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⚽️ Premier League table | Email Tim Andy Hunter has filed his match report from the Hill Dickinson, so that’s my cue to go and find a packet of crisps. Thanks for your company, correspondence and firm views on fouls at corners. Van de Ven’s finishing, plus some fine saves from Vicario and the odd blind eye from the refs, has seen to it that the Spurs go marching on. “Everyone showed great character, ” Van de Ven adds, as his fellow centre-back Kevin Danso presents him with the Player of the Match award. “Top performance from the team. ” The first of these points is true. Micky van de Ven now has five goals this season. “Crazy, ” he says. “Don’t think I’ve ever scored two in a game before. ” Back to the mailbag. “Yo, Timmer, ” says Dan from Toronto. “Have you ever heard a more disappointed response to a beautifully worked goal than when Spurs just scored to go up 3-0? No you have not. Unless it was Andy Gray howling ‘Ohhh Nohhhh’ when Paul Stalteri scored late on via a spectacular counter attack to give Spurs a famous 4-3 win at West Ham. “It’s on the world TV feed that supplies Fubo TV here in Canada. And it’s laughably lame. Jim Beglin might be ex-Liverpool, but he’s constantly pandering to anything Liverpool. Including Everton. Spurs can’t win. ” They’ll get over it. The upshot is that Everton are 14th with 11 points, wedged between Brighton and Leeds. And Spurs are third, not second, as some ill-informed person may have suggested. They have 17 points, the same as Sunderland, one fewer than Bournemouth. Man City are fifth, Man United sixth, Liverpool seventh and Chelsea ninth, with Villa now rocketing up to eighth. A proper table. And that’s that. It’s not fair, but in a game of countless corners, Spurs were clinical and Everton were not. So Everton lose for the first time at their new home and Spurs extend their lead at the top of the away table. Thomas Frank has four away wins this season, only one fewer than Ange managed in the whole of last season. 90+2 min Nothing happening for Everton except the x G, which, according to The Athletic, makes it Everton 1. 53-2. 08 Spurs. This was mainly down to Richarlison, who was the target of a fine cross from the right. He could have gone for goal, but he saw Sarr in the middle and squared it, one header acting as the assist for another. So it’s all over bar the added time, which will be five minutes. Game over! 88 min Chance? No, offside against Pape Sarr, who ran through and played a cutback. Serves him right for coming on when I wasn’t looking. But then … 87 min Possession for the whole game is now 53-47 to Everton, after being 63-37 to Spurs for much of the first half. The tables have turned, yet the scoreboard has refused to budge. 86 min Everton sub: Moyes sends on Alcaraz for Gueye, a forward for a midfielder. May as well. 86 min And now Richarlison charges down a cross from Garner. He’s making his mark on his own derby. 84 min And now Richarlison is back in his own box, heading a corner away. 83 min Spurs flicker on the couner, only for Bergvall’s through ball to be scuffed, so it can’t reach Richarlison. 80 min Grealish wins a corner with sheer doggedness, but Everton can’t do anything with it … except, eventually, winning another corner. 79 min Chance! A good cross from Dewsbury-Hall on the left turns into a free header for Röhl, but he can’t keep it down. 76 min Grealish, still the main man for Everton, starts a very Man City move – jinking, threading a short perpendicular ball to Dewsbury-Hall, who slips it on to Thierno Barry … but again Vicario is alert, gathering the ball as it skids on the sodden turf. 74 min Block! Palhinha’s turn to save the day as a flick-on by Tarkowski sets up a crisp shot from someone, possibly Gueye. 73 min Save! Ndiaye, supplied by Grealish, takes a low shot through the crowd, and Vicario does very well to see it, let alone stop it. 72 min As Everton play out from the back, Grealish is fouled by Bentancur. Grealish feels it’s a yellow card – and it is, for him, as he makes his point rather too loudly. 71 min As the fans get soaked, the game gets scrappy. 69 min Everton want a penalty as Tarkowski goes down in the box, but the refs don’t agree. “Would have been very soft, ” says Gary Nev. 67 min David Moyes sees Thomas Frank’s subs and brings on two of his own – Barry for Beto and Röhl for O’Brien, so Garner moves to right back, where he’s less likely to see yellow again. 66 min Spurs, as it stands, are third, on goal difference ahead of the mighty Sunderland. 65 min Save! Richarlison breaks free and finds himself one on one with his old mate Pickford. He hits the shot hard but straight at Pickford, who stands up and fends it off. 62 min The first subs come from Thomas Frank, who may have been alarmed by Everton’s dominance in the first 15 minutes of this half. He sends on Richarlison for Kolo Muani and Bergvall for Simons, who remains rather anonymous. 61 min It’s the 11th corner of the match (Everton 4, Spurs 7) and nothing comes of it as Kudus goes a bit too long. 60 min It’s Kudus … and kudos to the wall, which does its job and sends the ball off for a corner. 60 min The kick is dead centre, Porro or Kudus to take. 58 min Spurs attack, for once in this half. Garner flies in on Kudus, in the hole, and gets a yellow card – his fourth of the season. 58 min Richarlison is getting ready to come on. 57 min “The rain, ” says Peter Drury, “is absolutely hammering down. ”