It’s been obvious since the first day of the season that Everton needed a flash of inspiration up front and they found it in the diminutive shape of Neal Maupay as the Frenchman fired the Blues to their first Premier League win of the campaign by display the kind of penalty box instincts Frank Lampard’s side have sorely been without over the past six weeks.
As eluded to already, with his relatively small stature and low centre of gravity, Maupay, snapped up from Brighton & Hove Albion last month, offers a rather different kind of focal point to the attack than either Salomon Rondon, who has often laboured when deployed this term, or the injured Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who despite being back in training, was still not included in the matchday squad here.
EFC RATINGS: Neal Maupay and four others shine in win over West Ham
