‘To all the Evertonians for making me feel so welcome’ – Grealish pays tribute to Everton fans after first goal for club | OneFootball

Jack Grealish dedicated his match winner against Crystal Palace to “all the Evertonians for making me feel so welcome”.

Grealish scored in the 93rd minute to hand the Toffees a 2-1 victory, ending Crystal Palace’s long unbeaten run of 19 games.

“It’s brilliant,” Grealish told Sky Sports on his first Everton goal. “It’s so nice to score here.

“Do you know what’s mad? The last games we’ve played here we’ve been drawing and I keep saying to myself in the 85th minute, ‘Come on Jack, go and score. Imagine if you scored now’. I did it against Villa, I did it against West Ham, and I didn’t score, so today I actually said the same thing again and I scored and I ran to where my mum and dad were, so it was nice.

“That goal goes to all the Evertonians for making me feel so welcome here.”

Grealish also says he is not fussed by the scruffiness of his goal.

“I had two proper shots, I don’t know if you can count the goal as a shot,” he said.

“I said I want to get in those positions more and the manager actually said it to me at half-time, try and get in at the back post and I was there and the goals come from that, so I have the manager to thank for that.

“That’s what you want to do as a winger, I have one goal and four assists that’s what I want to do. It was difficult to do that today against such a good team.”