'Out of control' - national media react to Everton defeat at Newcastle United

New Everton manager Frank Lampard got off to a losing start in the Premier League.

Despite taking the lead against Newcastle United on Tuesday night, Lampard could only watch on his as side were pegged back straight away.

With the scores level at the break, Newcastle were able to finish their chances in the second half to end up 3-1 winners to move to a point behind the Blues in the league.

Here's what the national media had to say about the Blues' performance in Lampard's first Premier League game in charge.

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For a while Everton looked the more obviously high-end team. There are so many handsome players in this squad: sparkly link-players; upright, striding midfielders, but only in strange, unsatisfying flickers and rarely at the same time.

Everton have assembled a highlights reel squad, something you’d pick based on two hours scrolling through Euro-house soundtracked videos on YouTube.

For Lampard, there were two injuries in the first half which contributed to the sense that this game was out of control after a promising start.

Dele Alli came on for his Everton debut after 25 minutes following the recurrence of a hip injury to Demarai Gray and the new boy struggled to get the ball in the places he needed it, before giving it away for the second Newcastle goal.

Yerry Mina was another first-half departure which pitched Jarrad Branthwaite into a full-blooded defensive effort.

Mina’s quad injury makes him the second centre-half that Lampard has lost in two games after Ben Godfrey at the weekend and the concern was that the Colombian could be another longer-term absentee.

Frank Lampard had probably envisaged Dele Alli coming off the bench to help turn the game, but not like this.

As the exuberant St James’ Park faithful