After a traumatic season, Everton ended at home with a win over the Blades

Finally, after two last-game relegation dramas at home, Everton players and supporters could enjoy the early May sunshine knowing that the result didn’t really matter in the end.

As expected, Sean Dyche resisted any temptation to experiment with younger, fringe players in his squad and once again picked a strength squad.

It was good to see Seamus Coleman leading the players after his injury problems this term and he received a rousing reception from the Goodison faithful. Will we see him in royal blue next season?

The home side were the better side throughout and largely controlled the game, although chances were few and far between and the game certainly had the feel of an end-of-season game with nothing to highlight it, which of course it , the warm weather helped emphasize it.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin had several chances in a busy and efficient performance and it was from his Abdoulaye Doucoure cross that he scored his first goal since picking up a hamstring problem at Burnley last December.

Calvert-Lewin has just one year left on his contract and it will be interesting to see if the club move quickly to tie him down to a new deal or not. That could tell us if he could be sold this summer.

Doucoure could have added more before the break, but he failed to find the net again and that solitary strike proved enough in the end, as it has so often under Dyche’s spell.

In fact, it is the sixth clean sheet the Blues have managed this season and the fifth successive home game in which Everton have not conceded a goal.

All these statistics underline the strength of this Toffees team, which is obviously the defensive solidity they have cultivated under Dyche.

But next season they will need to score more goals than they have if they are to avoid another repeat of these last few campaigns.

In the second half, the Blades tried to make a game of it and had a few chances, but never looked like getting back into the game.

So Everton ended their home campaign with another win after a long stretch of the season where they couldn’t buy a win at the Grand Old Lady.

Now, after the final game at Arsenal, attention turns to the summer and a tough and challenging situation with so much uncertainty over ownership and what will happen in the transfer window.