{"id":103643,"date":"2025-08-30T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103643\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:38:07","slug":"jack-grealish-inspires-improving-everton-to-thrilling-win-at-wolves-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103643\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Grealish inspires improving Everton to thrilling win at Wolves | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

The star quality that made Jack Grealish\u2019s reputation is still present and correct. Four years with Pep Guardiola failed to curb the edges. At Everton<\/a>, the maverick for whom the thrill seemed gone despite winning the lot at Manchester City is rolling back to happier times.<\/p>\n

Molineux staged a masterclass from the former boy wonder who wears the Everton No 18 shirt once worn by Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Tyler Dibling, Everton\u2019s teenage new signing, a player of similar skill set and physical capabilities, an unused sub here, should learn plenty from Grealish, 30 next month, entering veteran status. With Iliman Ndiaye and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, his two willing creative partners, on the scoresheet, Everton, so long a grim sight to behold, were a pleasure to watch.<\/p>\n

David Moyes has his old-school reputation but will indulge free spirits in return for work ethic. \u201cHe is even better than I thought,\u201d he said of Grealish. \u201cBut it is all about Jack, not me. He probably needs a bit of love and attention. He needs the games as well. Footballers need games. He\u2019s got something to prove, I\u2019m sure, I think we all have in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moyes was, though, less impressed with his team\u2019s defending to let Wolves back into the contest. \u201cUnlike us,\u201d he said, recognising that turning the dial to attack has its effect at the other end. \u201cA bit scary near the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the seventh minute of Grealish\u2019s third game for Everton, his second Premier League<\/a> start, he had surpassed the last two seasons\u2019 total of City assists. To follow two against Brighton, Grealish\u2019s nod of a Mykolenko cross supplied Beto\u2019s header. Within 163 minutes of football for Everton, when Dewsbury-Hall scored Everton\u2019s third, he had reached four, the second-most of any Evertonian since the beginning of last season. He had also made the key pass in his team\u2019s second.<\/p>\n

Wolves\u2019s equaliser came against the run of play, lifting already flagging home spirits. Hwang Hee-chan\u2019s finish was precise, belying a run of form that has led to V\u00edtor Pereira\u2019s recent public defence of the Korean. The home fans sang Pereira\u2019s name instead. This time last season, amid a similar run, predecessor Gary O\u2019Neil was being barracked. \u201cThe conversation I had with my team was tactical maturity,\u201d said Pereira. \u201cWe didn\u2019t learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

V\u00edtor Pereira and his disappointed Wolves players at the final whistle. Photograph: David Klein\/Reuters<\/p>\n

J\u00f8rgen Strand Larsen was absent, through injury according to Pereira. Wolves intend to keep the Norwegian. Good strikers are hard to come by and Wolves will need much more besides. \u201cWe need at least two more players, especially in attack,\u201d said Pereira, hopeful of more arrivals by Tuesday.<\/p>\n

For Everton\u2019s second, Grealish linked with Dewsbury-Hall with a disguised, slipped pass before Ndiaye slotted in: School of Science stuff. \u201cThey are both fantastic lads,\u201d said Dewsbury-Hall. \u201cEveryone knows Jack is quality but Ili is a top player.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Beto, Everton\u2019s awkward No 9, is pulling slick dummies it suggests a forward line full of confidence. In midfield, Idrissa Gueye was breaking up play while Grealish, dropping back, was winning back the ball and buying fouls to kill Wolves momentum. \u201cThey\u2019re just away from the biggest clubs and you see the winners they are,\u201d said an approving Moyes of Grealish and Dewsbury-Hall, signed from Chelsea, for their more prosaic work. Hard yards put in, time for another assist. Grealish dabbed the ball inside for Dewsbury Hall\u2019s left-foot finish.<\/p>\n

In the home end, rebellion. \u201cBack the team or sell the club\u201d sounded the chant. The days when the owners, Fosun International, made Wolves a destination for high-end talent appear long past. Pereira, who rescued the club last season, is struggling with a thin squad, Wolves pointless after three matches. \u201cIt will be a tough, tough, tough season for sure,\u201d said Pereira. \u201cBut we will play better. Today we were not the team we wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolves at least showed purpose after Rodrigo Gomes set up the last 10 minutes with a volleyed goal. To stem the flow, Grealish revived the ball-retention role fulfilled at City until departing to a standing ovation. Jordan Pickford, Everton\u2019s saviour the last few years, finished the job, saving well from Jean-Ricner Bellegarde. Rodrigo\u2019s miss of the rebound sent Wolves fans grumbling home. Meanwhile, the new people\u2019s champion at Merseyside\u2019s people\u2019s club, Grealish, was happily joining the post-match celebrations with his new admirers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star quality that made Jack Grealish\u2019s reputation is still present and correct. Four years with Pep Guardiola…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-103643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}