Forget Keane: “Embarrassing” Everton dud who lost 100% duels let Lampard down - opinion

Everton’s 2-1 defeat to West Ham leaves them in a precarious position ahead of a must-win crunch tie against Burnley on Wednesday.

The Toffees disappointed again, with this most recent loss meaning that they have taken just three points from their last five Premier League games. If they are to continue in this manner, their status in England’s top flight will surely expire.

Lampard may now be realising the true extent of the job at hand, with Everton sat slumped in 17th place at the most important stage of the season. The loss against West Ham will no doubt fire up Burnley, who will see Wednesday’s game as an opportunity to seal their own fate in a bid to play Premier League football, come next season.

It goes without saying that Wednesday’s clash between the Toffees and the Clarets will be a real crunch match.

Unfortunately, since the former Chelsea boss has come in, nothing has seemed to have gone to plan. He yet again made tactical mistakes that ended up costing his team dearly.

One of those mistakes was the deployment of Alex Iwobi as a left-sided central midfielder.

When you’re in the position that Everton find themselves in, you need every player to pull their weight and be willing to do everything they can to ensure a win for their team.

In the case of Alex Iwobi, he did not seem as though he wanted to get stuck in, and cost Everton at times with his reluctance to win back possession. Even though Michael Keane received a red card, it was the ex-Arsenal attacker that cost his team the most in offensive phases of play.

Whilst he was positive in possession, providing four key passes, he had a disaster-class in the out of possession phase and committed zero tackles whilst also losing 100% of his defensive duels. On