Knowing that realistically they needed a win at Crystal Palace to keep their European qualification hopes alive, Everton were left desperately disappointed by twice relinquishing a lead against Crystal Palace to draw 2-2 at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n
When speaking to this correspondent in Chicago last July during the Premier League Summer Series, Blues boss David Moyes said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to use the word dream, but I\u2019ve got an ambition to see if I can get Everton back towards European football.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I think I have to make my first target. There are nine teams from the Premier League in Europe next season and somehow, we have to give ourselves some goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could be shooting way above the level, but I feel like I have to shoot high because I\u2019ll not be around doing this for another 10 years and I don\u2019t expect to be. I just want to be able to leave Everton in a good place, whenever that time comes.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Blues weren\u2019t ultimately shooting above the level and they\u2019re still not mathematically out of the hunt, this always felt like it was a must-win game for them and although there was no stoppage time heartbreak for a fourth straight match, having got their noses in front twice, the disappointment is huge again despite this being a performance to take several positives from again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knowing that realistically they needed a win at Crystal Palace to keep their European qualification hopes alive, Everton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,40976,27031,8999,596,202189,85],"class_list":["post-662151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barclays-premier-league","tag-crystal-palace-fc","tag-everton-fc","tag-football","tag-football-blog","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}