Chapter 1: What were the key moments in Manchester City's 3-1 victory over Everton?
Really entertaining game here at Goodison Park. Manchester City have won it by three goals to one. Gabriel Jesus got them off and running, but Everton reacted incredibly well to go 1-0 down. The final touch on that one from Dominic Calvert-Lewin after his two goals in midweek. Then a brilliant free kick from Riyad Mahrez to give Manchester City the lead again.
And then this one from Raheem Sterling just over the line to make it 3-1. Everton had eight shots on target, which is more than Manchester City have faced in any Premier League since Pep Guardiola had been in charge. City, as you'd expect, with a lion's share of the possession, but Everton with more passes into the box and just short in terms of touches in the box.
The expected goals, pretty even between Everton and Manchester City here at Goodison Park this evening.
Chapter 2: How did Everton respond after going a goal down?
So celebration for Manchester City and for the Manchester City fans at half-time. And Riyad Mahrez has been talking to Greg Whelan.
Riyad, congratulations. No more than you feel you deserved for the chances you created, the way you played today.
Yeah, I think we deserved the win. I think we could have killed the game in the first half. We had like five clear chances and we didn't score. That's the difference between the game against Watford, where we scored the first five chances and this game. But I think we managed good the game. Sometimes it has to be difficult, especially here. It was tough. In the second half, we made it.
We made what we had to make. We scored through goal and we won the game.
Nevertheless, how grateful were you in the second half to the performance of your goalkeeper?
Yes, very good. That's why he's up there. We need everyone. When Eddie makes some great saves like this, it's very important for us. It's clear that we can concede chances, but when the keeper helps us, it makes a big difference.
Your goal was a key moment in the game. Talk us through the free kick. Could you see an opportunity inside that far post?
Well, firstly, I wanted to put it on the other side of the keeper.
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Chapter 3: What were the statistics that highlighted Everton's performance?
And then I looked, there was a big space. I tried to whip it on the keeper's side and he had the little bounce before he touched it. So it was difficult for him. We're happy to score this goal and we're happy to win. That's the most important for us.
In hindsight, you won 3-1 in the end, of course, but in hindsight, just how crucial a goal does that feel, given the way the match was going at the time?
Yeah, yeah, it's very important. You know, it was 1-1. Of course, to score at this moment of the game was very crucial for us and after we made the difference with the third goal and we killed the game. So I think it's a very good afternoon for us and we're happy.
With Liverpool winning again today, as you know, did you feel as a team under pressure today to go out there and respond?
No, I think we're used to this. Last year it was head-to-head with them. We had to win every game and this year it's the same. We are built to try to win every game. So, wherever they do Liverpool, they win or they lose, we have to win. So, we don't look at the table, we just focus on ourselves and try to make the perfect game.
Nevertheless, a five-point gap between yourselves and Liverpool looks a bit better than eight, doesn't it?
It looks better, but it's still a lot of game to play. I think it's 93 points to play, so it's still a lot of points to take.
Riyad, well done today. Appreciate your time.
We will come on to what that might do to the title race. I know we're only in September, but Riyad Mahrez talked about how hard fought that win was for Manchester City. And yet it made for a really entertaining game.
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Chapter 4: What did Riyad Mahrez say about his decisive free kick?
And especially after you've got a goal down, many teams might have thought, well, it's damage limitation here. We'll just try and keep City out. But they actually stepped forward, stepped onto City. and cause them a lot of problems. City look vulnerable defensively. The two centre-halves, Otamendi, Fernandinho, clearly that is a problem for Pep Guardiola.
But just the approach from Everton, the fans responded to them kind of stepping onto City, getting a few tackles in, making it an ugly, kind of bitty game. And that's what you have to do. You can't sit back and allow City to play that flowing football because they'll tear you apart.
City did, in the end, get those extra two goals against Everton. But will they be pleased with the performance they put in here tonight, Victor?
I think Everton should be pleased today. Like you said, they played more like Everton today. They were in City's faces. The Everton fans, they just want to see people work hard. They want to see people fight, and that's something that we haven't really seen so much. They've lost that bit of identity, but today they showed that a little bit more.
So hopefully they can take that into the next couple of games. They should take positives from it. They had some chances that if at that time it would have went for them, then it would have changed the game, but it didn't today. But they can take some positives from it.
We'll look at those chances in just a bit as well. But it was City who started more strongly, as you'd expect, Andy.
It was a whirlwind start. Ever since losing to Norwich, they've started games so, so quickly. And Kevin De Bruyne, we know he's got quality on the ball when he gets into the final third. We know he can deliver. But it's his ability to back up play here. He doesn't stand and watch Mahrez. He's constantly breaking forward into those dangerous areas. And he doesn't even think...
He just plays that ball into the space that he expects Jesus to be in. Defensively, Everton caught ball watching there, Michael Keane in particular. But it's that understanding that Jesus knows what De Bruyne is going to do. De Bruyne knows where Jesus is going to be. And he doesn't take a touch. He doesn't need to do. He just plays the ball with real quality.
It's a brilliant ball in, aided by some poor Everton defending. But it was a fabulous first goal.
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Chapter 5: How did Manchester City's goalkeeper impact the game?
He just puts the ball in for everybody. So the fact he plays it early, that gives strikers a better chance of scoring? I think so. And also the balls that he plays in are perfect. They're in that position where the defender doesn't really want to be in and you can just come off the back of them and tap it in. So De Bruyne, he's a world-class player and that's what you're playing up against.
But City going 1-0 up seemed to shock Everton into action.
Well, they've had two ways of going. Either they sit back and get well beaten, or they step on and take chances. And Fernandinho here, it's a routine clearance. He makes a mess of it. It's brilliant, actually, by Seamus Coleman, because he could have tried to smash this across goal, but he lifts it, and it was probably going to be his goal. You can understand Calvert-Lewin following it in.
But this was Everton's response to going behind. It was really positive. The crowd got behind them. So whether they'd scored or not, I think the fans would have said, well, at least we're trying to disrupt City and trying to score. And they actually deserve that goal, deserve to get back into the game.
You know Seamus Coleman. So, Victor, how's he going to react to having that goal snatched out of his hands?
You can see by his reaction, he turned around, he looked pretty angry, but Seamus is angry. He's an angry little Irishman sometimes, but he's so nice. But, you know, I think he'll be happy and he knows that Calvert-Lewin, you know, he needs that goal more than he does. Seamus had a good game, so he can be happy with that.
Is that striker's instinct, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, going in on that ball? Or is it just him thinking, I need to get a Premier League goal here?
I think it's both. Like I said before, there's a lot of pressure on him to score, to score. So if he can steal that goal off Sheamus, it's better for him. Because I think, like you said before, you could be talking about Calvert-Lewin going one or more games without a goal. So him having a goal today, it's just going to give him more and more confidence for every game going.
I'm sure he knows that actually the ball's going in. He knows that Coleman is going to score. So it's not as if it's going wide and he has to touch it. I just get the sense that he's not getting many opportunities and this is a golden chance just to get his head on that ball in the line and actually claim the goal. So that's why I think he follows it in and scores.
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Chapter 6: What were the missed opportunities for Everton during the match?
Like I said, we didn't get the most important thing. Of course, we got zero points for the game, but we took some positives in the game and it's important to analyse the positives and work harder next week to prepare well for the next game. It's a really important game for us, but with the reaction we showed, After the goal, we conceded altogether with the quality when you have the ball.
But with that desire to challenge them, we can get the result you want next week, the win.
Finally, you lost Theo Walcott very early on in the game. Do you have any update on how he is?
Was it a concussion that he suffered? He's already in our dressing room. He went to the hospital to make a scan. He did that. Now he's OK. It's a moment for him to take a shower, to go home to rest, and the next few days we'll see, but now he's OK. Appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you.
Good news, then, on Theo Walcott. For Everton, trying to take the positives from this game, and we saw how disappointed Marco Silva was not to come away with at least a point from this one. Can they learn something from this performance, do you think, Andy?
Yeah, it's strange. The Everton fans seem to enjoy this game more than probably the others they've played this season. In the other games, they've had over 60% of the ball, not created a lot of opportunities, kind of passed and passed it but got nowhere.
Today, they had a lot less of the ball, under 40% of the ball, but they can get back to what maybe Everton intrinsically as a club are all about, that kind of work ethic, that desire to get to the ball, to get the crowd on their feet. So it doesn't necessarily have to be that you have loads of the ball to get the crowd excited. It's actually how you go about playing.
And that's what we saw a bit more today. There's more energy, more desire, more application from the Everton team. And off the back of it, they created some good opportunities as well. So it wasn't as if they were just chasing City down to stop them scoring. They created chances off the back of that as well.
So maybe that's a thing for Marco to look at and say, we don't have to have 60% of the ball to be a decent team. We can play in another way and maybe we're more effective playing another way.
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