Jagielka: Table is a worry

Jagielka: Table is a worry

Published Dec. 12, 2010 1:16 p.m. ET

Saturday's goalless draw at home to Wigan was the Toffees' seventh match without a win and left them 15th, just two points above the relegation zone. Manager David Moyes blamed growing pressure for his side failing to take a number of chances against the Latics, a shortcoming which almost cost them even a point late on. Jagielka acknowledges they have to find a way out of their predicament but that, with nearly half the campaign gone, looking at the table is a worrying prospect for the players. "You can't ignore the table, we are too far gone in the season," he said. "If it had been three or four games in we may have not bothered looking at the table but the number of games we have played now the league has started to take shape. "Unfortunately we are in the wrong half and there is only one way to correct that and that is by starting to pick up three points. "It is a very apprehensive changing room. We are hoping we get that early goal and kick on from there but unfortunately at the moment we can't seem to find it. "I am sure if we were further up the table and doing better we would probably have won. "Unfortunately we are getting a few decent chances and a few half-chances but we are not turning them into goals. "The atmosphere (at Goodison Park) isn't brilliant but we can't blame the fans because we're not giving them too much to shout about. "Believe you me we are trying, hopefully our luck will turn soon and we will start scoring goals." Everton began brightly with early efforts from Tim Cahill, Louis Saha, Marouane Fellaini and Jack Rodwell but the longer the game went on the greater the tension became. The second half, when in quick succession Saha and Seamus Coleman both failed to beat goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi one-on-ones, Cahill's header hit a post and Steven Pienaar fired over, was more eventful but no more fruitful. And had it not been for Tim Howard clawing away substitute Ronnie Stam's added-time shot it could have been even worse for the home side. "Unfortunately that is the way it has been at the moment," said Jagielka. "I wouldn't say we particularly played well but we didn't play particularly badly - it was one of those days where nothing went in. "We had a mad five minutes where we could have scored two or three goals but we didn't and it is another frustrating draw. "You'd rather lose one and win one because you climb the table but there is not much you can do about that. "The form we are in the confidence is not particularly high and we got a little bit edgy."

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