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- .... so our first home match with Crystal Palace in 9 years ends in dreadful disappointment

- and strangely our last 4 defeats have now all been against London teams
- Palace, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham being the perpetrators

- a number of runs came to an end against the Eagles
- it was the end of our 7 match winning run in the Premier League - an Everton record
- it was the end of our 7 match winning run at home in the Prem - that equals an EFC record
- it was the end of our 6 match winning run in all competitions, last achieved in April 1987
- it was the end of our 9 match winning run at home in all comps, last achieved in March 1986

- it was our first 3-2 defeat since Hull away in November 2009
- we've played 206 games since then without it happening
- and it was the first 3-2 reverse at Goodison since Villa managed it in December 2008

- and the 3 Palace goals mean that we have now conceded 2,801 goals at home in our competitive history

- congratulations to Kevin Mirallas on his 50th start for us in the Premier League, by the way

- Kev scored, of course, and that was his 13th goal for us in the Prem
- he's now joint 26th on our Premier League Scoring list
- Steven Naismith's 9th Prem goal moves him to equal 38th on that same chart

- James McCarthy continued his Everton goal drought against Palace
- that's now 30 Prem outings for Everton (27 starts + 3 as a sub) without a goal
- he's in 9th place on our Most Prem Appearances Without Scoring Chart

- Tim Howard has now made 343 appearances for Everton in all competitions
- that puts him 1 ahead of Jack Sharp in 22nd place on our All-Time Appearances list
- Leon Osman leads the way amongst current players in 17th place with 384 EFC games
- Leighton Baines is now on 277 Everton appearances
- and he's in joint 45th place with Howard Kendall, just 1 behind Tim Cahill and 1 ahead of Joe Royle

- in the Premier League, Sylvain Distin has now made 153 Everton starts
- that puts him level with Lee Carsley in 17th place on our All-Time Prem Starts list
- Tim Howard heads that list with 293 EFC Premier League starts

- Leon Osman's late introduction against Palace was his 40th sub game for us in the Prem
- and it was his 50th substitute appearance for us in all competitions
- Ossie is now in 6th place on his own on our All-Time Sub Appearances list
- he's 1 ahead of James Vaughan and 7 behind Stuart Barlow
- Steven Naismith is up to 11th on that same list

- it's Man Ud at home next on April 20th
- it'll be our 170th League meeting with them home and away

- we've played ManYoo just once before on that date - and what a game!
- it was the 1-0 Goodison win in April 2005 with Big Dunc's winner helping us to 4th place that season

- that was our last April 20th win
- our last outing ended in a 1-0 defeat at Sunderland last season

- we've had a number of other notable games on April 20th in the past

- in 1907 we lost the FA Cup Final 2-1 against Sheffield Wednesday
- in 1963 Alex Young's header earned us a 1-0 home win over Spurs in what was, in effect, the title decider
- in 1985 we won 2-0 at Stoke, our 6th win in succession as we closed in on the Division 1 crown
- and in 1987 Wayne Clarke's hat-trick in a 3-0 win against Newcastle kept us on course for another title

- we beat Man Utd, of course, in our last encounter - courtesy of Oviedo, baby back in December!
- we also won on their last visit to Goodison, 1-0 in last season's August opener

- indeed we have a 2-2-1 record against them in our last 5 Goodison Park meetings
- and a win this time would be our 40th against them at home in all League encounters

- however, overall in the Premier League we are terrible against against Man Utd!
- in all Premier League games, home and away, we have a Worse Record Against Them than against anyone!
- and the same is true at Goodison - they are Our Least Favourite Prem Visitors!

- the match is of course on Easter Sunday - so Happy Easter everyone!
- we've won 2 and drawn 1 of our last 3 Easter Matches
- at Goodison our record is 3-2-0 in the last 5 Easter games

- Roberto Martinez has been in charge of us now for 40 matches in all competitions
- the returning David Moyes, on the other hand, was our boss for 518 games
- that's bettered only by Harry Catterick (592) and Howard Kendall (542 in total in his 3 spells in charge)

- Roberto's record in his 40 games is W23 D9 L8 F70 A42
- Moyesy's first 40 Everton games brought this record: W18 D8 L14 F61 A63

- a win would be our 20th in the League this season, which would be our Premier League record
- beating the 19 we managed in 2007/08
- it would also be the most since the 26 we racked up in our last title-winning season in 1986/87
- we played 42 League games in that campaign

- it would also be our 13th at home in the League this season, also a Premier League record for us
- and it would be the best since the 14 we achieved in 1989/90

- a win would also take us to 69 points in the League this season
- the 66 that we currently have is our best ever total in the Premier League
- and it's our best since the 70 we managed in 1987/88 - which was a 40 game League season

- 2 goals scored would take us to 36 at home in the League this season
- that would equal our Premier League best, a total we last achieved in 1999/00

- 3 goals scored would take us to 4,400 at home in our League history
- however, 2 conceded would be 6,000 against us home and away in all Top Flight matches ......