100% we look decent and it’s actually exciting watching us for the first time in a while.
Gutted Roy subbed Eze off when he did, thought he’d maybe swap Bats for Ayew who was pretty ineffective today.
That said he has a lot more experience than me, Everton tipped for top 4 us for relegation (by a lot of pundits) and I thought we were the better team. More positives than negatives today for me and imo if we continue playing like this then top 10 is definitely possible.

An encouraging display in many aspects and a draw would probably have been a fair result.
Neither keeper were very busy.
Zaha was well marked today and unable to have much of an impact which obviously curtails our attacking threat.
I like the look of Eze and felt we lost something when he went off.
I’d have liked us to try and put them under more pressure when Benteke and Bats were on the field together as we rarely played the ball into the box and instead passed it across the pitch.

No, the ref has to follow the rules put in place by those above and that is what he did. Roy alluded to it in his interview - ‘even the ref knew it wasn’t a penalty’.

I personally think that Calvert Lewins “handball” was more of a pen as he at least had the opportunity to get his hand out of the way. He did not do that and in fact used his arm close to his body to control where the ball went. I suppose we got one last week and it went against us this week. Shame as this week cost us a point whereas last week made no difference.

Edited by Bexley Eagle (26 Sep 2020 7.34pm)

A fair result would have been a draw. The penalty was ridiculous, but that is the new (and stupid) route they have decided to go. We made Everton look ordinary and given their outlay that is no mean feat. Eze looks like he was made for the PL, although he needs to improve his decision making, but that will come with game time. The two Jimmy's are like terriers tearing around nibbling at everything and that seemed to really disrupt Everton.

If we keep playing like this we will be a handful for anyone and I'm confident of another comfortable season. Chelsea just got very lucky so they will have be very motivated next weekend; hopefully we can make their season even more uncomfortable!

You can throw all the stats that you like at this, but we were undone by a very dodgy penalty decision. Whatever happened to the rule, ball to hand, rather than hand to ball? Wardy’s hand was down by his side.

You could see in his face that he was really distraught by that decision, gotta hand it to Wardy, he has been great in the first 3 games of this season...

Everton got lucky and didn’t deserve that win....