Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace | Match Reaction

Yes. And yes, the blues. Welcome to Toffee TV. Here is the match reaction. Everton 2, Crystal Palace Nilla, Hill Dickinson Stadium today. Great result for Everton. Brilliant to win a game of football, isn't it? It's been a while. You know, it's the first time I believe Everton have scored on the open day of the season for five years. So, big big win today. It was all about I've said all week it was just about getting the three points today. I wasn't bothered sort of to how Edton achieved it. But you know what? Overall, they were the better team and fully deserved the victory. That being said, and more on it in a minute, we did ride our look at times as well. David Moyes went with the team that I'd picked in the week. Obviously, Men Roll still slotting in at right back. Thought he did thought he did okay at right back again. Loads of energy, good bit of pace down at side. Tyreek George off the left. Ilman and Jay on the right gave a Premier League debut to Hayden Hackne. Although a lot of people yesterday at the after David Moyes's press conference were questioning whether or not Hackne would be given the game time to play, but he played today and I thought he was excellent. And more on that as well uh in a bit. But Everton started the game okay I thought um you know got on the front foot the 1878 marvelous display before the game obviously it's a lovely day 3:00 Saturday but you can't ask so much more on day one can you and you know I thought um the players were sort of boyed by the atmosphere the crowd created but Palace then had sort of such a brilliant opportunity early on a lovely ball from uh knock forward And James Tarovski sort of I don't know why he went he tried to stretch to clear it instead of realizing it was going over him and maybe just running into the space and trying to deal with it and his back header landed the um the Crystal Palace players foot and he's in on Golden and Jordan Pikford makes an absolute brilliant save from it. Pushes it onto the post. Unbelievable save really. Um and you know to keep it at nil nil and such a key moment you know palace would have been ahead it's a different game isn't it alto together but it was an absolute worldass save from Jordan Pford to keep it at nil nil ever then had a couple of lovely moves and one that ended with Ilman and J testing Dean Henderson which he made a save from straight it's a save Henderson should make but he still had to he still had to do it and then Palace hit the post again lovely little ball from Adam Walton caught out roll again and his some of his he played well overall but just a couple those couple of occasions there was big gaps where he was a little bit sort of caught out and he got in again the ball was cut back I think it was Mitch who cut it back and Mateta uh hit the post he'll be looking thinking he should have absolutely buried it he beat Pigford and it hit the post again and come out so two huge let offs for Everton at the other end we looked lively Ty George had really you know been going at Crystal Palace had the right foot shot and the left foot shot that got blocked. Um Ken and Jbury Hall weirdly started the game. I thought he just couldn't get into it. He looked a little bit off the pace of it. He's normally so good with his passing and it was it was off. Uh and just before I was just think you know talking to the people around me saying he's just looked miles off of here. It wasn't he wasn't putting the work in. He just looked a little bit sluggish and like I say, some of his passing wasn't great. Um, but they had a little couple of moments where he went and nicked the ball, went on a great run and put a lovely ball across to Tiero Barry who tried to do that thing when you want to make sure take a touch and you're trying to steady yourself to get a shot away instead of just hitting through the ball first time. I think you know it looked a lot better and then Ju Bol Harrison Armstrong ball into him does what he does brilliantly. shifts it onto his left foot and whips it back past Dean Henderson and into the far corner to get us up and running. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant goal. Everton really boyed by that and you know really putting Crystal Palace under pressure. We had had um a penalty call for V. I think it was a penalty. I think the referee didn't give it. I think V looked at it and it was a penalty but Jabbrate was offside. So therefore, offside was the correct decision and not a penalty. Um, not that I believed we'd get a V decision anyway, but obviously he was offside. So you can't argue with a with not getting a penalty if he's offside. So half time winning 1 nil came out for the second half and got on the front foot straight away and really pushed Palace back because the worry not the worry so to speak but you would have expect um a big re a big response from Crystal Palace going into the second half but Everton come out and just got back on the front foot. Lots of energy putting them under pressure. Then Barry who we thought had a good game was working hard up there and J you know real pressing from the front as well. George like I said and Harrison Armstrong and Hayden Hackne were absolutely fantastic and you've always got that quality of Jews Hall just behind it. So um you know we were really sort of buzzing all over them and and forcing them in to errors but then we went and got the second goal brilliantly. Ilman and Jai great play from Ru. Great play down the right little flick with the outside of the foot. Ilman and Jai goes on the outside, whips across intro Barry rises and plants a header past Dean Henderson for two-0. It was the breeding space Evan wanted. It was the breeding space Evan deserved and they were in total and utter control. And it looked at that stage. How many could it be? There was another fantastic move. Really, really good bit of football again. ball in, knocked down and Ilam and Jai hit it and Henderson makes a really good save but the shot was right at him either side of him he was in huge trouble and it would have been 3-0 you know and and they were hanging on a little bit Crystal Palace at that stage I think the frustrating thing I think forever some Evertonians will be um was that ever them then went and sat in to sort of making sure there was two banks of four sat behind kind of ball but that's what you've got to do it. You've got to produce professional performances at times and you know Everton still carried that threat. Palace got on the ball a bit more. Walton and Kamadada got on the ball a little bit more. They brought on Strand and took Mateta off. They took Dwight McNeel off. He didn't really couldn't really get into it. They brought Jeremy Pino on as well in that and they they knocked it round nicely Palace but Everton did give them the ball and Everton looked to spring them on the break, you know, win the ball and then go and and we we did look dangerous when we did that. You know, again, Tyrie George has fired one sort of a cross shot over Jbury Hall put one magnificent ball in. Although that was a bit later on that Betto should have got on the end of at the back post. Brennan Johnson almost bet on Brennan Johnson came on and that David Moyes sign uses subs. It was great to see James Garner coming on as a sub as well. He's obviously not played a game in preseason at all. Got an injury early on and had to have a little bit of a a cleanup job on his groin. I think a minor operation. He's back, you know, and and I think it was a hernia, wasn't it? He's back in there today. Come on and worked hard. So, that's what you want to see. I thought I've got to say I thought Vitali Melenko had a really good game today. You know, credit where credit's due. I thought he worked hard, tried to be a threat going forward as much as he could. It it's not natural to him, you know, and we've all talked about wanting attacking fullbacks and it's right and I think we seen Merlin Ro when he goes on them overlaps and runs and the energy that how much it gets you up the pitch as well, you know, but he's still sort of learning learning his trade there. I think Micheleno is never going to do that, but he was trying to sort of make a little bit of a difference. Bran Tweet's obviously a Rolls-Royce, isn't he? You know, absolutely superb. So, you know, like I said, Jordan Pigford was excellent as well and Tarov. So, I think T had a couple of W, don't get me wrong, he had a couple of wobbly moments as well, but overall they defended, you know, he defended crosses up against Mateta and Strand L and the pair of them dug it out for a clean sheet. We did see Brennan Johnson for his Premier League debut of course for Everton. Um and like I say, Jezebury all had one great ball and Betto possibly should have just threw everything at it to get it. I think he he didn't realize the quality of the ball till it was a fraction too late for him. He'd had a shot as well after a good run that it got blocked. But David Moyes, I'm sure, will be absolutely delighted. I've not heard anything from him after the game yet, but he'll be absolutely delighted. All you can do is beat what's in front of you. And that's what we've done. You know, the first game of the season, a massive win to get you up and running. You know, you you get your first win at home. That's done. You're up and running. Everton are currently third in the Premier League table. They were second, but Brenford are spanking Spurs as I record this three. And it should have been 40. I almost deputy dreadful at the moment, but um brilliant win for us. I'm absolutely delighted and um you know looking at the sort of man of the match there's a few I know Tyreek George got man of the match in the stadium from the vote I thought he was excellent I really did but my man of the match is between two of our midfield players and that is Harrison Armstrong and Hayden Hackne and I think I'm going to give it to Hayden Hackne because it was his Premier League Davyy but I did think Armstrong was tremendous as well 19 the middle of the park was outstanding but I thought hack you know, David Moyes had talked about caution and he's, you know, can he sort of um can he do it, you know, and all that. It's he's got to settle into it and got to give him time and all that's right, but I thought I just thought he was brilliant today. Wanted the ball all the time and a real impressive um impressive Davy. So, he's my man of the match. Other opinions are equally as valid. That is it. Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Up the toffy's editing through Palace Nil.