Jack Grealish was told to get into more scoring positions by David Moyes before the Crystal Palace clash, and he did so to great effect
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Jack Grealish scored Everton's late winner(Image: Sky Sports)
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A jubilant Jack Grealish hailed Everton supporters for making him feel so welcome at the club after his stoppage time goal beat Crystal Palace.
Grealish was in the right place to divert home an attempted clearance from Daniel Munoz to win the game for the Blues in stoppage time, after Iliman Ndiaye's penalty had earlier cancelled out Munoz's first half goal.
David Moyes had told Grealish he needed to shoot more before the match, and the Blues boss reiterated that message again at half-time, with Grealish also reminding himself that he needed to get into more scoring positions.
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Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Grealish said: "I had two proper shots, I don't know if you can count the goal as a shot. I said I want to get in those positions more and the manager actually said it to me at half-time, try and get in at the back post and I was there and the goals come from that, so I have the manager to thank for that."
Grealish, who was named man of the match, went on to praise his new home fans for making him feel so welcome after his summer loan move from Manchester City, although he admitted he felt that the man of the match award should have gone to Crystal Palace's Adam Wharton.
"It's brilliant. It's so nice to score here," said Grealish. "Do you know what's mad? The last games we've played here we've been drawing and I keep saying to myself in the 85th minute, 'Come on Jack, go and score. Imagine if you scored now'.
"I did it against Villa, I did it against West Ham and I didn't score, so today I actually said the same thing again and I scored and I ran to where my mum and dad were, so it was nice. That goal goes to all the Evertonians for making me feel so welcome here.
"That's what you want to do as a winger, I have one goal and four assists that's what I want to do. It was difficult to do that today against such a good team.
"They have some unbelievable players. I think Adam Wharton today, I can see the Man of the Match award there, I think it's coming to me but I think it should go to Adam Wharton because, in my opinion, he was the best player on the pitch today."