Raya 6 - Complete and utter spectator, not his fault just indicative of Everton’s lack of ambition and quality


White 6.5 - Did ok getting forward, largely untested defensively


Saliba 8 - Did what he needed to do to snuff out what threat there was


Gabriel 7 - Largely untroubled


Zinchenko 6 - Actually had some decent passing today, contrasted to what a waste of oxygen he was in this fixture last season


Rice 6.5 - How the fuck do you manage to be made to look like such an utter dickhead by Doucoure, sorry if I’m a dog with a bone but a quicker and technically better player that doesn’t happen…ended up in Everton’s best attacking move of the game


Odegaard 7 - Still trying too hard but compared to the dog shit he was offering earlier in the season, much improved. Unlucky not to score


Vieira - 7 - Good interchange both with Martinelli and then Trossard


Trossard - 8.5 - I know he was a sub but he played most of the game, and he proved he deserves to be playing games…lovely left foot finish, lovely link up play with Vieira and Odegaard. Classiest performer out there


Saka - 6.5 Didn’t do anything wrong but was rather muted



Nketiah - 6 - I admire how he is making himself available but he just wasn’t on the wavelength of others around him.



Martinelli 7.5 - Double insult, injured in goal celebration and to have goal questionably chalked off



Subs:


Jesus - 6.5
Havertz - 6.5
Tomoyasu - 6.5


Still looking far from cohesive, but away from home we don’t look like giving away goals…the big problem is scoring them. I can’t complain too much today because some of the play was good in an overall turgid match but even with Rice I’m being massively over critical. That that’s the nearest we came to conceding rather demonstrates how solid we were. This is clearly an improvement over the dogs dinner set up that the players were clearly perplexed by earlier in the season.

Pleased to see Trossard get on the scoresheet, pleased to finally end the absolutely wretched results we’ve had at that shithole of a ground (yes it is a shit hole, I’ve been there twice…you have better standards of lavatory in areas of the developing world and ridiculous amounts of the stands have restricted viewing).

Only negative is injury to Martinelli, hoping that it’s not a long one