**James Tarkowski admits he is struggling to pinpoint Everton’s home form issues.**
Tuesday’s [Premier League defeat to Bournemouth](https://www.clickliverpool.com/sport/everton-fc/63631-everton-1-2-bournemouth-three-talking-points-david-moyes-jake-obrien-vitalii-mykolenko/) saw David Moyes’ side miss the chance to move up to sixth in the table and rack up back-to-back victories.
Since leaving Goodison Park for Hill Dickinson Stadium last summer, the Blues have won just four of their 13 top-flight games with their last coming in November.
The run marks a stark contrast to their away record with 11 victories in 22 games since Moyes returned to the club’s managerial helm little over 13 months ago.
After the loss to the Cherries, Tarkowski concedes that Everton’s struggles since an initially promising start to life in their new surroundings are difficult to put a finger on.
He said: “You probably would have expected it the other way around; for us to struggle at the start maybe and then pick up after.
“We’ve sort of started really well and struggled after that.
“I wish I could just say ‘this is the reason why’ and we could try and fix that problem. I can’t manage to do that right now.
“Tonight up until the first goal, I didn’t really feel they got at us. They pressed the ball and had a bit of possession but they didn’t really cause us many issues.
“If we’d have scored a second or third then the game’s put to bed and we would’ve won the game.
“I’d say there’s probably a couple of minor, minor details in there that have ultimately led to us not picking up enough points.”
Everton were undone in eight second-half minutes as the visitors overturned Iliman Ndiaye’s first-half penalty while defender Jake O’Brien was sent off for the hosts.
“Self-destruct is a good way of putting it,” admitted Tarkowski.
“We were pretty comfortable. I didn’t feel like they were making a lot of opportunities and we were controlling them well.
“They are a tough team to play against. They put so much pressure on the ball high up the pitch that sometimes it’s hard to play.
“We were dealing with it quite well and before you know it, you’re 2-1 down with 10 men. It looks very bleak at that point.
“We need to find a way of playing at home and picking up some points and results because we started so well here.
“But in recent months, we’ve really struggled to do that so we have to put that right somehow.”