Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

There is a reason Everton are third-bottom in the league: they’ve been the league’s third-worst team. With just six games remaining, they are in serious danger of breaking the English game’s second-longest run of top-flight football – only Arsenal have stuck it out longer than their 78 years. Despite a difficult run-in, Frank Lampard can take heart from how his team played at Anfield: organised and doughty in defence, enterprising and swift in attack – a spirit encapsulated by a contretemps towards the end of the first half when, after Abdoulaye Doucouré fouled Fabinho to get play stopped so Richarlison could receive treatment, almost the entire team piled into the kerfuffle, including Jordan Pickford, the goalkeeper. Obviously there is more to football than aggression and if , over the course of the season, Everton had shown as much as they didon Sunday, they’d not be in the mess they are. But similarly, if they can maintain it, they might yet save themselves. Daniel Harris

Match report: Liverpool 2-0 Everton

As Tottenham stiffed at Brentford, fortunate to come away with a draw in the eyes of Thomas Frank, there was a sense that they had been found out. Like Brighton’s Graham Potter, Frank set traps to stifle Spurs’s midfield and asked repeated questions of defenders uncertain at set pieces. Christian Eriksen meanwhile embodied the idea that the best players can always find time on the ball, though no such luxury was allowed to Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, his former attacking accomplices. High energy and muscle appear to cause sincere problems for Spurs, who are unable to emulate the accelerated tempo of Antonio Conte’s most effective teams. “We have to try to increase and go 150% to try to reach this target,” said