Everton suffered a 2-0 defeat to Sheffield United on Saturday and Morgan Schneiderlin was one of many players who came in for a lot of criticism from supporters for his poor performance. The 29-year-old started alongside Fabian Delph at the heart of midfield, but he was underwhelming throughout and could find his place in the side being up for grabs if he doesn’t improve.
There’ll be plenty of fume and calls for what we can do differently. Couldn’t we start by binning Schneiderlin off for Tom Davies #EFC
— Nick Jones (@nickjones314) September 21, 2019
Coleman needs replacing as he cannot cross and gets dragged in leaving acres for the wide man. Keane and Mina are too slow as a pair. Gylfi and Schneiderlin are not good enough. We have no proven goal scorer. As always this team requires major surgery #EFC
— Liam 🟨🟥 (@liam_james47) September 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/rulitos14/status/1175529168349683714?s=20
Yet the players in the squad not fit to wear the shirt aren’t on that list ????
Coleman
Walcott
Schneiderlin— Ste (@ste_henry) September 22, 2019
Gylfi, Schneiderlin, Coleman, Keane, Delph, Walcott, Tosun, Digne all worse than those 3.
— Ian Irvine (@irvine75) September 22, 2019
I just do NOT understand what any manager sees in Schneiderlin. Fume when I see him in the starting line up.
— Day (@Day89) September 21, 2019
I don’t think he’s going anywhere mate, but what he does need to do to help himself is bin the ridiculous formation & drop Coleman, Gylfi & Schneiderlin.
— Matthew Barry (@EFCMatt1) September 22, 2019
Schneiderlin was substituted after 54 minutes against the Blades and replaced by Cenk Tosun. Before being hooked by Silva, the French international made 41 touches, had one shot, completed 93.8% of his 32 passes, whipped in two crosses, made one interception, boasted a 100% record from his four long passes, had one successful dribble and made one clearance.
He failed to make a single tackle or create a chance, however, which didn’t go unnoticed by supporters. Tom Davies was an unused substitute against United and has been tipped by fans to replace Schneiderlin ahead of Saturday’s Premier League meeting with Manchester City. Whether Marco Silva takes their advices remains to be seen, however.
That being said, Silva clearly wasn’t happy with the midfielder’s efforts against the Blades.