Your morning Everton headlines for Thursday, November 10.
Everton players face brutal truth after Bournemouth as transfer revamp looms
Situated on the English Channel and at the far end of the country from Merseyside, Bournemouth could well prove to be the end of the road for several players on the fringes of Everton’s first team squad after their Carabao Cup humiliation. The tie should have been the stage for many with a point to prove to show their worth but instead they were torn apart by their fellow second stringers in the Cherries camp and as one Blue observed on social media, “it’s a long way to go for a reserve game.”
Too often in recent years Everton sides have been less than the sum of their parts and brought together on the hoof and trying to play a different formation than usual, that proved to be the case here.
You might say that they underachieved as some of these players came for big money and Bournemouth manager Gary O’Neil described them as being “still a hell of a line-up” but perhaps the truth is that some of them might not be all they’re cracked up to be because there are only so many times you can put in performances like this and maintain your reputation.
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Everton’s double-header at Bournemouth brought back memories of 2007 when they also had to go to West Ham United for a League Cup tie but back then David Moyes made just a single change to his starting line-up from the side that had won 3-0 at home to Fulham the previous Saturday and was rewarded with a 2-1 victory over the Hammers that teed the Blues up nicely for their subsequent 2-0 success also at the Boleyn Ground the following weekend where he named an unchanged side. Frank Lampard’ s decision to pick an entirely different team has, despite what his opposite number O’Neil insists in public at least, given their opponents a psychological advantage over them for the second instalment of their back-to-back fixtures as well as enabling them to end their own four-match losing streak.
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Everton striker caps off memorable 24 hours with two goals against PSG
Tom Cannon capped off a memorable 24 hours by bagging a brace as Everton under-21s came from behind to beat Paris Saint-Germain.
The forward was handed his first-team debut during Tuesday’s Carabao Cup defeat to Bournemouth when he replaced Neal Maupay with nine minutes remaining.
Cannon impressed in his first season as a fully-fledged Everton under-23 player last year, scoring eight goals in 23 appearances to finish as the team's leading marksman.
And the 19-year-old, who joined Everton’s Academy aged 10, continued his impressive start to this campaign to help make it three wins from three in the Premier League International Cup for his side.
In an open and frantic start, both sides went close to opening the scoring with Charlie Whitaker firing over for Everton and Ismael Gharbi firing wide for PSG.
But the midfielder would soon make up for his miss when he fired PSG ahead. Sekou Doucoure fed Dan Bikota down the right, before the winger pulled the ball back to Gharbi, who finished into the bottom corner of the net.
Zoumana Camara’s side then went close to a second when Queyrell Tchicamboud broke free down the left, but despite managing to find Romaric Etonde with a pull-back, the forward could only fire straight at Zan Luk Leban in the Everton goal.
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