Everton came from beating Arsenal 2-1 in agony and it seemed that it was the improvement, the final take-off of the long-awaited one was Benítez, but no. It was a symptom of improvement that would not go beyond the illusion, because in the visit to Crystal Palace the team, which did not have Yerry Mina due to injury, again showed few ideas and, beyond the excitement of the discount, signed a 3- 1 emotional but painful for the ‘blues’.
Kouyaté and Zaha gave the first scares in the first 25 suffocating minutes of the premises, which were not goals almost always by Pickford’s vortud.
The matter was somewhat equated later, Gomes and Gray appeared but just then the goal would come, deserved by others: Conor Gallagher put a right hand to the service of Jordan Ayew, in the 41st minute.
It was a melody repeated at the beginning of the second half, with a resounding command but without precision in the face of Pickford’s goal, who saw his door safely when Gallagher forgave, at 55, in another great pass from Ayew, but would end up lowering his arms At 62, when James Tomkins hit a shot low, near the left post, in a Hughes service that left, again, in evidence the blue behind.
The funny thing is that only 4 minutes before Rafa Benítez had decided to give way to Salomón Rondón for Richarlison, a controversial change that left the Brazilian furious, who did not even look at his DT.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! SALO RONDÓN! ????????⚽️
— Everton (@EvertonESP) December 12, 2021
Who would say that the Spaniard was going to win the pulse when, at 70 minutes, the Venezuelan achieved the discount goal, in a play that he proposed and he finished, which gave a new impetus to the story.
Everton went over with that mental clean-up but in the end he lacked a cool head and time, in front of a local that no longer dominated but took refuge so as not to risk the three points, except for the one that Godfrey took out of the line in his area and, in the answer, the one that Gordon wasted and in the end evacuated well the local defense. The final clasp was a jewel, a great piece of Gallagher that flew to but Pickford did not reach no matter how much he stretched. The 3-1 on the scoreboard was fairer … and more lapidary for Everton.
In the end it was a new defeat for Benítez and the ‘toffees’, who returned to position 14 of the table, far from all the important discussions in the Premier League.
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