David Moyes has been handed Everton’s survival baton from Sean Dyche and grasped it with both hands.
Three games in and it’s clear, with some small positional changes, Moyes has begun to work his magic with successive wins. Against Brighton last weekend, Moyes deployed a mid-pitch road block, successfully slowing down the Seagulls attack and forcing them into wide positions.
Key to this was left winger Iliman Ndiaye, who tucked in centrally to sit alongside Everton’s deepest-lying midfielder Idrissa Gueye.
This allowed Orel Mangala to go and sit on Carlos Baleba, Brighton’s lynchpin, and Abdoulaye Doucoure to push up alongside Dominic Calvert-Lewin, before he went off injured, to block their centre backs playing out.