Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video In some ways it's fitting that on the day we kept our first clean of the season, our goalkeeper was the man of the match. Petr Cech's performance was fantastic, the captain made saves, dominated his area, and used all his experience to ensure that Everton were never able to find the breakthrough – but the worry is quite how many chances they had to do that. The first half in particular saw the visitors cause us plenty of defensive problems, and our tendency – can we now call it a habit? – to start games slowly was a significant factor in this. Despite a very welcome first start for Lucas Torreira, we were on the...
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