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Although the Premier league wastes emotions, not all parties give for fireworks. Sometimes you have to appeal to be practical, to try to counteract what the rival proposes and with that you can reach the result. And so it happened with a Everton who is still on in the first place of the League, with a James Rodriguez not as prominent as in previous games, but with touches of its kind in defining moments of the match.
The visit to the Crystal Palace was not easy for the team led by Carlo Ancelotti. From the point of view of the numbers, the issue is unappealable: three games, three victories, waiting for what happens this Sunday with Leicester City, what visit to Manchester city, and on Monday, in the great game between Liverpool Y Arsenal. The count of goals scored rises to eight and those received are three.
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You have to go back 26 seasons to find an Everton winning the first three games of the season in the Premier League. And you also have to go 82 years back to find five consecutive wins for the team in official matches (the two victories of the League Cup are counted). In 1938 he got six in a row.
But Ancelotti will have to review some issues. Like, for example, the filter in the middle of the court, which with a rival other than Crystal Palace could bring him bigger problems, and the way he is scoring in the side charges and in the corner kicks, a zonal system that does not It is always effective, and less in a football like English, so fond of lifting the ball looking for heads that hurt.
Crystal Palace’s partial draw, scored by Senegalese Cheikhou Kouyaté, started from a concentration error: two players surrounded him and neither went looking for him.
“The team spirit was fantastic, but we have to keep trying to improve where we need to be focused there. I am very happy with what we have done in this first period of the season ”, declared Ancelotti at the end of the game.
How did James do? He played a very correct game, but not as brilliant as eight days ago against West Bromwich. However, his talent appeared in the two plays that determined the goals of his team.
The first goal was born of his genius: a touch of the right and first to the back for Seamus Coleman, who then sent it to the center of the goal so that Dominic Calvert-Lewin score your fifth goal of the season and become a Premier League scorer.
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The second goal was from a penalty, scored by Brazilian Richarlison. But the play that ends in the maximum penalty is born from a precise ball from James, who found a receiver in the Crystal Palace area: Lucas Digne lowered it headlong and defender Joel Ward touched it with an open hand. VAR through, there Everton found the goal that ultimately gave them victory.
James started from the right, always looking for the play towards the center to head towards the goal or looking for a long and precise pass. And in that aspect he had a very outstanding performance: of 46 passes, 41 reached their destination. And many times playing one-touch, to try to take advantage of his talent and thus compensate for something that is undeniable: James is not that fast.
From that moment, and especially in the second stage, until he left the field in the 85th minute, replaced by the Nigerian Alex Iwobi, James did a job of sacrifice, when it was difficult for his team to recover the ball. The entrance of Gylfi Sigurdsson also helped him to control the game. Ancelotti recognized it at the end of the game:
What James, Calvert-Lewin and Richarilson did was fantastic, they worked hard and helped him defend too.
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In his official Twitter account, Everton conducted a survey on who was the figure on the field and James was chosen: 12,066 people voted and the Colombian obtained 56 percent of the votes. The second, the Brazilian Allan, was with 15.1 percent.
Yerry Mina He also had a correct game, without major mistakes and with a couple of unsuccessful offensive intentions, but the defender has also benefited from Ancelotti’s confidence in this new season.
Everton wants to continue dreaming. On Wednesday he will play West Ham in the League Cup and on Saturday, in the Premier, he will host Brighton. And after the Fifa date of October, the 17th, he will have his first great challenge of the season, the classic against the current champion, Liverpool. There you will know what this team is made for.
Jose Orlando Ascencio
Sports Deputy Editor
@josasc
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