Marco Silva will hope that his first misjudgment at Goodison Park does not prove to be a portent of things to come. The new Everton manager arrived for Saturday’s final friendly shortly before lunchtime and, on turning into the narrow entrance of the directors’ car park, he scraped the side of his vehicle, leaving the bodywork badly dented.

That much of his side’s defending in the 3-2 defeat by Valencia which followed could also be described as a car crash would have done little to improve his mood, but merely exacerbated a difficult day when the size of the task he has signed up for became a little clearer. Everton go into Saturday’s Premier League trip to newly promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers having endured five straight