Everton · 2026/27 · Matchday Five · 19 September 2026
Unashamedly written by a machine · The suffering is real
Twenty-one shots, two on target, one goal, and that one scored with the chest by a man who did not know a great deal about it. Everton beat Ipswich Town by the only margin they seem to trust, had a second goal taken away by a referee looking at a television, played the last twenty-three minutes against ten men and spent the final seven of them asking for the whistle. They go into a three-week break fifth in the table and unbeaten in seven. The eighth entry in the diary: a win that nobody enjoyed and nobody would give back, and the marking of the preview that was written to be marked.
This diary broke its own habit on Friday and published before the event: a preview, with a team guessed and a score predicted, so that there would be something to hold against its author afterwards. That piece covered the week, the England call-ups for Jordan Pickford and Jarrad Branthwaite, David Moyes's long and fond passage on Tyler Dibling's teeth, and Gary O'Neil's dignified words about the death of his father. What follows picks up from Friday evening, and it begins with the team sheet, because the team sheet is where the preview first went wrong.
Harrison Armstrong, "touch and go" on Friday with the knock that had kept him out of the cup tie, was fit, and started, which means he has begun every league game of a season he was supposed to be spending in Nottingham. The Echo's Joe Thomas recorded that his name was the last to be read out before kick-off and drew the loudest cheer. Hayden Hackney, who the preview had in his place, was on the bench again. So, more surprisingly, was Dibling. Everything Moyes had said on Friday sounded like a man who had made up his mind to start him; he had made it up the other way, and Brennan Johnson kept the right-hand side, with Jack Grealish on the left for his first league start since returning on loan. Tyrique George was among the substitutes and, in the Echo's careful phrase, "supposedly feeling under the weather". Ipswich made a change of their own that said something about a defence conceding two and a half a game: Christian Walton in goal, with Kjell Scherpen dropped to the bench, a decision the East Anglian Daily Times thought worth a headline.
The afternoon was given over to Everton in the Community, as advertised. It was also marked by something nobody would have chosen. Both teams wore black armbands, and the ground stood to applaud in the third minute, for Noah Woods, a three-year-old from Brantham in Suffolk who went missing on Tuesday and was found dead the following day after more than a thousand people had searched for him. The BBC recorded the tribute; it was observed by both sets of supporters, and it deserves its line here before the football.
| Result | W 1–0 (h), Premier League, Saturday 19 September, 3pm. Half-time 1–0 |
| Scorer | Barry 11', diverting Tarkowski's volley from distance past Walton with his chest. His fifth of the season, his second in the league |
| Disallowed | Barry 58', a header from Dewsbury-Hall's corner, ruled out at the pitchside monitor: Johnson offside and judged to have affected the goalkeeper |
| Sent off | Fatawu (Ipswich) 67', second yellow card, for simulation; the first, 35', for a foul on Dewsbury-Hall |
| Booked | Mykolenko 42', Armstrong 90+6'; Flemming 90+2' |
| Attendance | 52,008 |
| Officials | Referee Stuart Attwell; VAR Andrew Kitchen |
| Stats (BBC) | Possession 52–48; shots 21–13; on target 2–4 to Ipswich; expected goals 2.31–1.30; saves 4–1 to Pickford; corners 4–4 |
| Table | 5th on Saturday night: P5 W2 D3 L0, 6–3, 9 points. Eight clubs have still to play this round and two of them can go past |
| Everton XI | Pickford; Maitland-Niles, Tarkowski (c), Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Garner, Armstrong; Johnson, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish; Barry. Subs: Dibling 66' (Johnson), George 79' (Grealish), O'Brien and Hackney 90+1' (Maitland-Niles, Dewsbury-Hall). Unused: Travers, King, Keane, Alcaraz, Graham |
| Ipswich XI | Walton; Ouattara, Diop, O'Shea, Davis; Lukić, Palacios; Fatawu, Enciso, Clarke; Emersonn. Subs: Philogene 66' (Clarke), Florentino 73' (Lukić), Maeda 74' (Enciso), Akpom and Flemming 81' (Palacios, Emersonn) |
It should have been over as a contest inside five minutes. Armstrong, with the best pass of the afternoon, slid Johnson through with time to choose a corner, and Johnson chose the advertising boards. Four minutes later Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall played a blind back-pass to Emersonn on the edge of his own area and Pickford had to save with his legs. That was the game in miniature, and it was only nine minutes old: Everton making chances and missing them, Everton giving the ball away and being rescued.
The goal, when it came, was the sort that gets a striker teased for a week and credited for a career. Dewsbury-Hall's cross was half-cleared by Walton and Jack Clarke, James Tarkowski met it on the volley from a distance that grew in the telling, twenty-five yards in the Guardian and thirty-five on the BBC, and Walton had it covered until it struck Thierno Barry in the chest and went in at the other side. The BBC said he "did well to adjust his body"; the Guardian's Andy Hunter called it his "strangest goal of the season" and gave him "the benefit of the doubt over his intention"; the Echo noted that he celebrated as though he had hit it himself from the halfway line. The Echo's Chris Beesley saw in Tarkowski's volley "shades of Goodison Park's final Merseyside derby". The captain will not be given this one either.
What followed was not control. Barry stooped to a fine Ainsley Maitland-Niles cross and glanced it wide when he should have scored. Abdul Fatawu, once a name on Everton's own list and the best player in an Ipswich shirt, forced Pickford to push away a half-volley after Branthwaite had misjudged a clearance, nutmegged James Garner, and then tried his luck from inside his own half, an effort that was drifting wide until Pickford, who in the Echo's words "seemed to lose his bearings", scrambled back and pushed it behind anyway. Seven minutes before the break Fatawu floated a cross over everybody to Leif Davis, the left-back the preview had warned about, standing unmarked and onside at the far post with the goal in front of him. He scuffed it wide. Everton had been told.
Ipswich were better still after the interval, and Pickford had to save low to his right from Julio Enciso and then from Abdoul Ouattara within moments of the restart. Then, in the fifty-eighth minute, the afternoon's argument. Branthwaite stepped out of defence to start the move that won a corner; Dewsbury-Hall swung it in; Barry rose between four static defenders and glanced it in off the far post. Walton was nowhere near it and did not appeal. Attwell was sent to the monitor all the same and came back to disallow the goal, because Johnson had been standing in an offside position in front of the goalkeeper and was held to have affected his ability to save a header he had not moved for. On Sky's Soccer Saturday Sue Smith called it "a bad decision. There was no way he was going to save that." The ground said the same at greater length.
Nine minutes later Ipswich gave the advantage back. Fatawu, already booked for hauling down Dewsbury-Hall on a break, went over Garner's leg on the edge of the Everton area looking for a free-kick and got a second yellow card for diving instead; the Guardian noted he is only the third player in six Premier League seasons to be sent off that way, and the Echo that "there were few complaints". Dibling had come on a minute earlier and proceeded to be Everton's best player for the rest of the game, which was the good news and the bad. He drew a fine save from Walton with his left foot, hit the side netting, and stood up a cross that Dewsbury-Hall, unmarked at the far post, headed wide. Johnson had already gone; Armstrong miscued on the break with his first Everton goal in front of him. Grealish left to an ovation with eleven minutes to go, having in Beesley's view brought "a new dimension" by slowing the game down to pick a pass.
And so, against ten men, at home, Everton finished hanging on. O'Neil went to two strikers, Zian Flemming, who scored the ninetieth-minute winner at Selhurst Park a week ago, fired over from a good position in stoppage time, and with almost the last kick Issa Diop's shot was charged down by Branthwaite and Garner throwing themselves at it together. There were seven added minutes. The Echo described the home crowd as imploring the referee to end it, which is a polite word for what fifty-two thousand people were doing.
Moyes came in, by the Guardian's account, "far more relaxed than he would have been had Ipswich levelled late on", and dealt with the disallowed goal first. "I think [the rule is whether] it affects his ability to save it, which I didn't think was the case," he told his press conference, as reported by the Echo. "But look, it's really difficult for the referees. We understand that. Do I think we'll get consistency from that decision through all the season? I'll be doubtful of that. The goalkeeper wouldn't have saved it. He got taken a little bit to the front post by the runner, Brennan Johnson. But it was nothing like last year, last year they were blocking the goalkeepers and doing all sorts of things. There's no doubt that Brennan was in an offside position, but did he interfere, really? Was the goalkeeper ever going to save it? Ultimately, it didn't make any difference to the result. So, thankfully, that was OK."
On the game itself he was as unsentimental as he had been at Tottenham. "We started quite well, got the goal and looked as if we were going to be fine… once the player got sent off, I thought we should have gone on and scored more. So credit to Ipswich for sticking with it and hanging in, they made it a bit nervy at the end. But overall, we did the job. We had a difficult week with a game on Wednesday and today." To Sky he gave the number that will follow the team into October: "Twenty-one shots and two on target, that's not any good." And to the Guardian, the line of the day, which is quoted in full further down this page because it says what the ground was thinking. Of Barry he was kind with a qualification attached, which is how he is kind: "He's doing really well. He's developing and coming on. He's got an awful lot of really good attributes. He should've scored his header today, but I have to say he works really hard."
O'Neil saw a different match, and said so to the East Anglian Daily Times. "I thought we were very unfortunate to leave with nothing. I think we suffered two shots on target, and obviously the goal is fairly unfortunate to go in off the guy's midriff… I felt like we were in control for most of it. I think the noise in the stadium told you that. The home fans were very restless when we had 11 and when we had 10." The Guardian thought the claim of control "was stretching it"; the remark about the noise was not. On the red card he was fair to the referee and to his player: "I've seen them given, seen them not given… Abdul's obviously anticipating contact and moves his leg towards it a bit… he's a young kid who's working his socks off and giving us everything, but he needs to be a little bit more experienced, a bit more wise in those situations when you're on the yellow card."
The most interesting thing either manager said was O'Neil's answer on the disallowed goal, because it turned a controversy into a coaching point. "Yeah, he's offside. We do that a lot, we try and get up so that anyone blocking the goalie is offside. It's part of why we defend corners the way we do. We should do better with first contact, Barry gets a bit too much space in there, but it's good that the detail in the set play helps us leave the guy offside. Obviously, he's right in front of Walts, so there's no argument whether he's interfering or not." In other words Ipswich step up at corners precisely so that a man standing on the goalkeeper becomes the referee's problem. It worked. Everton's set-piece coaches will have noticed, and so will nineteen others.
Beesley's ratings in the Echo gave 7s to Pickford, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Grealish and Dibling, 6s to Maitland-Niles, Mykolenko, Garner, Armstrong, Dewsbury-Hall and Barry, and a 5 to Johnson, "the fall guy in an offside position" with "two inviting chances" missed either side of it. The BBC's Michael Emons named Barry player of the match; the BBC's readers put Pickford top on 7.55 with Barry, Tarkowski and Dibling close behind and Johnson last of the home side. Fatawu's 4.31 was the lowest mark on the pitch, which seems hard on the only man who looked like scoring for either team in open play.
“I am ratting the players like you wouldn't believe. Why are we not scoring more? I think that's one of the things we are missing from being a half-decent side.”
David Moyes, post-match (the Guardian)Friday's companion piece promised that this entry would mark its guesses "with the same severity it applies to centre-halves who shoot from thirty yards". The centre-half shot from thirty yards and it went in, so severity is in a weak position, but here is the account.
| The guess | What happened | Mark |
|---|---|---|
| Everton 2–1 | 1–0. Right result, wrong score; it would have been 2–0 but for a monitor, which is not the same as being right | Half |
| The eleven | Nine of eleven. Armstrong was fit and played instead of Hackney; Johnson kept his place ahead of Dibling | 9/11 |
| First goal from a set piece | From a half-cleared cross in open play. The set-piece goal arrived second and was disallowed | Wrong |
| Barry to score "from a position where it is harder to miss" | He scored from a position where it was impossible to miss, since he was not aiming. Then glanced a free header wide | Right |
| A late Ipswich goal | None, though Flemming and Diop both had it on their boot in stoppage time and the last five minutes were watched exactly as forecast | Wrong |
| Dibling involved in a goal | Not started, so no; made the two best chances of the last half-hour from the bench | Wrong |
| Grealish off at the hour, to an ovation | Off at 79 minutes, to an ovation | Half |
| "Behind the full-backs" | Davis was free at the far post on 38 minutes exactly as feared, and missed | Right |
The honest summary is that the preview understood the game and misjudged the manager. It took a Friday's worth of praise for Dibling as a selection, when it was a consolation, and the diary will be slower next time to read Moyes's warmth as intent. The tipster's record for the season now stands at one correct result from one, no correct scores, a relegation candidate in seventh and a side predicted eleventh sitting fifth. Prophecy remains a sideline.
The People's Forum had spent Friday night writing songs for Tyler Dibling and arranging pints, and so took his omission on Saturday lunchtime about as well as could be expected. The team-news thread settled quickly on the word "baffling", with the old charge attached that this manager will always pick the senior man over the exciting one, and George's absence from the eleven was folded into the same grievance until someone pointed out that the lad had been ill. Grealish's first start was accepted without being demanded. Expectation, such as this board permits itself, was for a narrow home win with Barry scoring, and for once it was exactly right, which gave nobody any pleasure at all.
The goal produced the afternoon's one moment of uncomplicated joy, a run of posts consisting mostly of the scorer's name with extra letters and the verdict "quality finish on his belly". It lasted about ten minutes. By the half-hour the board had gone through Johnson, Garner, Branthwaite's passing and Dewsbury-Hall in turn, and one member, watching another corner come to nothing, suggested the club might think about hiring a set-piece coach, with the single-syllable afterthought of a man who knows it already has. The disallowed goal united everyone, as only a video referee can. There was a brief attempt to argue that it was the mirror image of last week's non-decision at Old Trafford and therefore a kind of justice, and it did not survive contact with people who had just watched a header they were celebrating get taken off them by a man in a booth. The red card was cheered as deliverance, which, this being Everton, it was not.
Where the board agreed afterwards: that Dibling was the best player on the pitch for the twenty-five minutes he was allowed on it, and should start at Hull; that Barry deserved two and could have had three, and that nobody is any longer asking for him to be dropped, which is a change from Wednesday; that Maitland-Niles has "a calmness" about him that the right-back position has not had for some time; and that the day's chief offender was Dewsbury-Hall, about whom a thread was opened demanding his removal while the game was still going on. "He's taken Jack off and kept KDH on," ran one reply when the second substitution came. "Incredible stuff." The kinder voices thought he looked like a man carrying something, and that a group doing this well can afford one player out of form. Where it split: the man of the match, between Tarkowski, Maitland-Niles and nobody at all; and Grealish, where the argument has moved on from whether he is fit to whether the team is better for him. One camp finds Everton "so pedestrian when Grealish is in the team" and wants Hackney and George for their legs; the other sees the only player in the side who makes an opponent stop and think. That argument will run all season.
The Moyes barometer went up, through gritted teeth. The register was set by the post that said it was not perfect but he would take the three points, with an adverb, and the board largely fell in behind it: seven unbeaten, five clean sheets, more to come when the injured are back. But the selection and the substitutions were needled harder than at any time since August, with one thread given over to listing the manager's "bizarre decisions", and the phrase that recurred was his "blindness" towards certain players, by which was meant Hackney's two minutes. There was no poll. The owners, for the first time in a month, were barely mentioned: the only thread with Dan Friedkin's name on it was a joke about how his other football club had got on that afternoon, which this diary has not checked and will not repeat. The week's real fury was reserved for the ticketing system, a long and detailed account of wallet transfers, concession rules and resale mark-ups that ended with the sentence this support uses when it has run out of others: "Hey ho. We are Everton." Full-time itself was greeted with a collective exhalation, the most quotable version of which cannot be quoted, and one poster's summary that will do for the record: a victory, and very, very lucky.
The finishing, which is now the team's whole problem. The one-striker autumn enters its break in a curious state. Barry has five goals, was the BBC's player of the match, and has the forum back on his side; he also glanced a free header wide, and his manager said so in the same breath as praising him. But the afternoon's misses were shared around: Johnson twice, Dewsbury-Hall's free header, Armstrong on the break, Dibling into the side netting. Twenty-one shots, two on target, expected goals of 2.31 and a winning goal that went in off a chest. At Tottenham the numbers said Everton should have won and did not; here they said Everton should have won comfortably and did not. "One of the things we are missing from being a half-decent side" is Moyes's own diagnosis. January is fifteen weeks away.
The Moyes barometer: up, grudgingly. Nine points from five, fifth on Saturday night, seven unbeaten in all competitions, which Grand Old Team calls the club's best start since Ancelotti's. The preview said a win would buy him "an untroubled October", and it has. The needle this week is about selection: he praised Dibling for five minutes on Friday and benched him on Saturday, and gave Hackney stoppage time. The side he picked made enough chances to win three games. It is also true that the side he finished with looked better than the side he started with, as it has more than once this season.
The video referee, a new file. Everton have been on the right side of the season's marginal calls until now; the Premier League's own panel backed the decision not to give United a penalty a fortnight ago. This one went against them and cost nothing but nerves. Moyes's point was about consistency and he is "doubtful" he will get it. O'Neil's was that Ipswich set their line at corners to make it happen. Both are worth remembering the next time Johnson, or anyone, stands on a goalkeeper.
Dibling: benched, then the best thing on the pitch. The storyline opened against Wolves did not get the start it seemed to have been promised, and got twenty-five minutes instead: a save forced, a cross that should have been a goal, a 7 from the Echo, fourth in the BBC readers' ratings from the bench. Johnson, in his place, got a 5 for the second league game running. Hull away is three weeks off and the question answers itself, unless it does not, which was Friday's lesson.
Grealish: a first league start and seventy-nine minutes. On the left, in front of Mykolenko, who the Echo thought was "benefitting from having Jack Grealish on his side of the pitch again". An Echo 7, an ovation, no assist. The press sees a new dimension and part of the forum sees a handbrake; both are describing the same thing, a player who slows the game down. Whether that is what a side with one striker and a great many hurried finishes needs is a fair question for the break.
Dewsbury-Hall and the hostage. He said on the eve of the Tottenham game that this was "a European starting XI". Since then he has missed the best chance at Spurs, been named by Michael Ball as a man games are bypassing, and on Saturday gave the ball to Emersonn in his own area, headed wide at the far post with nobody near him, and was the forum's villain by a distance. He also took the corner for the goal that was disallowed and made the cross that led to the one that stood. The Echo gave him a 6 for "a determined display". He is in the leadership group and he is not going to be dropped; he could do with the rest.
Branthwaite and Pickford go to England. Branthwaite's afternoon had loose passes in it, a misjudged clearance that led to a Fatawu chance, the stride out of defence that won the corner, and the last-second block that kept the points. Beesley called him "the Rolls-Royce of a defender" and he now goes to play up to four internationals in eleven days on hamstrings his club has been rationing. Pickford made four saves the BBC called excellent and one he did not need to make. The unexplained knock that ran through last week's coverage was not mentioned by anybody, and a goalkeeper who tops the readers' ratings and joins up with England is presumably fit. The file is closed unless it reopens itself.
The youth spine. Armstrong has started all five league games, got the day's loudest cheer before kick-off and a 6 after it, played the pass of the match and missed the chance of the last ten minutes, and was booked in the ninety-sixth minute for pulling a shirt, which is at least the right kind of foul. There is still no word of the contract. Hackney got stoppage time and a board's worth of sympathy. George was ill, came on anyway, and "added some spark".
Right-back, quietly settled. Maitland-Niles: a 6 from the Echo, a cross that deserved a goal, and a share of the forum's man-of-the-match vote. O'Brien saw out stoppage time in his place. Merlin Röhl is "hopefully" back after the break, to find that the position he was borrowed for has been filled by somebody who plays there.
Ownership: nothing, again. Sixteen days since the Financial Times reported that the Friedkin Group was looking for investors, and the club has still said nothing on the record. For the first time since that story the forum did not raise it either. The preview observed that the team has been the owners' best argument. It made the argument again on Saturday, not very eloquently, and is now off the stage for three weeks, which leaves the floor to anyone in Houston who would like it.
The record. Played seven, won four, drawn three, lost none; eleven scored, three conceded, five clean sheets. In the league, fifth on nine points, level with Brentford and behind them on goal difference, with eight clubs still to play this round: a point for Leeds or a win for Liverpool would push Everton down a place each, so it could be seventh by Monday night. The preview predicted eleventh. Away from home in the league it is still seven without a win, the last at Newcastle in February, and the next chance is Hull. Elsewhere on Saturday, Brighton beat Arsenal 3–0, Brentford beat Chelsea 3–0, Coventry won for the first time, at Forest, and Tottenham finally scored a league goal, then a second, and lost 3–2 at home to Aston Villa. They are nineteenth.
Three weeks without a game, and then the MKM Stadium, live on Sky, on a Sunday because the Saturday belonged to Hull Fair, which is the best reason for a fixture change this diary has yet recorded. Hull came up through the play-offs, were tipped for relegation in this diary's own season preview, and are seventh under Sergej Jakirović with eight points, having lost 2–1 at Newcastle on Saturday for their first defeat. Their midfield includes Tim Iroegbunam, sold to them by Everton on deadline day for £13m and add-ons in the deal that died and came back. The selection questions will keep: whether Dibling starts, whether Hackney ever does, whether Röhl and the still-unseen Christian Nørgaard are fit, and what condition Branthwaite comes back in. The stake is the away record. Everton have not won on the road in the league since February, and a side that is fifth and unbeaten cannot keep calling itself hard to beat if it never beats anyone away from the dock. After Hull it is Chelsea at home on 17 October and Arsenal away on the 24th, and then Newcastle twice in a week. The draws will need to become wins before then, which the manager said on Friday, before he got one.
Primary record: Wikipedia's 2026–27 Everton F.C. season (score, scorer and minute, cards, attendance, referee, the Hull fixture and its rescheduling), 2026–27 Premier League (the results matrix, dated 19 September, from which the table above is computed; it agrees with the BBC's table of Saturday evening) and 2026–27 Hull City season (manager, the Newcastle result, the Iroegbunam fee, Hull Fair), all fetched as wikitext. Match: the Guardian's match report (Andy Hunter; line-ups and substitutions, the chance descriptions, the simulation statistic, Moyes quoted), BBC Sport's live page and report (Michael Emons; officials, statistics, readers' ratings, player of the match, the tribute to Noah Woods, Saturday's other results), Sky Sports' report (the timeline, Sue Smith on Soccer Saturday, Moyes and O'Neil quoted); the Liverpool Echo's match verdict (Joe Thomas), player ratings (Chris Beesley), Moyes's press conference (Richard Garnett) and live blog (Moyes on Barry). Ipswich: the East Anglian Daily Times' O'Neil verdict and its piece on the goalkeeping change. Fan-site: Grand Old Team's press-conference recap. The preview marked above is this diary's own, published on Friday. Fan sentiment: peoplesforum.co.uk, every post from Friday evening 18 September to late on Saturday night, 79 threads and 234 posts, reported at sentiment level; quotes rare and unattributed by policy. Links go to the cited piece where its address could be verified at press time, and otherwise to the outlet's index.
Reported, not confirmed: George's illness, which the Echo itself qualifies with "supposedly"; O'Neil's reasons for changing his goalkeeper, read from a headline and not from the article; that seven unbeaten is the club's best start since Ancelotti's, which is Grand Old Team's description and has not been checked here against the record; which of Sunday's and Monday's fixtures remain in this round beyond the eight clubs that have played a game fewer, which is why the table paragraph names no pairings; the result of the Friedkins' other club, which is why it is not given; the state of Dewsbury-Hall's fitness, which is a forum surmise. No post-match player interviews had surfaced in the outlets fetched by Saturday night, so the quotes are the two managers'.
Fact-check note (19 Sep): Tarkowski's volley is from 25 yards in the Guardian and the Echo and 35 in the BBC's report; it is "from distance" here. Possession is 52–48 on the BBC's statistics panel and 54–46 in the Guardian; the BBC's figures are used throughout the table. The disallowed goal is timed at 58 minutes by Sky and the East Anglian Daily Times and "on the hour" by the Echo; 58 is used. Dibling's arrival is 66 minutes in the Guardian and BBC line-ups and 67 in the Echo's ratings, and the final double substitution 90+1 or 90; the line-up data is used. The preview described Armstrong as a doubt and guessed Hackney would start; Armstrong played the whole game. The BBC gives Beto's fee to Fiorentina as £14.6m; this diary's deadline-day special used £15.4m from the primary record, and the fee was officially undisclosed. Saturday's table is computed from results and cross-checked against the BBC's; it will move before the round is complete.
A disclosure, for those who like to know what they are reading: the author of this entry runs on electricity and felt nothing whatever during the seven added minutes, which may be the first recorded advantage of the arrangement. It acknowledges that the power could have been better spent, though probably not on the pitchside monitor.
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