As usual, Lyndon, a very fair report.

Our much-criticised manager (sometimes by me) handled the second half very well.

What a wonderful day for the travelling fans - a few pints, a walk through the park with its parakeets, taking a 2 goal cushion into added time, Séamus coming on - great stuff.

An excellent summary of the match, Lyndon. The first half performance was as poor as anything we have seen this season. We looked devoid of inspiration as well as perspiration.

The psychological impact of the equaliser was immense. It was great to see our players build on that with the replacements enabling a strong final half hour in which the team had a better shape.

A second win in eleven is very welcome but I imagine David Moyes will not allow the result to paper over the cracks which were all too obvious in that first half.

In the end though it was a great afternoon on which to enjoy a fifth away win on the road as well as a pint in the Eight Bells and a walk along the Thames.

Glad you had a great day, John. I always think of the travelling Blues making such an effort to follow the team up and down the country (never more so than in the first half today where they were given almost nothing to cheer until stoppage time) and was made up for them at full-time. Looked like our end was bouncing in the closing stages

Really good & fair match report. We were so so bad in the 1st half. Yea the equaliser was lucky but if you don’t shoot, you don’t score. A decent shot can earn a goal, a corner or a ricochet so we need to change our mindset to shoot more often.

2nd half was a terrific away performance and we managed to hold a 2 goal lead….HOORAY!!!

I didn’t think Beto played well but he’s a real enigma: the fact is that he scores (non penalty) goals in the premiership from open play….there’s something to him & he’s making an argument to stay and be given an extended contract! Yes the keeper should save it but if you hit the target with power & shoot early then you earn your luck

There’s plenty of work to be done but some players (eg Alcaraz) have done their case to stay some good

With Beto, I think there's at least a 10-15 goal a season striker in him. The longer he is in the squad, and the fast paced Premier League, the more regularly he'll hit double figures in my mind.

While a 20-25 goal a season striker would be ideal, that's a serious magic trick given our resources and pulling power coming into the summer transfer window. For now, I would be happy to keep Beto, give him proper game time, and then find another double figure goal scorer of some description that he can be rotated with or played off.

Excellent report as usual Lyndon. Who would have thought after 45 minutes we would win that game. Win it we did however with a rather fortunate equaliser then a far better second half. How fortunate we also are to have by far and away the best English goalkeeper of recent times. He has been a great buy for £30 million. I was very worried when I saw the team pre match but maybe our manager with over 1000 Premiership games behind him deserves the respect in which he is held in the game. Onwards to the Southampton game, it is going to be unforgettable occasion whatever the result. Maybe for once the result will come second as we say goodbye to our second home Goodison Park.

Beto the Enigma has actually scored 10 goals in half a season - under Dyche he never played more than 10 minutes in a premiereship match. No footballer can develop on that ration, so 10 goals in half the season suggests we have the magic 20 goals a season striker now!

Nice to be able to say thank you DM again.
He has the knowledge to change the narrative after a very sloppy opening half an hour even before he made the substitutions.
Then the substitutions changed the narrative even more.
As much as I liked SD, he didn’t seem capable of doing the same.
A terrific away 3 points.

Great write up, great result. I really think a front 4 of Beto, Ndiaye, Alcaraz and McNeil are actually pretty good, trouble is the drop off behind them is huge in the positions and the players behind them on the pitch offer so little going forwards

With proper service, Beto will score goals. He has a future at BMD as part of a hopefully improved squad. However, I don't believe that most of us would love to have fit and firing first choice striker banging in goals regularly with Beto as back up. Watkins, Wood, Mbueno, Matata and others are examples of the sort of players who were signed from relatively humble sources and who are doing exactly the sort of job we require. Go and find another similar without paying a kings ransom.

Lyndon (3) Yes, the away section certainly was bouncing in the closing minutes and indeed after the final whistle as the players and David Moyes acknowledged the supporters. Great moments.

Our home form has been very disappointing this season and for several seasons. In contrast the away form has given us all a much needed lift in the last few months. I see we are not alone in finding more comfort away from home. This weekend’s round of Premier League fixtures produced only one home win. There were six away wins and three draws.

Over the season to date there are several mid-table teams who have won as many away as they have at home; among them Fulham (7), Wolves (6), Brighton (7), Bournemouth (7) and Forest (9). Like us Crystal Palace have won one more game away (6) than at home (5). At the risk of being too simplistic it seems to me the above teams are usually more comfortable adopting a compact shape and counterattacking into space. That certainly applies to our team.

A great win, a necessary boost to confidence before the Goodison send off. Mykolenko’s goal took a big deflection but anyone thinking Beto was lucky are wrong, he hit it early and on target, good goal.