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Baines: We have no chemistry

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Leighton Baines has admitted “There’s no chemistry between the players”.

“You are only really secure as individuals when you are winning games but even then we will make changes from time to time with what is required tactically,” Baines told the ECHO.

“I don’t think there is anyone expecting to have their name pencilled in for that game (FA Cup semi-final).”

“But the motivation should be getting your name there,” he added.

“I just don’t feel as though the chemistry is quite there with the team on the pitch at the moment, and it hasn’t been for a while.

“We are maybe leaning too heavily on individuals to come up with something.

“We’re in games, we were in the game on Sunday and had a couple of chances, but we’re not performing as a team to the level we know we can or we should be.

“Results have an impact on that because chemistry and confidence go hand in hand.

“If you start winning games

“Look at the teams who are having success this year and you’d say they have chemistry.

“It’s another game where we have come away without a win and we’re not where we should be,” Baines said.

“We haven’t won enough games to make excuses.

“You get judged at the end of the season, and we’re getting towards the end of the season, and we’re not near a position we should be in given what we’ve got.

“We’re all accountable. We try and put it right but we’ve not been able to. That’s the third loss on the bounce in the league which is disappointing to us all.

“We want to win everytime we go out to play and we’d like to go into that cup game with a few wins behind us.

“That’s our season in some respects now, it certainly is from the fans’ point of view and we’ve let them down a lot, it’s our only way of making it up to them.

“To go on and have success in the Cup now. You had the travelling fans there again on Sunday and they are amazing, they follow us wherever we go and generally they have seen us win a few games this season but unfortunately we weren’t able to give them the result or performance we wanted to.”

“If I had to say one thing, I just don’t know if it’s there with us at the moment, for whatever reason.”

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Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but whenever I see group photos of Everton players on social media there always seems to be cliques going on with the foreign lads usually away from the British and Irish players. Like there's segregation going on in the training ground. Can't be good for team chemistry, surely? Or is that what it's like at all clubs?
 

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but whenever I see group photos of Everton players on social media there always seems to be cliques going on with the foreign lads usually away from the British and Irish players. Like there's segregation going on in the training ground. Can't be good for team chemistry, surely? Or is that what it's like at all clubs?


Think it's the same at most clubs mate. Dont think it's too much to read into tbh.

Same as any work place, there'll be - ass kissers, trouble makers, grafters and the those that do the bare minimum.
 
“We are maybe leaning too heavily on individuals to come up with something."

I've been saying that since Roberto's first season. The game plan just seems to be to pass the ball around a bit until someone does something to open the game up. There's no plan of how we'll break a team down, we just rely on individual flashes of inspiration. As time's gone on, the flashes have got fewer and farther between, and the results have dipped accordingly.
 

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