Everton’s Premier League relegation fears deepened significantly as they collapsed to a 5-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur with Harry Kane scoring twice for the rampant hosts on Monday.
Michael Keane’s calamitous personal objective started the rout within the 14th minute and Son Heung-min made it 2-0 earlier than Kane slotted residence his first of the night to make it 3-0.
Halftime substitute Sergio Reguilon made it 4-0 together with his first contact of the sport and Kane’s luxurious volley accomplished a totally depressing journey to the capital for Everton.
Tottenham have now scored 9 objectives with out reply of their final two league video games and are degree on 45 factors with sixth positioned West Ham United having performed two video games much less.
Everton’s seventh loss in eight league video games left them one place and one level above the underside three and supervisor Frank Lampard faces an enormous process to make sure top-flight survival.
The Merseyside membership’s 22 factors is their lowest ever top-flight haul after 25 video games.
While Tottenham performed fluently of their largest residence league win since 2019, Everton had been woeful.
Tottenham followers loved taunting former Chelsea nice Lampard who took cost on the finish of January within the wake of Rafa Benitez’s sacking.
Disorganised in defence, missing chew in midfield and non-existent up entrance the place they didn’t even handle an try heading in the right direction, they made life straightforward for Tottenham who at the moment are solely three factors behind fourth-placed Arsenal having performed a sport extra.
“Individual errors led to goals which took the game away from us. It’s difficult when you’re 2-0 or 3-0 down,” Lampard stated. “The reaction was not good enough. It was the reaction of a team used to losing away from home. We need to sort it out.”
Asked in regards to the prospects of Everton preserving their top-flight standing that stretches again to 1954, Lampard pulled no punches. “I could tell there was a fear of relegation when I came in. The base stats don’t lie.
“This challenge isn’t bigger than I expected, I knew it would be.”
Lampard stated that Everton had been ‘comfortable’ within the opening phases however when Keane, beneath stress from Kane, volleyed Ryan Sessegnon’s cross previous Jordan Pickford they disintegrated.
Three minutes later Kane discovered Dejan Kulusevski who in flip launched Son who netted with a shot Pickford might need saved.
Son wasted one other superb probability quickly after earlier than Matt Doherty’s completely weighted via ball despatched Kane clear on objective and the England skipper was by no means going to overlook.
If Lampard had harsh phrases at halftime it had no impact on his gamers who switched off instantly after the interval as Kulusevski slid a ball throughout the realm for Reguilon to fit in.
Kane’s second, within the fifty fifth minute, was the choose of the bunch and took him to sixth on the al-time Premier League scoring listing above Thierry Henry with 176 objectives.
Watching Doherty’s lofted diagonal ball like a hawk, he let the ball drop over his shoulder earlier than volleying residence previous his England workforce mate Pickford who endured a depressing birthday. “The top four has to be our ambition. We are not the finished article yet but the manager has had time to settle in and physically, I think we are in a really good position,” he stated.
“We are in there and in the mix and we have to feel that pressure if we want to be a top team.”
