Ancelotti admits team had to sacrifice in order to beat Chelsea

Now give me the Christmas I dream of and sign Zaha and Alli!

I'm pretty sure it was the real “live” crowd singing and I was really impressed at their noise level, it was louder than I sometimes hear when we have a full house!

Great game, it's been a long time coming. COYB

We're just not going to win games carrying players. Something to build on and improve confidence.

Hard work, tenacious, passionate and complimented with quality. All the players didn't seem fazed by Chelsea and looked like they were enjoying putting in a great shift to win the game.

If we can keep up this work rate we will be a force against any team in the league.

As Gary says at #2, It was a proper Everton performance.

It exemplifies what we are as a club and must become the norm, we must expect it and the base requirement of anyone who pulls on the jersey.

Another thought, I thought Holgate and Godfrey had incredible games playing out of their normal positions. It was great to see Sigurdsson with some fire in his belly. Like a light switch has been turned on in him. Also thought Doucoure and especially Allan were great yesterday. Allan is some player. Iwobi deserves credit for his improvement too, he is getting better by the game.

I thought Gomes played well when he came on. He used his experience to hold the ball and run the clock down. Maybe coming off the bench until he is 100%. Allen, Doucouré and Sigurdsson were composed. Richarlison desperately needs a goal to lift his confidence. Dom ran his socks off with few opportunities. Iwobi did well back on the right.

Pickford got lucky with James's late free-kick. He dealt with everything else with the confidence you come to expect from a keeper. I wonder if Sigurdsson can replicate the magic vs Leicester that he showed when he skinned the opponent and unleashed that 25-yarder. 3 points at the King Power and Arsenal will be crapping themselves.

Biggest difference was not conceeding first. Hard work, closing down, working together in combinations and not messing around with the ball at the back should be the basis of all our games.

With 2 slow centre backs we played deep and stayed compact as a team. Simple stuff really and I don't understand why we push up so high in other games.

We need and want space to run forward into to counter or play long balls into. We should set up the same against most teams.

Godfreys pace at the back makes a huge difference to stop so many crosses coming in and preventing runners playing one-two's. Holgate did well too. The natural full backs now have a real challenge to win their places back.

Do we want full backs to defend or attack, thats always a hard question but for me they're defenders. Get forward, find space but don't both over commit.

Players fully committed, fully switched on and playing above their call of duty.
At the end of the day that's all fans really ask for and it makes spineless no-shows against half decent sides all the more frustrating because we know these players are capable of better, hence why I shoot those fans down when they say we don't have the players, we DO have enough players to put performance levels in like Saturday more often.

I agree it was a very Italian performance – score early then defend the lead, which they did very successfully, hardly allowing any shots on target. We need to play like that against Leicester. Don't allow their forwards any space and use the pace of Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin counterattacking.

Now we are back in the hunt, the whole squad should be motivated and confidence restored.