Everton get much-needed lift at Cardiff thanks to Gylfi Sigurdsson’s double

Marco Silva had acknowledged that he was in effect on trial as head coach given Everton’s alarming recent slide and, while his side did not exactly pass this test with flying colours, in the end they comfortably ousted Cardiff courtesy of an ice-cool double by Gylfi Sigurdsson and a stoppage-time strike by Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

It is almost three years since the majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, acquired his first stake and, though a first victory in four matches lifts the immediate doom and gloom around Silva, the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on Sunday will provide a clearer marker of the progress of a team into which the British-Iranian billionaire has pumped in excess of £300m.

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