Two fantastic strikes secure Everton's first away win

I just want Dyche gone.

Why the hell has he dropped Mangala to the bench?

In the dying seconds he weakly passed back to Pickford which was intercepted by an Ipswich forward, who scored, then the final whistle went !

Hope it was just that, a nightmare, and not reality !

As for today - we need to win and whatever happens, not lose.

Can't believe he's included Doucoure again. Would be nice to see Patto get some minutes today, though more chance of Begovic playing at RB methinks.

Saying that, we should win but if we do it will be despite Dyche’s best efforts.

I can’t wait for Friedkin to come in with a massive broom.

2-1 to us COYB

Assume Mangala played during the international break so rested. Coleman and Patterson almost ready to start.

There is an OK squad there if we could just catch a break with injuries.

If he trained this week without any recurrence of his injury, should he not be in the squad like Coleman?

Home to both Wolves and Forest in December? Are they the 2 points you are hoping for? :)

What kinda message is that giving the the players left out?

https://www.viprow.nu/epl/ipswich-town-vs-everton-online-stream-1

I think an extra point - Beat wolves and lose to Forest!

It's quitting on the idea of using the ball in midfield before the game starts.

I agree Ipswich will use their quicker players to advantage especially against Young

Why no Mangala ? Gana isn't strong enough or quick enough and dare we expect Harrison or Doucoure to shine - I doubt it. Sorry guys no points here.

As for their penalty claims, it was a little bit difficult to see what had actually happened and wasn't that much clearer on replay and my first thoughts were that it was very similar to DC-L's penalty claim the other week but the defending immediately leading up to it was very second rate.

Then Ndiaye with a superb finish before that striker cum centre half Keane put an even better one away.

So far so good but I'd like to see a bit more from the midfield working together.

Please someone tell him to shut up about the "noise" around the club, though.

By "noise", I think he means high expectations. High expectations aren't a problem (as long as no more old women are put on headlocks).

I suppose we'll now be told to be thankful for the win and we shouldn't mention missed one-on-ones with the keeper but Dyche must get this improved on the training ground.

Ndiaye with a nice finish and the much maligned Mick Keane showing DCL how to finish.

Ipswich will struggle on this showing, delap looking more like his dad than a premiership striker.

Hutchinson and Smodics looked their only threat.

I was very surprised to see the pen overturned by Oliver who couldn't wait to give it.

Nice to get 3 points on the road for the travelling fans.

And I guess the "penalty" about turn has quitened the conspiracy theorists!

UTFT!

Well done Keane for not being a terrible as he's made out to be. We're on a good run now with a handful of players to return hopefully.

I fuckin' love the lorra yers!!!

Absolutely fantastic result. Another eight of those between now and May and we're safe.

For all the hard work Calvert-Lewin does he is probably the worst one-on-one finisher in the Premier League. Next summer replacing him with a proven finisher should be our biggest objective.

From now on I will request you proof read them on my behalf

Usual nonsense from posters writing us off before a ball is kicked - seriously, why bother? - yet we won comfortably.

But for dodgy finishing, we'd have scored a couple more. Amazing away fans getting what they deserve.

Dom getting alot of abuse again, a couple of missed chances but workrate superb.

Ndiaye, Keane and Gueye superb today, Doucoure not good again today in my opinion. I presume Lindstrom was injured, if not why have two keepers on bench?

No name-calling from me after that. The Ginger Bell End got it right.

I was very disappointed in Ipswich to be honest, after spending a load they haven't really shown any signs of being any better than when in the Championship!

But for me the MotM goes to the travelling Blues. They were singing their lungs out throughout.

Yup. Sure. Exactly what happened.

For those of you who post absolutely inane stuff without any knowledge whatsoever of injuries, training during the week, tactics, etc. and bash our Manager prior to a ball being kicked?

I have a suggestion. Take it or leave it.

Try just rooting for the team you miserable sod (to use an English phrase).

Three points. TYVM (acronym intended).

- Rando 'Merican

I'll take the win but my word do they make us suffer in the closing minutes.

I wasn't happy with the line-up prior to kick-off but a win is a win and I am delighted to eat humble pie. Long may it continue.

Shout out to Ndiaye and Keane who thought both played exceptionally well. Calvert-Lewin covered some ground too.

Sean Dyche is doing an excellent job in extremely difficult circumstances and we will stay up comfortably. Anyone thinking new owners will bring about a new manager will be disappointed as most sensible people can see the stellar job he is doing.

Does he make mistakes? Of course he does, who doesn't? But overall he is doing a great job and who knows, if he has some money to spend in January, we might even sneak a top-half finish.

I'm not going to bother getting into arguments with anyone because time will tell who's right but if I'm wrong and we get relegated, I'll come back on here and hold my hands up. I wonder how many of the Dyche haters will do the same if they are wrong?

Delighted with the win also, but I wouldn't be eating humble pie. As you said, it didn't make sense dropping Mangala, especially as Doucoure was poor again.

Anything to do with their 5 substitutions / fresh legs starting at 60 minutes versus 1 only for us?

Although I'm sure they will find fault with something…

I'm not joking, by the way. I did, and they didn't.

I do, however, feel a certain sense of dread about future away goals.

Who would you have subbed on, and for whom, to enhance our ball control?

But it is fun re-reading them, then reading the apologies later, and then reading the usual suspects doing the same thing week after week.

(Isn't that a sign of madness? ….Yawwwn, another boring comment often put on here.)

Two clean sheets on the spin is good because it means on the whole the team is working as a unit. Such a pity that Dominic couldn't get on the scoresheet as he needs a couple of goals to boost his and the team's confidence.

We shouldn't get carried away with today though because there are tougher opponents to come; if we can eek out a few wins in our upcoming games, things will look brighter for the team and the club.

Well done Keane for his goal and Ndiaye for being bright enough to spot the opportunity to score. Fulham up next a winnable match for Everton, but also a bit of banana skin in recent years. Let's hope the unbeaten run continues for quite some time.

Most clubs would not tolerate you and Everton certainly do not deserve some of you on here. Some of you cannot put a sentence together without having to use foul language.

Regarding Mangala, he is short of pace for the Premier League.

Another 3 points.

Another week in which the Dyche-hating, keyboard cursing, Toffee Web lurkers masquerading as fans are forced to watch re-runs of Howard's Way in their underpants while chuntering to themselves about possession stats.

Entirely predictable result.

Professional win that could have been more if Calvert-Lewin could finish.

Well done blues and Dyche. Let's hope for a stress-free season!

Not sure Dyche could have done much different with the starting line-up considering the injuries. And Ashley Young played pretty well, too!!

4 points from the next 2 games (minimum) and we can relax about our tough run in December. Just remember, you never win all the games you think you'll win and you never lose all the games you'll think you lose, either.

Very glad to see the penalty decision overturned, it was eerily similar to the Calvert-Lewin claim against Newcastle so we've surprisingly seen some consistency.

Thought Calvert-Lewin had a great game, apart from getting on the scoresheet. Harrison has improved since being dropped for Lindstrom in the first half a few weeks back, he's adding a bit of end product (inconsistently).

Unbeaten in four, long may that continue. Happy for our awesome away fans, I would have liked to have gone to this game but currently on business in the Caribbean, at least I got to watch it.

However I think 2 things can be simultaneously true: First that Dyche has done a good job and continues to do so. Second that the new owners may well look for a new manager to build on these foundations and develop a more attractive style.

I’ve been a fan of the Dyche appointment since day one and he deserves much credit but the performances will need to improve still to convince me that he’s the best long term option.

If we can get the investment before the January window and get over our injury worries, then things could start to look up. We just need to stay in the Premier League and get to the new ground with proper leadership in charge of the club.

Might actually watch MotD tonight.

Dyche out!

Calvert Lewin works hard but boy – his finishing really lets him and us down.

Have a great weekend, Evertonians, wherever you are.

Loved the performance today but once again we didn't use our quota of subs. Okay, it worked out today but law of averages, eg, Bournemouth, says it won't.

Dom was brilliant today and I wish one of his 3 chances went in. He's got everything bar the clinical finish. He needs to drill in training so it becomes 2nd nature.

Away fans were superb.

Now to beat Fulham, it should be a cracking match under the lights.

"Everton won comfortably, should have scored more, Ipswich did nothing until 80 mins. "

Yet they gave MotM to Pickford????

Alright, two goalies on the bench and the usuals in the team whilst we had three right-backs on the bench and none of them getting on as a sub.

But three valuable points. Dyche must be doing something right because we are starting to slowly climb the table after that horrendous start. I say 'slowly' because we can do it no other way as there are only 3 points available each game.

Some of it might not be pretty but I trust that the knockers will have a rest for a week or so and give the players more of a chance than they have been doing.

Also, our fans were amazing again today.

A pleasure to watch, really!

People say "Well, Dyche could pick someone from the U21 side instead." Like... okay? And he'd have zero percent chance of seeing the pitch, same as the extra goalie. It literally does not matter. Find some better hills to die on.

And while I'm complaining, I saw a number of people on Twitter having a pop at Dyche for not making subs. These were the same people who crucified him for "ruining things" against Bournemouth, but now they want him to just throw O'Brien on to "get some minutes". Yeah, okay.

I must admit though I'm a bit baffled by some of the stronger Sean Dyche dissapproval though. I don't think he is perfect but I honestly think he deserves to be at the helm for a couple of years more. I'm also of the opinion that he will only improve us further in that time. I know there are plenty that don't share this opinion though.

Great to meet with, John.

It was interesting to go to the pub directly opposite the station in view of Portman Road. As I tried to enter, the door men asked me who I supported. Well that is an obvious answer, but in fairness, they told me to go around the corner, through the car park and join the crowd, full of Evertoninaians. Strangely, they were playing all Everton songs and the supporters were getting in the mood.

Well done travelling blues. You never fail. I wish I could have been in there with you. I will be at Goodison next week and at Southampton the week after, when John will escort me to my seat!!

I thought we controlled the game up until the last 15 minutes or so when Ipswich finally decided to exert some pressure. Solid defending yet again by the back four restricted Ipswich to, well, zero chances.

After a long flight home from Dubai on Thursday, the last thing I could have faced was an horrendous coach journey there and back, so train it was. Best thing I ever done!!!

Well done the hard-boiled eggs and their butty soldiers! Look, I wouldn’t call myself a Dyche – what? – “supporter”, “admirer”, or “backer”, and to be honest I hope that he is not our manager twelve months from now.

But the key to that position is to give praise and credit when it is due and duly earned. Without that, you look like a twat. Dyche completely outfoxed a younger talented manager who nearly everyone thinks will be in a “top job” before too long. If we/he continues in this vein heads should turn and positions might change (including mine, as I would most likely miss my hard-boiled eggs).

I was thrilled for Michael Keane. I’ve never said a bad word about him (that I can remember; partly due to his very public mental health issues that I have infinite empathy and sympathy for) and it was wonderful to hear the wonderful 3,000 singing “Keano”. We have not lost in four league games. Keane has been a key part of that and has been MOM or near MOM in three games in my opinion.

So, let’s have a look shall we at some of the pre-match “experts”. Our own Fenny Fensta believes that Dyche is a “complete bell-end”; makes you wonder who looks like “complete bell-ends" now.

Derek Powell (1) couldn’t wait to kick off, “the twats needs sacking” – and then dear old Derek was so excited that he popped on another 5 or 6 times, including (18), “he's set us up for a draw or defend a one goal win … tactics are dire, subs are dire … ”.

Kevin Naylor (3): “What a crap line up, going backwards”.

John Wilson (19): “No width. They'll have all the possession, we'll be playing in low block. … This Dyche has not got a clue” (and nor have you Mr. Wilson).

Derek Powell (36): he’s prolific our frothy Derek, unlike our fucking bell-end gormless championship striker, and he’s getting all worked up with only half-an-hour until kick-off : “we are going down”.

Fenny Fensta (39): “To be honest I’d sack Dyche now … Wtf is that about ? The man is a complete bell end”.

Tom Bowers (80): “Sorry guys no points here”.

What is the other common denominator that ties these canny soothsayers together? Anyone? It’s past 8-30PM and not one of our pre-match doom-and-gloom merchants has had the integrity to post something after our great win (the first in seventeen on the road and the first since last December). Not one of them had the decency to accept that they got it all wrong and Dyche and co. got it right. Each one of them might learn something from Annika (114). Frothy Powell was bouncing before kick-off and is nowhere to be seen/read after the final whistle. Is yer Wi-Fi down Frothy?

So, there will no doubt be lambasting and lampooning voices calling me – what – a “gloater”? Not really. I don’t feel like gloating. It seems more useful to me to point out the lack of quality among the pre-match howling hecklers so that (1) we ought never to give them the time of day to be honest, so that (2) the rest of us can enjoy our win and give Dyche his due, so that (3) I don’t have to write this ever again.

I'm not sure whether I can say that Calvert-Lewin had an excellent game when he made such a hash of his chances, but I thought he did. And so did Ashley Young. And Doucouré. And, whisper it – Michael Oliver.

Absolutely made up for everyone who travelled – you came over loud and clear.

You held your nerve after the first lot of games. In fact, you helped me hold mine!

What did you see today that makes you jump ship? We were really good today, in my view.

Calvert-Lewin is doing just about everything right except for putting the ball in the back of the net. It's so unfortunate but that's his main job and good things will follow if he can just put one of those one-on-ones away.

This is perhaps why Dyche deserves another couple of seasons with us before the club is capable of moving to the next level under a new manager.

As Sam notes the Friedkins are probably mulling this over but Dyche did well today and it won't have gone unnoticed.

I gave him a call and listened to his criticisms of Dyche, and how that even if he had money, he wouldn’t be able to get his team playing good football.

I defend Dyche, because the bigger picture is that he came into a club, that was rotten to the core, and I also think he would surely be able to get a team to play some good football, because I don’t think it’s that hard to achieve for anyone who has been involved in professional football for all these years.

I don’t know if I’m correct about my views on Dyche, but reading this thread, admittedly made easier knowing that we have won, one thing I have to agree with our manager about, is when he says that every single person has an opinion of what he’s doing wrong and most people think they could do a better job of managing a football team, and this includes Builders, Bus Drivers, Traffic Wardens, Policemen, Taxi Drivers, Binmen, and Window Cleaners!!

I understand the venom, I had a similar dislike of Walter Smith, but one thing they both had in common was that they were both managing Everton, when the club never had a pot to piss in.

Made up for the traveling blue army, I didn’t even know my son and nephew had both gone, but I’m glad they did because I’m sure they are having a laugh on the way home now.

Michael Keane might have took some stick, but I’m sure his name is getting sung tonight!!

Not one of the 3,000 got up early this morning thinking that we would lose. They all deserve top, drinks, top food, top times, and top rumpy pumpy tonight.

Dyche has deserved some of the criticism for sure, but also deserves plenty of praise. Things aren't ideal, and often tough to watch, but we're in pretty safe hands while we ride the wave of financial and ownership chaos.

Colin #112
I put that down partly to tiredness. We worked very hard today. But it's also about confidence, surely? Would have brought on Mangala sooner, but what do I know?

But I suspect TFG have ambitions beyond survival for us and potentially the resources to meet those ambitions. Dyche does not yet have the track record to make him the obvious candidate to meet those ambitions and whilst I’d be happy to see him get another season with better players, the end of his contract may prove a natural place to part ways. I’m not necessarily advocating for that but I wouldn’t be surprised by it either. The future is a foreign land.

I don’t think he gets half of the credit he deserves leading our line the way he does. It will just take one of those chances to go in and then the flood gates will open, I’m convinced of it.

I thought Dom, Keane and Young (again) were top notch today. A very professional performance by the boys.

Grit and professionalism are vastly underrated, but I think it’s logical to have those feelings for Dyche, Sam, until he his given a chance to work with better footballers. (If)

I didn’t know Ipswich had spent £127 million, but sometimes buying players who have played the game, can cause a lot of problems for an up in coming football manager, who has got his own ideas of how he wants the game to be played, just as it might be hard for a manager who has always had the least money, when he’s suddenly given more money to spend?

I do think that Dyche is slowly making us a lot more professional and that’s the name of the game, imo.

Watching the game today I thought there were long periods when we controlled possession, passed the ball around with purpose, created shooting opportunities and generally looked a team confident and capable. During those periods I wondered what was wrong with the style of our football. The answer, for me anyway, was nothing at all.

While there were some misplaced passes, some crosses not delivered with sufficient precision and some chances missed these were the consequence of individuals lacking quality in key moments rather than a failure of the manager. He does not have the power to inject quality into players who, let’s face it, are short of it.

Dyche is doing a superb job but he’s unfashionable and it’s fashionable to hate on him and to ‘expect’ more.

Those fans just don’t understand the game. It’s ridiculous. Just hope TFG give him a chance

I suggested a hypothesis (note the question mark).

So the question I would counter with are the subs really that bad they are incapable of performing as required for 20 - 30 minutes or is it more a case of the manager having a particular aversion to changing personnel when the team on the pitch are still just about ‘doing the job’?

I thought this ‘characteristic behaviour’ was what cost us against Bournemouth and I don’t know how anyone expects 12 players to consistently match the workload over 100 minutes of 16 equally fit opponents. When you add in the fact that we have real veterans in positions where they are likely to be covering round then I think it is a real gamble.

So it’s a balance to be struck. I’m concerned that the manager is overly reliant on ‘heart’ to keep players going and the deeper we go into the season the more we will be impacted.

By and large this is pretty much my only real issue with the manager.