The midfielder joined from Wigan three years ago in a £13million switch and has started Everton’s opening two Premier League games, although not in his favoured central midfield role.
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Punished in similar circumstances against Manchester City last week, Stoke were again on the wrong end of a penalty call as Michael Oliver judged Phil Bardsley had tripped Ashley Williams on 49 minutes.
“I know there’s been a lot of speculation about him but Romelu’s focused with the team, focused with the club and I hope he scores this weekend”, he insisted. We are getting a good price on the over 2.5 goals and both teams have tons of scoring talent. We’re always wishing each other luck before games whoever plays and that’s how teammates should be. Spurs, West Brom and Stoke have given us three different types of tests but I think we have stood up to it quite well.
I think that the best option for this game is betting on the number of goals scored.
Ronald Koeman believes Mark Hughes has every right to be angry after a dubious penalty decision handed Everton a 1-0 victory against Stoke City.
“There has to be that consistency”.
Mirallas was back to his live-wire best with electric pace, driving runs and threatening shots but if there is one criticism of the 28-year-old it is that more often than not there is no final product.
“If every referee gives a penalty for this kind of situation then you can accept it, but one referee yes and another no, and that sometimes makes it very hard to understand. That is the key word”, he said.
England manager Sam Allardyce was at Goodison Park to cast an eye over a number of players ahead of his Sunday evening squad announcement.
“That’s always hard but I think the workrate, the belief and the spirit of the players was fantastic”.
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“I’ll just keep doing my stuff for Everton and I’ll either turn up here for training on Monday or turn up for global duty”.
