This is where I wanted to be! Winning Everton’s 0-1 win over West Bromwich means the Toffees are now in fourth place in the Premier League standings, right in the direct Champions League standings. , that more than a goal is almost an obsession.
The Colombian James Rodríguez did not appear this time either, second game absent due to physical problems that were not detailed, but there were Richarlison, in a great night and Sigurdsson, in another game in which he found ways to the ‘arch rival and gave vitality to the attack.
At 90 seconds the alarm sounded for the first time on Everton estates, after a header from Diagne that forced Pickford to stretch to deflect him with a changed hand. And from then on, Ancelotti’s team suffered, fragile when the restless men of West Bromwich put balls on the backs of the scorers. Luckily they lacked aim and soon, about 15 minutes, they let go of the accelerator foot a bit.
The mess is that Everton’s proposal was not clear: if he settled better on the court and passed the suffocation, but then there were no connectors in the attack, it was a rather flat team and only Richarlison , at 37, with a shot just over the crossbar, and Calvert-Lewin, on one of the few occasions they remembered him, erred in front of the goalkeeper at 43. Maybe it wasn’t necessarily James, but he did lack a bit of talent in the visiting attack.
At 51 again West Bromwich approached with a double header into the area that the locals could not take advantage of and then Ancelotti realized the situation and authorized the arrival of Sigurdsson. And from there it was another game: Allan gave balance in the middle and released men like Gomes while the Icelander, a minute after his entry, put the ball in the corner kick to Richarlison’s head to celebrate the 0-1 at 65 minutes.
He wanted more Everton, he tried, he bet with three strikers and he tried to pass by, and the reality is that at 90 +3 he was saved when Diagne’s draw was annulled after a gross error of Pickford and a controversial decision of the VAR (one more), but in the end he understood that a single goal also gives three points and that was how he lowered the blind, in another key victory away from home, thinking in European places. Yes, it was another happy day without James on the track. The risk is that it is becoming the usual …