Sam Allardyce delivers glowing praise for ‘superhuman’ Seamus Coleman

“I think it’s a bit similar to when we played Liverpool”.

Late in the game, Coleman relieved pressure on the Everton defence with an 80-yard run which almost resulted in a goal for Tom Davies.

“It don’t go this far normally but it was nearly super-human”.

He’s a great example for the younger players at Everton.

“He’s also mentally strong”. Sam Allardyce, coming under increasing pressure and scrutiny from the Goodison crowd, opted for a starting eleven of: Pickford, Martina, Keane Jagielka (c), Coleman, Gueye, Davies, Rooney, Walcott, Sigurdsson and Niasse.

“But it is upsetting, it’s not right, it disturbs the players, it hasn’t disturbed us today, it’s not affected the result I’m glad to say, but it could easily have done so”.

Despite big investment, Everton have struggled to break away from mid-table this season and now sit in ninth, a full 11 points behind sixth-placed Arsenal, but Gunners manager Arsene Wenger is not willing to underestimate their opponents on Saturday.

As well as his extraordinary fitness, another aspect of Coleman’s performance was his link-up play with new signing Theo Walcott.

Theo Walcott is one player who Allardyce may look to use on the break, with the forward set to play against Arsenal for the first time since leaving the club last month in a £20m deal.

A draw is available at 19/4 odds at BetVictor, and an Everton win can get you 11/1 odds at William Hill.

The latter scored two goals against Leicester and all eyes are on him ahead of this weekend. There’s every reason why their short run of invincibility could stretch beyond five games, going by the opponents they are up against today and on Saturday (Swansea City at home).

“Hopefully he can go and perform at the Emirates as well as he did on Wednesday night”. “I’m a so-called old-school winger, up and down and working hard for the team but that link-up play with Seamus was fantastic to see”. “From a distance they know each others game very well”.