Given the kick-off time on Sunday, Everton were afforded the opportunity to watch the results come in over the weekend before they played themselves.
Naturally, you start looking at the table and checking how far up the table we can go if we were to win. The feeling was one of optimism.
Manchester United had also been involved in a tough game on Thursday night in the Europa League and you are thinking that could be a factor as well. But despite the great welcome the fans gave the players, and the fact Goodison Park was rocking, for some reason we just never got at United in the way I hoped we would.
