That’s all from me. Jacob Steinberg will pick up the baton for the second leg of the Manchester v Merseyside double-header. Bye!
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Everton’s two teenage talents talk, starting with Tom Davies, who says Lukaku is also claiming the third goal.
No chance he’s getting that one off me. That’s definitely mine. It’s my dream. To actually go out there and do it, it’s unbelievable. It hasn’t quite sunk in yet. It’s surreal, being with the first team in general but today to beat City and do it comfortably, it’s a great day.
And Ademola Lookman on his cameo:
The gaffer just said, play behind Rom. I was lucky to anticipate the ball and just put it in the back of the net, yeah. I just thought, it’s my chance to score a first Premier League goal. And I did.
What an entertaining match. Everton were fully committed and excellently motivated, and after initially struggling to cope with City’s – and De Bruyne’s, in particular – passing, blossomed once they got their noses in front. City’s reaction to adversity, meanwhile, was extremely concerning.
The City perspective on the match, in three letters.
FT | Everton 4-0 City
— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 15, 2017
Ugh. pic.twitter.com/HICCqdj8Os
Final score: Everton 4-0 Manchester City
And that’s yer lot! Everton’s players go straight to Lookman, who delivered the most delicious cherry to top what was already an impressive cake. That’s Pep Guardiola’s worst ever league defeat in management.
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GOAL! Everton 4-0 Man City (Lookman, 90+4 mins)
Lookman’s scored on his debut! And, more enjoyable still for Everton, it came from a Stones howler! Stones, out on the left, tried to clear the ball into touch but kicked it into Coleman’s hip instead, and it rebounded inside to Lookman, who took a touch and shot through Bravo’s legs!
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90+2 mins: Lukaku goes down, with Otamendi behind him. The Belgian gets up and pushes Otamendi in the chest, and the City defender falls over holding his face, as if he’d been headbutted. Pure silliness. The referee books them both.
90+1 mins: There’ll be about four minutes of stoppage time.
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90 mins: Everton’s final change, and another debut: Barkley comes off, and Lookman comes on. He looks extraordinarily youthful.
88 mins: Some prolonged Everton pressure comes to an end when Barkley passes straight to Aguero. And then it restarts when Aguero miscontrols it straight back to Barkley again.
85 mins: Chance for Lukaku, who’s fed by Barkley and chips over Bravo, but can’t get his shot on target.
84 mins: Davies is fouled by a frustrated Sterling, gets a bit angry, and lots of players sprint to the spot for some mildly aggressive posturing.
82 mins: That’s Davies’ first league goal for Everton. It really was excellent work from the lanky-haired midfield tyro.
13 - Claudio Bravo has conceded from 13 of the last 21 shots on target he has faced in the Premier League. Update.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 15, 2017
@Everton different class Blues, Davies 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
— Peter Reid (@reid6peter) January 15, 2017
GOAL! Everton 3-0 Man City (Davies, 79 mins)
The game’s won now! And this is a splendid goal from Davies! He wins the ball, sprints down the right, cuts inside past Touré and Clichy, passes to his left, keeps running, gets it back and chips beautifully over Bravo and towards goal. Lukaku tries to touch it in, but just misses it – Davies’ goal!
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77 mins: City have another free kick, after Schneiderlin trips Sterling. Robles catches De Bruyne’s resulting shot.
75 mins: Silva is booked for fouling Davies, who took possession when the Spaniard stumbled. City have been ragged this half. They may yet rescue the match, but the last half-hour has been extremely unimpressive.
73 mins: Another Everton substitution, Gareth Barry going off after what must have been one of his best performances of the season, and James McCarthy coming on.
72 min: Aguero has a shot! The exclamation mark is there more because there haven’t been many today, rather than because it nearly went in. Robles dives to his right to push it wide.
69 mins: Everton’s midfield has been excellent today. Davies brings them much more energy than they’ve shown at times this season.
67 mins: Barkley wins a free-kick in the centre circle, after being fouled by Otamendi. The fans go wild.
65 mins: Schneiderlin is the Everton No2. So much for “if you know your history”.
64 mins: And a substitution, and a debut, for Everton: Mirallas is off, and Schneiderlin is on.
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62 mins: A change for City, who take off Zabaleta and bring on Iheanacho.
60 mins: Everton’s fans are booing enthusiastically, feeling they aren’t being given any free-kicks and City are being rewarded every time they tumble. Lukaku’s is the latest fall to be ignored.
57 mins: Mirallas goes to ground, clutching his left calf, after Zabaleta clips him with his studs in what appeared a fairly innocent challenge.
56 mins: City win another free-kick, on the left wing this time, and Mason Holgate gets booked for conceding it. They cross it into the box, and it goes out again the other side.
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54 mins: A few seconds later Barkley rests a hand on Zabaleta’s shoulder, the City player goes down and City get another free kick. Barkley rolls around on the floor as if physically injured by the referee’s decision-making.
53 mins: Otamendi tries to take on Barkley, decides he’s probably unlikely to succeed and falls over for no good reason. The linesman charitably waves a flag, and City get a free kick.
51 mins: Sterling has the ball in the net, but De Bruyne’s pass to him had been slightly overhit, and went an inch or two out of play before Sterling rescued it.
49 mins: De Bruyne had sent a shot wide after 27 seconds of the half, hinting at a determination in City’s ranks to get back on level terms as quickly as possible. That plan didn’t exactly work out.
GOAL! Everton 2-0 Man City (Mirallas, 47 mins)
The lead is doubled! Lukaku tries to play Mirallas through, but Stones slides in to stop the pass. It rolls to Barkley, who does pick Mirallas out, and his low shot across goal from the edge of the area nestles inside the post!
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46 mins: Lukaku keeps everyone waiting, before becoming the last player out of the tunnel, a good minute behind anyone else. Eventually he deigns to grace us with his presence, and off we go.
The players retake the field. A big 45 minutes lie ahead, of potentially massive importance in City’s season. They will get it under way.
Meanwhile in Holland, Patrick Kluivert’s son Justin has just made his debut for Ajax. Nothing to do with this game, but interesting for the old-timers.
Half time: Everton 1-0 Manchester City
45+3 mins: And that’s all, for now! Everton have been the more dangerous team since they scored, though hadn’t really threatened until they did. Which is kind of the wrong way round, really.
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45+2 mins: One City full-back, Clichy, crosses deep from the left, and the other, Sagna, sends a looping header towards the far post, where Davies heads off the line!
45+1 mins: Into stoppage time we roll, and there’ll be at least two minutes of it. Probably more, given it’s started with Roblem rolling about holding his head, after taking a glancing blow from Williams’ shoulder.
45 mins: Lukaku is found in space on the right, but rather than crossing to Mirallas or playing back to the advancing-in-space Barkley, he tries to take on Otamendi and fails.
44 mins: This is quite a stat.
4 - In four of their last seven Premier League games, Manchester City have conceded with the first shot they've faced. Stunned.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 15, 2017
42 mins: Since the goal City have been flustered and imprecise, and Everton have largely kept them well away from their penalty area.
40 mins: Barkley does very nicely in midfield, ghosting past a couple of challenges, before finding Coleman in loads of space on the right, but his cross is disappointing, and Bravo catches.
38 mins: Oooh! Aguero only just fails to get his studs on the end of another low cross from the left. Just as well, perhaps, as he’d clearly dragged down Funes Mori in the build-up, and the referee hadn’t spotted it.
37 mins: Mirallas spears in a looping, high cross from the byline, leading to an almighty scramble as Baines tries to prevent four defenders from clearing it. Which he does, for a while.
GOAL! Everton 1-0 Man City (Lukaku, 34 mins)
The home side take the lead! City give away the ball in a dangerous position again, Davies intercepts and plays in Mirallas, who rolls the ball across to Lukaku, who sidefoots in from 15 yards!
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32 mins: Aguero passes to Zabaleta, who is offside, but while play briefly continues Zabaleta passes to De Bruyne, who is more offside. I’m not sure which one the linesman gave, but one of them for sure. Mark Taylor has fully translated Michael Britten’s Chinese: “It should be OK if it’s an adult, consenting horse,” he reassures me. “Anyway, Trump is going to be president soon, and, as Nixon said, it’s not illegal if the president does it.”
30 mins: De Bruyne, playing in a deep leftish-midfield role, has been responsible for nearly all the outstanding attacking moments so far.
27 mins: Another fabulous De Bruyne pass, this time to find Silva bursting into the area, entirely alone. Robles sprints off his line to get in Silva’s face and deny him room to shoot, and then all sorts of defenders arrive and the chance is gone.
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26 mins: That was apparently the game’s first shot.
26 mins: Chance for Sterling! De Bruyne, I think, picks him out with a fabulous pass from deep, over the Everton defence and onto Sterling’s instep, but the volley is too close to Robles, who catches.
24 mins: One from the training ground, that: De Bruyne dummies the free-kick, Silva sends it low towards Aguero, and Williams spots what’s about to happen, gets there first and hammers clear.
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24 mins: Holgate trips Aguero about six inches outside the penalty area, on the left.
23 mins: City ping the ball about in very lovely but not very dangerous style, Barry eventually intercepting the nth consecutive rat-a-tat pass.
19 mins: Bravo miscontrols yet another hurried backpass, but fortunately the ball rolls closer to him than to Mirallas. “Just to let you know, Chris Bascombe’s tweet contains a minor error,” writes Michael Britten. “It should be 马克·克拉顿堡 not just 克·克拉顿堡, given that 马克 is how the name Mark is traditionally written in Chinese.” Thanks. I trust neither you nor Chris Bascombe is cunningly hoodwinking me into printing horribly offensive nastiness in foreign languages I don’t understand.
16 mins: De Bruyne keeps sliding over low crosses. Williams slides in to clear the latest, with Aguero waiting to pounce.
13 mins: I think that probably was a penalty. If Baines hadn’t been there, it would surely have been given. And the fact that he was there should really make any difference to the decision. But the referee may have decided that the chance had gone, even before Sterling went down, and thus no harm no foul. It wasn’t, though, so totally and obviously clear-cut to launch into full-blown referee condemnation mode.
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12 mins: Sterling misses a sitter, and wants a penalty! He’s totally on his own in the middle as De Bruyne is set free on the left, and is picked out by the Belgian’s pull-back. He tries to take the ball round the keeper, Baines slides in to block it, and Sterling goes over Robles’ trailing leg!
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11 mins: City turn attack into defence with one slightly overhit pass from Aguero to Zabaleta, and his poor control. Barkley’s cross is deflected behind, though, and the corner comes to nothing.
9 mins: Everton have a goal disallowed, after a lovely move cuts City apart! Lukaku’s reverse pass found an overlapping Coleman, and he cut back to Mirallas, who was left with a tap-in. But the full-back was indeed offside when Lukaku passed the ball – had the pass only been executed a moment sooner, that would have been an excellent opener.
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8 mins: Everton are pressing and harrying City well as they attempt to play their way out of defence, allowing them to win possession in promising areas several times already. The latest turnover led to a free-kick and, eventually, a Barry cross that went out of play.
6 mins: Sterling takes possession in midfield and spins away from two defenders, only for Tom Davies to appear from nowhere and take out his legs. One of those early free-kicks that might have brought a booking later in the game.
4 mins: Funes Mori chips the ball over the City defence to meet the run of Barkley, and the home fans roar their approval. And then they spot the linesman’s flag.
2 mins: City get down the left, and De Bruyne crosses low towards Aguero, but Gareth Barry slides in to dispossess cleanly.
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1 min: Peeeep! Everton get the game started, with a hefty hoof into the City area.
Before kick-off, a minute’s applause in memory of both Graham Taylor and long-time Everton club secretary Jim Greenwood.
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Worth every yuan, in my opinion. An outstanding official, most of the time.
Referee here at Goodison Park is Mark Clattenburg. Or as he now likes to call himself 克·克拉顿堡
— Chris Bascombe (@_ChrisBascombe) January 15, 2017
Z Cars rings out, and the players walk out of the tunnel. Sport oncoming!
And Guardiola does too:
We had a long week, eight, nine days, so we decided to keep going with the same team we played at West Ham. Hopefully they will get a good result. For the last month, two months, and before I arrived here, [people] told me [in the Premier League] the big clubs always lose against the other teams, but this year the top five, six teams they are so, so strong. Not just in terms of their results, they are playing so well.
It will be the second time in our lives [that he and Koeman manage against each other], but it’s always a pleasure to see friends, and of course we are going to try to win, but I’m happy to see him again.
Ronald Koeman has a pre-match chat, starting by discussing his side’s shape, with a back three looking likely.
I think that the team is chosen by, doesn’t matter how City are playing, which system they start. We can cope with all the systems with these XI players. If they play as at West Ham last week, a 4-4-2 with a diamond, we have three at the back. If not, we can change.
Everybody knows Schneiderlin is a big player, a key player for the team, and he will show that. He had two training sessions, and I think everybody saw his qualities. He’s really a very good signing.
It’s always nice to see Pep. We’ll have a glass of wine after the game and I hope I will have a bigger smile than Pep today.
Other reunions today: Gareth Barry, former City midfielder, plays his 4,329,517th top-flight match today. And the managers are great pals, as Guardiola said earlier this week:
When I started playing at Barcelona I said many times, and will repeat it a thousand times, how important his advice was for me, especially on the pitch. We spoke many times when I was in Munich and now we’re together [in England] we congratulate each other when we win. I am glad to be his friend.
Sky have concentrated almost entirely on the game that’s kicking off in three hours, instead of the one that starts in 30 minutes. They’re currently broadcasting an interview with Daniel Sturridge. Humbug.
City pick the same outfield 10 that started the FA Cup thrashing of West Ham last Friday, so John Stones is in the XI on his first return to Goodison Park. They were exceptionally good at the London Stadium, with Silva and Agüero particularly stonking. Everton start Mason Holgate, for just the second time since August.
Schneiderlin, like fellow new-boy Ademola Lookman, is on the Everton bench. Here are the teams in full:
Everton: Robles, Holgate, Ashley Williams, Funes Mori, Coleman, Davies, Barry, Baines, Barkley, Mirallas, Lukaku. Subs: Schneiderlin, Jagielka, Lennon, McCarthy, Valencia, Stekelenburg, Lookman.
Man City: Bravo, Sagna, Otamendi, Stones, Clichy, Zabaleta, Touré, Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling, Agüero. Subs: Kolarov, Caballero, Jesus Navas, Delph, Sané, Iheanacho, García.
Referee: Mark Clattenburg.
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So, all eyes on Morgan Schneiderlin, handily sent to Everton by Manchester United just in time for him to star against their cross-town arch-rivals. But what’s this? He’s not actually playing? Fate, you hound!
#EFC (v @ManCity): Joel, Baines, Williams, Funes Mori, Holgate, Coleman, Barry (c), Davies, Mirallas, Barkley, Lukaku. #AllForOne
— Everton (@Everton) January 15, 2017
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— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 15, 2017
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Simon will be here shortly. But for now, read Paul Doyle’s feature on how Morgan Schneiderlin could be the answer Everton need in midfield.
Roy Keane was not spouting hooey. Not completely. His denunciation of Everton in November, when he blithely chucked scorn at the club’s complaints about the strain being placed on their Republic of Ireland internationals, was more than a touch garbled and wholly undiplomatic but it happened to allude to a home truth about Everton. “Maybe their players need to toughen up a bit,” he said.
Ronald Koeman has been saying something similar, albeit with greater precision, since he took over at Goodison Park in the summer. After every defeat he has lamented his side’s lack of aggression, their inability to unsettle opponents, but his signing of Morgan Schneiderlin for £20m from Manchester United said it best: his Everton team must not be so easy to play against; Roberto Martínez’s cuddly toys are going in a skip.
