“Lukaku played 31 games in the league last season and has played 97 per cent of all the minutes in the league this season”.
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Steve McClaren is that child.
The young defender, 19, has made himself a Premier League regular after making the step up from MK Dons, then in League One.
Meanwhile, Crystal Palace routed another bottom-three team, Newcastle United, 5-1, at the Selhurst Park last Saturday, as per Chronicle Live.
Firmino was in fine form on Liverpool’s last league game away from home as the Reds romped to a 4-1 win at title favourites City, where Firmino gained the man of the match award with a WhoScored rating of 8.92.
Palace’s emphatic march away from relegation trouble in 2013-14 under Tony Pulis included a 3-2 win at Everton in April of that season and they repeated the scoreline with Neil Warnock at the helm five months later. Most managers would be quite happy with his all-round game. After a superb win at Southampton on Wednesday, they have what it takes to reaffirm their status as outside title favourites, in the process condemning Newcastle to their ninth league defeat of the campaign.
Except he’s no good at the attacking side of the game either, because it turns out he’s actually blind.
It will be welcome return to Goodison Park for Everton, where they have scored 10 goals in their last two home fixtures, against Sunderland and Aston Villa.
They will attack us, which will play right into our grateful, counter-attacking hands, but we will need to be alert defensively because Ross Barkley and Romelu Lukaku are on fire.
Alan Pardew inherited a number of fantastic wingers when heading to Palace in January and has added to that department with the acquisition of Bakary Sako on a free transfer in the summer. We looked at the iconic one of the last 10 years, Drogba.
From a defensive point of view – Cisse’s opener aside – they weren’t really troubled and dealt with everything comfortably, which bodes well for the trip to an attack-minded Everton side on Monday.
The opponent for this one is seventh place Crystal Palace.
Everton host Crystal Palace on Monday night looking to extend their unbeaten run to seven games in all competitions.
The Frenchman, nevertheless, will have a big role to play at either end for the visitors regardless. Yet 13 years later they were Premier League champions playing in a new stadium.
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Their away record will also give Palace confidence and they will be hoping to continue their impressive away record.
