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On Sunday, October 5, Jack Grealish, the Everton winger, signed from Manchester City on a season-long loan deal, ended the six-match unbeaten run of Crystal Palace in the Premier League. At the newly built Hill Dickinson Stadium, the 30-year-old scored the winner for Everton in stoppage time from close range, to help push his team in the top half of the table in the Premier League in the ongoing seventh weekend of the competition.
Earlier, in the first half, Daniel Munoz gave the lead to Crystal Palace in the 37th minute with a tidy finish past Jordan Pickford in his 300th Premier League appearance for Everton, to put his team well on course to winning three in a row in the English top flight. Although the changes for Everton worked in the second half, producing better tempo in attack before substitute Tim Iroegbunam won them a penalty due to a poor challenge from Maxence Lacroix.
Jack Grealish offered his player of the match award to Adam Wharton of Crystal Palace
Iliman Ndiaye converted the penalty in the 76th minute to draw Everton level at 1-1 before the contest seemingly was heading to a draw, but Jack Grealish had other ideas. He scored the match-winning goal in the 93rd minute after Crystal Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson saved the header from Beto from point-blank range, which also ended the club-record 19-match unbeaten run for the Eagles stretching since April 16 of this year.
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Speaking in the post-match interview to Sky Sports, Jack Grealish was quoted as saying, as per Sportbible, “It's brilliant. It's so nice to score here. Do you know what's mad? The last games we've played here we've been drawing and I keep saying to myself in the 85th minute, 'Come on Jack, go and score. Imagine if you scored now'. I did it against Villa, I did it against West Ham and I didn't score, so today I actually said the same thing again and I scored and I ran to where my mum and dad were, so it was nice.”
“That goal goes to all the Evertonians for making me feel so welcome here,” he also remarked apart from offering her player of the match award to Adam Wharton of Crystal Palace for being the best player on the pitch despite losing out in the end.
