Everton 1 Southampton 2: Disasterous defeat for Blues at Goodison

Everton fell to a truly catastrophic defeat at Goodison Park yesterday afternoon as Southampton came from behind and scored twice in the second half to take the points.

Relegation now seems almost a certainty to me as Everton slumped to a new low in front of their long-suffering supporters and now sit joint-bottom in the league.

How can a team be so repeatedly bad as this Toffees’ side and find a way to lose games like this over and over and over again?

The spineless second half performance we witnessed on Saturday was a perfect charaterization of everything wrong with this team.

This is the fifth defeat at home this season in the past six games and the second time in recent weeks that the Blues have lost at home to the bottom club in the Premier League and with the same scoreline after Wolves came and mugged them a few weeks back.

The bald facts from yesterday’s match are that again, after taking a first-half lead through their best performer Amadou Onana, Everton’s team then basically failed to turn up in the second period enabling the Saints to level and then grab the lead, with both goals coming from James Ward-Prowse.

What on earth happens with this club now?

I feel almost resigned to this and simply don’t know what can be done to turn this around. I’m not sure it can be turned around now, it feels as though it is too late.

The club seems like the football equivalent of the Titanic and an inevitable disaster that is impossible to reverse once we get this far down the line.

A new manager and at least two or three decent signings is the only things that can be done to try to reverse the decline and desperately hope this will be enough to salvage Premier League status again this season.

Obviously, none of that though will solve the real deep-seated, long-term problems at Goodison Park.

Those are of course, an owner and a board that haven’t got a clue what they are doing and are presiding over a once great club that is falling apart in front of our eyes.

What will it take before these individuals take responsiblity for their failures? Again, there doesn’t seem to be any chance of that happening soon.

At the time of writing there is still no news about whether Frank Lampard will be sacked and a new man brought in.

If that is to happen, and I think it does need to be done, then it must be done as quickly as possible to give that manager enough time to try and get some players in.

Will any of that be enough to rescue this club from seemingly inevitable disaster?