Everton have won 23 from their last 79 away games.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has claimed that Everton have “nowhere near” enough quality within the playing staff, calling them “physically and mentally weak”.
The Toffees lost 2-1 at Burnley on Saturday for what represented a third defeat in four Premier League games, leaving Sam Allardyce’s side 11th in the table and seven points clear of the bottom three.
In addition to that, the defeat at Turf Moor has cast a spotlight on Everton’s dreadful away record, with the Goodison Park side winning only 23 of their last 79 away games since David Moyes left Merseyside almost five years ago.
And former Liverpool defender Carragher believes that the dismal record is a reflection on what he believes is insufficient quality in the side, given that Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, David Unsworth – a caretaker – and Allardyce have all tried and failed to improve the team’s fortunes on the road.
“The finger of blame has to be pointed at the players in that dressing room because the run has come under four different managers,” he told Sky Sports.
“The quality in the dressing room in nowhere near good enough but when you see a record like that, it’s obvious the players are physically and mentally weak. That’s the only way to describe a record like that.”
This season has been a write-off for Everton for quite some time. Allardyce looks like he will achieve his remit of steering the club to safety, having hovered above the drop zone under Koeman and Unsworth earlier in the campaign, but long term it seems unlikely that Allardyce is the man to take Everton to the next level.
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