Everton stumble deeper into trouble with 3-2 defeat at Burnley

BURNLEY, England: Everton fell deeper into relegation hassle with Burnley’s Maxwel Cornet placing an eighty fifth minute winner as the house aspect fought again to beat Frank Lampard’s group 3-2 at Turf Moor on Wednesday (Apr 6) to maneuver inside some extent of the Merseysiders.

The win is a significant enhance for 18th-placed Burnley who’re on 24 factors after their fourth league win of the season with Everton in seventeenth on 25 and each groups having performed 29 video games.

Everton, who’ve by no means been relegated from the Premier League, had led 2-1 on the break after two penalties from Brazilian Richarlison however Burnley had been rewarded for his or her relentless effort because the guests cracked underneath the strain.

Lampard’s aspect have a troublesome run of fixtures to finish the season with Manchester United, Leicester City, Liverpool and Chelsea their subsequent 4 opponents.

Sean Dyche switched up Burnley’s strategy by choosing twin strikers in Jay Rodriguez and Wout Weghorst with Aaron Lennon and Cornet on the wings and the attacking strategy paid off with the Clarets placing the Toffees underneath strain from the outset.

Burnley grabbed a twelfth minute lead when Cornet’s nook discovered Nathan Collins on the again publish and the Clarets defender was allowed the area to side-foot previous Jordan Pickford to attain his first objective for the membership.

It was poor defending however the lead lasted solely six minutes with Everton pulling degree via Richarlison’s spot kick after Anthony Gordon fell after tangling with Ashley Westwood.

SECOND PENALTY

It was one other penalty that noticed Everton go in entrance 4 minutes earlier than the interval when their Ukrainian left again Vitaliy Mykolenko lower inside Aaron Lennon and went down.

Referee Mike Dean initially waved away the penalty appeals however was despatched to the monitor by the VAR officers and having reviewed the proof pointed to the spot. Richarlison once more beat Nick Pope with a cool conversion.

Burnley continued to scrap, nonetheless, and left again Charlie Taylor created the 57th minute equaliser, skipping previous Jonjoe Kenny and slicing into the realm earlier than drilling a low shot throughout the face of objective which was hammered in by Rodriguez.

Cornet then grabbed the winner when Ben Godfrey’s dreadful mis-hit clearance fell straight to Matej Vydra and he slipped the ball again to the Ivorian who fired residence first time to please the house crowd.

Burnley go to backside aspect Norwich City on Sunday, 24 hours after Everton host Manchester United, and Sean Dyche’s aspect can sense they’ve an actual likelihood of survival.

“This is massive, we know that, we know Everton are in the same position,” mentioned Burnley-born Rodriguez.

“This is an enormous sport for momentum. We’ve obtained a troublesome sport to play with Norwich … But that is all about us. We’ve obtained to proceed to play how we did within the second half. It’s concerning the momentum, however a particular evening tonight.

“We have to win every game now, we have nine games now. It’s important for us to be on a winning run, we can’t take anything for granted,” he mentioned.