People are totally missing the point here with the talk of "aaaah well, he was not on when Everton scored equalizer". That is not the point.
Also people missing the point when they point out that "aaah, look, he gave gazillion forward passes. his number of forward passes is high!". Not the point either.
We were IN THE LEAD but problem for me is that we were never really IN THE CONTROL of the game. We started brightly, but Everton was pushing us most of the time. Their goals felt almost inevitable.
My issue with PEH has never been about his forward passing. It is his style of play and (lack of some) ability. He is not commanding. With him we never have the control of the tempo of the game. He is unable to up the tempo or slow down the tempo.
He is what I would call a pin-ball midfielder. Ball bounces off him in blink of a second, because he cannot hold on to the ball, turn with it and dribble with it. In Ange system it is not a crack that can be painted over. We could get away with it, if others around him are performing very well, but against Everton, Bentancur also had a poor performance, and combined it very much showed. We need players that can hold it up on their own, not ones that have to rely on others having flawless performances not to be noticed.
But now Bissouma is coming back, Sarr can start and as things stand we could hopefully soon see midfield trio of Bissouma-Sarr-Madders, cause Bentancur has to take a breather after poor performances by his own standards. And going forward, there is no other way than to move PEH and GLC on, bring in top level midfielder + possibly having Bergvall and Devine also around to help out.
No point of keep pushing square peg into round hole going forward.