'That is a rarity' - James Tarkowski shares scathing verdict of Everton players after Chelsea humiliation

James Tarkowski says Everton’s 6-0 humiliation at Chelsea is on the players and believes the team let manager Sean Dyche and the fans down with an “embarrassing display.”

The centre-back told the ECHO: “Literally everything went wrong. It’s as poor as we’ve been defensively obviously by far.

“We gave them chances, we didn’t come out of any 50/50 tackles with the ball, we got beat as individuals and a team on pretty much every occasion that they attacked us. It was as bad a night as you could get and that includes losing three lads to injury as well.

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“We’re usually in games regardless and we’ve let the gaffer down – him and his staff and everyone at the football club who give us everything to perform on a matchday. It’s embarrassing for us and I can only apologise to the fans, they spend their money to come and watch us and have travelled down on a Monday night.

“They leave work or whatever the circumstances might be but to see that, I’d be embarrassed as a fan. We can apologise and there have been dark days during my time at this football club but what these fans do is always turn up for the next game for us so hopefully they do that because we’re going to need them for these last six games.”

Everton actually started brightly at Stamford Bridge but were soon torn apart and trailed 4-0 by the break when Dyche made a triple substitution. Tarkowski said: “It wasn’t just tactical. You don’t concede six goals just through tactics.

“If it’s one or two nil, maybe so. But you don’t concede six goals through that, it’s lack of desire.

“I don’t even think it’s a hard work thing