Man of the Match: Seamus Coleman
DONEGAL’S Seamus Coleman thanked Everton’s fans after helping his side to a 2-0 win over Manchester City – effectively handing the title to Man United.
Coleman had one of his best games for the Toffees, a week after losing 3-0 in the FA Cup to Wigan.
Osman scored the first after half an hour.
Steven Pienaar was sent off just after the hour but Nikica Jelavic finished off a counter-attack in injury-time to seal victory for Everton.
Coleman, given Man of the Match on BBC’s Match of the Day – and named in the team of the week – said: “It’s what we aimed to to do. Ultimately disappointing to go out of the FA Cup. We went out there and tried to repay the fans as much we could and I think we did that.
“Winning games is what it’s all about and it’s never nice to lose games, especially when we thought we could do well in the FA Cup this year.
“But we still have a lot to play for in the league and we showed it there today.
“That wasn’t the Everton team last week, we just didn’t turn up.
“Going down to 10 men we just worked as hard as we could. We’re all mates here and I think that showed.”