Everton boss Ancelotti: Richarlison impossible to replace

Football
7 Nov 2020 • 8:50 PM MYT
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Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti admits Richarlison's absence is a headache.

Everton have yet to win a Premier League game when Richarlison is absent and have lost the first two games of his ban - at Southampton and Newcastle - after he was sent off in the Merseyside derby last month.

Richarlison will return to the Everton side on November 21 when the Blues go to Fulham.

Ancelotti says there is "no player in the world" who can fully make-up for Richarlison's absence and says he has to set the team up differently when he's unavailable.

“Yes," he replied, when asked if he was happy with his options.

"We have 22 players and we have covered all the positions. Of course we have to... it is impossible to replace Richarlison.

"There is no player in the world like Richarlison. So we have to replace him with another player with different quality.

"We have to change a little bit our style of play without Richarlison, but the defeat was not because Richarlison was not there.

"It was because we did not play well. Simple."