Donny van de Beek in the first half has the best pass accuracy of any
#EFC
player, has made more passes than anyone in royal blue and has made the joint-most tackles (level with Iwobi)
Some half on his full debut
This picture is what it's all about, absolutely incredible how much
@richarlison97
is already connecting with the Everton community
Best image of the season so far
Everton fans are making their intentions clear to Kurt Zouma, loudly chanting his name as he makes his way around the pitch here
They desperately want him to stay, and no wonder with performances like this one tonight
Niels Nkounkou has just been found by Alex Iwobi and got on the Everton team bus with a beaming smile on his face
The
#EFC
defender clearly delighted to see a win on his return from loan!
Surviving two separate points deductions, staying up with three games to spare, and then throwing Michael Keane on up front to rub it in the Premier League's faces in it right at the end
What a day
Lampard: "We've lost a point when we're fighting for our lives through a professional who can't do their job right. It's incompetence to get it wrong."
So after six permanent managers, a global pandemic, a new stadium starting to be built and an almost-relegation - my time reporting on
#EFC
has come to an end
I've loved reporting on this club for the ECHO and working with some incredible people but it's time for me to step back
Has Danny Murphy just described James Rodriguez as "a bit of an unknown to some teams at the start of the season"?
...it's James Rodriguez mate, I think everyone knew him
Instead of having the chance to be 2-0 up from the spot in a match they were on top in,
#EFC
found themselves down to ten men and on the back foot for 70 minutes
That is as game-changing a decision as you'll get, and it was embarrassingly wrong
Moise Kean has now scored on his last two starts for Everton...six months apart
No-one in a blue shirt has deserved a goal more than him this afternoon
Allardyce: "Everton are riding high apparently at the top of the league and created little or no chances tonight. The goal was only a half chance. Then we scored a great goal and it was half a toenail offside."
"You're only saying that because you weren't invited"
Ridiculous comments like that have got me angry enough to write a full piece explaining exactly why they're so wrong
#EFC
Doucoure, who was cast out by Lampard, scoring the winning goal to keep Everton up - against the team that Lampard should have been sacked for losing 7-1 in the space of a week to
Poetic
That is a very, very big win for Everton
The Blues have travelled to a top six team, dominated them from the first minute, and took all three points back without a fuss. Oh, and there were a few decent debuts in there too 👀
Frank Lampard: "It was a penalty. Yeah. It's a clear shirt pull, a foul in the box. My players get criticised for going down for fouls that are fouls."
Lampard: "Wind up? I've been at Chelsea, coached there - sometimes players get frustrated. Against top level teams, moments where you switch off they can punish you. We didn't switch off much, when we did we had an incredible goalkeeper."
Interesting quote from Mourinho on facing Everton this weekend:
"We knew the club would move in that direction, very good players, players from Barcelona. So that is the level which Everton wants to reach. Their ambitions are very similar to our ambitions.”
James Rodriguez's first eight
#EFC
matches: Seven goal contributions (three goals, four assists)
Andros Townsend's first eight
#EFC
matches: Seven goal contributions (four goals, three assists)
Don't just rate him on hard work. Rate him on quality too
Jordan Pickford. Four clean sheets in four
#Euro2020
games, multiple big saves along the way.
#EFC
and England's finest, no matter what the pundits say
Lampard: "I've got to give the lads a lot of credit here. Two defeats in a week, to go again against a fresh team that are full of quality - and show that level of fight, spirit and desire - they got what they deserved."
Ferguson: "Fans for me can protest and say what they want, because it's their club at the end of the day. I know how sick they are, believe me, I'm gutted as much as them"
Tell you what, among all this I feel really sorry for Jordan Pickford
He's really not done anything wrong today and he's 5-0 down. In fact, he's stopped it from being much, much worse
Everton got beat 5-2 last week in one of the most embarrassing games many fans have seen in a *long* time
This is their reaction to that. Shambolic and pathetic once again
*sigh*
Good to see Conor Coady crossing this seemingly "impossible" divide after being a Liverpool supporter. It's almost as if something else was at play for Benitez...
🗣️ “I was red. At Everton, I couldn’t do it.”
Rafael Benítez on his time at Everton and how his ties with Liverpool made it impossible to work at the club.
An Everon fan has run onto the pitch from the Gwladys to confront some of the players
Seems very angry to begin with but then had a calm discussion with Gordon particularly
An elderly Everton fan has just come up to the press seating and said "Hey lads, how did Tottenham finish up?"
On hearing the news he gave it a little fist pump in celebration 😂
Demarai Gray has just ended up tracking Mason Greenwood all the way to right back to make sure the United man couldn't get on the end of a counter-attack
That kind of thing is why
#EFC
fans have taken to him so much, not just the goals and assists
Demarai Gray has his name sung to him by the
#EFC
end after a great substitute performance
His response is to point to Alex Iwobi in appreciation for his contribution, which was similarly very strong tonight
Yerry Mina is down by the tunnel giving each player a high-five and a hug as they head back to the dressing room following their warm-ups
How
#EFC
could do with him on the pitch today
You don't want to make too many excuses but the decision to not give that penalty just before the red card in the first half is just absolutely massive
Those could decide the relegation battle and it was just plain wrong today
Just walked passed a beer garden right outside the stadium with a decent group of Werder Bremen and Everton fans all chatting with each other and enjoying a pint together
That sums up the atmosphere today from what I've seen, a great day 👏
Some of the comments on this show you just how far behind conversations involving mental health still are on social media, in some quarters at least
Well done to Calvert-Lewin for speaking out and we can only hope change is inspired in the future
Calvert-Lewin has spoken out about how much of a struggle this season has been, encouraging others who might be suffering in silence to seek help as 'talking saved' his life ❤️️
Ancelotti: "What I asked, he [Kean] did. For the team, it's important to have a striker like this. This goal can give him more confidence in what he's doing but honesty he's doing well. He has to improve technically and tactically but he has the right way."
Everton now the only team in the Premier League to have not conceded a goal this season
Not a bad start to the campaign for this centre back pairing then 💪