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Neil Johnston
BBC Sport journalist

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Crystal Palace fans have already enjoyed Conference League trips to Norway and Poland this season, but it is eight years since Everton last competed in Europe.

The Toffees remain a work in progress under David Moyes but there is compelling evidence they are moving in the right direction under the Scot with this comeback win greeted with huge celebration among the home support.

They were poor for long periods against a Palace side who should have had the game won before Ndiaye equalised from the spot after Lacroix's needless challenge.

That goal lifted the home side who won it through Grealish in the most dramatic fashion.

Grealish, playing his final game for three weeks as he is ineligible to face parent club Manchester City in Everton's first game back after the international break, has already proved his worth with four Premier League assists since arriving.

Moyes mentioned in his pre-match news conference that he wanted to see his number 18 score more, and Grealish answered with his first Premier League goal since 2 April to seal Everton's first league win since August.

Everton boss David Moyes speaking to BBC Match of the Day after the win over Crystal Palace: "I've been waiting for one of these for quite a few games. I was looking for a late goal against Aston Villa and even Leeds United earlier in the season but we got one today, thankfully, against a side who've been on a brilliant run, so it was great to get.

"Look, I maybe was expecting them to come a little bit fatigued after their game on Thursday but they played really, really well. But that doesn't take anything away from how poor we were in the first half at times. We made changes at half time. I thought all the subs that came on made a brilliant impact, they really did and probably helped us win the game.

"We could've been three down in the second half before we go on to win the game. They'll be disappointed they didn't get that chance. We hung in. We kept defending it even though we weren't great but we played much better in the second half and we were worthy of maybe getting it. But if you look at it, they could've had a couple more goals."

On the atmosphere: "What we want is to create is Goodison Park again, the noise and atmosphere. And I think people are still getting used to it. It's going to take us time.

"When the crowd are behind the team here it's great and they're desperate for something special here. Look, we have to try and build it. It took me 11 years, I won't be here 11 years this time but hopefully we can build it and get it in the right order again."

On Jack Grealish's goal: "I think when you need goals you'll take anything, centre forwards will tell you, it doesn't really matter how you get them.

"I'm pleased for Jack because he's helped us an awful lot since he came in."

Did you know?

• Everton have won just three of their last 31 home Premier League matches when they've conceded first, but all three have come against Crystal Palace - 3-2 in May 2022, 2-1 in September 2024 and 2-1 today.

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Whether you were at the game or following from elsewhere, we want to know what you learned.

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There are five games in the Premier League on Sunday and BBC Sport will bring you every moment.

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Everton XI: Pickford, O'Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko, Gueye, Garner, Ndiaye, Dibling, Grealish, Barry.

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Guehi, Richards, Lacroix, Munoz, Hughes, Lerma, Mitchell, Sarr, Pino, Mateta.

This should be a good game, and a real test of whether Everton's new ground is actually the 'fortress' my 606 co-host Roman Kemp describes it as.

Everton are still unbeaten there but they have drawn two out of three games so far and the handbrake is still on, isn't it? Maybe Roman's definition of a fortress is just different to most other people's.

There will be no gung-ho tactics here, either, because this is going to be a really tight affair between two very clever managers. But after watching Palace last week I have to back them really.

Oliver Glasner's side were quite direct against Liverpool and it will be a good battle if they do the same here.

I enjoy watching Everton and, in particular, Jack Grealish, but I worry about their firepower up front.

If they had a goalscorer I would probably say they would get something, but instead I am going with Palace to keep a clean sheet and to take home the points.

Sutton's prediction: 0-1

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Crystal Palace may be on a club record unbeaten run, but Everton have proven to be a bogey side of late to the Eagles. BBC Sport explores some of the key themes before Sunday's match.

With victory over Dynamo Kyiv on Thursday, Crystal Palace surpassed a club record that had stood since 1969, with their unbeaten run now at a remarkable 19 matches.

They now put that on the line against an opponent that has proven to be a real nemesis of late. The Eagles are without a win in nine against Everton, have recorded just one victory in 21 league matches versus the Toffees and their last top-flight away victory against them came in 2014.

If they do avoid defeat against David Moyes' side, they would set another outright club record of 13 top-flight matches without a loss, beating the previous mark set back in 1990.

They also are on the longest unbeaten streak of any club in Europe's top five leagues. These really are halcyon days for Oliver Glasner's FA Cup winners.

Going into this weekend, only Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City have won more Premier League points than Palace in 2025, while the Eagles' defence have conceded just three goals in their opening six league matches this season, even though four of those six games have come against teams who finished in the top seven in 2024-25.

Since 1 January, Palace's expected goals tally is 46.2, which ranks second in the top flight. They have also been strong defensively, allowing their opponents an expected goals total of just 29.4, giving them an expected goals difference of 18.6 - a figure bettered only by champions and league leaders Liverpool.

Everton will surely be hoping they can follow Palace's recent blueprint for success and eventually soar like the Eagles. They are off to a solid start to life at Hill Dickinson Stadium, having won two and drawn two of their opening four matches there.

That is not to say Moyes does not have issues he needs to address, including converting draws into wins on home soil. Since the start of last season, the Toffees have drawn a top-flight high 11 matches at home, including seven of their past 10.

Moyes will also be keen to rectify their terrible record versus teams in the top half of the table, having won just four of their last 31 league matches against sides starting the day in the top 10.

Everton boss David Moyes has been speaking to the media before Sunday day's Premier League game against Crystal Palace at Hill Dickinson Stadium (kick-off 14:00).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Jarrad Branthwaite and Merlin Rohl's will not be returning yet, with Moyes stating "they are both making progress but they haven't made it on the grass yet".

• Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall received his fifth yellow card against West Ham and Moyes confirmed Everton have spoken to Professional Game Match Officials (PGMOL) about the booking. He said: "We have spoken to them and they are accepting the yellow cards are wrong. The last two decisions are terrible, more for the boy and we are going to miss him. He is back playing football now."

• Jordan Pickford will make his 300th appearance against Crystal Palace: "I think all round he is a really good goalkeeper. He is a very good shot stopper and very good with the ball. He has grown in maturity especially as he has been around England more. He's got a bit about him but behind the scenes he is a serious goalkeeper."

• Moyes was asked about using Iliman Ndiaye on the right and said: "It will take him a bit of time and we might change him over at different times. We might put him back to the left if we think it's the right moment. If different things change we can play him as the number 10 as well."

• Jack Grealish was not selected by Thomas Tuchel to be in the England squad and Moyes said: "I am glad I don't pick the England team because the England squad is a great group of players to choose from, really top players all around the country. Jack is one of them, he is in really good form but I am glad I don't pick the England team. He is showing the levels he can get to and we are hoping he continues with that. I believe he will be ready, he needs to continue on scoring goals and making assists."

• On the form of striker's Beto and Thierno Barry: "From January Beto was as good as any striker, scored goals, helped make goals. Barry is a new young striker coming to the league. I can talk about many that take time to settle in. If you are going to expect a lot from them before settling in you're wrong to expect that."

• The manager was asked about his decision to not make a lot of substitutions and he said: "I've felt we've got a much stronger squad than we've had for a long time and we are able to make changes if need be, but sometimes if there's no need to make the changes, you just don't do it for change sake."

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Thomas Tuchel has named his England squad for the upcoming international break.

The Three Lions face Wales in a friendly on 9 October, before a World Cup qualifier against Latvia on 14 October.

Chelsea's Cole Palmer is absent after suffering an injury, while there is no place for Manchester City's Phil Foden or Jack Grealish, who is on loan at Everton from City.

Everton's on-loan Manchester City winger Jack Grealish looks set to miss out of England's next squad. (Guardian), external

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Dan Roan
Sports editor

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A decision on whether to scrap the Premier League's controversial Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) and adopt an "alternative system" is "coming up", says chief executive Richard Masters.

The current regulations, introduced in 2015-16 to prevent clubs from overspending, allow losses of £105m over a three-year reporting cycle.

However, they have been criticised by several top-flight teams for limiting their ability to invest.

BBC Sport has been told a decision on any changes is likely to be made at a meeting in November.

In February, clubs chose to continue with PSR for the current season.

However a squad cost ratio (SCR) system of financial control was adopted by the Premier League on a shadowing, non-binding basis.

SCR is similar to Uefa's existing financial rules and allows clubs to spend up to a percentage of their total revenues on squad-related costs.

Nine of the league's 20 clubs already have to comply with Uefa's SCR as a result of qualifying for Europe. Both Chelsea and Aston Villa were fined by Uefa in July for breaching the rules.

Asked about SCR at the Leaders sports conference in London, Masters said: "We are talking to our clubs about an alternative system. That's not to say we don't think the PSR system works."

He added: "It's about closer alignment with European regulation, which is squad cost ratio, which is a revenue test. In Uefa, it's now set at 70%. Our system will be 85% because we always want our clubs to have the ability to invest.

"The Premier League has been built on the back of investment in which international capital flows [are] coming in. We don't want that to be to be stifled off."

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Everton midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall feels some refereeing decisions are "mind boggling" after receiving a yellow card against West Ham.

The 27-year-old received the booking late in the Toffees' 1-1 draw on Monday for a challenge on West Ham's Kyle Walker-Peters.

However, replays appeared to show Dewsbury-Hall won the ball and the former Chelsea player showed his frustration with the decision to the referee at the time.

With the booking being Dewsbury-Hall's fifth of the season - which included another contentious decision when he received a caution for taking a free-kick too quickly in the Merseyside derby - it means he will miss Everton's next match against Crystal Palace on Sunday.

In a post on X, he said: "Forgive me if I'm wrong, and I might be, but some of these decisions are so hard to take. Mind boggling."

He also reacted to a mid-match image of him where he was showing his anger at the decision on his Instagram, adding: "Sums up my feeling after that. Headloss."

Everton's opening weekend defeat by Leeds United is the only match in which Dewsbury-Hall has not been booked in the Premier League this season.

Blues boss David Moyes described the decision to book Dewsbury-Hall as "ridiculous", adding: "It's not a free-kick, never mind anything else. I can't believe he's got a yellow card for it.

"He's been a great signing and started the season really well for us - getting goals and creating goals. He makes us play much better. We'll miss him [against Palace]."

We asked for your views after Monday night's Premier League 1-1 draw against West Ham.

Here are some of your comments:

Steve: Not sparkling but not poor from Everton. I'll take us being on the same points as Chelsea after six games. It's definitely an improvement on recent seasons, that's for sure.

Tony: Very poor performance from Everton. Getting worse, game by game. Crystal Palace could leather us on Sunday. Nothing positive to say about any player except Michael Keane.

Thomas: With every passing game, our supposed great start to the season starts to feel like a distant memory, and maybe it was a myth to begin with. It felt good to be an Everton fan for maybe five minutes, then we're back to the same old, same old. Another grim season ahead is my prediction.

Alex: This will be the story for us all season. We dominated the game for large parts but we basically play with 10 when our striker options are so poor. The Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall yellow card might be the worst decision of all time too - suspended for the match against Palace now.

Everton manager David Moyes speaking to BBC Sport: "We did a lot of good things but we just couldn't quite craft a chance to get a second goal. Once we didn't get it, West Ham grew in confidence and belief that they could get something themselves, which they did. Some good things and some not so good things."

On expecting a different West Ham under new management: "I don't know about a different West Ham, I just know the capability of the players. Obviously, I have had them before and worked out how good they are. We are talking about Brazil internationals, England internationals so anybody thinking that they haven't got a good team is wrong. They have a very good team and at times they showed it."

On whether Hill Dickinson Stadium is starting to feel more familiar: "Our record here at the moment has been good enough. We want to keep it going. We started the season well. We want to raise expectations but we can't forget that we have a long journey to go and we are just at the start of it."

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Did you know?

• Michael Keane's opener was his 15th Premier League goal for Everton. He is just the second defender to score 15 or more non-penalty goals for the club along with Seamus Coleman (22).

• Jack Grealish has created more chances than any other player in the Premier League this season (17), including four against West Ham.

Listen to Keane speaking to BBC Radio Merseyside

Adam Millington
BBC Sport journalist

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David Moyes' Everton will feel they could have taken three points from this game, but they lacked the cutting edge in front of goal.

West Ham's poor marking in the box allowed Michael Keane the space to score his opener but otherwise the home side could not turn neat football - with Jack Grealish at the heart of it - into clear-cut chances.

The England midfielder was particularly adept at winning fouls - five in total - in dangerous areas and Everton were often threatening from the resulting set-pieces.

They managed 12 shots, six of which hit the target, but few of those did much to test West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola.

The draw means Everton are winless in their past three league games but there was enough spark in this performance to encourage Moyes before a tough home game against in-form Crystal Palace and then a trip to Manchester City.

Whether you were at the game or following from elsewhere, we want to know what you learned.

Have your say on Everton's performance

What did you make of West Ham's display?

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David Moyes names an unchanged Everton side from the team who narrowly lost the Merseyside derby in their last Premier League game on 20 September.

Everton XI: Pickford, Keane, Tarkowski, Beto, Ndiaye, O'Brien, Mykolenko, Grealish, Dewsbury-Hall, Gueye, Garner.

Subs: Travers, Patterson, McNeil, Barry, Dibling, Coleman, Alcaraz, Aznou, Iroegbunam.

Nuno Espirito Santo makes two changes for West Ham in his first match in charge.

James Ward Prowse is not included in the squad, while Callum Wilson drops to the bench.

They are replaced by Soungoutou Magassa and Callum Wilson, who were both among the substitutes for the Hammers' 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace last time out.

West Ham XI: Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Summerville, Paqueta, Fullkrug, Diouf, Mavropanos, Fernandes, Bowen, Magassa.

Subs: Hermansen, Julio, Wilson, Guilherme, Rodriguez, Scarles, Potts, Irving, Marshall.

Briony Bragg
Fan writer

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It has been a difficult week or so.

A loss in the Merseyside derby was hardly surprising, but a disappointment nonetheless given the rally in the second half. An EFL Cup exit was another setback, and possibly the first real test of the fans' resolve against the manager (in this tenure at least).

David Moyes gave a run-out to his fringe players against Wolves, who really should have been able to test the resolve of a team who had not been able to get off the mark with even a point to their name this season.

If it was their chance to prove to the manager they should be in the starting XI, they failed. Squad rotation seemed sensible initially - but, in hindsight, seven changes were just too many for so many players with too little game time.

Moyes cannot govern for the very clear gulf in quality that is now apparent, not immediately at least. The starting XI is now streets ahead of the back-up. And unfortunately, those in the wings didn't reward the faith the manager was willing to put in them to get to the next round.

The wait continues for that illustrious silverware the club so craves. Lack of performance of those players aside, what the cup exit did show is the severe lack of depth in the squad.

But Rome wasn't built in a day, and patience will be key this season.

Momentum has certainly stalled after a very positive start. And momentum is everything in football, so it is key performances improve, and quickly.

The irony here is that a win for former West Ham boss David Moyes, who their fans wanted to get rid of, could end Graham Potter's time in charge of the Hammers.

It's hard to see any other outcome, to be honest. Everton are still short of a goalscoring striker but they have stacks of creativity and should have more than enough chances.

My 606 co-host Roman Kemp described the Hill Dickinson Stadium as a fortress last week. I feel like he went a bit early there, but they should still be too strong for West Ham - I am not sure the Hammers have the stomach for a fight.

Sutton's prediction: 2-0

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Alex Fletcher
BBC Sport journalist

Everton boss David Moyes has been speaking to the media before Monday's Premier League game against West Ham at Hill Dickinson Stadium (kick-off 20:00 BST).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Moyes began his press conference by confirming that Jarrad Branthwaite and Merlin Rohl will not be available on Monday.

• Branthwaite is yet to play this season, but the Everton boss added: "We are expecting Jarrad back shortly but just not quite yet."

• Following a defeat in midweek, Moyes said he has "nobody knocking on my door" when it comes to asking for minutes on the pitch.

• With Everton unbeaten at home, Moyes called the move to the new stadium "a big moment in our history" and believes "everyone has been excited by it".

• When asked about his strikers' lack of goals, Moyes responded: "The team's firing. Maybe Beto and Thierno Barry haven't scored as many as we'd like. I think Beto's got a couple goals, which isn't a bad start."

• He added: "It is my choice and my decision who plays and I pick the people who I think are ready to play and are prepared to play and it is all my decision and nothing to do with them [the players]."

• On the pressure facing West Ham boss Graham Potter: "I never think it is correct when a manager comes under great criticism. Graham Potter is an excellent manager and obviously he is finding it difficult but I have no doubt he'll find success."

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