But they won’t care.

They were resolute and uncharacteristically proficient, with two long-range pinpoint strikes from Idrissa Gana Gueye and Dwight McNeil providing the difference.

The best metric to showcase their supposed luck is the expected goals, of which the visitors amassed 0.95 to the Toffees’ 0.34.

However, perhaps Forest’s biggest grievance came from the three penalty shouts that were all waved away.

Ashley Young delivers cheeky post-match interview

Ashley Young dealt with Callum Hudson-Odoi well all match admittedly, but there were a few scary moments where he looked like he might be caught out.

However, in the end, all three contentious decisions would be waved away, prompting the official Nottingham Forest X account to write: ‘Three extremely poor decisions – three penalties not given – which we simply cannot accept. We warned the PGMOL that the VAR is a Luton fan before the game but they didn’t change him. Our patience has been tested multiple times.

‘NFFC will now consider its options.’

A message akin to something a disgruntled fan sat in the pub might write, and ironically enough, directed in the way of an Everton side that has been denied blatant penalty after blatant penalty all season, it was embarrassing.

However, Young would deliver his own assessment, in cheeky, lackadaisical fashion.

When asked if he thought the referee had made the correct calls, he simply said: ‘All of them were right. None of them were given, were they? It (my face) is saying none of them were given.’

Then, when asked about what he said to the opposition players, he maintained this trend: ‘I think they were claiming for everything. And obviously, We are talking during the game, and I think the referee was spot-on.’

Should Everton have conceded three penalties?

Even though the 38-year-old full-back hardly has to admit it, most of us can agree that Everton had multiple opportunities to score goals yesterday.

In the first, Young kicked Gio Reyna in the back, and even though there was some contact, it wasn’t quite enough to send the young American sprawling the way it did.

The handball was the second, and much louder, yell.

But once more, it would have been an extremely harsh call to shoot Young on the volley when he was just slightly outstretched, approximately two yards out.

Hudson-Odoi was involved in the third and last one as well, appearing to be goal side of Young and in to equalize.

“spot onHowever, the former winger for Manchester United and Aston Villa would stretch out a leg and manage to get the ball by going through the winger.

Each of the three has legitimate allegations, but each also has powerful defenses. They could have gone either way, but on this particular day, happily for Everton, things worked out in their favor.

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