Everton 3 Newcastle 2: Alan Pardew critical of ‘disturbing’ defending
Everton 3 Newcastle 2: Alan Pardew admits some of his side's defending was "disturbing" as the Magpies lost at Goodison
Alan Pardew admitted Newcastle United’s defending was “disturbing” at times after Everton sealed a comfortable win at Goodison Park.
Lukaku scored his second and third Everton goals in a brilliant first-half performance from the on-loan striker as he also set up Ross Barkley’s strike.
Pardew hauled off beleaguered Newcastle defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa at half-time after a dire 45-minute display, and Yohan Cabaye and Loic Remy scored consolatory strikes to add some credibility to the score-line.
“The goals were poor, so poor, in the first half, and defensively we’ve got to better than we are at the moment,” Pardew told Sky Sports.
“But we’ve got goals in the team, and we’ve shown that tonight. We had numerous chances apart from the two goals we’ve scored, but we’ve got to tighten up, that’s for sure.
“Nothing went right for us and the inconsistency being shown was disturbing at one point. We managed in the second half to get ourselves a little better balanced in the team to make some sort of game of it.
“We came out with a bit of pride and almost at the end got more than that, but the goals in the first half were not acceptable for me, and we’re going to have to tighten up and make a couple of changes there.”
