The objective right now is to end the losing habit and in doing so repair confidence. Without confidence you cannot achieve anything and losing all the time just destroys you more and more. Unusually for us we've also been victim to very poor decisions and Worldies taking points away from us, this can be even more demoralising as you ask, as we as fans are, "What is it we need to do to get some luck here?"
So if we have to suffer some negative turgid football for a few weeks to try and rebuild confidence then so be it. Too many are quick to make claims like the OP, yet when the boots on the other foot they claim the same thing because we didn't put away our chances and if you can't score you deserve nothing. Everton deserved f*** all for such a highly touted team, but once again they got the luck from rank poor officiating. Just like at Goodison where they scored direct from what should of been an indirect free kick and we had a perfectly good winning goal disallowed because a player not interfering with play was flagged offside. Honestly the list of bent reffing decisions is just getting ridiculously long and yes I do mean bent.

Whilst a draw wouldn't have been an unfair result, we only had 1 shot on target that I remember and only maybe 1 more chance than that. In contrast, Everton had numerous chances and had Barkley not been so wasteful they could've had 3 or 4.

We were clearly setup to not concede and get that confidence back and to be fair we nearly did it. However, you're not gonna get the points required unless you score goals so we need to find the balance and quick!

I was actually there and it was a vastly improved performance. Hit the bar and goalie making an excellent save equates to more than 1 chance. We played some good stuff against a good Everton team, of course we dont want to concede...who does?

Resembled a rugby tackle, it appears refs were told not to give any penalties this week, after watching Walker blatantly pushing Sterling in the back as he was about to score for Man City.

The ref didn't put the ball in the net at the end of the day. And the ref saw Schlupp go down off the pitch. If a player from another team went down off the pitch we'd sll be screaming play on. The team is too weak to cope with being a player light for a couple minutes. Standard Palace this season conceding lategoals. Yet its never our fault?