Great day, journey smooth, parked on a drive where the owner was a red, so he wished us well. Walking through Stanley Park nicejovial exchange with the locals (I have found Scousers do live up to their reputation of being friendly people). Wasn't in town, but did see Clive & Danny's Dad near the fanzone. Fanzoe was excellent, good PA announcer and a quiz with half the questions on the Imps.
Massive queue to get in the ground, think were caught out a bit, but anyway in safely and decent view in upper tier (see a few others didn't).
On to the game, started tentatively, think we had a plan but gave too much respect, a shot just over in the 1st minute and 2 down you start to wonder. But whether we changed tactics or grew n confidence got back in the game, good spell of pressure and pulled the goal back.
2nd half, Everton had more territory but didn't look anywhere near as threatening as 1st 20 minutes. It was great to hear closing stages, Imps fans roaring the team on to get an equaliser & Everton looking for the whistle. Why oh why didn't McCartan put that final corner on to Rheady's head, the stage was set ! For minute 15-90 to win that section 1-0 was incredible. Showed by Silva making two subs at half time and I bet he didn't want to use Richarlison.
Everybody played their part, but special mentions for O'Connor who I thought was immense in midfield and Bossie, who made a couple of tackles n the 2nd half that Trevor Peake would have been proud of, and I can't give higher praise than that !