76′ – Henry beats Coleman and his cross is perfect for Schade who somehow just misses.
Another cross almost too bad and then he gets the ball but a last desperate tackle from Godfrey saves the Blues. Full siege here in Goodison.
74′ – Two more substitutions from four from Thomas Frank, still nothing from Sean Dyche.
Gray holds the line ahead while the 4-5-1 has solidified in the parked bus.
69′ – Toney buys Tarkowski a cheap free kick (as he often does) and gets the call from the edge of the box. The forward initiates contact clearly, stepping over the defender’s non-extended foot.
Toney takes it off the wall for a corner. Pickford misses the ball completely. MCNEIL HOOFS LET IT OUT OF LINE! Quality.
68′ – No sign of a change on the Everton bench as we enter the final quarter of the game.
Brentford overloaded the Everton right but is now concentrating on the left.
64′ – Here Doucoure is simmering with Hickey, who snatched the Everton player’s shirt. The Malian midfielder is outraged and both teams are now stepping in.
60′ – McNeil wins a corner on the left, Gray takes it. Deleted and now the bees can break with speed. The Blues would do well to frustrate them enough, but the visitors now have a corner. To the near post and the switching goes over. Brentford cracks down on the Blues.
59′ – The Blues’ first chance in a long time as Gray pulls down a high ball well and fires a shot from a tight angle but straight at Raya.
51′ – Brilliant intervention from Coleman as Brentford counters on pace. The corner is finally scraped away.
Everton have a chance to counterattack and Iwobi gets the ball. The Blues are desperate to defend and it’s way too early to go into turtle mode.
48′ – Another chance for the Blues when a ball is directed into the box.
47′ – SAVE! Brentford break well and a cross into the box is met by Henry and what a save from Pickford and the defense it can crawl away.
46′ – Second half is on.
Half-time thoughts – That was a very good half of Blues football, with the only flaw being that they failed to score a second goal
45+2′ – We’ve passed the two-minute mark and Onana is still down after the corner. Looks like he got hit in the left eye, it’s pretty badly swollen, but he’s on his feet and moving.
Finally the half-time whistle.
45+1′ – Norgaard is cautioned for tripping Gray during a break. Gray takes it from the wall and a corner from the right. Good ball in and clarify the guests.
43′ – Goal! Toney and Keane came together in the center circle and referee Simon Hooper rules in favor of the Blues. Pickford’s deep kick which is headed back over the goal by Tarkowski, hoof clear and it goes off grey!
Oh no! VAR decides it came from his right arm. It was very close and is often referred to as a bang bang game but the Blues have reason to be frustrated because they had so many chances to make it two in the first half and it just doesn’t happen.
37′ – Gana and Onana steal the ball together and pause, but an overhit ball from McNeil ends that opportunity.
33′ – Onana’s foul allows Gueye to break, lovely ball finds Gray in space, slices in, Raya kicks his feet to the corner! McNeil’s corner is lovely, the ball bounces into the box, Iwobi tries to turn it home and Raya kicks it away again!! bad!!!
31′ – Despite Goodison yelling at him about the threat, Gana lingers on the ball again and Toney is able to steal the ball and a dangerous cross for the Bees which is cleared by Keane.
27′ – With a high pressure comes a high line and therein lies the danger for the Blues as Toney and Mbeumo have a lot of pace and physicality.
The press now wins the Blues a corner on the right and McNeil will take it. Inswinger, partially cleared and Godfrey wins a free kick from the opposite flank. McNeil, in depth and the opportunity is wasted.
24′ – Brentford with a good crossfield ball from Rico Henry finds Mbeumo, slices in and fires a shot at Pickford who catches up on the second try.
Norgaard with a very good cross into the box, Toney pushes Keane away to create space and gets his head but not enough contact and Everton survive.
22′ – Bees’ long throw wins a corner on the right side of Everton. Jensen’s inswinger, Tarkowski partially clears and then Gray boxes Hickey for a goal kick.
The blues on the quarter rod who have navigated this game well up to this point.
20′ – Everton’s press wins the ball over Coleman again this time, finds Iwobi and his cross into the box is poorly parried by Raya and Onana, who follows up, hits him wide! Oh what a chance, the off-balance midfielder had more time than he thought and should have invested it.
17′ – Another soft free kick won by the Bees, this time by McNeil. Jensen wants the deep free kick but Coleman is aware and has it covered.
15′ – Gray win a free kick in the middle period. He puts it in the box, Keane gets in front of a stranded Raya and somehow he puts too much mustard on it and sends it far, arghhhhh.
13′ – Everton’s high pressing forces a couple of rushed clearances and finally a corner on the left. To take Gray, straight into the five-yard box and cleared.
10′ – Toney wins a cheap free kick from Onana and now they take a corner down the left side of the Blues. Taken short, played around and finally wasted by the bees.
8′ – Everton free kick from McNeil into the box, header back over the goal and Toney coolly heads it back to goalkeeper Raya.
6′ – The players, the crowd, everyone needed that early boost.
3′ – Blues counter again as Goodison is LOUD. Godfrey’s long, bumpy run down the left is unaccompanied by the surrender of his cross.
1′ – We started at Goodison, where Everton slipped to 19th after AFC Bournemouth surprisingly defeated the Blues’ crosstown rivals Liverpool earlier this morning.
OH MY GOD EVERTON LEADERSHIP!!!! Coleman’s long ball down the right finds Gray hitting Doucoure and the midfielder finds McNeil running into the box, cuts back and hammers it into the far corner with his magic left foot, Everton lead 1-0!!
England manager Gareth Southgate is here today after choosing a very miserable day to come to Merseyside due to the weather. It’s raining heavily and it might even turn to snow at some point.
Starting lineups: Dominic Calvert-Lewin is still not fit enough to be included in the matchday squad. Sean Dyche has opted for the same starting line-up as last weekend, with Michael Keane and Ben Godfrey at center and left back respectively, while Demarai Gray leads the line-up at the front.
everton
Brentford
Everton take on Brentford in what can be seen as the two-thirds mark of the Premier League season and with just a dozen games to go, survival is far from assured.
Sean Dyche’s men let slip a lead not once, but twice at Nottingham Forest and although they left with a point, a golden chance of an away win was squandered, plagued by the same errors the Blues have now been two seasons plague.
Today’s visitors are going through a purple blush, unbeaten in the league since October and aiming for European football at the end of the season, but are certainly beatable when not in the comfortable confines of the Gtech Community Stadium.
The biggest question here will be whether Sean Dyche can muster the side capable of pulling together the focused performance that was paramount in the recent 1-0 win over Arsenal, or will it be the same players that are in Plays are more recent 4-0 drubbing by the same Gunners?
Competition: Premier League matchday 27
Date and start time: Saturday, March 11 at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET / 3:00pm BST
Stadion: Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, UK
Capacity: 39,572
Weather: 5°C/41°F, light rain, 83% chance of precipitation, wind speed 21 km/h
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The Blues miraculously clinched a point in the encounter earlier this season when Brentford managed to hit the woodwork three times in a game before finally leveling a late equalizer from a close-in goalmouth in a 1-1 draw.
However, things did not go well for the Toffees last season as the Bees equalized the double against them to win 3-2 at Goodison Park despite both Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison finding the net.
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