Chapter 1: What happened in the dramatic finish at Goodison Park?
Well, dramatic finish at Goodison Park. Lucas Dean with almost the final kick of the game. Deep in injury time, his first Everton goal, and it's a big point that he's saved for his team tonight and for Marco Silva, the former Watford manager, of course, in charge of Everton now. Is the draw a fair result, do you think, Gary? Do you agree with what Jamie had to say on that?
I think so, maybe overall. Let's just think from Watford's point of view, which was a question you asked me before, which was, you know, how will they feel? They'll feel devastated because, to be fair, you expect that Everton will get chances. They will be potentially even dominant at home against Watford.
But I think Everton will be the happier team in the dressing room at the end, salvaging a point out of a game which they looked like they were going to lose.
So close it was for Watford. Let's hear from Ben Foster, who, remember, had saved the penalty, and Troy Deeney speaking with Geoff Shreves.
Does it feel like a defeat? Yeah, because it's a shame for this man next to me. He's been great for weeks now and he deserves some more points on the board for the times he's kept us in games.
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Chapter 2: Is the draw between Everton and Watford a fair result?
But no, we feel like a defeat. You've got to give a bit of credit to the boys putting in the top bin in the last minute. So you give credit where it's due. But we just feel that we were probably the better team in terms of know-how and stuff. We played the game really well. We were always going to create chances and we took a few today.
And when you come away from home, if you score two, you should normally win a game. Do you agree? Does it feel galling when it's so late in the game?
Yeah, last kick of the game pretty much. Like Troy said there, fair play to the lads. 1-0 down, which is easy to feel hard done by because from what I hear it's fairly offside and fairly obvious. But they stuck to it, they kept going, got two good goals. And then, like I say, to let the goal in like we did at the last minute, it's very disappointing, but we can take a lot from it at least.
Even Mill, disappointing, where you've saved the penalty.
Chapter 3: How do Watford players feel after the late equaliser?
So you let on from somebody who's normally prolific. It's just, you know, dive and hope for the best. And it was one of them, really. It was similar to what Jordan saved a few weeks ago, didn't he? Just booted it away. But like I say, it's all about them ones in front of me. They did really well to get back into it. And, you know, it feels a little bit like a defeat, but, you know.
Troy, how much were you fired up by, in the start of the second half, the fact that you felt that some of the decisions just didn't go your way in that first half?
No, it's one of them. The refs have got a tough job. I'm not one of them guys to come out and start hammering them. It's a tough job. We, as players, just want a bit of...
bit of respect when we're talking and you know it's a lot of stuff we're doing nowadays is about respect for referees but also at the same time when they make a mistake we don't highlight that obviously we do in certain instances but in this instance we didn't highlight it we just tried to have a chat with him and found that he farmed us off so that at that point
Chapter 4: What did Ben Foster say about the penalty save?
That got us fired up, that was the team's work done because we felt like the whole world was against us and as you can see, come out, showed what we were about, some good goals, some high energy, great pressing, everyone getting stuck in, everyone fighting and unfortunately it just fell a bit short but there'll be a lot of people that will struggle to win games here so we'll take the draw and we'll move on to Cardiff next week.
It must be agonising after what happened last season as well. Never won here. You were so close, even closer this time. Like Troy said there, it's a really difficult place to come. The crowd get behind them, it really lifts them. So for us to get back in the game like we did, it's all credit to our lads.
We've got a big game for ourselves on Saturday now against Cardiff and hopefully we can get three points from that. Great effort, guys. Well done. Cheers, lads. Yeah, well, you heard it there. It feels like a defeat to Watford's players tonight. So close to getting all three points the first time at Goodison Park.
Should they feel aggrieved about the free kick that led to that late equaliser, Jamie?
Chapter 5: What caused Watford to feel hard done by during the match?
No, no. It was... You see the challenge there now. I mean, Keane goes up. It always creates panic when a centre-back goes up. You know, the striker's there, there's a centre-back who's going to pick him up. I mean, feel the drops in there. Does he not foul Cabaselli first? No, it's stupid just putting your hand up in there.
One of those things, I think, as a player late on in the game, everyone's sort of barking on the edge of your own box. All you're praying, not just for yourself, is when the ball goes somewhere else, one of your mates, don't give a foul away, don't give a set piece away, don't do nothing stupid. Is that a panicked reaction then to do that? Yeah, it is.
That's probably not something he'd do in the first half an hour of the game. You know, it's panic, we're close to winning the game. And people, when they panic, people do stupid things late on.
Chapter 6: How did Everton's performance change in the second half?
You see from the lads' interview there, how fired up they were at half-time, something to do with the referee fobbing them off. But they come out second half, listen, they were excellent second half. And on the second half performance, yes, deserved to win. But we shouldn't forget Everton's first half performance.
But late on in games, people do stupid things and panic, and that was something stupid. Do we have a game last season, mate? Or has this season someone done something in the box? He was a Crystal Palace player. And Roy Hodgson. Sacco. Didn't Sacco do something? Yeah, that rings a bell. Was that this season or last season?
Yeah. It happens, doesn't it, when players are under pressure.
Chapter 7: What were the key moments leading to Watford's goals?
What about the quality of the execution, Gary? As Troy said, top bins.
Look, it was brilliant. These lads now are practising hundreds of these a week. They pinpoint with them. And they play at full speed to start from this angle because I think you just need to see it in all its glory. It's wonderful. Absolutely perfect.
Look at Potter's reaction.
Yeah, he's devastated. Now, what I want to do is look at it from this angle. And I always think to myself, you talk about panic. and set up. There's no doubt every single team will have worked on the set-up on free kicks, against and for. They're up in the changing room before a game.
Chapter 8: How do the hosts assess the overall impact of the match on both teams?
And I would love to be able to walk into that changing room now of Watford's and see whether these two players should have been here. I don't get what they're doing, actually. To me, they're just confusing it for Ben Foster. I get the two Everton players in the end of the wall to try and create that block so that he's unsighted. I get that completely. I don't get the two Watford players.
Do you think he should be behind them?
I'm not sure. I don't even know why they're there. Give the goalkeeper as free and as clean a side as possible. If you just take it forward... Ben Foster there is crouching. I never like to see goalkeepers in a situation where they're distracted away from what is the core of what they're trying to do, which is save the ball. He's actually searching for the ball.
Yeah, but is that not what he's trying to do?
He's actually trying to get low to actually look through people's legs to see the ball. But absolutely, but he's not now in the optimum position, which is, to be honest with you, to be able to see the shot, to be able to get to it. And a distraction. He's already set off, didn't he, to actually take this now. If you'll just take it forward a touch... He's moving. You see that?
So as the ball's about to be struck, Ben's still in a position where he's in a sort of semi-squat position, like a sumo squat. And actually, he can't see the ball properly. Those players in front of him, whether it's the Everton lads, whether it's the Watford lads are confusing it as well.
Where's the power from? The spring to make a dive?
You would not be there. I mean, you wouldn't just not be there. And then there now, he's got such a long way to go. He probably sees it late. And it's past him before he knows it. He's no chance. He's absolutely no chance. But, look, you're talking about sort of desperation at the end of a game. You know, substitutes are made. Were those two lads, Watford lads, supposed to be there with regard?
If they're actually going to be there behind the Everton lads, get them out of the way. You know, have a fight with them, distract everything, stop the free kick, you know, do something, but it just seemed to me like there were so many bodies in front of Ben Foster, it was impossible for him.
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