Depending on next season’s fixtures, this might have been the last-ever Boxing Day game at Goodison Park but Everton will just hope that they’re still playing Premier League football this time next year after they were knocked out by a sucker punch from a Wolverhampton Wanderers side who came into this fixture propping up the table.
The Blues had taken the lead just seven minutes in with a Yerry Mina header from a corner kick but after Daniel Prodence had restored parity with a close range effort from a corner of their own, the visitors snatched the points deep into second half stoppage time when the hosts imploded defensively to allow substitute Rayan Ait-Nouri to fire in at the back post and leave the long-suffering home faithful sick and feel ready to bring their Christmas dinners back up.
As 2022 at Goodison drew to a close, it was the same old story for Mina as he displayed early promise before ultimately failing to complete 90 minutes.
