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In front of tens of the league’s greatest players and a sad, scarf-waving group, Everton bid farewell to Goodison Park, their house of 133 times.
Iliman Ndiaye will be remembered as Everton’s top scorer in their ambient, long-standing stadium in England, with the Senegal forth scoring both goals in the opening quarter and walking away with the complement ball on a time that turned into a celebration for the player’s fans.
Ndiaye characterized it as “very special.” ” I wanted to give them everything today.”
For the start of the new year, Everton will shift from one of English sport’s traditional stadiums to a 53, 000-seat shoreline arena close to Bramley-Moore Dock.
Goodison Park was going to be destroyed, but a feasibility study revealed that it will remain in the women’s activity as Everton Women’s fresh home starting next year.
Before start, fans gathered around the sidewalks outside Goodison and smelt orange dust. About 80 former Everton players were invited to the game at the ground some refer to as the” Grand Old Lady” including Wayne Rooney and Tim Cahill.
As the team’s adopted pre-match anthem, the topic from Z-Cars, a British TV series from across the 1960s and 1970s, played around Goodison to welcome the groups emerging from the hole in a lake of azure, some supporters were in tears and some swung their scarves above the heads.
When Ndiaye curled a left-foot shot into the bottom corner of the 2791st Everton game there in the sixth minute, the party really got going.
In the second minute of stoppage time in the first half, he rounded Southampton goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale for his second, which Everton claimed was the 5372nd goal on the ground.
After the final whistle, fans hugged one another and cried out in relief.
Jordan Pickford, the goalkeeper for Everton, declared,” We’ll go down in history as the last team to win at Goodison.” The manager asked of us today, and that’s what they said.
We still have a challenge ahead of us, but let’s take pleasure in this moment.
And Everton did, hosting an” End of an Era” show following the game that included, among other things, video messages from former manager Carlo Ancelotti and former player Mikel Arteta.
