This was not the kind of night that will take up too much time in Everton’s end-of-season highlights package but, in the end, such games could turn out to be the ones that matter most. If this season ends in success for Carlo Ancelotti and his side come May, then this miserable, rainswept evening in South Yorkshire will not be the most poignant memory. But that does not make Gylfi Sigurdsson’s decisive strike 10 minutes from time, or the ramifications of it, any less significant.
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