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With a 2-0 get over Southampton in the Premier League in front of dozens of the league’s greatest players and a sad, scarf-waving group, Everton bid an emotional goodnight to Goodison Park, their house of 133 years.
Iliman Ndiaye will be remembered as Everton’s top scorer in their ambient, long-standing stadium in England, with the Senegal ahead 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.
Quite unusual, Ndiaye said. ” I wanted to give them everything today.”
For the start of the new time, Everton will shift from one of English soccer’s traditional stadiums to a 53, 000-seat shoreline arena at local Bramley-Moore Dock.
Although Goodison Park was going to be destroyed, the children’s game will continue to play there starting next year after a feasibility study.
As fans gathered before start, blue fumes filled the air around the streets outside of Goodison. 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 stoppage time, Everton claimed it was the 5372nd goal at the ground after he rounded Southampton goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale for his second.
After the final whistle, fans hugged one another and cried back tears.
Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford stated,” We’ll go down in history as the last team to win at Goodison.” The manager reportedly asked us to do that today.
Let’s take pleasure in the present moment because we have a challenge ahead of us.
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.
