Wayne Rooney and his Toffees
are somehow looking like an unstoppable entity in this edition of Premiership, after
the former Manchester United striker joined the elite 200-goal club.
As the way the
Everton squad played today and denied horribly the win with a volley by
substitute Raheem Sterling in the 82 minute rescuing a point but a little too
late for a rally for his Sky Blues.
Putting in evidence
the way Everton football has grown.
With the new faces in
the School of Science lineup, these are delivering a one of a kind game for
manager Ronnie Koeman and uplifting this squad chance of maybe seeing it fighting
for the top league spots.
However playing in
Etihad Stadium considered a tough venue, the Blues from Merseyside almost score
a notable win and playing with such confidence despite the Sky Blues authority
and million pounds top of the line lineup.
The Toffees once
again showed up their mettle and hunger by displaying one amazing and ambitious
football throughout the whole ninety minutes of this match.
Still tonight’s match
saw a first in English football when the Toffees aligned eight English nationals for the first
time in Rooney, Keane, Jagielka, Holgate, Davis, Baines, Calvert- Lewin and
Pickford.
As the only foreign
nationals in the starting lineup were Morgan Schneiderlin France, Idisra Gueye-
Senegal and Ashley Williams these latter one from Wales.
For Wayne Rooney to
mark his 200 goal in his career as a combination of a Mason Holgate play and passing to Dominick Lewis- Calvert that he put the ball for Rooney
definition and delivering another landmark in his career.
Disputed and very
frictional match we had today as both squads whenever these fare up these
matches have the elements of an all-around derby, especially when Everton plays
any of the Manchester teams.
As this match took a
turn for the worst for the Sky Blues when they saw, their million-pound man midfielder
Kyle Walker sent off due to accumulation of yellow cards, leaving City with just
ten men, something not taken advantage by the visitors.
The second half is
when Pep Guardiola made some substitutions with goal scorer Raheem Sterling
coming on for Gabriel Jesus, as the second half saw a better game from City
with an array of plays pressuring the Everton backfield.
Still the way Koeman 3-5-2
formation wit Jagielka, Williams and Holgate working up to speed to stop the
City momentum and stopping their chances of scoring cold, it’s when he started
making his moves to add a more dynamic to his game.
On minute 61, he replaced
both Tom Davies and Ashley Williams with Davy Klaassen and the debut of Gylfy Sigurdsson
to step up the Toffees offensive game but not even after the constant pressure
by the City squad.
Very well seeing the
moves done by Guardiola that one paid off with Sterling strike to even it up, six minutes later the tables were turned against Everton when Morgan
Schneiderlin was ejected in the 88 and leaving both squads with ten men in the
field.
Despite the extra
efforts from Man City to extend, the score and Everton to contain them, at the
end these persevered to share the points and continue perfect in this campaign with
four points each after a hectic match.
At the end the
highlight of the day was the feat achieved by Wayne Rooney.
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