SWANSEA CITY MATCH REPORT

A resurgent Leon Osman performance where he worked his tiny little bollocks off for 90 minutes then got a winner was enough for Everton to sneak past the polite footballing institution that is Swansea City. Certainly their team and their ethos is anyway. Their fans are thoroughbred fucking melts: ''WERE SWANSEA CITY, WE'LL SING ON OUR OWWWWWN''. Sound.



It wasn't all smiles throughout. David Moyes persisted with a system which he doesn't really have the personell for. The damage limitation mentality of his 4-5-1 line-ups continued to exasperate up until Osman broke the dead lock after an hour and thank fudge he did. Although it wasn't our worst performance of the season and the gulf in class of players like Drenthe, Fellaini and Osman finally told, it was much of the same huffing and puffing until we eventually got the break through. It has to be said that more clinical and less forgiving sides would have probably got the first goal last night, until we eventually applied our now predictable chase the game tactics. But enough of that, we got the first and a wins a wins a win and you take what you can get in our position now.



The goal itself, a lovely Lawrie Sanchez-esque glancing header at the park end, came from a wicked cross from Royston Drenthe, the Dutchman was at the heart of pretty much everything we did well all night actually. If we can...*ahem*... keep him fit and firing and introduce more pace with Landon Donavan coming in, then things will surely start looking up in the New Year, two pacey wingers for EFC and hopefully a new striker in the transfer window? NURSE! Tony Hibbert put in yet another flawless display, he has his critics but he is undroppable at the moment. Marouanne Fellaini pushed and bullied his way through their midfield and managed to break down most of Swansea's impressive passing game before it hurt us. It's little Leon Osman though who deserve's most of the plaudits.



Its weird to think he's now 30, he seems to have been around for eons yet continues to look about 14. Two important back to back goals just goes to show how much we still come to rely on him, without in some ways appreciating it as much as we probably should. Its been said before, but his close control and link play is absolutely superb and can really make Moyes teams tick, certainly when he is off the pace a bit we seem to struggle, as has been the case in recent weeks. He seems to be back though and that can only be a good thing for Everton and our chances of improving on what up until this point has been a season completely devoid of anything to get excited about. A lucky win at Ewood Park? A sneaky late win at Craven Cottage? Do me a fucking favour.

So then, lets break out the Eggnog, cheer up a bit and look forward to a late Cahill winner coming on as sub against Sunderland.

Happy Christmas Blues and Up the Toffs!