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title: "Everton Player Ratings: Bournemouth (A)"
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author: "Alex Hives"
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published: "2017-12-30T17:48:29Z"
modified: "2017-12-30T17:48:29Z"
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# Everton Player Ratings: Bournemouth (A)

We were going to come unstuck with this brand of football eventually and unfortunately, it happened in the two games that were our best chance of 6 points in a long time.

Two hilariously negative lineups in those games meant that instead of the expected six points, we came away with two. That simply isn’t good enough and there’s no other way to tell it really.

Bournemouth battered us from start to finish in the first half really, winning all of the midfield battles, aerial duels and finding space between the defence with ease. Pickford was helpless for the goal as Fraser was unmarked on the penalty spot. Unfortunately, when you mess with the defence too much (as Koeman did earlier in the year) breakdowns in communication can easily happen.

The midfield was far from free of blame. Misplaced passes were rife and there was absolutely no ambition to get forward. DCL looked tired up front as usual and Allardyce’s reluctance to rest him is going to kill him. He did eventually make the change and brought the

A shocking day at the office and one that is definitely best left forgotten. Here’s how we rated the team…