And the youngster was rewarded for his progress when he made his senior Everton debut in the Europa
League dead rubber against FC Krasnodar in December 2014.
That will start after Sunday though with the Europa League final looked upon as more important than a Premier
League dead rubber of which nothing can come from it.
It's going to be a tough few days getting over the match, and Thursday's Europa
League dead rubber with Bate Borisov will only prove to be a slight distraction no matter what the result.
The above pair appear likely to feature in tomorrow night's Europa
League dead rubber with Bate Borisov, with the goalkeeper most likely to be starting the match - up.
Not exact matches
Ok may be give the back up keeper some matches in the 2 domestic cups, but certainly not the finals, give him some
dead rubbers in the champions
league and may be one or
dead cert home premier
league games, against the likes of Norwich, Bournemouth, Watford, etc..
We all know our two weakest areas, but in coquelin, arteta and flamini, we have 1 outstanding dm and to OK ones good enough to cope with the
dead rubbers and games against minnows in the
league and domestic cups.
It is not a completely
dead rubber after all as the Gunners do need to make sure that we don't have to play two nervy and unwanted games at the start of next season in order to secure a place in the Champions
League group phase, and unlikely it may be there is still an outside chance of finishing above Tottenham in the Premier
League table, which Arsene Wenger admits is only of value to us fans as bragging rights but still a worthwhile goal at that.
Even though he just made the one
league appearance in a
dead -
rubber at Norwich, Arsenal fans will have fond memories of Lukasz Fabianski from this season.
The Germany playmaker has been struck down by a bug for the fourth time in 14 months and will miss Thursday's Europa
League last - 32 near -
dead rubber against Swedish visitors Ostersund.
A
dead rubber victory in the face of getting eliminated from the Champions
league.
FC Sheriff earned their first win of the Europa
League group stage in Thursday's
dead -
rubber against Tromso.