In terms of new manager bounce, David Moyes owns the world’s biggest trampoline. Three weeks after his appointment, a jumping Goodison Park is unrecognisable from the theatre of gloom of Sean Dyche’s last days.
Buoyed by the Premier League’s quickest goal of the season converted by Abdoulaye Doucoure after 10 seconds, Everton convincingly recorded a third consecutive win for the first time since last April.
Beto, deputising for the injured Dominic Calvert-Lewin, scored a brace having previously not scored a league goal since October and Iliman Ndiaye’s late fourth gave the final scoreline a true reflection.