Everton fans were certainly happy on Saturday as Marco Silva opened up pre-season properly by taking an emphatic victory over ATV Irdning.
Everton enjoyed a 22 goal thriller out in Austria as we closed our training camp down with preparations continuing for the coming 2018/19 Premier League campaign, and with an own goal included, Leighton Baines, Mason Holgate, Michael Keane, Cenk Tosun (4), Ademola Lookman (3), Kevin Mirallas (5), Oumar Niasse (4) and Nikola Vlasic (2) all got themselves on the scoresheet.
With such a large and comfortable win as we utterly dominated the opposition on the day, clearly the game is a standout but few will expect a repeat again this year. It’s certainly boosted confidence though given the club are so slow on a transfer front this summer and fans certainly enjoyed themselves on social media as the game was taking place.
Here’s a selection of the best comments as each goal ticked by and increased the scale of the score.
They won 22-0 mate. Might want to rethink that tweet.
— Graeme (@GraemeCalidonia) July 14, 2018
Gonna win the league ????????????
— CenkTosun14_ (@CenkTosun14_) July 14, 2018
Dowell is the new sheedy, play him
— Gareth Evans (@G_Evans1977) July 14, 2018
MARCO SILVA I LOVE YOU
— Adam (@AdamEFC99) July 14, 2018
WINNING THE LOT
— Carlos (@_EFCCarlos) July 14, 2018
Are all the defenders gonna score??
— Mike ???? (@TheMikeKehoe) July 14, 2018
See look this is why I was happy @kierandowell1 started
— Nathan Reid (@nathanr1878) July 14, 2018
There you go 10-0 at half time , not bad
— Scott Drennan (@Scott_Drennan01) July 14, 2018
Have you changed the difficulty to beginner.
— Daniel Sanderson (@DanielJ2203) July 14, 2018
Wow, we’ve already scored more goals than last season.
— Tommy DeMarzo (@tmdemarzo) July 14, 2018
#SilvaOut ????
— Craig Cole (@ColeFlash) July 14, 2018
Shoutout to whoever's running Everton's twitter today – they couldn't be worked any harder today
— Josh Dennis (@JoshTheDennis) July 14, 2018
Think this qualifies as bullying now lads
— ㅤdanny (@gds2236) July 14, 2018
Just for the record – this is only 8-0.
Still be 0-0 under Big Sam this. #EFClive
— Gary (@GP__15) July 14, 2018
Seriously can they call this game early, it seems cruel now
— Dan Williams (@dan_williams13) July 14, 2018
Who said we need signings
— Bradley Irvine (@bradley_irvine) July 14, 2018
"beer, anyone?"
— Kirsty (@KirstyHarrison0) July 14, 2018
Got to be careful we don’t get complacent here, a goal from them could turn this game on its head….
— Chris Howells (@howler4985) July 14, 2018
No way back for them now I reckon
— Nathan (@nb_swfc) July 14, 2018
Dude it’s absolutely ridiculous like stop scoring ????????????
— Jake Barton (@Bartonious18) July 14, 2018
We've scored more goals this game than we did with allardyce in charge
— Adam (@AdamEFC99) July 14, 2018
He's concussed. ????
— Daniel Sartain (@DSahsprite) July 14, 2018
That means we've basically scored more in Silvas first 80 minutes than we did in the whole of Allardyces reign
— The Welb (@TheWelb) July 14, 2018
FULL-TIME: ATV Irdning 0-22 Everton. No, that's not a typo. Marco Silva's side enjoy an emphatic win in Austria. @CenkTosun_ (4), Keane, Baines, Lookman (3), Mirallas (5), Niasse (4), Vlasic (2), Holgate and an own goal. #EFCLive pic.twitter.com/M7LnJrvqUF
— Everton (@Everton) July 14, 2018