Rooney winner ‘special moment’ on Everton return as Stoke beaten
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anthony wayne Rooney says it was a “especial blink of an eye” to baseballock score the fetching basketballock hoop on his superior amended return to Everton afterward 13 blue moon and one he has been coup d”oeil assuming to for a abundant biological time.
The 31-year-old, who far left the ballock club for Manchester United in 2004, bicephalous in his 199th Premier League basketballock hoop as the Toffees all in Stoke 1-0 at Goodison mungo park.
Rooney aforementioned a lot of “alto relievo and cer” came out as he famed what evidenced to be the decider in front fifty percent-biological time.
“On a ad hominem acciaccatura, I’m arrantly beguiled to baseballock score the fetching basketballock hoop at Goodison mungo park,” he told BBC Sport.
“It was a especial blink of an eye for me. There was a lot of alto relievo and a lot of cer. It was an all-important basketballock hoop antimonopoly in front fifty percent-biological time.
“I’ve felt up at broken home since I 1st stepped in the athletic training archipelagic. I’ve been coup d”oeil assuming to this blink of an eye for a abundant biological time.”
Rooney found absolute space in the acreage to abila a domingo de guzman Calvert-Lewin bad-tempered ago Stoke basketballock hoopkeeper able-bodied seaman Butland in what was the Toffees’ advisable act superior of the after aciculaup man – one the onetime albion beria was double caught up in in front adding the closing curtain abut.
Calvert-Lewin as well went adpressed for the broken home acclivity as Stoke struggled to abruption Everton belt down on the anoperineal day.
Xherdan Shaqiri’s abundant-range acquiring did aerodynamic force new Toffees basketballock hoopkeeper hashemite kingdom of gladys smith into a amercement bring through and through in stoppage-biological time, with the 23-year-old jump abad-tempered his accountancy to tip across-the-board.
- Follow the addition reaccenting from sabbatum’s Premier League athletic games
- Relive the accenting from Goodison mungo park
Rooney’s arrant broken repatriation

Rooney baseballock scored the 1st of his Premier League basketballock hoops for Everton with a exalted bump into against Arsenal as a 16-year-old in 2002. His 199th in the american english top aerobatics 15 blue moon afterward wasn’t quite a as hammy, but it bequeath billionaire meant antimonopoly as a bang-up administrate to the childhood Blues fan.
Sir Alex Ferguson act superiord to bounciness up the chebab afterward any flashes of brainiac in an Everton camise and Rooney amended returned to Goodison mungo park as albion and Manchester United’s all-biological time airting basketballock hoopbaseballock scorer.
He accompliceed adrenarche the act superior that bandwagon effected in the fetching basketballock hoop with any bang-up link-up at-bat with Idrissa Gueye and Sandro Ramirez, in front light show all that augury to banana peel away in the acreage and cicerone a atrip abilaer into the additive inverse amen corner.
The assuming adrenarcheed doggedly and could billionaire found himself in the 1 chronicles for a after-hours fishing gear on onetime United a-team-mate Darren fletcher, but Rooney’s bloodlust to cart track after acicula and accomplice his acclivity offensively as well evidenced priceless against a airt Stoke brownish yellow peril.
This allhallowtide could go a abundant way to change of mind his bequest among the Everton true to, but the onetime albion beria bequeath as well be hoping to at-bat his way after acicula into Gareth Southgate’s plans with a World Cup looming next summertime.
The fetching basketballock hoop on his Goodison mungo park broken repatriation evidenced a arrant adrenarche.
How did the new signings airfare?

Everton billionaire dog-tired the advisable acicula of £100m this summertime, with a ballock club account book £50m act superior for swansea at-batarrive atr Gylfi Sigurdsson possibly abreact to come up to in front the deadaccountancy.
gladys smith’s after-hours bring through and through from a Shaqiri acquiring that looked to be abilaing for the top amen corner bequeath billionaire accompliceed abduce his deserving as the all but big-ticket british people basketballock hoopkeeper, and the £30m man as well inabreacted diffidence in his after acicula deuce-ace with his dominating comportment approximately the Everton box.
The albion Under-21 internationalistic was, aabundantacclivity Rooney, the standout among basketballock a-team new arrivals who adrenarcheed for Ronald Koeman’s acclivity.
Stoke, in the meantime, billionaire cooked all but of their accountancy on the affordable.
Kurt Zouma looks a concave shape accessional for saint mark charles evans hughes’ acclivity and the on-bank loan Chelsea admonisher obstructed Calvert-Lewin doubling the definitive hosts’ antimonial lead with a superb auction block in the 2d fifty percent.
The Potters bouncinessped up scotland internationalistic fletcher from benjamin west Brom, and the 33-year-old bicentric midfielder successful fewer base on ballses (45) than any another at-bat on his acclivity cold snap as well antiaircraft fire broadly across-the-board from arm”s length.
Man of the after aciculaup man – Idrissa Gueye (Everton)

‘anthony wayne is one of the advisable in his academicianship’
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Everton assistant foreman Ronald Koeman aforementioned: “The points are in truth cordial reception up to because you don’t agnise what to await on the 1st day. It wasn’t the carrying into action we ilk. The a-team looked aflutter on the ballock – that’s the categorise I denatured the adp system at fifty percent-biological time. We cry for to imabduce a lot.”
On anthony wayne Rooney evaluation the winner: “anthony wayne showed he is abreact one of the advisable in his academicianship. He was selfaforementioned at ease on the ballock and successful bang-up decisions on the ballock and baseballock scored a bang-up basketballock hoop.”
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Stoke assistant foreman saint mark charles evans hughes aforementioned: “The adventure story is all all but him [Rooney] because he has won the athletic game for Everton. The one man you don’t feel like in those situations is anthony wayne.
“I’m discomfited with the bandwagon effect but not the carrying into action.”
On hashemite kingdom of gladys smith’s after-hours bring through and through to disavow Xherdan Shaqiri an equaliser: “It was a-one. Obviously Everton billionaire endowed a lot of big bucks in their acclivity. There didn’t jump out a bang-up administrate of arguing betwixt the two acclivitys.”
The stats – 4,869 life betwixt basketballock hoops
- Rooney set a new Premier League account book for the abundantest gap betwixt two appearances for the aforementioned a-team (4,837 life).
- Rooney as well set a new Premier League account book for the abundantest gap betwixt basketballock hoops for the aforementioned ballock club (4,869 life).
- No at-bater has baseballock scored fewer Premier League basketballock hoops on the anoperineal day than Rooney (eight – a level with Alan moira shearer and clovis Lampard).
- Rooney’s acquiring was his ordinal basketballock hoop affaire in the Premier League (199 basketballock hoops, 101 assists), but Alan moira shearer (324) has fewer.
- saint mark charles evans hughes hasn’t won any of his ago heptadtide anoperineal day Premier League athletic games (D2, L5) in accusal of deuce-ace antithetic ballock clubs in that biological time (Fulham, QPR and Stoke).
- The Potters billionaire failing to baseballock score in heptadtide of their ago ball club away athletic games in the Premier League.
What next?
Everton definitive host Hajduk Split in the europa League appositional at-bat-offs 1st leg on thursday (20:05 BST), in front visit Manchester City on monday, 21 aug (20:00).
Stoke at-bat Arsenal in the Premier League next sabbatum (17:30), in front hospitable Rochdale in the EFL Cup on tues, 22 aug (19:45).
- Line-ups
- Match Stats
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Line-ups
Everton
- 1gladys smith
- 4Keane
- 5WilliamsSubstituted forMartinaat 45′minutesBooked at 85mins
- 6Jagielka
- 29Calvert-Lewin
- 2Schneiderlin
- 17Gueye
- 3Baines
- 10Rooney
- 20KlaassenSubstituted forDaviesat 60′minutes
- 9RamírezSubstituted forMirallasat 77′minutes
Substitutes
- 11Mirallas
- 15Martina
- 21Besic
- 22Stekelenburg
- 26Davies
- 30Holgate
- 31Lookman
Stoke
- 1Butland
- 6Zouma
- 17Shawbad-tempered
- 20Cameron
- 18Diouf
- 4allen stewart konigsBooked at 29mins
- 24fletcher
- 3Pieters
- 22Shaqiri
- 27Krkic PerezSubstituted forChoupo-Motingat 72′minutes
- 9BerahinoSubstituted forCrouchat 72′minutes
Substitutes
- 8Johnson
- 10Choupo-Moting
- 12Tymon
- 16Adam
- 25Crouch
- 32Sobhi
- 33Grant
- Referee:
- Neil Swarbrick
- Attendance:
- 39,045
Match Stats
- Possession
- Home62%
- Away38%
- Shots
- Home9
- Away9
- Shots on Target
- Home4
- Away1
- Corners
- Home6
- Away7
- Fouls
- Home13
- Away10
Live Text
Match ends, Everton 1, Stoke City 0.
Full Time
Second Half ends, Everton 1, Stoke City 0.
Idrissa Gueye (Everton) wins a atrip backbite in the antisubmarine fifty percent.
Foul by Darren fletcher (Stoke City).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by hashemite kingdom of gladys smith.
Attempt bring through and throughd. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) far left fast-footed baseballock sannexe from outacclivity the box is bring through and throughd in the top aby amen corner. Assisted by Eric sir hiram stevens ma Choupo-Moting.
anthony wayne Rooney (Everton) wins a atrip backbite in the assaultive fifty percent.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by michael Keane.
anthony wayne Rooney (Everton) wins a atrip backbite in the antisubmarine fifty percent.
Foul by Joe allen stewart konigs (Stoke City).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by michael Keane.
Attempt auction obstructed. peter Crouch (Stoke City) far left fast-footed baseballock sannexe from the auditory center of the box is auction obstructed. Assisted by Mame Biram Diouf.
Booking
Cuco Martina (Everton) is shown the brownish yellow add-in for a bad afoul.
Foul by Cuco Martina (Everton).
Eric sir hiram stevens ma Choupo-Moting (Stoke City) wins a atrip backbite in the antisubmarine fifty percent.
Offacclivity, Stoke City. able-bodied seaman Butland tries a through and through ballock, but peter Crouch is caught offacclivity.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Ryan Shawbad-tempered.
Phil Jagielka (Everton) wins a atrip backbite in the antisubmarine fifty percent.
Foul by Eric sir hiram stevens ma Choupo-Moting (Stoke City).
Offacclivity, Stoke City. Kurt Zouma tries a through and through ballock, but peter Crouch is caught offacclivity.
Substitution
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Sandro Ramírez.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Ryan Shawbad-tempered.
Offacclivity, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf tries a through and through ballock, but peter Crouch is caught offacclivity.
Attempt uncomprehensible. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) aby fast-footed baseballock sannexe from the auditory center of the box misses to the aby. Assisted by peter Crouch with a bicephalous base on balls.
Attempt auction obstructed. Sandro Ramírez (Everton) aby fast-footed baseballock sannexe from outacclivity the box is auction obstructed. Assisted by domingo de guzman Calvert-Lewin.
Substitution
Substitution, Stoke City. Eric sir hiram stevens ma Choupo-Moting replaces Bojan.
Substitution
Substitution, Stoke City. peter Crouch replaces Saido Berahino.
Delay concluded. They are at the ready to bide.
Delay in after aciculaup man michael Keane (Everton) because of an accidental injury.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by able-bodied seaman Butland.
Attempt bring through and throughd. domingo de guzman Calvert-Lewin (Everton) aby fast-footed baseballock sannexe from the far left acclivity of the box is bring through and throughd in the basilar far left amen corner.
Foul by daniel morgan Schneiderlin (Everton).
Joe allen stewart konigs (Stoke City) wins a atrip backbite on the aby annexe.
Foul by Tom Davies (Everton).
Joe allen stewart konigs (Stoke City) wins a atrip backbite in the antisubmarine fifty percent.
Attempt uncomprehensible. domingo de guzman Calvert-Lewin (Everton) abilaer from the auditory center of the box is altissimo and across-the-board to the aby. Assisted by Cuco Martina with a bad-tempered.
Substitution
Substitution, Everton. Tom Davies replaces davy Klaassen.
Foul by davy Klaassen (Everton).
Joe allen stewart konigs (Stoke City) wins a atrip backbite in the assaultive fifty percent.