Everton picked up their first home win of the season soundly beating Wigan at Goodison Park who will have concerns over striker Hugo Rodallega who was stretched off late on.
Toffee’s boss David Moyes will be breathing a huge sigh of relief after his side won at home for the third time of asking inflicting a second consecutive defeat on the Latics.
It also justified his decision to play midfielder Tim Cahill as a lone striker at the expense of Louis Saha who wasn’t even named in the squad.
Royston Drenthe and Apostolos Velios scored their first goals in English football to secure all three points after captain Phil Jagielka had equalised following Franco Di Santo’s deflected opener.
The Argentinian was heading towards the corner before suddenly turning inside and lashing an angled effort which clipped Tony Hibbert and flew past Tim Howard to give Roberto Martinez’s side a 31st minute lead.
It didn’t last long though as Jagielka nodded home from close range to level the game and it stayed that way until the 84 minute with Velios popping up to put the Toffee’s in front.
A pin point cross from Hibbert was met by the 19-year-old Greek forward who was making only his fifth substitute appearance for the club.
Rodallega then clashed with Denis Stracqualursi and after lengthy treatment was stretchered off prompting referee Peter Walton to add on seven minutes of injury time.
That gave Drenthe the opportunity to open his account for the Toffee’s firing home from the edge of the area to put the gloss on a hard fought victory.
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