Everton came up short against Tottenham Hotspur and few will disagree with the verdict Gary Neville gave during the game.
The season has ended in poor fashion for the Toffees, who didn’t win any of their final seven games.
Today’s game was a chance to end in the right way.
How do you even sum up that performance? 😡
Utterly woeful from Everton on the final day…
But a truly abysmal performance was given by the players, and Spurs probably couldn’t believe their luck.
The game’s only goal came from Joao Palhinha, whose effort trickled over the line from a corner.
Everton showed hardly any attacking threat in the game, and midway through commentator Gary Neville summed it up perfectly.
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Gary Neville says Everton were ‘on the beach’ vs Tottenham
Coming into the game on the back of a six-game winless run, the travelling fans were expecting a response.
But they absolutely didn’t get one, with Everton making life so easy for their opponents.
Striker Thierno Barry was particularly ineffective, and there were more poor performances from Iliman Ndiaye and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.
At half-time, Gary Neville made his feelings clear about Everton, saying: “It got to about 35 minutes of this game where I just thought… look if you’re Tottenham you can overthink this. Everton aren’t very good here today. They’re already on the beach. Just go and beat them, they’re not in a good place.
“I thought Everton could be a threat from set-pieces, but they’ve not been, it’s been Tottenham the home team who are.”
Neville went on to say: “(They were) exactly what Tottenham would have wanted. A team with not much to play for and have demonstrated that. They’re already on holiday.”
“They’ve been by far the better team on the first-half, they got the goal they deserved. They’ll be hoping that Everton come out in exactly the same way in the second-half and perform as badly.”
In the 65th minute, Neville was critical again, saying: “We haven’t seen anything yet from Everton at all. They’ve not had a shot on target yet. He’ll (Moyes) be disappointed with what he’s seen from his team on this final day so far.”
Embarrassing Everton
Today’s first-half performance was truly atrocious, and things did not get much better in the second barring the very final knockings.
For Everton to have finished the season like this is embarrassing – and Moyes has questions to answer.
A lot of players have looked completely jaded in recent weeks, and the manager has often made substitutions too late in games.
And he’s also stuck with certain players too much.
It was a pitiful end to the season, and one wonders if Angus Kinnear regrets backing Moyes publicly ahead of the Sunderland game.
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