BREAKING NEWS:‼️ Pickford admitted that even though Everton pulled off the win at home while playing with ten men, he hasn’t encountered a player this season as fiercely aggressive as the one he faced today. According to him, the Manchester United star almost injured him with the sheer power of his shots. The Everton goalkeeper made it clear this was the one United player who genuinely caught his attention — and it wasn’t Zirkzee or Casemiro.

Pickford stepped off that pitch talking like a man who’d seen a ghost in broad daylight. He’s been around this league long enough to know its beasts and bruisers, but today hit him different — and he didn’t even try to pretty it up. Everton might’ve snatched the points, but he admitted one United player rattled him harder than the scoreline ever could.

 

He talked about the match like someone replaying close calls in his head. United went a man down, Everton capitalized, the whole script felt predictable — until Pickford ditched the usual victory chest-thumping and pointed at one Red Devil who left him genuinely unsettled. That alone had everyone doing a double take.

 

The way he said it, you could tell it wasn’t banter. He described the guy’s shots like they came with ill intentions — heavy, wild, and dangerously close to tearing through him. And when a keeper who’s survived Premier League chaos calls someone “dangerously aggressive,” you know that wasn’t praise for show; that was survival instinct talking.

 

Pickford didn’t dress it up either — he straight-up admitted he hadn’t faced anyone hitting with that level of venom this season. He’d barely caught his breath before confessing the player nearly injured him with those strikes. That’s not something pros usually say out loud, especially not after a win.

 

Then came the twist: it wasn’t the big names everyone expected. Not Bruno with his finesse, not Rashford with his pace, not Højlund with his muscles. It was the one guy who kept swinging even when the odds dipped, the guy firing off rockets like he had something to prove, the guy who refused to let United fade quietly.

 

Pickford called those shots bullets, and Everton’s defenders apparently weren’t shy about saying the same. They kept warning him to stay sharp because that United attacker only needed the tiniest gap to flip the whole story. It was chaos, but the kind that makes reputations.

 

Sure, United lost — the table will say that. But in the shadows of the final whistle, this player walked away with something more valuable than three points: respect wrapped in fear. Pickford’s reaction alone was a stamp of arrival, a signal that this guy’s not here to fade into background noise.

 

And now, whether he scores next time or not, one truth is stuck in Pickford’s mind like a loud echo: if they meet again, those rockets won’t just shake him — one of them might finally punch straight through.