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- ... I'll leave the Mirallas-Baines-Besic-Martinez deconstruction to others

- suffice it to say, it's now 8 games without a win, home and away (W0 D4 L4) in all competitions
- and we haven't managed that since October 2008
- in just Prem games it's now a 6 match run without a victory (W0 D2 L4) for the first time since Dec 2010

- we've won just 1 of our last 13 matches, home and away - W1 D5 L7
- and at home, we've won 0 of our last 4 (W0 D3 L1) and just 1 of the last 7 (W1 D4 L2)

- if we want a glimmer of positivity we could argue that we're also unbeaten in 4 games, 3 at home!
- however they've all been draws
- the last time we drew 4 in a row was in November 2012
- the last time we drew 3 in succession at Goodison was back in October 2009

- at least we kept a clean sheet!
- that ended a run of 12 games without one

- incidentally, Michael Oliver has now awarded us a penalty in each of his last 5 trips to Goodison
- shame the ex-Super Kev couldn't convert it - he'd scored in both of our previous games with West Brom

- the last Premier League penalty we missed at home, by the way, was back in March 2010
- on that occasion Hull's Boaz Myhill saved from the Yak - we still won 5-1, though!

- it was our 150th League meeting with the Baggies
- and we've now had 2 successive 0-0's with them at Goodison

- the draw was also the 250th in our Premier League history, home and away
- and it came in Roberto's 60th League match in charge of us, the 30th at Goodison
- and in the 100th home Premier League game to be shown live on UK TV

- strangely, our last 4 games have produced no goals for either side in the first half
- the last time that happened was in February 2008, when the sequence stretched to 5 matches

- Leighton Baines made his 307th Everton appearance against West Brom
- he's in 32nd place on our All-Time Appearances list, 1 behind Adrian Heath & Warney Cresswell
- Phil Jagielka is level with Alex Young & Duncan Ferguson on 273 games in 49th position on that list

- in League games, Bainesy is up to 252 appearances for us
- he's 39th now on our All-Time League Appearances chart, 1 ahead of 1900's keeper Billy Scott
- Jags is in equal 53rd place on that chart on 226 with Tim Cahill and Adrian Heath

- in the Prem, Jags & Tim's 226 games put them level in 9th place on our All-Time Prem Appearances list
- elsewhere on that chart, Seamus Coleman is now joint 23rd with Graham Stuart on 136
- Kevin Mirallas is level in 53rd with Don Hutchison on 75
- Ross Barkley has joined Stuart Barlow in 61st place on 62, and
- Gareth Barry is now equal with Andrei Kanchelskis, Ian Snodin & Joe-Max Moore on 52 in 75th place

- looking at starts, Leighton Baines is now on 289 for us in all competitions
- he's in joint 40th place with Billy Scott on our All-Time Starts list
- Phil Jagielka is level with Tim Cahill on 256 in joint 53rd place on that list
- Ross Barkley incidentally made his 50th start for us in all games in the West Brom encounter

- in the Prem, Bainesy's 238 starts for us put him into 5th place alone on our All-Time Prem Starts chart
- he's now started 1 more Premier League game for us than Phil Neville managed
- Seamus Coleman is on 117 on that list, just 1 behind Barry Horne and in 25th position
- Gareth Barry has joined Andy Johnson, John Collins & Andrei Kanchelskis on 52 in joint 57th place
- Steven Naismith is now level with Francis Jeffers on 42 in equal 71st place, and
- Ross Barkley is on 41, the same as Nikica Jelavic, in joint 73rd position

- John Stones still hasn't scored for us!
- that's 29 goalless games now in the Premier League
- only 8 players have 'bettered' ('worsted'?!) that for us in the past

- and so on to Crystal Palace away on January 31st
- it will be our 30th League meeting with them, the 15th at their ground

- we've never played Palace on that date before
- but we won on our last Jan 31 outing - 1-0 at home to Man City in 2012, courtesy of Darron Gibson's goal
- that's our only win in our last 6 matches on that date - a W1 D4 L1 record
- strangely, we've never won an away game on January 31st - 5 trips have produced this record: W0 D3 L2

- we've lost both of our most recent meetings with the Eagles - both at Goodison, both 2-3
- and home and away, we haven't beaten Palace in our last 3 encounters - W0 D1 L2

- at their place, things look slightly brighter
- we drew 0-0 there on our last visit in November 2013
- and we have a W2 D1 L0 record in our last 3 trips
- our last win at Palace was 3-1 in August 2004

- our full Premier League record at Palace is W3 D1 L1
- that makes them our 3rd favourite away opponents in the Prem!
- compare that to our home Premier League record with them, which is W2 D0 L4
- that makes them our 5th least favourite home opponents in the Prem!

- a draw this time around would be our 5th in succession, home and away in all competitions
- that would equal the club record, something we've managed 3 times in the past
- the last time was back in May 1977

- a defeat would be our 6th on the run in away Premier League games
- our current sequence of 5 equals our 2nd worst run - the worst is 8 from April to October 1994