David Moyes has well and truly banished the away day blues for Everton, now his team just need to find some timely home comforts. Since he returned to the club for a second stint in charge, the Scot has recorded 11 away wins in 22 matches.

As Opta data editor and Evertonian Aaron Barton pointed out on X (formerly Twitter), this is more than Everton managed across their previous 67 away games, a period which includes all of Rafael Benitez, Frank Lampard and Sean Dyche successes on the road combined. EFC Statto (Bradley Cates) observed that the Blues have done the double over two teams now this season, Nottingham Forest and Fulham, both managed by former Everton managers, the aforementioned Dyche and Marco Silva.

Indeed, as he also remarked, the Blues have won back-to-back games at Craven Cottage – a ground where they didn’t triumph for 43 years (until Moyes stopped the rot in 2009, a week before the FA Cup final) – for the first time in their history. A side who had picked up just one away win in the previous 12 months before his arrival – and that was at Ipswich Town who...