The England international had a gaping goal in front of him without the keeper, and yet he somehow failed to poke the ball into the net. Frank Lampard will have ...
After a disappointing pre-season tour in the United States, the Toffees will head back to England where they have a couple of more friendlies lined up. A point-blank miss from Dele Alli perfectly summed up the day for Everton as they were hammered 4-0 by Minnesota United in the final game of their United States tour. The midfielder got the best opportunity of the night for the Blues after Mason Holgate drilled in a low cross inside the six-yard box across the face of the goal.
Video shows Dele Alli miss an absolute sitter for Everton last night and rival fans are loving it.
Whether he couldn’t sort his feet out in time or was just being lackadaisical, we aren’t sure. The ball slips through the grasp of the keeper and the nearest defender but Alli seemingly tries to tap it home with outside of his right foot, only to send it wide of the post. All in all, it was a disastrous night of preparations for the Merseyside club and Lampard’s got his work cut out to get them into shape ahead of the new campaign.
Frank Lampard chose to change things about a little and went with a starting XI of Pickford; Patterson, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Iwobi, Davies, ...
Evertonians could argue they were unlucky with some of the goals, but in the end who dares wins, and Minnesota dared to play. You could say Inchy’s side were lucky to be ahead by three, but were certainly good value for the lead with their endeavour. Lewis Warrington was looking good again just like against Arsenal but looked to have tweaked something, coming off soon after. Just like on Saturday there was an immediate improvement in the Blues’ cohesion with the ball, but they continued to be wasteful when the chances were presented to them. The Blues started reasonably well, moving the ball around decently as Minnesota sat back. The Loons’ star Emmanuel Reynoso made no mistake from the spot, sending Jordan Pickford the wrong way.
FRANK LAMPARD demanded that his Everton players “must be better” after they suffered a humiliating 4-0 thrashing at Minnesota United last night.Th.
And if we don’t want to be in that situation again, they have to better and I have to be better. For me, that starts on day one of pre-season and ends at the end of the season. Also, through the team, there are things I want to strengthen, and I can be honest about that, because a club like Everton has to have a competitive squad.”
The Everton midfielder managed to turn the ball past the post from the middle of the goal with the MLS side's goalkeeper stranded before Alli collapsed out ...
Hate to see it.' The type of goals he used to score for us and now he’s struggling with tap ins? Sad to see man.'
Dele Alli hasn't had a great start to life as an Everton player and he missed one of the easiest chances going on Wednesday night against MLS side ...
"The players in the dressing room need to understand that they’ve put in a very poor performance individually and collectively." Speaking after the match, Lampard said, "If we don’t want to be in that situation again, they have to be better and I have to be better. In the 74th minute, the midfielder should have scored, after getting on the end of a low cross, but somehow managed to hit the ball wide with an open goal in front of him, from about a yard.
Minnesota United FC stormed past English Premier League side Everton in a friendly Wednesday night, earning a 4-0 victory at Allianz Field that was ...
I’m sure that Frank [Lampard] would’ve liked to have won the game, but at the end of the day he knows that the most important thing is the opening day of the season.” “You know, the most important thing for them in preseason is to get everybody fit and healthy for the opening day of the season. It means so much to me to welcome Everton to the stadium.”
Everton had a night to forget as they were thrashed 4-0 by MLS side Minnestoa United.It was a miserable evening for Frank Lampard's side, who conceded.
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Adrian Heath hailed a 'special night' as the Everton legend guided Minnesota United to a shock resounding victory over his former club.
“It's been a really good evening. Speaking after the game, Heath said: “Terrific night. “We scored some quality goals, had some good performance - especially with some of the youngster guys - so it's been a really good evening.
The Liverpool ECHO's Joe Thomas spoke exclusively to Everton winger Anthony Gordon after the 4-0 loss to Minnesota United.
I could have had a couple of assists, I could have had a couple of goals. He has no doubt they all have the ability to succeed and said his advice to them would be: "Just really keep your head down, be humble. Asked what playing and training with them had been like, particularly Mills, who he could potentially work with on the right, he explained: "It's been different for me because I'm usually the youngest one and to have them has been a bit weird - I feel old now. He should have had an assist after a cross narrowly evaded Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Alex Iwobi, won two free kicks in dangerous areas and saw a shot blocked as it was seemingly about to beat the keeper. Asked what his ambitions for the new season were, he said: "Just to be much better than last year. That includes providing inspiration and guidance to the batch of talented academy prospects attempting to follow in his footsteps.