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A much changed side and game formation saw Everton blow West Ham away with two extraordinary goals from Bernard and Gylfi Sigurdsson and the best display of the season by a country mile.



Another international break having slipped into the annals of history, Everton returned to Premier League action with as close to a must-win game as you could have so early in the season, even manager Marco Silva conceded that to be the case.



Four straight defeats had plunged the Blues into the bottom three and pre-season hopes of a top six challenge had all but evaporated.



Pressure had been building on manager Marco Silva with many feeling that the result from this game, Brighton away and the Watford game in the Carabao Cup could well determine the length of or even early curtailment of his time at the club.



And the news that summer signing Jean-Philippe Gbamin has undergone surgery on a thigh injury and would be out until the New Year was hardly the news Silva had been longing to...

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