Seamus Coleman's Everton return summed by what Eddie Howe did to Anthony Gordon

In the first 10 minutes of his first game in seven months, Seamus Coleman had burst forward inside of right winger Ashley Young and had also attempted to overlap him.

As he ran back from one of those charges he gave Anthony Gordon a little low-five. Gordon may have hoped for a game against tired legs adjusting back to life in competitive football. Minutes into the match it was clear the Blues academy graduate, who learned his trade on the wing by playing one of the Premier League’s greatest full-backs in training, would have to run in both directions.

When Martin Dubravka lined up a goal kick, Coleman stood off Gordon but watched him intently, turning to check the 22-year-old’s location not once or twice, but seven or eight times across a handful of seconds. When Miguel Almiron dinked a cross to the back post 60 seconds in, the goal was gaping for Gordon to tap in his seventh goal of the season for Newcastle United. But Coleman was there, in the perfect position, to nod clear.

By the 23rd minute, Eddie Howe was forced into action. One of the league’s in-form attackers was shackled by the 35-year-old making his comeback. Gordon was moved to other wing - where he stayed until the dying minutes, when Vitalii Mykolenko left him chasing shadows in the 29-pass move that led to Beto’s glorious goal - Everton’s third. “I’m pleased for him,” Sean Dyche said of Coleman's comeback after the game. “I know what a fantastic professional he is.”

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