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Rhino: Davies City display “normal” via NSNO

Everton youth team coach and icon David Unsworth says that the performance that has wowed the critics from Tom Davies yesterday was what he has seen the youngster do before.
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Everton’s Tom Davies confirms Leighton Baines’ view of a proper player via The Guardian

How 18-year-old Davies has handled first-team life at Goodison Park, especially his role in the rout of Manchester City, has impressed Baines, who has seen other young players be overwhelmed early in their careers
It reflects Tom Davies’s character and confidence that he viewed Yaya Touré not as a more powerful, experienced opponent on Sunday but as a barometer of his own progress on his third Premier League start. The sight of the 18-year-old sending the Manchester City midfielder off course with a flick of the instep and evading his attempted recovery tackle to score a first Everton goal was therefore a significant step. It also underpinned Leighton Baines’s theory of what makes “a proper player”.

Baines was among the first to congratulate Davies and the debutant Ademola Lookman after the teenagers opened their Everton accounts in the 4-0 defeat of Pep Guardiola’s side. The England international has been a mentor to his fellow Liverpool-born Evertonian since Davies graduated to the senior squad late last season and was unsurprised by the midfielder’s impact against City.

Related: Everton teenager Tom Davies ensures Pep Guardiola knows his name | Paul Wilson

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