Tottenham Can Beat Anybody – Sam Allardyce

Everton’s squad can expect a rough up on the training pitch this week after Sam Allardyce promised to remove any unprofessionalism in their ranks following Saturday’s heavy 4-0 defeat at Tottenham.

“It’s out of order,” Allardyce said. “[You have to] play your way back into the game and be professional about it. It shocked me. I haven’t seen it since I got here. I’ve got to cut it out, starting tomorrow.

“Tottenham can beat anybody by a lot of goals but they should have had to work a lot harder than they did.

“When you go two goals down after half-time and basically relinquish all the gameplan, Tottenham will cut through you and punish you.

“That is what it was — a collapse of organisation and professionalism.”

Wayne Rooney thought he had opened the scoring for the Toffees only for his header to be correctly disallowed for offside. Allardyce felt Kane’s opening goal could also have been ruled out.

“The disappointing thing for us is, what would the game have finished like had we scored the first goal when Wayne’s got disallowed?” Allardyce said.

“Or what would the game have gone like if Harry’s goal would have been disallowed — because I think it’s offside looking on the laptop.

“What I can’t excuse is out capitulation after we went 2-0 down. But for Jordan Pickford they would have had more goals today and I’m hugely disappointed in the professionalism of my players.”