Former Everton striker, Victor Anichebe, has urged the club to sack Frank Lampard following their 3-2 defeat by relegation rivals Burnley on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Clarets came from 2-1 down at half-time to claim victory and are now just one point behind the Toffees in the fight for survival.<\/span><\/p>\n Everton, who next play Manchester United on Saturday, could drop into the relegation zone if they fail to win and Burnley are able to take all three points against Norwich a day later.<\/span><\/p>\n Anichebe slammed the decision to only bring Salomon Rondon on in the final minutes, saying Dominic Calvert-Lewin was poor and that Lampard should be sacked as Everton manager<\/span><\/p>\n Anichebe posted a number of messages on his Instagram story during the match, starting with his frustrations when Salomon Rondon only came off the bench in the 87th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n The Nigerian wrote that Lampard should be sacked as manager after just more than two months in charge at Goodison Park.<\/span><\/p>\n He wrote, \u201cToo late\u2026 should\u2019ve brought him on 10 mins ago it was obvious\u2026 DCL (Dominic Calvert-Lewin) has been poor.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe players aren\u2019t good enough but neither is Frank. As much as I love him as a player and he looks a top guy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEverton will 100 per cent go down if a change isn\u2019t made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n After the final whistle, Anichebe suggested that Everton should go for Sam Allardyce, who didn\u2019t endear himself to Everton fans during his six-month stay at the club from November 2017 to May 2018 \u2013 though he has a reputation for keeping clubs in the Premier League.<\/span><\/p>\n However, he was relegated for the first time as a Premier League manager during his last spell with a club, at West Brom last season.<\/span><\/p>\n Along with a picture of Allardyce, Anichebe wrote, \u201cI said it weeks ago\u2026 y\u2019all laughed. Some said rather go down with dignity. Okkkkk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n A little while later in his final post on Wednesday night, he wrote, \u201cApologies if I don\u2019t respond tonight, I just can\u2019t be bothered. So\u2026 The players are responsible first and foremost. But Everton\u2019s board is absolutely horrendous.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe money they\u2019ve wasted, the sackings of influential staff like (Dan Donachie), not letting Marcel Brands actually do his job, bringing in Rafa (Benitez), creating a complete disconnect with fans and club.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNext \u2013 appointing Lampard (who is a good coach) but appointing him when you know you\u2019re in a relegation battle with a tough run in\u2026 was absurd\u2026 him getting Alli who is a luxury player\u2026 in a relegation fight\u2026 baffling.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf something doesn\u2019t happen tonight they are 100 per cent going down. At the moment it\u2019s 60 per cent. Keep the faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Everton striker, Victor Anichebe, has urged the club to sack Frank Lampard following their 3-2 defeat by relegation rivals Burnley on Wednesday. The Clarets came from 2-1 down at half-time to claim victory and are now just one point behind the Toffees in the fight for survival. Everton, who next play Manchester United on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4026,4024,4025],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-everton","tag-frank-lampard","tag-victor-anichebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}