Jack Grealish: “It was probably what I expected,” says Everton’s winger upon being asked how he found his first Merseyside derby as an Everton player at Anfield. “It was hostile, it was a fast start. I don’t think we played well at all in the first half and we came in at half-time and had a bit of a chat between ourselves and the manager and I thought we bossed the game in the second half.
“It’s frustrating because you end up going in and saying that if we’d have played like that from the start it would have been a different game. In the end, we couldn’t get that last goal. We always had the belief we could do it and when we got one back, obviously we couldn’t quite get that second one.
“We were frustrated because they were trying to slow the game down at times and I’ve never in my life before seen a player get booked for taking a quick free-kick [as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall did], I don’t know where that rule has come from. Even the stoppage time … what was it … one minute and three minutes … I mean, come on. I’ve never seen that [little] in the Premier League in the last three years. So … yeah.”
