On Sunday in a Merseyside derby, the majority of the Everton squad went straight down the tunnel after their humiliating defeat to a relatively younger Liverpool side.
Curtis Jones bagged the only goal of the game as an inexperienced Reds side won 1-0 and progressed to the fourth round of the FA Cup against a Blues team awash with international stars. Gylfi Sigurdsson has opened up on the majority of Everton’s players heading straight down the tunnel after their embarrassing defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.
After the match, only a handful of players applauded the traveling support, with Djibril Sidibe the only one to make a point of walking over to the Anfield Road end to thank and apologize to the departing Evertonians.
The 1-0 reverse at Anfield, extending a race without victories in the territory of its neighbors dating back to 1999, which amounted to being a third Liverpool team, left almost 8,000 furious visiting fans in an insipid hour of the game, having created some decent opportunities in the opening of 20 minutes.
Asked how they could make amends, Gylfi Sigurdsson said:
“Winning games. As simple as that. Of course no-one is happy when you lose and are out of the Cup. Everyone associated with the club – fans, staff, players – are disappointed with the result.
“I think we have only got ourselves to blame not to have taken our chances in the first half. It’s very disappointing. We’ve just got to make sure we continue the form we had in the Premier League in the last couple of weeks and try to finish off the season strongly.”
After five undefeated games, plus a penalty defeat in the Carabao Cup against Leicester, since Marco Silva’s dismissal last month, the Toffees have now lost two consecutive games. The lack of goals has been a key feature, as he scored only 24 in 21 league games and Sigurdsson blamed the missed opportunities of the last defeat.
The midfielder went on to add;
“I think we created enough chances in the first half to score,” t “It’s obviously likely to happen when you don’t take your chances that you get punished. I think that was a prime example of that.
“It’s changed since Duncan Ferguson came in (as caretaker after Silva’s sacking) and the first couple of games under this manager we picked up a couple of results so we need to get back to that now.”
