Everton lost at home 1-0 against West Ham with a goal from Tomás Soucek. James Rodríguez returned to the courts after almost a month without playing.
The duel at Goodison Park began favoring the interests of the local who handled the threads of the match and got several arrivals where he was close to opening the scoring, but failed. The London visitor gained confidence and little by little advanced his lines to the point of creating danger in the goalkeeper’s goal Pickford.
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Little by little the game and the West Ham He showed his strengths and stole the ball from the ‘Toffes’ at times. Thus the first half ended with an outstanding game more in the center of the field than in the rival areas.
In approaches and auctions, Everton had more, but failed to open the solid defense of the London team. Even in Ancelotti’s box there was no team with good ball handling, indeed, at times it was difficult for him to try to be superior to his rival.
In the second half the Liverpool team patiently tried to have the ball and generate dangerous actions, while the West Ham he bet on long balls to beat the back to the central ‘albiazules’. In these actions, the Colombian Yerry Mina looked good, although later he had a failure in the goal against.
One of the important moments of the game was at minute 63 ‘when James Rodríguez entered the field after almost a month of being out due to injury. The ‘coffee’ midfielder tried to show some of his football, give Everton offensive volume and try to collect the free kicks and corner in the best way possible in search of the desired goal.
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In the last 10 minutes of the game, after a clearance by Pickford, a West Ham footballer shot at the goal and the central ‘coffee’ Yerry Mina made a blind cue inside the area to try to clear the ball, with such bad luck that it was left to the rival Tomás Soucek, who put the final 1-0 in favor of the whole of the capital.
With this result, those led by Carlo Ancelotti they stay fourth with 29 points in the leaderboard; the leader is still Liverpool with 33 units.
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