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Goals from Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard ended United’s run of draws and propelled the club back into second place in the Premier League table

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Mon 1 Jan 2018 14.24 ESTFirst published on Mon 1 Jan 2018 11.30 EST
Jesse Lingard of Manchester United celebrates after he scored to make 0-2.
Jesse Lingard of Manchester United celebrates after he scored to make 0-2. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images
Jesse Lingard of Manchester United celebrates after he scored to make 0-2. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images

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Full-time: Everton 0-2 Manchester United

There are a smattering of boos at the final whistle but it was clear that without a proper striker Everton were always going to struggle if Manchester United’s quality shone through – which it did, eventually. And for 10 minutes in the second half, Everton came very close to drawing level. United move back into second and Everton stay in ninth place. There’ll be a match report here shortly. Thanks for your emails. Bye.

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90 min: Everton win a corner. Davies swings it in and Keane gets a clean head on it but sends his effort about 15 feet wide.

89 min: Pogba falls over in the corner after attempting a trick. It’s the first time he’s put a foot wrong in this game. He’s been consistent throughout.

87 min: Daley comes on for Lingard, who is given a rapturous round of applause by the travelling fans in the Bullens Road stand.

85 min: United are pass, pass, passing their way towards three points here having sucked all hope out of Goodison Park.

@GreggBakowski - "two banks of Allardyce's Best" - I'm sure that I've ordered that in a pub before. If memory recalls it was dull but did the job.

— Short and Smiley (@shortandsmiley) January 1, 2018

Ended up being a bit flat today after hinting that it could be lively.

83 min: Lingard is hacked down cynically by Holgate when he was motoring through midfield towards goal. Pogba tries to get involved and grabs hold of Holgate’s shirt before realising it’s a bad idea when Andre Marriner is stood next to him. Holgate is booked.

Goal! Everton 0-2 Manchester United (Lingard 81)

What a strike! Everton make a hash of a throw-in and Shaw nips in to pick up possession. He feeds the ball forwards to Lingard who, 35 yards from goal, turns and drives at the Everton defence, dropping his shoulder and leaving the sluggish Keane in his wake before curling a fizzing effort into the top corner. Game over.

Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard scores their second goal. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images via Reuters
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78 min: Lingard tries to kill the game with a drive at goal from 20 yards but Pickford gets down sharply and tips it wide. United are turning the game in their favour again.

77 min: Everton are well on top now but how they could do with a player in the box who could finish. All their chances are falling to players for whom goals are a rare and curious thing.

76 min: Before that lively spell for Everton, Martial was sent clattering into the advertising boards and appeared to hurt a shoulder. He seems OK but he’s replaced by Rashford.

75 min: Davies tries to spin Matic in the box but goes to ground too easy as he fails to round the hulking midfielder. There are shouts for a penalty but they’re in vain.

73 min: Everton win a corner and Holgate stabs the ball at goal amid a panic. Again, United survive. I think it was Pogba who blocked the shot. McCarthy has more than justified Allardyce’s substitution. “Nice to see Lennon and McCarthy come (on) together just then. Can they work it out?” croons Mark Lloyd. Maybe Mark.

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71 min: Everton have built up a head of steam. Holgate, again, pulls the ball back and Davies has a shot blocked before somebody else clatters the ball at a defender amid a throng of bodies only for United to clear. Everton are first to every loose ball. And Davies and McCarthy are starting to boss midfield.

69 min: McCarthy wins the ball and Everton work the ball forwards and get numbers into the United half. The ball falls to Holgate on the right, who whips a great ball to the near-post, where Niasse stoops but heads wide of the near post. That was good chance and promising from Everton.

68 min: With a little lull in the action here’s David Flynn with a theory as to why United are looking slick: “Is it just me or do United look more dangerous today with no striker? With no target man to hit endless, aimless crosses in at, the front four are actually being forced to interact with each other and break Everton down.”

66 min: The one sliver of hope for Everton is that they regularly come from behind in games. They also did so in a game against Liverpool after being outplayed at Anfield. OK, two slivers of hope then.

65 min: Martial skips inside his marker and shapes to shoot from 15 yards but instead tries to find Pogba on the far post with a scoop. Pogba is inches away from getting his head on to it.

62 min: Boos ring out as McCarthy comes on for Rooney. Before that Lennon replaces Bolasie. Just Everton’s two main goal threats gone then. Is that a non-too-subtle message to the board?

61 min: Pogba wriggles past two Everton players near the corner flag and then does a double stepover before stinging Pickford’s palms from 15 yards. He’s dancing.

59 min: This has been an odd half. Having had some success against United by playing the first half with a little optimism, Everton began the second by reversing to the edge of their own penalty area and inviting Manchester United on to them. This is all United. There are flicks and tricks all over the place now. Pogba has just shown a bit of insouciant brilliance to send Martial down the touchline with a half-pass half-Cruyff turn.

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58 min: United are now bullying Andre Marriner. Pogba clatters into the referee and sends him flying. Honk!

Goal! Everton 0-1 Manchester United (Martial 57)

Well, that goal wasn’t just coming, it had booked itself in from the moment the half started. Pogba picks the ball up in the left channel and draws a defender towards him before shifting the ball inside and playing a square ball to Martial on the edge of the box. The forward takes a touch and curls the ball into the top corner with a swish of his right boot. A lovely finish.

Manchester United’s Anthony Martial scores the opening goal. Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters
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54 min: United a re knocking on the door. Pogba plays a one-two with Lingard before shuffling into the box and guiding ashort ball across teh six-yard box that Martial is a yard away from. This is ominous stuff. Everton have no ‘out’ ball.

52 min: United have found their groove. Shaw bursts down the left wing and fires a low cross into the six-yard box. Herrera’s eyes light up – Jackpot! – but Martina steps in front of him and clatters the ball away to safety.

50 min: Rojo drives a glorious cross-field pass all of 40 yards to Lingard on the right. He knocks the ball back inside for Mata, who shifts the ballout of his feet sharply and doesn’t think twice before cracking a shot at goal that beats Pickford but clatters the far post and goes wide. The ball just started to drift away towards the end of its arc. But what a wonderful effort.

Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford of Everton looks back as he watches Juan Mata’s shot hit the post. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images
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49 min: Everton have hardly had a kick this half. United are tip-tapping the ball around in front of two banks of Allardyce’s best. It certainly looks like Everton have settled-in deeper this half.

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47 min: Rojo, who has had a very good game, loses the run of himself and thwacks one way over from around 40 yards before trotting back to familiar climes. Interestingly, he has puckered lips and a look on his face that suggests he thought that was really close.

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The second half!

45 min: Peep! Keane punts the ball forwards and we’re under way. United regain possession and knock it around patiently at the back happily building up a healthy lead in the possession stats before Mata picks the ball up on the edge of the box and drives powerfully at goal. Pickford tips it over.

Mourinho has just posed for a selfie with an Everton fan looking about as miserable as you’d expect. Maybe it was a protest against selfies. Or maybe not. Who knows? Who, indeed, cares?

Tom Davies love-in section

Some praise for Everton’s Ketwig Kaiser (Ketwig explainer here):

You're right about Tom Davies's box-to-boxiness @GreggBakowski. Of course, many will scoff at the comparison, but he reminds me of Roy Keane in his coltish youth. Whether he'll turn out to be that good - well, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

— Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) January 1, 2018

@GreggBakowski with England crying out for dynamism in central midfield and Southgate happy to experiment and give fresh faces a chance, I'm surprised Davies hasn't been mentioned as a dark horse for the summer. He's better than Livermore at the very least.

— Matthew Loten (@intheinaka) January 1, 2018

“Hi Gregg,” writes Donal Moloney. “If you’ll allow frontwomen, then Sam is Bonnie Tyler and José is Tina Turner. Look inside your heart. You know it’s true.” And yes, of course, I should have said lead warblers.

Half-time: Everton 0-0 Manchester United

And that’s that. Everton played better than they have in the past couple of games from an attacking point of view (which isn’t saying much) but still lack presence up front. And United looked a little disjointed but you feel that if they do click they’re more than good enough to win this.

44 min: It’s been a bit scrappy in the past few minutes, with both sides giving away possession and showing a lack of quality and care. Jones Phil Jones’s Niasse near the left touchline when he had no need to and gives away a free-kick. It’s a free-kick that is wasted by Everton.

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42 min: Rooney takes one for the team. Martial was racing forwards and Rooney slid in and raised his leg to make sure he brought his former team-mate down. That was a promising break and Rooney knew it.yellow card.

40 min: Pogba strides forwards on the left and cuts inside before laying the ball off to Herrera, who sidefoots unconvincingly at goal only to see his effort blocked. Jones does well under pressure to find De Gea and receive a disguised pass back off his goalkeeper when under intense pressure from Niasse and then United fly forwards and Lingard fires wide from 15 yards. Lively this, but just lacking in quality when it matters.

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38 min: … with Bolasie, who absolutely rinses Rojo before floating a cross towards the back of the penalty area that United clear. It’s been a racy five minutes.

37 min: Pogba’s had enough of this. He takes a touch in midfield and tries to curl one in from 30 yards. It takes a touch off Davies and flies past Pickford’s outstretched hand and out for a corner. Everton clear the corner and break …

35 min: Bolasie tickles a right-footed pass in behind Lindelof for Davies, who motors in behind him and watches his attempted shot get deflected up and over De Gea. For a moment it looks like it may be dropping in and De Gea looks worried. But it drops wide and trickles away from goal. Davies doesn’t half get around the pitch. He’s everywhere.

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