Frank Lampard Begs Everton Fans To Stop Booing His Team

After Wolves inflicted a shocking 2-1 home loss to put additional pressure on Everton, manager, Frank Lampard has urged supporters to stand with his team.

Before the 2022 FIFA World Cup break, Everton had recorded 3 wins, 5 draws and seven defeats. Hence, the fans expected Frank Lampard and his boys to use the game against Wolves on Boxing Day to bounce back to winning ways, unfortunately, it was not to be.

Thanks to a counterattack goal by Rayan Ait-Nouri in the fifth minute of added time, Wolves were able to move off the bottom of the table and recorded their first away victory since their March visit to Goodison Park.

File photo of Frank Lampard, the head coach of Everton.

With Everton now barely a point outside the relegation zone, Lampard’s team left the field at halftime to harsher boos than they had received earlier in the game.

“I played for nearly 20 years so I know how it can affect the players,” Frank Lampard described the tense atmosphere after the 2-1 defeat.

“And of course, the better players have confidence in themselves to do what they want to do. But I thought for 90 percent of the game I liked our decision-making today.

“I think we probably could have moved it a little bit quicker at times in the first half, but we had a good sense of control with the last phase of the game, just before they scored, I think we should have been a bit more positive with the passing – hit a few diagonals; they (Wolves) were just ‘back’.

“In the end, we tried to go longer, and they counter-attacked and scored. But yeah, it’s easy for me to sit here and say the players should just carry on making the right decisions as we tell them, but of course, it (the fans) can have an effect.

“If we can really appreciate what we’re trying to do… and I’m not asking us to play 100 passes out of our own third, it’s not the kind of coach I am anyway. But being brave on the ball is nice to see.”

With striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin still out, Everton has scored just 12 goals in 16 games, which is a huge concern for coach Lampard.

The coach said: “Good players want to play so for that I’d like to get some backing (in the January transfer window) but the reality is that this is the Premier League and we’ve currently not got Dominic [Calvert-Lewin] so the direct option isn’t there so much for us anyway.

“We don’t want to keep giving the ball back to the other team. We need to give the players time as it’s not one where I wanted to come in [to the dressing room] and say anything too negative to them.

“Every game has small details and we just have to take it on the chin tonight. The lads need a bit of time off and then we need to start prepping for Man City. This year was always going to be tough off the back of how the summer went and last season.

“We’re trying to improve but it will be baby steps. Sometimes, from where we are in the league you have periods like we’re in at the minute but today we deserved to win the game. There were lots of good coaching elements from my point of view that I saw but not the result.”