Everton vs Crystal Palace result: Palace claim draw in front of new manager Oliver Glasner
So, honours even
Good strike, and a bit of intrigue with the new Palace gaffer in the stands. Not the greatest game but a fair result. Thanks for following it with us, Chris Bascombe’s match report appears above. Cheers.
Sean Dyche
“First half, Palace had more edge and sharpness, you know what that is like when there is a new manager in the stands.
“Second half we were better. The hardest fight to win is the one everyone thinks you should. We were braver and asked more questions. Our mentality has been good.
“Dominic is working hard and getting in key areas.
“Points is out of my hands. Who knows? We will just have to wait and see.”
Paddy McCarthy
“We knew Everton would pose some questions with set plays and disappointing not to answer them.
“Manager is coming into a squad with plenty of spirit and talent. Players deserve a lot of credit and are flexible. We have played several different systems. I hope he will enjoy working with them.
“I have not had any conversations with the club hierarchy about my positions.”
Jordan Pickford reacts to the Ayew goal
Jesse Marsch on that Sky interview
“He (Tarkowski) handled that really well. You guys came at him several.”
Oh my God, Jesse. It was hardly Paxman, was it?
Tarkowski speaks to Sky
“We were looking for all three. Would like to have seen us create a bit more because we dominated the ball. They outnumbered us in the box so when the ball was delivered they always seemed to get first contact.
“If I had known that Amadou Onana was behind me for that header I would have left it.” (see 89 minutes)
“A difficult run for us, we haven’t won for a while. We focus on the pitch not on the points deduction appeal. I think we have been performing pretty well and we have played some tough games.”
Everton remain
a serious threat from set pieces but there’s not a lot else going on. A hard outfit for the neutral to engage with.
I’m increasingly impressed by Palace’s Mateta up front, guy looks to have a bit of everything.
Everton
move out of the relegation places, bumping old Luton down into 18th. Everton hear the results of their point deduction appeal soon.
Full time: Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1
A point each feels about right, not sure either side especially deserved the win. Not a brilliant game, although the Ayew goal was special. Calvert-Lewin probably should have won it for his side, had two decent chances with the head wide.
90+ mins: Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1
Palace are happy with the point and are holding the ball up in the corner.
90 mins: Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1
Ayew has been booked for dissent. Palace are clinging on a bit here. Six minutes added.
89 mins: Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1
Palace don’t seem to have learned their lesson: they give away a silly free kick when Ahamada fouls McNeil over by the wing. McNeil himself delivers a hard flat freekick and here’s Tarkowski! Oooh he’s headed it over. He is clutching his head in his hands and you can see why.
85 mins: Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1
Palace have conceded 17 goals in the last 15 minutes of games this season. Only Sheffield United are weaker stayers.
GOAL! Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1 (Onana 84)
Everton know what they like, and what they like best is a thundering header from a corner. Crystal Palace keeper tries to come for it but Onana is there first to bullet home a header. An equaliser!
80 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
ITMA! Here is Dominic Calvert-Lewin rising like a magnificently coiffed salmon, but alas for the hapless hipster-styled forward, he has put a header wide when it looked easier to score. Poor lad.
78 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Calvert-Lewin gets up well from an Onana cross but can’t do much with it.
75 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
That goal seems to have knocked the stuffing out of the Toffees.
70 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 1
Doucoure, who is tiring but should come on for the run, is being taken off.
68 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 1
Well worth seeking out the highlights of that one. He proper belted it.
GOAL! Everton 0 Crystal Palace 1 (Ayew 66)
What a hit! Would have graced many many better games than this one. Long ball up by Palace, heroic hold up work from Mateta, who then lays it off to Ayew. One touch and then BOING!!! He’s absolutely crushed it. What a shot. No chance for Pickford and Palace have the lead.
65 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Gueye and Young, who looks old, come off. Harison and Onana the men on.
63 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
This is more Everton’s wheelhouse: threaten from the corner. Tarkowski with a beefy header, good stop from the Palace keeper, played back in, and Doucoure should have done more from close range.
62 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Everton are a dullard lot, really. They stream forward in numbers here but seem to lack verve and ideas, the move is wasted as McNeil crosses and hits a defender. They get a corner, more than they deserve.
60 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Mykolenko tries a volley and Ward blocks it.
55 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Mateta puts Mitchell through. He’s one on one with Pickford but Jordan does well to rush out and intimidate. A weak attempted dink. Mitchell never looked remotely like scoring that.
53 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Garner with some decent work but he cannot find a shot to match.
49 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Mateta takes on Branthwaite, who fouls him. Ref gives nothing, and there’s no VAR involvement because it was outside the box. Nearly in the box mind you.
46 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Let’s hope the second half has a bit more incident.
Dyche in headteacher mode
Half time: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
And that is the 45. Not a half that will linger long in the memory. Dominic Calvert-Lewin should have scored with a header. Mateta went close from a corner. Everton didn’t register a shot on target.
44 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Everton’s fans seem nervous, and the players seem nervous too. A classic chicken and egg to ponder as the first half draws to a scrappy close.
42 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Palace on top. Doucoure has to look lively when Edouard gets in the box. Mateta shoots, Branthwaite blocks.
38 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Mateta rises the strongest from a Palace corner and heads at goal. It takes a deflection and Young has to clear it off the line.
Grateful
34 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Best bit of football of the match, a crisp and pacy passing move from CPFC that culminates in Munoz teeing up Lerma, who blooters the chance a mile over.
Edouard, Godfrey, Mateta and Ayew all involved in the build up. Deserved a better finish.
30 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Mykolenko with a good cross. Young heads wide.
Neither side has been in the others’ box much.
26 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
It’s five yards from the angle of the area. Garner flips the ball over the wall but it’s a good six feet over.
Some of the Everton guys on the bench are laughing, whether at that or not I do not know. Dyche turns around to speak with them.
24 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Lerma fouls DCL right on the edge of the box. Dominic spun away from him and Lerma clipped him.
22 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
McNeil centres, Calvert-Lewin rises unopposed but heads wide. Alan Smith: “that cross is everything you could want as a centre forward, all the pace is on the ball. He should score, but when you haven’t for 17 games everything is harder.”
Meet the new boss
18 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Everton playing quite well, moving it around, probing, looking for a channel to open up into which they might hit a driven ball.
14 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Excellent pass from Pickford picks out McNeil, who plays it back in to Doucoure. The Mali internationalist shoots wide.
14 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Mateta looks full of beans and is causing problems. Everton try a long ball for DCL but he cannot do much with it. Certainly he does not lack for company there with three opposing centre halves to play against.
12 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Ooh this is a good chance. Excellent ball from Mateta. Edouard’s touch could have been better but he still manages to hit the target.
McNeil has just fouled Munoz, who stays down. VAR has a look, it comes to nothing. The ref had let it go initally.
9 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Corner to Everton conceded by Joel Ward, perhaps a bit weakly. Palace break from it.
7 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Everton, as I say, looking quite energetic and up for it. Gueye has had a shot blocked from the edge of the box.
5 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Long ball for Calvert-Lewin and he knocks it down for Doucore. Everton have come to life.
3 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Edouard making good runs, looking dangerous.
And now a probing cross in for Mateta! Tarkowski stretches desperately to cut it out.
2 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Game not settled down yet.
1 mins: Everton 0 Crystal Palace 0
Palace are in a white shirt and pale blue shorts, not entirely helpfully I would suggest given that they are playing a side in blue shirts and white shorts.
Palace kick off and play it forward but to no avail and they’re having to play mostly in their own half so far.
The sages
Seem to think that Everton will play a back four with two sitters and then a front three behind lone striker Calvert-Lewin.
For Palace, perhaps a back three with wingbacks and then two behind three.
Sean Dyche
is taking charge of his 50th Everton game.
The players are in the tunnel
Who do you fancy?
Sky
doing a crossover promotion with Dave Jones plugging True Detective while the trailer plays on their massive TV wall thing.
Ooh
now it’s metrics and goal differential from Jesse. I think he’s saying that he lost a job despite the stats being in his favour.
Jamie Carragher: “How long can you ride them? Can you bring them to the owners?”
I guess not, probz?
Monday Night Football
Jesse Marsch seems like he has taken the “keep it simple” mantra a bit too far. It’s all “they want to create more chances and then score more of them.” Sure, I guess.
Dave Jones is talking xG and scatter graphs. It’s a miracle we are still an innumerate nation really. The national sport is like a maths lesson sometimes. Math. Sorry Jesse.
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Paddy McCarthy
“Roy’s enthusiasm and passion was infectious. He is a fantastic football man, hopefully he is on the mend and we can give him a good send-off.
I have not the met the new manager and my priority has been preparing the team for tonight.”
Sean Dyche talks to Sky
“Roy is a fantastic fellow.
“We have played some tough sides, which adjusts our record considerably. We have created a style that suits the players and when we use it wisely we can be very effective.
“Doucoure has endless energy, gets in goalscoring positions, he gives us freedom. He does not get nervous.”
“DCL is getting fitter and is more effective, we want him to keep getting in scoring areas.”
Lineups!
Everton: Pickford, Godfrey, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Young, Gueye, Doucoure, McNeil, Garner, Calvert-Lewin. Subs: Patterson, Keane, Onana, Harrison, Virginia, Beto, Chermiti, Lonergan, Dobbin.
Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Munoz, Andersen, Ward, Mitchell, Wharton, Richards, Lerma, Ayew, Mateta, Edouard. Subs: Tomkins, Matheus Franca, Clyne, Ahamada, Henderson, Riedewald, Ozoh, Raymond, Umeh.
Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire)
Correct
Ray Lewington
and Paddy McCarthy are taking the team tonight. Cor, Ray has been around for a while eh? A mere lad of 67 compared to Mr Roy of course.
Team news coming up
Where do Everton find a goal from?
Sam Wallace on the Palace situ
All happening for Palace!
Good evening, what a well-timed fixture for Sky to be showing on Monday Night Football: it’s Crystal Palace against Everton, and all eyes have been on the Croydon area today because Roy Hodgson has left his post and the Eagles have appointed Eintracht Frankfurt boss Oliver Glasner, 49.
Palace statement read: “Crystal Palace F.C. are pleased to confirm the appointment of Oliver Glasner as manager.
“The 49-year-old Austrian has signed a deal to become the Eagles’ boss until the end of the 2025/2026 season.”
Palace announced Hodgson’s departure just hours before their league game against Everton and said that the 76-year-old, who was hospitalised after falling ill during a training session on Thursday, was “out of hospital and doing well”.
Palace chairman Steve Parish said: “I’m delighted to welcome Oliver to the club. He has an outstanding record, and we believe he is the right manager to take the club forward at this pivotal stage.
“Wherever Oliver has gone so far in his managerial journey, success has been quick to follow, and we believe his ambition, as well as his exciting and attacking approach, is the perfect fit for getting the most from our talented young squad in the remainder of this Premier League season and beyond.”
With Palace 16th in the table there is no time like the present for them to start accruing some points. Not that Everton will be doing them any favours: Sean Dyche’s men need some goals.
Scoring continues to be the biggest issue for Dyche with just 26 in 24 matches, exacerbated by Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s current lean spell of 18 games.
But the Toffees boss refuses to put any more pressure on his misfiring striker ahead of a must-win game for his side, with Palace just four points ahead of his 18th-placed team.
“It’s not about one player, it’s about all the team. Something will work for him,” he added.
“I think some of the performances have been very good, clean sheets among them and some points.
“There were a lot of challenges for the group but I think there are a lot of positive signs about what we are trying to do.
“We just need to score more goals and we all know that.
“The margins are important and we have to get on the right side of that, that’s the only thing which has been missing when we haven’t won. We’ve created chances and not scored goals.
“The idea of xG (expected goals) is all well and good but we can’t wait for it to happen. You have to make it happen and that’s the next step. I think we’re very close to that.”
