Louis Saha’s Four Goals Need Not Overshadow Other Toffee Stars - Royal Blue Mersey

Newcastle's comeback against Arsenal may have been more dramatic, but Everton's 5-3 win over Blackpool may have actually been the better match. The Toffees' Saturday win at Goodison Park was so good that tmallows at SB Nation's Everton blog, Royal Blue Mersey, leads his match review with this sweeping statement:

If anyone ever asks why I support Everton,or love football in general, I will probably just show them a DVD of this game.....

Beyond the eight goals, the match saw three lead changes, a four goal scorer, and five tallies over its last half hour, and although it ultimately ended with Blackpool's slide toward relegation continued, it also saw an explosion by a talented Everton side whose season's been undermined by problems at the striker position. Louis Saha, primed for another run of form, may have solved those problems.

Louis Saha will rightly take the plaudits for his four goals - the Frenchman is vital to our success and if we can keep him fit and scoring he is as good as anyone in the country.

But special mention has to got to Jermaine Beckford. Widely pilloried from everyone outside of the club for his appren (sic)t poor finishing the former Leeds man arguably scored the goal of the gme (sic) with a sublime first-time volley from Baines' chip forward. Anyone who has played football will tell you what a difficult skill it is to hit it first time when the ball is coming over your shoulder like that. Six goals in 23 apperances (sic) - just eight as starts - suddenly doesn't look as bad as everyone makes it out to be.