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Rafa Benitez hits back at Everton fans after they turned on him following the club's seventh league defeat to Crystal Palace... before defending his decision to substitute 'injured' Richarlison

Rafa Benitez hit back at Everton fans and Richarlison as the problems piled up for the under-fire Spaniard at Crystal Palace.

Everton fans turned on him with anti-Benitez chants referencing his Liverpool past while the Toffees slumped to a seventh league defeat in nine games.

And Benitez also had an unhappy Richarlison to deal with after the Brazilian threw a strop when he was substituted in the second half.

Rafa Benitez hit back at Everton fans after the chanted song referencing his Liverpool past

The visiting fans vented their fury during a limp, error-ridden Everton display with cries of ‘red and white sh***’ aimed at Benitez.