Everton manager Ronald Koeman has slammed his players following the Toffees’ 1-0 defeat at the hands of Southampton.

Everton certainly enjoyed a very strong start to their campaign and at one point, it seemed like the Toffees would be able to challenge for a place in the top four this season.

However, Everton have endured a terrible run of form over the past few weeks and have quickly found themselves being cut adrift from the teams chasing Champions League football this season.

In a latest blow for Everton, they went on to suffer an extremely disappointing 1-0 defeat at the hands of Southampton at the St. Mary’s Stadium on Sunday and it would be fair to state that the Toffees are in a bit of a crisis at the moment.

Manager Ronald Koeman has understandably been left extremely disappointed by his side’s display against Southampton and the Dutchman most certainly did not hold back in criticizing his own players following such a poor performance.

Speaking to reporters after the game, Koeman said, “I’m not worried about results, I’m worried about what I see on the pitch. How we start the game, have difficulties to be organised defensively and stop the opponents. I’m worried because the wake-up call, how we played in first half, to concede a goal after one minute: that cannot happen.

“It’s incredible. You start a game to control a game and we didn’t; we had bad defending positions for the cross. That (goal) made it difficult and a different game.

“The whole first half was not good. (We had) problems with (Southampton’s) strikers, and that’s strange because we know how they play. We need to be sharp, react fast to second balls. But we had some good chances in the first half; the shot from (Idrissa) Gueye needs to be on target.”