Claude Puel was supposedly the manager under pressure at Goodison Park yet Leicester City appear in rude health compared with Everton under Marco Silva. A fifth defeat in eight matches, inflicted by Jamie Vardy’s clinical finish plus a dreadful home display, meant the new year arrived with a new low for the Everton manager. He needs fresh ideas, not only a new striker, to halt the slide.
Everton were booed off as Leicester savoured a third win in four matches and a rise to seventh in the Premier League. The visitors were poor too, in truth, but able to execute their gameplan to frustrate and punish any mistakes. Silva’s team offered plenty, Michael Keane’s the one that led to Vardy’s winner, as their winter regression deepened. Everton have won once since November, not kept a clean sheet in eight games and have the same points tally as at the equivalent stage of the last forgettable season. They were clueless here.
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