Everton's January has just been transformed by most unlikely...

Everton’s January has just been transformed by most unlikely of players

Everton’s January has just been

transformed by most unlikely of Players

This season has involved more of

Joao Virginia’s fingertips than anyone

could have predicted 48 hours ago.

Everton was on the verge of losing the FA

Cup after eight of the nine extra minutes

had already been played at Selhurst

Park. Alert for spoilers: They weren’t.

This was due to Virginia’s ability to

almost reach Eberechi Eze’s low drive at

full stretch and, thanks to those

fingertips, to flick the ball wide of the post.

Whether that becomes a big moment in

this season remains to be seen. But it has

changed the face of January and that is important.

Molineux, the team’s last league match

for over two weeks, had an element of

brutality to it. Everton hadn’t played that

well since losing to Aston Villa in August

amid the summertime warmth. It

resulted in a four-game losing streak and

a table pause, with the club’s position in

the bottom three seemingly forever separated by just one point.

However, if Everton had lost against

Crystal Palace and Virginia had missed

Eze’s attempt that was headed for goal,

the image would have seemed far less

cozy. Five straight losses, a team

eliminated from both cups, an inability

to resolve issues over the improvised

Christmas break, and an unusual

willingness to take initiative in the

transfer market might have made

January a difficult month where things

worsened even while there was

optimism that things would soon become much better.

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