{"id":372628,"date":"2021-12-02T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=372628"},"modified":"2021-12-02T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:51:30","slug":"rondon-is-in-woeful-condition-and-ten-yards-off-the-pace-for-everton-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/rondon-is-in-woeful-condition-and-ten-yards-off-the-pace-for-everton-pundit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rondon is in woeful condition and &#8216;ten yards&#8217; off the pace for Everton &#8211; pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Alan Hutton has questioned Salomon Rondon&#8217;s fitness levels for Everton after Wednesday&#8217;s 4-1 defeat to Liverpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Scotland defender, speaking exclusively to <strong>Football Insider<\/strong>, claimed the 32-year-old has looked &#8220;10 yards&#8221; off the pace all season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rondon played 59 minutes in Wednesday&#8217;s (1 December) Merseyside derby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">59&#39; We&#39;re forced into our first change as Rondon, who has been excellent tonight, is unable to continue. Let&#39;s go, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonygordon24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@anthonygordon24<\/a>! <br><br>\ud83d\udd35 1-2 \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVELIV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVELIV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbYHlEU0p5\">pic.twitter.com\/dbYHlEU0p5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1466158726507896836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The summer signing has featured regularly under Rafael Benitez with first-choice striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin out through injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Hutton insisted, despite all the extra game time, Rondon still does not look anywhere fit enough for the Toffees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hutton told <strong>Football Insider&#8217;s <\/strong>Russell Edge: <em>&#8220;Before he came to Everton, I don&#8217;t know the situation with him out in China and Russia and the playing situation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t look fit at all, to me. You could tell whenever he has come  on or started he looked not even a yard short. He looked 10 yards short if I&#8217;m brutally honest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The more he plays, he still doesn&#8217;t quite seem up to speed to me. So I don&#8217;t think he can sit there on the bench and be a backup to Calvert-Lewin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;When he comes on the pitch, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s offering much to the team. Maybe moving forward, I think they&#8217;ll look elsewhere.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rondon has started seven times in 10 Premier League appearances so far this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he is still yet to find the back of the net or even contribute an assist for the Toffees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"Everton\" class=\"wp-image-346737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133-1140x783.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133-750x515.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1229659133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With Calvert-Lewin out, Everton&#8217;s only other recognised centre-forward is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/cenk-tosun\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/45671\">Cenk Tosun<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkey international made his first appearance of the season with a five-minute cameo against Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/kieran-maguire-issues-498m-everton-investment-reveal\/\">Kieran Maguire issues \u201c\u00a3498million\u201d Everton \u201cinvestment\u201d reveal ahead of January<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Hutton has questioned Salomon Rondon&#8217;s fitness levels for Everton after Wednesday&#8217;s 4-1 defeat to Liverpool. The former Scotland defender, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, claimed the 32-year-old has looked &#8220;10 yards&#8221; off the pace all season. Rondon played 59 minutes in Wednesday&#8217;s (1 December) Merseyside derby. The summer signing has featured regularly under Rafael <em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":351968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[1051,7,4,111],"tags":[132,25],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372645,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372628\/revisions\/372645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}