CARLO GETS A REACTION AFTER RANT
And Dom ends his goal drought
THAT kick up the backside from Carlo Ancelotti and his Italian leather size nines certainly did the trick.
Ancelotti laid into his Everton players after their shock loss at home to Newcastle on Saturday, branding their display “lazy and slow”.
The Toffees manager got the desired response as Everton played like a side with Champions League ambitions to halt Leeds’ mini-renaissance.
This committed performance was more like what Ancelotti wants to see as Everton recorded a fourth straight league away win for the first time since December 1985.
Skipper Gylfi Sigurdsson scored one and had a hand in Dominic CalvertLewin’s first league goal since December 5 in front of England manager Gareth Southgate.
Leeds struggled to keep their footing on the new Elland Road surface and Jack Harrison slipped in the build-up to Everton’s first goal.
Andre Gomes found Lucas Digne, whose cross on the left was met by Sigurdsson to apply the finishing touch. Leeds responded and Ezgjan
Alioski hit the post with a superb leftfoot volley from just outside the box.
They were felled by a sucker punch four minutes before the interval when Ben Godfrey headed on Sigurdsson’s whipped-in corner and Calvert-Lewin nodded home at the back post.
The home side responsed three minutes into the second half when Patrick Bamford teed up Raphinha to side-foot into the far corner.
Leeds piled on the pressure and Robin Olsen saved in quick succession from Bamford, Raphinha and Harrison. Bamford went close when his header from Stuart Dallas’ cross grazed the bar.
LEEDS (4-1-4-1): Meslier 6; Ayling 6, Struijk 6, Cooper 6, Alioski 7 (Hernandez 77); Raphinha 7; Phillips 6, Klich 6 (Roberts 69, 6), Dallas 6, Harrison 7 (Costa 87); Bamford 7. Goal: Raphina 48. EVERTON (4-2-3-1): Olsen 6; Holgate 6, Mina 6, Godfrey 7, Digne 7; Doucoure 6, Gomes 6; Iwobi 6 (King 87), Sigurdsson 8 (Davies 89), Richarlison 6 (Keane 80); Calvert-Lewin 7. Goals: Sigurdsson 9, Calvert-Lewin 41.