 17 days and we're back. All right, Everton 3, Cardiff 0. Fantastic result if you're an Evertonian. Not the best watch if you're a neutral or somebody just wants to tune in to watch a casual game of football because that might have been the best game on today. Most top quality teams play tomorrow and so if you're watching this as a neutral or anything you probably wouldn't be too impressed with much of that game. There wasn't really that much ebb and flow. There wasn't any super exciting portions of play besides maybe the goals. They were, you know, we maybe had four or five chances where you start, you know, getting up and down in your seat. We scored from three of them. Obviously the starting lineup was what was questioned by many people at the start of the game. You know, did you really need two defensive midfielders in there? We've Ghana and Schneidel in. Walcott starting on the right instead of either Luckman or Bernard. It was a question mark. Had no problem obviously with Jaguiel could come in if Mina's not fit and Zuma suspended. Sheamus coming in. I think it was the right time to bring him back. John Joe got a run the side, did fabulously well. You know, showed that there is some competition or at least that he's a suitable replacement for Sheamus in a pinch or when Sheamus isn't exactly 100% fit. But I think Sheamus obviously did great today was instrumented in the first goal. And let's talk about the first goal, I guess. Obviously that's what we were trying to do all day. Go down the outside, at least early in the game, but that turned out to be our plan overall. It was only down, we were probably going to try and go down both sides. We have Sheamus and Walcott on one side and Dinier and Ritalison on the other. Turned out that we couldn't do that down on the right side and that's where our first goal came from. Obviously Walcott drops in to pick up the ball over the top to a great, greatly beautifully timed run by Sheamus. Puts the ball where it needs to be behind the backing up defenders in front of a clinical goal score from that position, which Gioffi Sigurdsson is. Great seeing him come in from behind the play as what he used to do for Swansea and he's done plenty of times since playing for us. It's just usually when he plays in a higher up position, he doesn't really have the time to turn, play the ball off and then get into the box because the move usually breaks down before then, but today it came off without a hitch. Fabulous finish right in the corner. If that had been any close to the keeper, he may have had a chance of getting at least a fingertip on it, but he put it where he couldn't get it. So that was our right side, that's where the goal came from. It didn't ever look like we were going to do anything down the left side unless Dignier was going to put a cross in. Rogelsson just was not there today. He hasn't been there for a while. Now I thought that his play, his decision-making was very basic, was very predictable and I thought his decision-making was really, really slow. It gave the opposition time to get back, to set the defense to get back, to set themselves and just stick a boot in and that's what they did most of the time. He may be a player that he has to play 89 minutes of just kind of drifting in and out and then one minute he pounces and scores a great goal and is a decider in a game, but that didn't look like it was happening today. We don't have the luxury right now and no team in the Premier League shouldn't really have the luxury of allowing players just to go through the game to carry them because it looked like we were carrying Dominic Calvert-Lewing for a vast majority of that game because our plan was to obviously go down the outside and their two center-backs, Morrison and Sol Bamba, strong, solid, dependable, well-drilled defenders who are more often than not win the ball in the air against somebody like Dominic Calvert-Lewing. I thought they shepherded him well and that caused us to go down the outside, but ultimately if you're going to defend the inside like that, well, you're going to give up space on the outside and our goals, the first two goals, both of Sigerson's goals came from outside wing play. Obviously, this time it was Bernard who had just been on the pitch, walked three or four minutes, attempted to do what Rich Allison had been trying to do in all game, just get one on one with a defender, beat him for pace, get into a position where you can't be fouled, where you can't be touched, make the defense back off and then pick out a beautiful ball or at least put something into the mixer to make it difficult for the opposition to deal with. That's exactly what happened. Goalkeeper got a little bit on it, but Sigerson's there to finish it up. Now, coming into the box late again, so that's what we expect. Then the third goal, obviously Ghana just wanted it more in the middle of the park, tackling, tackling, tackling, winning the ball. Dominic makes the run. Ghana who doesn't usually have the best vision on the pitch, but it's not that difficult of a pass to make. The pass isn't difficult, I would assume, but the amount of weight the way it went into the box, just the right speed for Calvert Lewin and Calvert Lewin gets in and you think, well, if this is Van Nistoroy, if this is Thierry Henry, if this is Messi, if this is, you know, a whole bunch of players that in that situation, you wouldn't question their finishing ability, but if Dominic, you kind of have to sometimes, but he didn't let us down. A little close to the goalkeeper, but it went in. It's good to see the lad gets on the score sheet again. So overall, like I said, three points to the Blues. Eritonians loving it. We move on to the Derby, which hopefully we'll see the return of Gomez. We'll see maybe Walcott dropped for that in place of Lukman or Bernard. I think Dominic Calvert Lewin should probably start, but you know, either against Van Dijk and Matip, I'm assuming it's going to be up front. It's just going to be whoever. I don't think the game is going to be won or lost with our center forward play. I think a lot more rides on our defensive ability and our positioning play against Liverpool. And so yeah, Sheamus coming back in, though I think he may stay in for the Liverpool game. So I don't see too many changes. I just expect to see Gomez come in for Schneidlin. Who's Schneidlin? I thought was just average. Seen a lot of people saying during the game a little bit after that he was instrumental in some of the goals and he made some great tackles. I understand that that's what he's in the team for. But just remember, I don't think, you know, 120,000, it's not his fault that he makes that right. That's just the contract he signed. But overall, he's not a first team player. He shouldn't be taking the spot of if he's fully fit, Gomez or even Davis. I think he's the third or fourth choice in our defensive midfield pecking order. So I just say an average performance from him. I think an average performance from a lot of players, besides Sigerson's finishing and obviously he's seeing us in the match today. Other players had good games but there's nothing special about it. Just a confident win. We'll go in and see what we can do against Liverpool on Sunday. And yeah, great to be back. Thanks boys and see you in the comments.