Everton’s wretched start to the season continued as Burnley impressively maintained their unbeaten away record and rose to sixth thanks to a slick goal in the first half from Jeff Hendrick
Match report: Burnley’s Hendrick piles pressure on Everton
Koeman defiant over Everton future after home defeat by Burnley
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Sun 1 Oct 2017 11.10 EDT
First published on Sun 1 Oct 2017 08.15 EDT
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A wonderful win for Burnley. They defended brilliantly after a slightly concerning start and scored a cracking goal to win the game in the first half, Jeff Hendrick sweeping home after a flowing move. They never looked like conceding after taking the lead, restricting Everton to nothing in the second half. It helped, of course, that Everton are utterly useless. I won’t bother running through why again – no point going over old ground, everyone knows the problem by now. Ronald Koeman is under huge pressure now. Burnley rise to sixth place, having taken 12 points from their first seven matches and maintained their unbeaten away record, but Everton stay 16th, two points above the bottom three.
Full-time: Everton 0-1 Burnley
Huge cheers in the away end, loud boos from the home fans. For the second time in the space of three days, Everton walk off the pitch to the sound of jeers from the Goodison Park crowd.
90 min+4: Koeman is telling the fourth official that chestball is a penalty. Look it up, you fool!
90 min+3: Williams heads a cross on, Calvert-Lewin heads it goalwards and again Lowton deflects it wide, the ball going just past the post. Everton wail for a penalty again, but it clearly came off Lowton’s chest.
90 min+1: There will be four minutes of this swill for Everton fans to enjoy.
90 min: Sandro’s pass inside is cut out by Barnes, who buys a foul off Rooney. Burnley are eating up time.
88 min: Ashley Barnes replaces Jeff Hendrick, the Burnley goalscorer. Ronald Koeman, meanwhile, has sought an explanation from Jon Moss about his refusal to award Everton a penalty. It’s because it wasn’t an intentional handball.
87 min: Baines and Sigurdsson combine to release Calvert-Lewin, who scuffs a shot straight at Pope.
85 min: The corner’s cleared. Everton are camped in Burnley’s half now, though, and Davies winds up for a shot from the edge of the area. It looks to be heading towards the top left corner, but Wood heads it away.
84 min: Sigurdsson chips a cross to the far post from right. Rooney’s header hits Lowton’s outstretched arm and goes behind. Everton scream for a penalty, but it wasn’t intentional.
82 min: Sandro Ramirez replaces Oumar Niasse. Ronald was right! Moments later, Rooney shoots from 30 yards, but it isn’t 2003.
81 min: Gueye blams another shot over the bar. This is execrable from Everton.
79 min: Davies is furious after another potential award of a corner goes against Everton.
77 min: Strange to think Manchester City lost 4-0 to Everton in January.
74 min: Mee misses a cross from the right. The ball falls to Rooney, whose shot’s deflected wide by Tarkowski. Burnley deal with the corner, although they’re just starting to fall back a little and invite Everton on.
71 min: Arfield goes on a powerful surge down the right, a run that’s only stopped by a clumsy foul by Niasse, who’s lucky not to get booked.
70 min: Wood nods down a long free-kick and almost finds Hendrick in the Everton area. Pickford’s there.
69 min: Martina crosses, Calvert-Lewin heads wide. Tom Davies replaces Nikola Vlasic.
68 min: Baines’s cross causes a moment of uncertainty in the Burnley defence. Mee wallops his clearance straight into the unwitting Hendrick, who’s relieved to see the ball loop back to Pope.
67 min: Burnley counter for the first time in a while and the clever Arfield plays Brady through on the left. Williams is playing him onside. He wants to find Wood at the far post, but Pickford smartly gets in the way of his cross.
64 min: Gylfi Sigurdsson sends a shot well over the bar. He was worth £50m to Swansea. I’m not sure he’s worth that much to Everton.
63 min: This is Everton’s first good move of the half. Baines’s cross finds Niasse, who nods wide. At which point, enter Wayne. The disappointing Schneiderling departs, Rooney comes on.
61 min: What is Everton’s plan here? What are they trying to do? On the touchline, Wayne Rooney is readying himself.
60 min: Defour’s down. The physio’s on. I’m not sure what the problem is.
58 min: Niasse’s pressure on Mee seems to have done enough to win a corner for Everton, but not for the first time a goal-kick’s incorrectly awarded. Up the other end, Baines is harshly booked for a late tackle on Brady, who was sharper than the left-back to a loose ball.
55 min: Calvert-Lewin’s tame shot from 25 yards drifts straight into Pope’s clutches.
54 min: Baines hoicks a cross out for a goal-kick.
52 min: Williams pings a straight pass out for a goal-kick. This is grim.
51 min: After Burnley clear the corner, Gueye wafts a shot miles over from 25 yards.
50 min: Sigurdsson sprays a pass out to Martina on the right. He wins a corner.
49 min: Calvert-Lewin’s booked for a late tackle on Arfield.
48 min: A loose ball runs to Vlasic, whose shot’s blocked by Tarkowski.
46 min: Burnley get the second half underway. There were suggestions that Tom Davies was going to come on for Everton, but he’s still got his tracksuit top on. “I think that Arfield’s ‘dive’ falls into the category where it’s not a penalty, but it’s not a booking either,” says Matt Loten. “A lot of pundits and, seemingly, referees appear to think that it has to be one or the other, but sometimes it’s just a coming together. Penalty? Nah. Dive? Not for me, Clive.”
Half-time: Everton 0-1 Burnley
Jon Moss’s whistle is greeted by boos from the Everton fans, but don’t let that obscure the fact that Burnley, in front thanks to a lovely goal from Jeff Hendrick, are 45 minutes plus stoppage time away from going sixth in the Premier League.
45 min: There will be one added minute.
44 min: Burnley are pressing strongly as the half draws to a close. A loose clearance falls to Cork on the edge of the area, but Schneiderlin deflects his shot over. Keane heads Brady’s corner away. “I think we may be witnessing the first game in a brand new derby,” says JR in Illinois. “With Everton’s sleeves adorned with “Angry Birds” and Burnley’s sporting “Play Golf Clash” I believe we have the first “Crap Mobile Phone Game App Sleeve Sponsor Derby”. Amazing world we live in, innit?”
42 min: Ashley Williams, who’s always good for one howler a game, smashes a clearance straight into a Burnley player and the ball runs back into the area for Arfield. Williams almost compounds the error when he tries to tackle Arfield, who collapses to the ground after minimal contact from the Everton defender. Penalty? No, Jon Moss rules it was a dive and books Arfield. A tight call.
