Frank Lampard post-match comments were right but eight games show shambolic Everton flaw

Too good to go down?

Unfortunately, certainly not on this evidence.

Everton are again guilty of simultaneously recording a double whammy of dropping points against teams in the relegation zone and handing their struggling opponents huge morale-boosting lifelines that they can save themselves.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde – although he never had to drive back three hours through the night from Newcastle on a cold Tuesday in February – “To lose to one of your fixtures in the space of a month to a side in the bottom three may be regarded as misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness!”

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If any opponent needs a helping hand, the Blues lamentably seem all too willing to oblige.

So far this season, there’s been former Everton striker Joshua King, who failed to score in 11 games for the club last season, hadn’t found the net for Watford this season until he returned