As a former full-back myself I can tell you that a lot of players would like to line-up alongside Dwight McNeil because he puts in a lot of work to protect the midfield and his defender behind him, a lot of which probably goes unnoticed but we were lacking in creativity and that’s what he’s been brought to the club to do.
I feel this goal at Southampton, to get him off the mark for Everton, will give him huge confidence and kick-start his season but hopefully when Dominic Calvert-Lewin gets back into the team, we’ll see more of McNeil as he can get his half a yard to create opportunities and crosses for strikers.
His stats from last season didn’t really show what he could bring. You have to remember at Burnley he was playing for a team who were playing very defensively and struggling in the league so he wouldn’t have had many opportunities.
