Sam Allardyce has slammed Marco Silva’s tactical approach at Everton following another underwhelming performance against Tottenham.
The Toffees drew 1-1 with Mauricio Pochettino’s side on Sunday after Cenk Tosun scored an equaliser deep into additional time, but the overall performance was once again lacking.
Everton’s point did little to move them up the table, with the Blues currently residing in 17th place in the Premier League, having earned just 11 points from 11 games.
Former Everton manager Allardyce has now taken aim at Silva and his tactical approach at Goodison Park, claiming that fans won’t accept attractive football in place of positive results.
Talking on talkSPORT (via Football 365), Allardyce said:
I remember winning at Newcastle, and that was the first away win – we won 1-0, Wayne Rooney scored, I’ll always remember it, first away game – and the press officer came to me, Brian, and said: ‘That’s our first win for something like, since last January.’
I’d obviously got there in the new season. So they’d played out the old season from January, hadn’t won away. I’d gone in in November and that was their first win since then.
Our home record, I think I only lost to Manchester City and Manchester United. I might be wrong, it might have been another one. So giving the home fans what they want – for me, they didn’t see that as enough because I had to shore the back [so] we didn’t have enough goals.
And now they’re trying to play more of this so-called rubbish that goes around the world of football today, the fake news of open, attractive football. It’s not open, attractive football if you’re fifth from bottom of the Premier League with 11 points.
The Everton fans, at the end of the day, won’t put up with that.
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I understand what Allardyce was getting at with his comments, but I don’t agree that open and attractive football is this myth that cannot be achieved.
Silva has left Everton in a precarious position in the Premier League table and Allardyce does have a point in saying that attractive football means nothing without results.
However, Everton aren’t playing attractive football anyway, and that is part of the problem. With attractive football the club were doing well, such as against West Ham earlier this month. If we could get back to playing that kind of football, results would likely follow.
