Jesper Lindstrom delivered a blunt evaluation of Everton’s efficiency in opposition to Southampton, as Sean Dyche’s workforce put together for a crunch fixture in opposition to West Ham.
Everton suffered a 1-0 loss at Southampton on Saturday, because the Saints claimed their first Premier League win of the season.
That defeat snapped a five-game unbeaten run within the league, albeit Everton are nonetheless solely on 9 factors after 10 video games.
Saturday’s journey to West Ham, whose coach Julen Lopetegui is underneath strain after a poor run of kind, represents a giant sport for each golf equipment.
And Lindstrom, who joined Everton on mortgage from Napoli in July, mentioned there are few excuses for the Toffees.
“We wish to win video games, we wish to win factors, we wish to win video games like this. It’s not ok,” he mentioned, as reported by the Liverpool Echo.
“Total we’ve to demand extra of one another. We’ve to coach laborious, we’ve to maintain going.
“The primary half particularly was not ok, was not what we anticipated. We’re a a lot better workforce than we confirmed.
“The second half was higher we have been working extra, preventing extra, creating possibilities. I believe we deserved not less than some extent with all the probabilities however alternatively I don’t suppose we deserved it as a result of I do know we are able to play a lot better than we did.
“Within the first half, we have been too removed from one another. From my perspective, my touches weren’t nice.
“It was higher within the second half. We created good possibilities of receiving the ball excessive however didn’t have the final half, the shot.”
Southampton 1-0 Everton FT
Lastly for Saints & Russell Martin!
They finish their 22-game winless run within the Premier League. This was their first win within the top-flight since March 2023 in opposition to Leicester pic.twitter.com/iXeekKXyq5
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) November 2, 2024
West Ham misplaced 3-0 to in-form Nottingham Forest final outing.
After that match, Jarrod Bowen advised Premier League Productions: “We’ve been on the receiving finish of quite a lot of defeats by quite a lot of targets, so we have to take a look at ourselves as gamers. I believe that’s a given, however I believe we’ve bought to just accept this sense, settle for it as we speak, transfer on and within the final sport earlier than the worldwide break we’ve to place it proper.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
West Ham – Jarrod Bowen
Bowen has scored in his final two Premier League house video games for West Ham, final scoring in three in a row on the London Stadium in February 2022.
The England ahead has additionally had a hand in 5 targets in his final six league video games in opposition to Everton (three targets, two assists).
Everton – Dominic Calvert-Lewin
All three of Calvert-Lewin’s Premier League targets in opposition to West Ham have come on the London Stadium, with the final two coming in 1-0 wins for Everton.
Solely in opposition to Newcastle United (5) has he scored extra away targets within the competitors than he has at West Ham.
MATCH PREDICTION: WEST HAM WIN
West Ham have conceded 15 targets within the opening quarter-hour of Premier League video games thus far in 2024, essentially the most such targets any aspect have conceded in a single calendar yr within the competitors. 5 of these have come thus far this season, a joint-league excessive, together with Ipswich City.
Nonetheless, having misplaced their first three Premier League house video games this season, West Ham have now received their final two at London Stadium. They final received three in a row in Might/August 2023, whereas they final did so in the identical marketing campaign in October 2022.
Everton, in the meantime, have misplaced their final three Premier League away video games in opposition to London sides by an mixture rating of 12-1. They final misplaced 4 in a row within the capital between January and September 2018.
West Ham have received 5 of their final eight Premier League video games in opposition to Everton (L3), as many as they’d of their earlier 30 in opposition to them (D9 L16).
Nonetheless, the Toffees – who received the corresponding fixture 1-0 final season – have taken extra Premier League video games in whole (29) and away from house (13) in opposition to West Ham than they’ve in opposition to another opponent.
Dyche’s workforce have misplaced their first 4 Premier League video games this season, conceding 13 targets within the course of. Nonetheless, they’ve misplaced simply one among their subsequent six (W2 D3), with their 4 targets conceded the fewest of any aspect in that point.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
West Ham – 50.2%
Everton – 24.6%
Draw – 25.2%
