bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Whilst I appreciate your point, I wanna point out a few things.
A team coming to Goodison with the worst away record, based on being an Evertonian, is actually more often than not a recipe for disaster with the modern Everton. This applies to teams forms and players forms. So yeah, it's not as black and white as it seems - and was in fact a good result.
Everton under Unsworth was honestly some of the most embarrassing stuff I've seen. We lost 2-1, 2-0, 3-0, 5-1 and 4-1... drawing 2-2, and winning 3-2, 4-0 (big sam influence)
That works out as 20 goals conceded and 12 scored overall. We would've likely gotten through to the group stage had we appointed Sam already, again I appreciate that is hypothetical though.
Sam has played Huddersfield, Newcastle, Liverpool, Chelsea, Swansea, Brom, Bournemouth and united in the league. We have won 3 of those games, including our first away win in yonks.
Edit; also realise before I said we'd only won 2 games when in fact it had been 3 (huddersfield, newcastle and Swansea)
We would have bombed out of Europe with BFS in charge when Unsworth took over mate, because he would have prioritised the league games and not European ones, watch and see what comes out from him this week should we get mauled at the pit, it will all be about the league as the priority etc and staying in the division.
Yup will agree some of the Unsworth games where downright embarrassing to watch, but in a similar way setting a team up away at Bournemouth and West Brom with zero intent to try to win is in a different way, arguably more embarrassing to witness, we are long gone from the days of bringing a knife to a gunfight away at the big teams under Moyes, we are now bringing a elastic band to a pea shooter team