Former Everton striker and current Toffees supporter Andy Gray has admitted that he wishes his old team played in the way that their fierce rivals Liverpool do.
While the Reds ended the weekend five points clear at the top of the Premier League table, Marco Silva’s side slumped to a 3-1 defeat away at Bournemouth.
Gary wasn’t impressed: “The champions of Europe are pretty intense,” he told beIN SPORTS. “Pretty quick at getting the ball forward, don’t mess about at the back, don’t invite pressure on themselves, don’t take chances.
“I think if Jurgen Klopp’s team played like that he’d go potty. They play with a pace and intensity that Klopp loves, and so do Liverpool fans – and so do I, sadly. I wish I was watching Everton play that kind of football – I would love it.”
"I wish I was watching Everton play that kind of football."
Ex-Toffee Andy Gray's a huge admirer of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool!#beINPL #LFC #EFC pic.twitter.com/blvPxWvAz1
— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS_EN) September 15, 2019
OPINION
There were probably plenty of Evertonians saying the exact thing as Gray after the Toffees’ meek defeat to Bournemouth on Sunday. The previous day they had seen their cross-City rivals ease to a 3-1 victory over Newcastle Untied that took them well clear at the top of the Premier League table. Their team, on the contrary, can’t even get simple defending right. There’s no excuse for the stagnant nature of this Everton team, because they have spent so much money in recent years. You had people like Richarlison, Michael Keane, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Alex Iwobi starting against the Cherries; players who arrived at Goodison Park for colossal sums of money. Yet this team continues to move sidewards. Silva hasn’t got his side playing in any sort of distinctive style, something that stands in stark contrast to the vibrancy of Liverpool’s way of playing. This all must make for very dispiriting reading from a Toffees point of view, but there you have it.
