My mate and I also noticed the clever way Gana intervened with Barry to acknowledge the response of the crowd as he was being substituted. There had been a collective will around the ground to give him every encouragement from the first minutes of the match, and the roof came off when we thought he’d scored in the first half.

He wouldn’t be the first young(ish) French forward to struggle with the increased physical demands of the PL after playing in a more technical league. Hopefully as his general conditioning develops, he’ll continue to improve. I seem to recall that Thierry Henry took plenty of time to settle in properly after his move to Arsenal and he didn’t turn out too bad, did he?

Buy another left back? So, then we'd have two left backs not being utilised, to go with the two right backs who don't seem to be in contention for a spot in the team.

Elsewhere, I see it has been suggested that Pickford was the catalyst for Gana Gueye's actions when Barry was subbed.

While a fast, skilful, attacking left back would improve the team that sort of player, for example Milos Kerkez, comes neither cheaply nor necessarily with a guarantee of immediate success. We have taken a punt with Adam Aznou but plainly the teenager needs time to develop.

In the meantime we must make the best use of Mykolenko. From my seat in the North Stand I think Ell and others are correct that Grealish appears not to trust him though it is worth noting Mykolenko played a part in the first goal by delivering a decent cross to the far post. In the win at Wolves he sent a diagonal ball for Grealish to head back across goal for Beto to score. Those might be called half-assists. He had a full assist in the final game of last season for Alcaraz’s goal at Newcastle. So there is some evidence that when given the opportunity Mykolenko can make profitable use of the ball. He has also shown, for example at Sunderland, he has a better shot in his knapsack than one might expect for a player not rated in attacking areas.

In my view Grealish should trust him more than he does.

I just thought that Everton were more proactive, rather than reactive and played that bit higher up the pitch, allowing more forward play engagement.There obviously most effort put into Set pieces and it showed a counted on the day.