Everton fans have a new hero, though it's not the one they expected after a summer of extravagant spending. Oumar Niasse, once valued by manager Ronald Koeman so little that he was stripped of a squad number, told to train with the development squad, and eventually sent on loan to Hull and back, has scored three goals in two games.
The 27-year-old Senegal international is a very different sort of forward to his predecessor, Romelu Lukaku. While Lukaku moves like a shark, fluid, predatory and rippling with kinetic energy, Niasse is ungainly, seemingly uncertain in his movements. But he seems to know where the goal is, and right now that's a rare commodity at Goodison Park.