Jack Grealish Shares Inspirational Message That Led to His Unexpected Everton Winner and Heartfelt Celebration

Table of Contents

• Grealish's Flukey Winner
• First Goal for Everton
• Thanks to the Manager
• Match Summary
• Player Reactions

JACK GREALISH scored a fortunate last-minute winner for Everton and quipped: “You can’t even consider that a shot!”

The £100 million player netted his first goal for the Toffees since his loan from .

Jack Grealish scores Everton’s 93rd-minute winner Grealish, 30, celebrates scoring his first goal for the Toffees

However, it was a stroke of luck as the goalkeeper saved Beto’s close-range header, only for Daniel Munoz's clearance to deflect and fly into the net.

Grealish, 30, remarked: “I had two proper shots. I don’t know if you can count that goal as a shot!”

“But I mentioned I wanted to get into those positions more, and the manager told me at half-time to try to get to the back post.”

“I was there, and the goal resulted from that, so I owe my thanks to the manager. It’s fantastic to score here, and you know what’s crazy? In the last games we've played here, we’ve been drawing, and I kept telling 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 , but I didn’t score, so today I thought the same thing again… and I actually scored.”

“I ran to where my mum and dad were; it was so special. That goal is for all Evertonians for making me feel so welcomed here.”

Grealish secured an unexpected victory for David Moyes’ team when he struck three minutes into stoppage time, ending Crystal Palace’s club-record 19-match unbeaten streak.

Moyes stated: “When you need goals, you’ll take anything. Centre forwards will tell you, it doesn’t really matter how you get them.”

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“I’m happy for Jack because he’s been a tremendous help since he joined us.”

came from behind to defeat Palace, with Grealish adding to Iliman Ndaye’s penalty in the 76th minute after Daniel Munoz had given the Eagles a first-half lead.

They squandered several golden opportunities, and Palace manager Oliver Glasner expressed: “We’re very disappointed with the result, definitely, because for 60-70 minutes we played exceptionally well, it was a top, top performance.”

“We could have easily been up 3-0, but then we made one mistake in defense, leading to a penalty and it was 1-1, making it an open game again.”

“It hurts a lot today because I think our last defeat was in April, but perhaps we need this disappointment to feel the pain and take the next step forward.”

Grealish added: “We started the game poorly, and the first half was dreadful.”

“I think the lads would agree; it’s easily the worst we’ve played this season, but we regrouped at half-time and had a discussion.”

“In the second half, we were brilliant because it’s tough to play against a team that has so many games unbeaten, so this is a good win.”

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