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To start with the obvious, the team was a weird one and surprised most when it was revealed come quarter to 7. Sandro Ramírez, who just an hour earlier had reportedly agreed to leave Everton tomorrow, was starting out wide and there were no signs of Jordan Pickford, Idrissa Gueye, Ademola Lookman or Bernard. It certainly was a weakened team, with not much potential in the attacking third. But trust in Marco Silva we did.
It proved to all work out scrumptiously as Dominic Calvert-Lewin netted twice on a night where Gylfi Sigurdsson opened the scoring, but there still remains the glaring issue that all of our goals conceded this season have come from set pieces bar one at Wolves. That is not insignificant, and while the introduction of the 6″13 Kurt Zouma is a temporary plug, we still need work on the training ground at USM Finch Farm™, and fast.
But in the end, for now, it was a comfortable victory where good things were shown by those we needed most.
