Everton lost 1-0 to Southampton at St. Mary’s yesterday.
Jamie Redknapp has told Sky Sports that Everton’s Aaron Lennon, Ross Barkley and Romelu Lukaku were all poor for Everton against Southampton.
Everton lost 1-0 at St. Mary’s yesterday, with Ronald Koeman’s side rarely threatening throughout the contest.
The Toffees were largely outplayed by Southampton, and the scoreline could have been worse, if Claude Puel’s side were more clinical.
Everton have now won just once in their last nine matches, and Redknapp was concerned by the form of Koeman’s side’s attacking players against Southampton.
“Going forward I looked [at their team] and I thought to myself ‘there is a lot of quality there’ [but] Aaron Lennon was poor today, Ross Barkley had one of those days where he really struggled,” he said to Sky Sports, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo.
“[Romelu] Lukaku has seven Premier League goals this year but I’m still none the wiser as to what you’re going to see when you watch him. Sometimes I think he’s unbelievable, colossal, a man-mountain and you can play off him. Other times I think ‘he got bullied today and it was too easy to play against him’ and that’s what you’re getting with Everton at the moment.”
Everton went behind in the first minute against Southampton, when Charlie Austin netted from close range, and they never recovered.
Everton’s dip in form has seen them slide down the Premier League table, after a wonderful start.
The Toffees are now in seventh place in the top flight, with concerns rising over their performances in recent weeks.
Everton are next in action at the weekend, when they face Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United side at Goodison Park.
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