Pelle’s words sound like an impossible dream

Manuel Pellegrini refuses to give up on seventh place despite the nature of the Everton defeat and upcoming games against Chelsea, Manchester United, Spurs and Watford away from home.

He continues to deliver brave words about thinking and behaving like a big club which is the right thing to do but in realistic terms it seems a dream.

And it opens the debate about whether that is the way forward or whether – given that we are now entirely safe – if it wouldn’t be a better idea to give some of our promising kids game time.

I would not take Pellegrini to task over either decision but personally I find the temptation to blood the kids at this particular time very strong.

And I believe give the striker issues, the case for Xande Silva is of particular importance because what we have seen of him at under 23 level and in his one appearance against Birmingham.

The manager told www.whufc.com: “We must be calm in this moment. We won the last three games at home, but what I worry about is that this is not the first time that we have the opportunity to in seventh position in the table [and didn’t take it].

“We knew the other results before we played and maybe that pressure also affected our performance, but we must find a way to try to continue thinking and playing as a big team to try to reach as high a position in the table as we can and not be happy with not being in the relegation zone.”