everton a solid spine.
This isn’t a time to be getting silly and shouting for Lampard to be ousted, it’s a time to back him fully but that needs to start from the hierarchy of the club first.
With the January transfer window right around the corner, there is no better time than to get things back on track.
Forward reinforcements must be made.