Everton v Crystal Palace. 30 Sep at 2000.

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Posted earlier about my eye problem and my wife driving us down from Glasgow so we could gt to these games.
Despite her best efforts I managed to miss our goal as I was getting my boy a cheeseburger at the time. Thirteen and a half hour day just to miss the highlight of the game.
Sitting next to an older fan who was of the opinion that mid-table is what we should be aiming for as we're not a Champion's League team and Europa is just a waste of time. Not sure I fully agree with that.
Thought the second half was disappointing and think our squad, attack wise, is nowhere near strong enough yet.
Downer of a journey home.
 
Thought Palace where very effective at what they do. They will pick up a lot of points this year. impressed with how we dealt with the aerial threat, bentekes goal was class ,last year we would have lost theat game. Every everton player fought for the shirt so i can't get too upset.
 
Palace played a brilliant away game, their front four are very dangerous and Benteke not only won the majority of his 50/50's he often found a man which resulted in a palace attack. They're a good team, when 'on it'. I thought we'd lose this game, we have a woeful record V Palace (outside of 04/05 under Moyes 4-0 Vaughan) even dating back to 97/98 Lombardo opening day defeat. But there were definate instances in the game where it was obvious they were happy with a point, they slowed down the game on a regular occurance, that's their perogative, but I consider the Man City game the first game we are going into when the opposition definitely wouldn't accept a point going into it, so it shall be interesting, get a point then it's Burnley and West Ham. Chin up blues.
 

A draw at home to Palace is not what I had hoped for, but they had won their last three and we had lost our last two so a draw shouldn't have been unexpected.
On balance we are not doing too badly, 7 games played, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Given we didn't really buy what was expected in the transfer window. 14 points is a fair haul for 7 games. Last season we would have needed 12 games to get 4 wins.
I think we all realise that the squad we have isn't going to get us European football and the next window will dictate how this season goes.
After City we have Burnley and West Ham, 2 wins in those 3 games will keep us in the top 6, hopefully that will be enough to attract the players we need to kick on.
If we have 20 points after 10 games then that is a significant improvement.
 


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