Dominic Calvert-Lewin reaps rewards of David Moyes' magic but Everton not out the woods

EVERTON 3-2 TOTTENHAM: David Moyes got his archetypal triumph backmost arsenic Everton manager with assistance from Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who ended his four-month hold for a Premier League goal

David Moyes insists helium is not a magician - but helium inactive managed to find immoderate fairy particulate to sprinkle implicit Everton.

Everton were wholly unrecognisable arsenic they ran riot successful the archetypal fractional against an abject Tottenham squad to turbo-boost their endurance hopes. With 1 question of Moyes’ magic wand, they were transformed and gone was the squad that had lone won 1 of their erstwhile 11 Premier League games, scoring successful conscionable 2 matches.

In their spot was an attacking, assured Everton, who created accidental aft chance. Moyes has adjacent worked his magic connected Dominic Calvert-Lewin and the striker bagged the opening extremity with his archetypal onslaught successful 17 games. He monstered Tottenham and was a existent fistful arsenic helium won aerial challenges and enactment himself about.

The cynics whitethorn accidental helium needed to sparkle to boost his options erstwhile helium leaves connected a escaped transportation this summer, but helium looks determined to permission them successful the Premier League. Everton’s show comes with an asterisk and arsenic bully arsenic the Blues were, Tottenham were awful.

Yes, they person 10 injuries and mislaid Dominic Solanke connected the eve of the game, but they did not vie and made 1 of the worst attacks successful the Premier League look similar its astir potent. Inspired by 17-year-old Mikey Moore, they staged a precocious fightback to springiness the scoreline a flattering look.

But the bottommost enactment is Ange Postecoglou has mislaid 12 of Spurs’ 22 Premier League games and they are languishing successful 15th place, conscionable 4 points supra Everton. The statistic are damning and Tottenham person won conscionable 1 of their past 10 league games - and that was against hapless Southampton.

It conscionable seems a question of erstwhile and not if, they sack Postecoglou and it is lone the Cups that are keeping him successful a job. This was lone Everton’s 2nd Premier League triumph implicit Spurs successful 25 games, though Moyes indispensable wonderment what each the fuss is due to the fact that helium was successful his last play of his archetypal spell erstwhile the Blues past bushed Spurs successful the league astatine Goodison Park.

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After the damp squib of Moyes’ instrumentality against Aston Villa connected Wednesday, the Blues were bang connected from the archetypal infinitesimal arsenic they recorded the archetypal triumph of his 2nd spell successful charge. Idrissa Gueye fed Calvert-Lewin and helium turned Archie Gray 1 mode and past the different earlier slotting location lone his 3rd extremity of the season.

Calvert-Lewin could person had a second, lone his mediocre 2nd interaction allowed Antonin Kinsky to cod the ball, earlier the Spurs keeper tipped Orel Mangala’s changeable wide. Tottenham were pitiful and connected the fractional hour, Iliman Ndiaye ran unchallenged from the halfway enactment to spell past Radu Dragusin’s pathetic effort to halt Everton’s apical scorer scoring his sixth extremity of the season.

It was acold excessively casual for Everton and Kinsky saved Tarkowski’s header earlier they scored their 3rd successful first-half stoppage time. Calvert-Lewin’s interaction from Tarkowski’s back-post header went successful disconnected Gray for an ain extremity successful the seventh infinitesimal of added time.

Postecoglou sent connected Moore and the youngster had a manus successful Spurs’ archetypal connected 77 minutes, laying the shot backmost for Dejan Kulusevski to decorativeness with a measured chip. The talented teen created their 2nd successful the 2nd infinitesimal of stoppage clip erstwhile erstwhile Everton striker Richarlison scored astatine the backmost post.

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