December 23, 2024

Burnley 1-1 Everton: Premier League – as it happened

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9.49am EST 09:49

Paul Wilson was at Turf Moor. Here’s his report. You know what to do. Clickity click! Thanks for reading this MBM.

Calvert-Lewin rescues point for Everton to leave Burnley in bottom three

9.47am EST 09:47

Carlo Ancelotti’s take. “We were quite good after a difficult start … we changed the shape, it was not easy … it’s a draw that helps us move a little bit up the table … of course we wanted to win and had opportunities … one at the end … we have to accept the result … mentally we suffered after the goal but we came back and at the end we played a good game … we were more comfortable with three midfielders … Jordan is back … he has a lot of quality … for him it’s important to stay mentally in good condition, fit and motivated … it was a difficult game for Dominic Calvert-Lewin but when it came he was ready … I think we played quite good … we wanted to win but a point is acceptable.”

9.43am EST 09:43

Sean Dyche, 200 up, makes a couple of trenchant observations. “An important reaction from last week … a really good reaction, we took the game on against a really good side, I know they’ve had a tough spell but they’re a good side without doubt … our basic requirement of how we work is the will and desire to work as a unit from a shape, but then try to be effective with the ball, and I thought we found a good balance … but it ends up a game of two keepers, they were outstanding … I don’t know what a foul any more, Westy gets an arm in the back and a soft touch on his foot, he goes down but it’s not a foul … we all know they get given every week … this league now, you make contact with someone it gets given virtually every time … today it doesn’t and they counter and score so I was certainly aggrieved … money’s always been difficult to get from the board and chairman because they want to safeguard the club … but there’s only so many years you can safeguard … eventually you have to stretch and we haven’t done that … but our group can be effective … I can’t sign the cheques, so I try to manage the things I can affect.”

9.29am EST 09:29

Robbie Brady speaks to BT Sport: “We had some chances … we could have put it away … we’ll take a point today … I felt we performed well, it was a bit more like us … we know we have it in us, we’ll stick at it and hopefully there are more wins to come … it was nice to get on the scoresheet but it was disappointing to concede … we possibly could have nicked it, but a point we’ll take.”

9.27am EST 09:27

The keepers are the only players who seem content as everyone hotfoots it back to the warmth of the dressing rooms. Nick Pope made a fine save from Gylfi Sigurdsson in injury time, while Jordan Pickford met a Chris Wood header with some style late on. They’re both smiling, but pretty much everyone else has a face on. One point’s better than nothing, but it doesn’t really help much. Everton rise to seventh, on 17 points. Burnley stay in 19th, but join West Brom on six points. Still, it was an entertaining game.

9.22am EST 09:22

90 min +2: Burnley bustle down the right. Wood, Barnes and Keane tumble in the Keystone Kops style, the ball breaking clear for McNeil, 25 yards out! McNeil sorts out his feet … then pulls a dismal effort miles wide right. That was a fine chance to sneak all three points. Oh dear.

9.20am EST 09:20

90 min +1: Just as the clock ticks past the 90-minute mark, James Rodriguez improvises a delicate toe-poked pass down the middle to release Sigurdsson into the box. Sigurdsson is one on one with Pope! He looks for the bottom-left corner, but Pope sticks a leg out to block. What a pass … and what a save!

9.19am EST 09:19

90 min: Keane takes a whack from Tarkowski, and the whistle goes. Corner successfully defended. There will be four added minutes.

9.18am EST 09:18

89 min: Barnes busies himself to the right of the Everton goal, latching onto a deep right-wing cross. Mina is forced to hook his leg around Barnes and poke out for a corner.

9.17am EST 09:17

88 min: Benson fires a cross in from the right. Mina clears. Cenk Tosun comes on for Allan.

9.16am EST 09:16

87 min: Ashley Barnes hasn’t scored since November 23 last year. That would make some story, too.

Ashley Barnes of Burnley misses. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

Updated at 9.22am EST

9.15am EST 09:15

86 min: Burnley’s goalscorer Robbie Brady goes down injured, and is quickly replaced by Josh Benson, who is celebrating his 21st birthday today. Some headlines ready to be written here?

9.14am EST 09:14

85 min: Both sides have given this a good go, even if the quality has been lacking a little bit. Can anyone nick it?

9.12am EST 09:12

83 min: Corner for Burnley out on the right. McNeil swings it in. Wood rises highest and heads towards the bottom left. Pickford extends himself and tips around the post. A sensational save! Nothing comes of the second corner.

9.11am EST 09:11

82 min: Calvert-Lewin scampers into space down the left, released by a cute Richarlison flick. He enters the box and tries to poke past the out-rushing Pope, but the keeper smothers brilliantly. Calvert-Lewin cocks his head back, a Pez dispenser of despair.

9.09am EST 09:09

80 min: Everton break quickly from Burnley’s corner. Gomes tries to curl into the top left, but it’s always going high and wide.

9.08am EST 09:08

79 min: Nothing comes of that corner, but Burnley come again quickly, Barnes besting Godfrey out on the right and crossing low for Wood, hovering at the near post. Mina makes a crucial lunge to turn out for another corner.

9.07am EST 09:07

78 min: Westwood swings the free kick into the mixer. The ball breaks to Brownhill, who has enough time to bring the ball down and shift his feet, but his shot is blocked out by Godfrey. Corner.

9.06am EST 09:06

77 min: Taylor goes barrelling down the left and draws a clumsy foul from Doucoure. A chance for the hosts to load the box. Those Burnley eyes light up again.

9.04am EST 09:04

75 min: Burnley make their first change: Ashley Barnes comes on for Jay Rodriguez.

9.02am EST 09:02

72 min: Wood landed awkwardly on his shoulders, and for a minute there’s some concern that he’s hurt his neck. But happily he’s up and about after a thorough check by the physio, and good to continue.

9.00am EST 09:00

70 min: Iwobi reaches the byline on the right and fires low and hard into the six-yard box. A minor brouhaha breaks out, and Mee eventually clears. Burnley attempt to break, but Wood lands awkwardly after accidentally flipping over Gomes as the pair contest a high ball. Play is stopped so the Burnley man can get some treatment.

8.58am EST 08:58

69 min: Richarlison wedges in from the left. James Rodriguez shapes to volley, but Mee heads the dropping ball away from his dangerous boot.

8.56am EST 08:56

67 min: The corner’s worked back to Brady, who takes a skelp from 25 yards. Allan blocks bravely.

8.56am EST 08:56

66 min: McNeil looks as though he’s running down a cul-de-sac out left, but suddenly flicks infield between Allan and Iwobi. He’s away! Lovely skill. But his cross isn’t all that, and he has to settle for a corner.

8.54am EST 08:54

64 min: A lovely bit of Zizou-style skill from Gomes, who falls under pressure from Westwood but somehow keeps the ball stuck to his boot, springs up, and scuttles away. His trick opens up a bit of space for James Rodriguez, who slips Iwobi into acres down the right. Iwobi wallops a low cross along the corridor of uncertainty, but Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison are nowhere to be found.

8.51am EST 08:51

62 min: Burnley’s final pass isn’t all that, either. They probe down both flanks, opening up a bit of space but freezing when there’s a decision to be made. Taylor and Brady at fault this time. Everton hold their shape and there’s no way through.

8.49am EST 08:49

60 min: Richarlison drives down the left and rolls infield, hoping to find Calvert-Lewin. Brownhill intercepts, but slices wildly, the ball looping behind him and nearly dropping over Pope and into the net. The ball just about clears the bar for a corner. Nothing happens at the set piece.

8.47am EST 08:47

58 min: Taylor ships possession cheaply in the centre circle. Everton flood forward. James Rodriguez shapes to shoot, then flicks towards Richarlison on the left. Lowton reads a poor pass and heads clear. Everton’s final ball has, for the most part, been dismally lacking.

Everton’s James Rodriguez is challenged by Ashley Westwood. Photograph: Lee Smith/EPA

Updated at 8.53am EST

8.44am EST 08:44

56 min: Pickford flaps at the corner, under pressure from Brownhill. Under too much pressure, it transpires, and the whistle goes for a free kick.

8.44am EST 08:44

55 min: Brady comes bowling down the right and wins a corner off Godfrey. A few Burnley eyes light up.

8.43am EST 08:43

54 min: Everton threaten to launch a couple of dangerous counter-attacks, but with Burnley light at the back and plenty of yellow shirts offering themselves, James Rodriguez and then Gomes pass straight to the opposition.

8.40am EST 08:40

51 min: A little time and space is afforded to James Rodriguez on the edge of the Burnley D. Really bad idea. James opens his body and curls towards the top left. Pope makes an excellent fingertip save. So close to a stunning goal by Everton’s star man.

8.39am EST 08:39

50 min: Brady and Lowton combine well on the right touchline, nearly opening Everton up. Not this time, but a nifty interchange nonetheless.

8.37am EST 08:37

48 min: Brady hoicks into the box from the right. Keane does well to head clear under pressure from Wood and Jay Rodriguez. Both teams have had a talking-to during the break, I’ll be bound.

8.36am EST 08:36

46 min: Everton are immediately on the front foot. Iwobi curls in from the right. Calvert-Lewin can’t connect. Richarlison bashes a shot into the ground. The ball breaks to Gomes, who batters a shot goalwards from 12 yards. Lawton bravely spreads himself and blocks with his back. The flag eventually goes up for offside, but what an opening to the second half!

8.20am EST 08:20

HALF TIME: Burnley 1-1 Everton

That equaliser had been coming, and it arrived just in the nick of time from Everton’s perspective. Sean Dyche strides off briskly and purposefully, with the brooding air of a man who is about to turn the hairdryer up to 11.

8.19am EST 08:19

GOAL! Burnley 1-1 Everton (Calvert-Lewin 45+3)

Allan wins the ball off Westwood and rolls down the left for Richarlison, who whips into the centre. Calvert-Lewin comes in at full tilt, extending a leg and studding into the bottom right!

Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin slides in to score. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Reuters

Updated at 8.24am EST

8.17am EST 08:17

45 min +2: Brownhill is back on after a brief dab down with a wet sponge.

8.17am EST 08:17

45 min +1: The first of three added minutes goes by without incident.

8.16am EST 08:16

45 min: VAR isn’t interested. There didn’t appear to be any intention, Gomes turning to protect himself as he came together with Brownhill.

8.15am EST 08:15

44 min: Brownhill goes down after a clash with Gomes. No free kick, even though he took an elbow on the jaw. The referee eventually stops play and VAR is going to take a look.

8.14am EST 08:14

42 min: James Rodriguez swishes a wonderful reverse ball down the left to release Gomes into acres. Gomes fizzes the ball into the six-yard box. Tarkowski does well to hack clear with yellow shirts preparing to swarm. The flag eventually goes up for offside. Everton look so much better since their enforced change of shape.

8.12am EST 08:12

41 min: A long Pope clearance down the middle. Wood brings it down, lays off to McNeil, and spins. McNeil returns the ball, releasing Wood into the box. Pickford comes out to block brilliantly. A big chance for Burnley there, somewhat against the run of play.

8.11am EST 08:11

40 min: Richarlison crosses from the left. Tarkowski flicks away from Calvert-Lewin at the expense of a corner. Nothing comes of the set piece.

8.09am EST 08:09

39 min: Pickford punches Westwood’s corner away with great feeling. Everton attempt to launch a counter but James Rodriguez plays an uncharacteristically poor speculative pass forward.

8.08am EST 08:08

38 min: McNeil crosses deep from the left. Keane eyebrows away just in time, with Tarkowski winding his neck back nearby. Corner kick.

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