Everton may be struggling badly in the English Premier League, but U.S. national team goalkeeper Tim Howard made sure to help keep the Toffees Europa League success going.
Howard made nine saves to help lead Everton to a 1-0 victory against AEK Athens in Greece on Wednesday. Diniyar Bilyaletdinov scored early for Everton and Howard made the lead stand up, making nine saves in a match dominated by AEK.
The victory helped Everton qualify for the Europa League Round of 32 after securing second place in its group with the win.
What do you think of Everton's win? Glad to see Howard post a shutout victory after so many recent bad losses by Everton?
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That feeling of impending doom I feel when I look at the World Cup pots gets lifted a little bit when I think about Tim in goal.
Its bil ya let de nof. It may be long, but its really pretty easy once you get used to it. A lot better than Meshcherianov, I always have trouble with the shch (yes, in Russian that’s one letter).
It was a horrible, horrible field. Everton had to use all of its subs relatively early because of injuries. The first was in the 10th minute when Baxter went in for Gosling. Geez.
But wahoo! finally! a win!
Word.
Tim Howard = Stud.
Nah, just needs to be healthy. Need Jagielka and Neville back.
i can’t help but wonder if it would’ve been better for Everton to lose, they are way too close to relegation right now and could be facing a relegation battle, these games are just tiring them out, but we’ll hope for the best
that’s what she said!
On this very blog!
where did you read about Jones?
wow. i didn’t get to watch the game and I have only seen Everton play a few times but Judging by their results this season I am wrong to say that Everton’s back line needs some changes? Sounds like Timmy is getting shelled this year with shots
Try “Billy-a-let-tin-off” works for me.
That is a good win for a team that needs some confidence. Hopefully the good Europa form can translate to the league. Hopefully fulham can qualify for the next round as well.
just say bilya lol
Can someone provide a phonetic pronounciation guide for “Diniyar Bilyaletdinov”?…and I thought Zlatan Ibrahimovich was mouth full! 🙂
Maybe they’ll face Liverpool in a later round…
pretty dull game. good for Everton to keep a clean sheet with Coleman, Baxter and Duffy having to hold the fort down.
The pitch wasn’t awful. The rain and conditions were not ideal and several players were wearing the wrong type of footwear.
Wow. nine save shutout for Everton? Jermaine Jones finally kicking a ball around. Wednesdays aren’t so bad after all.
Good for Everton’s defense after all the injuries on that awful pitch.