Here are three best Everton goals of 2020.
After scoring 44 league goals in season 2019-20, Everton look like surpassing that total this season as the Blues have already scored 26 in the first 15 Premier League matches. 2019-20 was a consistent struggle to find the back of the net for the Toffees and they only scored 3 goals in four league contests last season.
So far this season, they’ve scored three or more in three matches, including four against Brighton and five against West Bromich Albion. But it’s just not quantity, there has been plenty of quality. So here are Everton’s 3 best goals so far this season.
1. Dominic Calvert-Lewin vs Tottenham Hotspur
Calvert-Lewin had asked for the No. 9 jersey at the start of the 2019-20 season and finished co-leading scorer for Everton with Richarlison as both netted 13 Premier League goals. Not a bad return, the 23-year-old still had some to prove.
He started doing that in his first opportunity of the new season on 13 September at Tottenham stadium.
In the first game of the 2020-21 EPL season, DCL scored a goal that was out of the Everton No. 9’s script. In the 55th minute of a scoreless match. Everton won a free-kick on the deep in the Tottenham half on the left-side of the pitch.
Lucas Digne took the kick, and the French international left-back swung the ball into the Spurs box and Calvert-Lewin rose the highest and powered a header into the top corner as he outjumped Eric Dier, who perhaps wished he had stayed at Everton all those years ago. Hugo Lloris might have been able to get a hand on it if he had been able to fly like Superman.
It was a brilliant goal and it cued comparisons with powerful Everton centre-forwards of the past. Dixie Dean, Tommy Lawton, Joe Royle, etc would have been proud of the goal.
It laid down a marker for the early part of the season, as Calvert-Lewin put forth his case to be part of the glorious tradition of No. 9’s at Everton.
Calvert-Lewin seems set to surpass the 20-goal mark in the league, the first since Romelu Lukaku and it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that he hits the 30-goal mark last reached by Bob Latchford in 1974.