Deflections, mishit shots and going for gold when a point was enough

Everton 2 Cardiff 1

ok, our goal wasn't clean either

I didn’t expect Cardiff to get points from this game, who did? But we were drawing 1-1 until the 93rd minute of the game. Just 60 seconds left. Just 60 long seconds, a lifetime of anxiety. So when the Gods see you down they give you a good kicking.

We lost to two scrappy goals, a deflection taking it out of Marshall’s reach for their first and a mishit shot from Coleman that span and twisted over everyone.

When will Cardiff get a deflected goal? Or a mishit goal? Any goal that comes from good fortune? Ok I know the answer to that. We won't, just like we are going to go a season in the Premiership without being awarded a penalty.

Even West Brom win. It pushes Swansea into the mire at the foot of the table. Yet it would have been better for us if the Swans had got a result here and kept West Brom at our level.

Solskjaer is mister tinkerer. He changes the entire formation within the first twenty minutes, swapping full backs and it works. The players swap and effortlessly drop into their new positions. Kudos to the players and coaches.

But with a point as precious to us as a Premiership win to some other clubs surely when we are drawing we do not swap a fullback for an out and out striker? But we did and it did actually put Everton under pressure in the last few minutes before they fluked their winner. Had we not gone for the win would we be driving home with a point in the bag? Who knows?

I don’t see us getting much from Liverpool next week either. But we are going to play all the teams around us in the next few weeks, that is when winning games will keep us up. Please don’t let us need a draw against Chelsea on our last day.