Everton took on Bolton with virtually the same group who played 120 minutes on Wednesday and have done so well in the last month against the league's top sides - the one exception being the inclusion of on-loan Jo. But any fears that they'd be too exhausted to get 3 points were easily swept away as the blues turned in some excellent attacking football, and Jo capped a great debut with two goals in a 3-0 win.

It's all good being an Everton fan right now and they gave us more to cheer about with this 3-0 win over Bolton. In truth, they should have scored more like six or seven. Bolton were bad but that shouldn't detract from the quality of Everton's play. Paul Merson described the first half as the best 45 minutes of football he's seen from any side in the league this season. Praise indeed. In that respect it was dissapointing that it took us until nearly half time to grab the opening goal, but it wasn't for a lack of trying or a lack of chances.

But playing the top teams so much recently seems to have raised Everton's game. After all, imagine how confident you'd feel playing Bolton at home after playing only Liverpool, Man and Arsenal week-in-week-out for the last month - and doing pretty well against them.

Jo who's a terrible player if you listen to Manchester City fans - made an instant impact and showed his class from the word go. He might have fluffed a couple of chances in the first half as he shook off the rust, but it was his touch and ability to hold the ball up, bringing others into play, which really stood out. He linked with his new team mates brilliantly.

We should have been ahead early on though when Baines came flying down the left and whipped another of those great low crosses in. The one man you'd want on the end of it, Tim Cahill, somehow managed to send it wide of the far post and Bolton escaped. Jo also had a couple of chances, notably going clean through on goal but dragging his shot wide of the post. It was impressive though he didn't hide and continued to get into positions and demand the ball.

As half time approached, Baines found him on the edge of the box and the Brazilian tricked his way past Andy O'Brien who stuck a leg out and gave away a penalty. Mikel Arteta - in sparkling form once again - dispatched the spot-kick into the far corner.

Shortly afer the restart it was two. A harmless looking Phil Neville punt was expertly dragged out of the sky by Jo, who spun (Bergkamp-esque, some would say) away from Gary Cahill and fired a volley past Jaaskelainen. He looked pretty pleased with it!

As the second half wore on, tiredness did creep into our play a bit. No surprise considering the amount of football and against top opposition, that this team have played recently. Sensibly, Moyes brought on Yobo, Van der Meyde and Rodwell to freshen things up a bit.

Late on the blues were finally able to grab the third goal which gave us a scoreline more reflective of their dominance throughout the game. Gosling beat him man down the right wing only to see his cross hand balled infront of the park end. The ref pointed to the spot and Gosling himself was keep to take it, only for captain Phil Neville to take the ball off him and give it to new signing Jo. A wise decision from the captain who could see that the Brazilian had played well and grabbed a goal already. He's a confidence player and getting another would only further boost that confidence for the weeks to come.

Jo made no mistake, slotting into the bottom corner and wrapping up the game for Everton. It was noticable at the end that every single Everton player went to congratulate him at the final whistle and he has since spoke out about how welcome he's been made and what a good team spirit te club has. Things like that can never be underestimated and perhaps that's Why he looked a different player to the one who's been struggling at City all season.

With the likes of Fellaini, Saha and Pienaar to come back, and the likes of Newcastle and West Brom on the horizon, there's every reason to be confident of picking up points and breaking into the top 5 in the coming weeks.