Everton fell to a dismal 5-0 defeat at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur on Monday night.
The Blues found themselves 3-0 down at half-time following an own goal from Michael Keane, a Son Heung-min strike and the first of a Harry Kane brace.
They were unable to turn things around second half as the hosts went on to score a further two in what was an embarrassing night in North London.
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As Everton slip further into danger of relegation, here's what the national media made of the performance at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
In danger of a shock fall from the top-tier of English football
Tom Roddy, The Times
"Frank Lampard is only six weeks into the job at Goodison Park but the job has quickly become a relegation fight in which their leaky defence is in danger of a shock fall from the top-tier of English football, especially after this embarrassing capitulation.
"Lampard had described discovering a deep-rooted pessimism at Everton over away days, taking just six points on the road this season, but defensive organisation may be more appropriate than mindset here.
"His side were already 3-0 down by half-time and it was the usual protagonists doing the damage.
"Jordan Pickford was making his 200th Premier League appearance on his 28th birthday, but it was an occasion he will want to forget after allowing Son’s strike to squirm under his body after Dejan Kulusevski’s pass in behind the Everton backline."
Outplayed in every area of the pitch
Ben Bloom, The Telegraph
"Everton have spent only four seasons outside of England’s top tier since the creation of the Football League in 1888, but any more performances like this humiliation in north London will seriously raise the prospect of a first relegation for almost 70 years.
"Outplayed in every area of the pitch, Frank Lampard’s side were utterly destroyed by a team whose last match saw them defeated by a Championship club.
"The goal tally ended at five, but in truth it could have been any number so dominant were Spurs and so abject were the visitors.
"Only one point separates Everton from a place in the relegation zone. Little more than six weeks into the job, the pressure is piling on Lampard."
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Everton’s display of defensive haplessness
Simon Burnton, The Guardian
"Frank Lampard might have arrived in north London hoping to end Everton’s woeful away record, perhaps even, in some of his more feverish dreams, to hear the entire ground rise as one to acclaim his expertise.
"In the end he kind of got some of the way there. His decisions to bring on first the Ukrainian Vitalii Mykolenko and then the former Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli were greeted with the unique generosity of a crowd that got to cheer five unanswered home goals and enjoy repeated choruses of “Lampard’s going down”.
"Everton’s display of defensive haplessness helped Antonio Conte’s unpredictable Spurs side appear like world-beaters, and ended in a scoreline so emphatic it left the club with a goal difference more than doubled in improvement, from plus three to plus eight."
Staring down the barrel of the unthinkable
Adam Jones, Liverpool Echo
"What more do you even say about these Everton performances? What is finally going to make these players change their tune?
"They are slap-bang in the middle of a relegation fight, with the worst away form in the Premier League and staring down the barrel of the unthinkable.
"Yes, you can say this defeat to Tottenham Hotspur was embarrassing, dreadful and disgraceful.
"But it's all been said too many times over the course of this shambolic season. Just when you think this level of display is finally behind the side, they stoop to it once again."
