Mainoo in? "He showed on Sunday he was ready," Erik ten Hag said of Kobbie Mainoo, "and then we have to manage three games in six days to get the best results of all the games. "We have more than 11 players, we have good options there.
Sofyan Amrabat also showed he was playing a very good game. We have the options, you manage the load of the players and it's about freshness as well." Ten Hag went on to laud Mainoo's "scanning.
It looks like he always has time because he is scanning, he is running free, then he is scanning to see the options and then make the right decisions.
He can delay, he can speed up. He makes the right decisions." Mainoo was man of the match at a raucous Goodison Park and acquitted himself confidently in the lion's den of the Ali Sami Yen Arena as a second-half substitute.