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It’s five yards from the angle of the area. Garner flips the ball over the wall but it’s a good six feet over.

Some of the Everton guys on the bench are laughing, whether at that or not I do not know. Dyche turns around to speak with them.

Lerma fouls DCL right on the edge of the box. Dominic spun away from him and Lerma clipped him.

McNeil centres, Calvert-Lewin rises unopposed but heads wide. Alan Smith: “that cross is everything you could want as a centre forward, all the pace is on the ball. He should score, but when you haven’t for 17 games everything is harder.”

Everton playing quite well, moving it around, probing, looking for a channel to open up into which they might hit a driven ball.

Excellent pass from Pickford picks out McNeil, who plays it back in to Doucoure. The Mali internationalist shoots wide.

Mateta looks full of beans and is causing problems. Everton try a long ball for DCL but he cannot do much with it. Certainly he does not lack for company there with three opposing centre halves to play against.

Ooh this is a good chance. Excellent ball from Mateta. Edouard’s touch could have been better but he still manages to hit the target.

McNeil has just fouled Munoz, who stays down. VAR has a look, it comes to nothing. The ref had let it go initally.

Corner to Everton conceded by Joel Ward, perhaps a bit weakly. Palace break from it.

Everton, as I say, looking quite energetic and up for it. Gueye has had a shot blocked from the edge of the box.

Long ball for Calvert-Lewin and he knocks it down for Doucore. Everton have come to life.

Edouard making good runs, looking dangerous.

And now a probing cross in for Mateta! Tarkowski stretches desperately to cut it out.

Game not settled down yet.

Palace are in a white shirt and pale blue shorts, not entirely helpfully I would suggest given that they are playing a side in blue shirts and white shorts.

Palace kick off and play it forward but to no avail and they’re having to play mostly in their own half so far.

Seem to think that Everton will play a back four with two sitters and then a front three behind lone striker Calvert-Lewin.

For Palace, perhaps a back three with wingbacks and then two behind three.

is taking charge of his 50th Everton game.

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now it’s metrics and goal differential from Jesse. I think he’s saying that he lost a job despite the stats being in his favour.

Jamie Carragher: “How long can you ride them? Can you bring them to the owners?”

I guess not, probz?

Jesse Marsch seems like he has taken the “keep it simple” mantra a bit too far. It’s all “they want to create more chances and then score more of them.” Sure, I guess.

Dave Jones is talking xG and scatter graphs. It’s a miracle we are still an innumerate nation really. The national sport is like a maths lesson sometimes. Math. Sorry Jesse.

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“Roy’s enthusiasm and passion was infectious. He is a fantastic football man, hopefully he is on the mend and we can give him a good send-off.

I have not the met the new manager and my priority has been preparing the team for tonight.”

“Roy is a fantastic fellow.

“We have played some tough sides, which adjusts our record considerably. We have created a style that suits the players and when we use it wisely we can be very effective.

“Doucoure has endless energy, gets in goalscoring positions, he gives us freedom. He does not get nervous.”

“DCL is getting fitter and is more effective, we want him to keep getting in scoring areas.”

Everton: Pickford, Godfrey, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Young, Gueye, Doucoure, McNeil, Garner, Calvert-Lewin. Subs: Patterson, Keane, Onana, Harrison, Virginia, Beto, Chermiti, Lonergan, Dobbin.

Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Munoz, Andersen, Ward, Mitchell, Wharton, Richards, Lerma, Ayew, Mateta, Edouard. Subs: Tomkins, Matheus Franca, Clyne, Ahamada, Henderson, Riedewald, Ozoh, Raymond, Umeh.

Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire)

Jesse Marsch's stonewashed jeans a welcome addition to Monday Night Football.

and Paddy McCarthy are taking the team tonight. Cor, Ray has been around for a while eh? A mere lad of 67 compared to Mr Roy of course.

Where do Everton find a goal from?

Good evening, what a well-timed fixture for Sky to be showing on Monday Night Football: it’s Crystal Palace against Everton, and all eyes have been on the Croydon area today because Roy Hodgson has left his post and the Eagles have appointed Eintracht Frankfurt boss Oliver Glasner, 49.

Palace statement read: “Crystal Palace F.C. are pleased to confirm the appointment of Oliver Glasner as manager.

“The 49-year-old Austrian has signed a deal to become the Eagles’ boss until the end of the 2025/2026 season.”

Palace announced Hodgson’s departure just hours before their league game against Everton and said that the 76-year-old, who was hospitalised after falling ill during a training session on Thursday, was “out of hospital and doing well”.

Palace chairman Steve Parish said: “I’m delighted to welcome Oliver to the club. He has an outstanding record, and we believe he is the right manager to take the club forward at this pivotal stage.

“Wherever Oliver has gone so far in his managerial journey, success has been quick to follow, and we believe his ambition, as well as his exciting and attacking approach, is the perfect fit for getting the most from our talented young squad in the remainder of this Premier League season and beyond.”

With Palace 16th in the table there is no time like the present for them to start accruing some points. Not that Everton will be doing them any favours: Sean Dyche’s men need some goals.

Scoring continues to be the biggest issue for Dyche with just 26 in 24 matches, exacerbated by Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s current lean spell of 18 games.

But the Toffees boss refuses to put any more pressure on his misfiring striker ahead of a must-win game for his side, with Palace just four points ahead of his 18th-placed team.

“It’s not about one player, it’s about all the team. Something will work for him,” he added.

“I think some of the performances have been very good, clean sheets among them and some points.

“There were a lot of challenges for the group but I think there are a lot of positive signs about what we are trying to do.

“We just need to score more goals and we all know that.

“The margins are important and we have to get on the right side of that, that’s the only thing which has been missing when we haven’t won. We’ve created chances and not scored goals.

“The idea of xG (expected goals) is all well and good but we can’t wait for it to happen. You have to make it happen and that’s the next step. I think we’re very close to that.”