It might not have been the victory that Everton craved but that scruffy, deflected goal by Richarlison in stoppage time could have earned the Blues one of their most-precious points of the season. Frank Lampard’s side weren’t at the races for long periods but they dug deep to claw themselves back into this one.
This match felt like a huge opportunity for Everton but you’re never going to achieve to amount to much if you can’t string two results together. In the pre-match press conference ahead of this game, Blues boss Frank Lampard had spoken about the need to keep spirits up because the nature of a relegation battle ensured you were inevitably going to suffer setbacks and his team were not going to have to win their eight remaining fixtures to stay up.
However, this was surely one of the games in the run-in that will have fallen into the winnable category with the opportunity to record back-to-back Premier League victories for the first time since September after the hard-working 1-0 success against Manchester United 11 days earlier.
