A lot has happened since Everton edged past Southampton last August. So Evertonians could be forgiven for forgetting the excitement which greeted the first goal a Marco Silva team scored at Goodison Park in the Premier League.
It was a slick free-kick routine which was inventive, unusual - and effective.
It was 25 yards from goal. Leighton Baines picked out Morgan Schneiderlin, he nonchalantly looked the other way and picked out Theo Walcott, and he scored.
Seamus Coleman later revealed where the credit for the routine lay.
"It was down to the manager. We worked on it during the week after he saw a weakness in the opposition team.
"He came to us with it, he picked the players, it was all his idea. He is very detailed. And those little details are the difference between us drawing or winning that game."
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But it wasn't a one-off.
Such has been Everton's inability to defend set pieces at one end this season, their ability to create from them at the other has often been overlooked.
But after Saturday's set-piece-prompted victory at West Ham, the Blues are now top of the league for chances created from set pieces. (stat courtesy @efcstatto) The Blues have engineered 54 opportunities from deadballs, more than any other team.
They have created 35 chances from corners (4th highest in PL) and 19 from free-kicks (a Premier League high). And on Saturday night Kurt Zouma's towering far post header from Gylfi Sigurdsson's corner put the Blues on the road to victory.
In the second half Richarlison smashed a header against the crossbar from another corner routine.
It's an element of Marco Silva's matchday preparations which is as under-appreciated as it is invaluable.
Everton have now scored 12 Premier League goals from set pieces - only Liverpool, Tottenham and Brighton have scored more - and that tally doesn't include strikes like Richarlison's against Chelsea, which indirectly came from a corner - Dominic Calvert-Lewin's header parried by Kepa - or Newcastle at Goodison when Richarlison profited after another corner had been diverted into his path by a defender.
Of course the contrast with Everton's set-piece creativity needs to be balanced against their problems defending them.
In mid-February, of the 39 goals Everton had conceded in the Premier League this season, a third had come from free-kicks and corners - the highest total in the top-flight.
Throw in penalties and the Blues’ total for set pieces goals conceded stood at 15 - a figure matched only by Brighton & Hove Albion.
Since then there was the deadball meltdown at Millwall, Raul Jimenez scoring from a set piece the following week as Wolves waltzed to victory at Goodison Park and then a failure to re-group following a Watford corner which allowed an unmarked Andre Gray to tap home Will Hughes’ low cross for the only goal of the game.
But there have been signs of improvement in that metric too in recent weeks.
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The Blues have now kept clean sheets in four of their last five matches, one against a Liverpool team who have scored more goals from set pieces than any other top flight side, and another against free-scoring Chelsea.
Top of the league for creating chances from set-pieces, improving at defending them - Marco Silva's influence at Finch Farm is starting to show.
