The maverick qualities that made Jack Grealish so popular in Aston Villa days are still there. Four years with Pep Guardiola failed to curb such edges. At Everton, the player who won the lot at Manchester City is rolling back to happier times while showing the value of his learnings at the Etihad.
Molineux saw a masterclass from the former boy wonder who wears the Everton No 18 shirt once donned by Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Everton’s teenage new signing Tyler Dibling, a player of similar skill set and physical capabilities, an unused substitute here, can learn plenty. With Iliman Ndiaye and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, two willing creative partners, getting on the scoresheet, Everton, so long a grim sight to behold, have become enriching to watch.
David Moyes has his old-school reputation but will indulge free spirits in return for work ethic. He was, though, less impressed with the defending that let Wolves back into the contest.
Grealish was booed on his first touch by Wolves fans for his Aston Villa origins but by the seventh minute of his third game for Everton, his second Premier League start, he had surpassed his past two seasons’ total of Manchester City assists. To follow two last week against Brighton, Grealish’s nod back of a Vitalii Mykolenko cross supplied Beto up to nod in. Within 163 minutes of football for Everton, when Dewsbury-Hall scored, he had reached four assists.
