No easy games though are there where we can say "that's one where we'll pick up a win"
The players will need to be bang at it on Saturday and anything similar to a performance like the last 3 games and we won't be getting a result.
Any team that struggles to score and struggles to keep a clean sheet will find every single game difficult - no matter the opposition. We are almost as likely to pick up something at home to Man United as we are away at, say, Leicester. This is why the writing off of the last three made no sense whatsoever to me. While we might well have lost all three - and we did, as it turned out - we had to demand decent performances in those games to show that we were still progressing. And what we got was regression. No points, no performances.
People are deluded if they think Lampard will be allowed to continue his YTS Coaching course while his Everton bumps around the relegation zone. No club of our size gives managers unlimited time and unqualified support. I hope he gets a win for us tomorrow and gets a decent return from these next four games before the World Cup. I don't want yet another managerial change - but he's got to continually earn the right to stay in the job. Every manager at every club does. If he can't get us relatively comfortable by the World Cup, he'll be right in the soup. I'm not personally invested in his career trajectory. I can't understand why any Evertonian would be. I like him - but I want results. I want progress. I want performances. If you can't get a result, give us a performance where you have something to build on. He got nothing at all out of the last three games, so now the safety net is gone and it's time for results. I think we'll win tomorrow. I think he's doing just enough to eke out something - but the progress is very slow indeed, and arguably too slow. He needs this win tomorrow. That will give him something to cling on to and ease the pressure. Anything less and we could well be spiralling.
