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Sam Allardyce believes he must take his share of the blame for Everton's Wembley horror show after claiming he picked a team that was TOO attacking.

The Blues were swept aside by Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 on Saturday evening to extend their winless run to six games.

Allardyce had seen the manner in which David Moyes had set up his West Ham United side to stifle Spurs and earn a 1-1 draw at the national stadium earlier this month.

But having toyed with a defensive line-up, the Blues boss admits he was persuaded to go more attacking given Everton's encouraging display in the FA Cup third round defeat at Liverpool eight days ago.

“I might have a bit of responsibility to take here,” said Allardyce.

“I was going to shore it up like Moyesy did because I watched the game and thought what a great job they had done on Tottenham defensively.

“They put their bodies on the line, they blocked shots, Tottenham threw everything at them and they couldn't break it down apart from one wonderful goal they scored to get a draw.

“But then again I reverted back to our Liverpool performance, and this was basically the same team that played at Liverpool, if you can play like that at Liverpool and just at the death get beat, surely you can come here to Tottenham and deliver the same performance and maybe get a result.”

Allardyce added: “Maybe I have a bit of responsibility by playing too much attacking-minded players and not as many defending-minded players.

“I should have got back to being a bit more boring and a bit less adventurous.”