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Everton have got themselves a new 'Goodison God' after what he did against Liverpool
Carlisle Kaiser becomes ‘Goodison god’
A couple of imperious runs up the pitch against Nottingham Forest on Sunday prompted this correspondent to dub Jarrad Branthwaite 'The Carlisle Kaiser' but this was the night that the young centre-back’s breakthrough season went up through the stratosphere to the Royal Blue heavens and he went from mere emperor to becoming a 'Goodison God’.
When the rangy prospect headed off to PSV Eindhoven on loan, those back at Everton didn’t even know whether he was going to make it as a Premier League player, but this term he has been playing like he’s been dominating at this level for years. Despite playing for side who, even without the points deduction, would be in the bottom half of the table, for months now Jarrad Branthwaite has been bossing the division’s top strikers.
Of late though, he’s also started to show himself as quite an accomplished finisher, too. While his first of the season, a last-gasp headed equaliser against Tottenham Hotspur, was all about bravery, his strike at Brighton & Hove Albion was as composed as any leading marksman and in the heat of battle against Liverpool, Branthwaite was cool as a cucumber here, etching himself into Merseyside Derby folklore.
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Everton’s number nine
From the days of Dixie Dean, football’s first player to don the famous shirt, Evertonians have always loved their number nines and Dominic Calvert-Lewin put all those tough days behind him with a header from a corner-kick in front of the Gwladys Street reminiscent of Duncan Ferguson’s fabled Merseyside derby goal almost three decades ago.
Along with the Blues’ iconic Tartan talisman, who had two spells at Goodison Park, Calvert-Lewin is one of just four players to have broken the 50-goal barrier in the Premier League for the club (Romelu Lukaku and Tim Cahill being the others). Although the striker reached that milestone back in October when he struck the winner at West Ham United, a lengthy – and unfortunate given efforts home and away against Tottenham Hotspur were taken off him – barren streak followed for him.
It was a sign of Calvert-Lewin’s fluctuating fortunes, and the work done by Sean Dyche and his staff to get him properly fit again after a couple of seasons of injury woes, that his drought lasted for more matches than he’d even played in the previous two campaigns but he’s certainly back now. It wasn’t quite as spectacular as the diving header at the same end to complete the 3-2 comeback win over Crystal Palace on that desperate night almost two years ago on the night that Everton secured Premier League victory but in its own way, was celebrated equally enthusiastically.
Tracksuit manager
Ahead of this hat-trick of home games, Dyche revealed to Geoff Shreeves that he decided to wear a shirt and tie on matchdays after his former Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd had been ignored by a referee because he didn’t stand out from the rest of his staff because of their identical training gear.
Whether it’s Nottingham Forest on a Sunday afternoon or Liverpool on a Wednesday night though, the feel of ‘dress down Fridays’ might be here to stay for a little while longer for the Everton gaffer. Dyche himself made light of the interest in his new, more relaxed look but this was a display as smart as they come.
Beating a relegation rival at the weekend was one thing but defeating your local rivals – who are challenging for the Premier League title – takes things on to a much higher level and arguably eclipses the 1-0 victory over Arsenal in his first match or even the spectacular 5-1 thrashing of Brighton & Hove Albion last term that shifted the feel of the fight to stay in the division as the outstanding performance of Dyche’s reign to date. Still smarting after being hit for six by Chelsea, some Evertonians were calling for the head of this eighth manager in as many years last week but while the great Carlo Ancelotti won behind closed doors at Anfield, Dyche has just succeeded where Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva, Rafael Benitez and Frank Lampard all failed by beating Jurgen Klopp in front of a crowd.
