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I’m told by my sources that Jürgen Klopp will be speaking fairly soon. Liverpool can go top of the table if they beat Palace in sunny south Norwood tomorrow (kick-off 12.30pm).

David Moyes has been speaking this morning and reflecting on last night’s win against Spurs: “A huge win for us in the Premier League,” he said. “Tottenham are one of the top teams and have been playing exceptionally well .. so for us to get a result was exceptional.”

What did he say at half time? “Possession doesn’t win you the games, although it can help … we found another way of getting a result. We hadn’t been particularly good in the first half, we sat off too much … second-half we improved greatly and gave ourselves a few chances.

On Jarrod Bowen: “Jarrod can play centre forward as well … It’s so difficult to find and buy centre-forwards who you can bring in and get success … he’s scored a lot of goals from wide areas but I think he can play centre-forward and he’s proving that he can do it … he could have a really good number of goals this year.”

Let’s start with two match reports from last night.

Everton scored three late goals to overpower Newcastle, nicely following up last weekend’s 1-0 win against Forest. And they’re out of the drop zone:

Spurs, meanwhile, threw away a lead for a record fifth straight match and fell to a 2-0 defeat by West Ham. “The excuses are starting to run thing,” writes Ben Bloom:

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