Jarrad Branthwaite scored a 94th minute equaliser as relegation-threatened Everton rescued a point against Tottenham Hotspur with a 2-2 home draw on Saturday to move out of the bottom three in the Premier League table.
Richarlison, once the darling of Goodison Park, scored a brace of goals in the first half and looked to have won the game for the visitors, but Branthwaite headed in at the back post after Everton had troubled Spurs all game with their set-pieces.
Jack Harrison also scored for Everton and after Spurs failed to kill the game in the second half, the battling Merseyside club always had hope they could take something from the match.
Spurs is in fourth in the table on 44 points from 23 games, missing the chance to move level with second-placed Manchester City, though it has played a game more. Everton has 19 points from their 23 games.
Everton fans protested against the Premier League and held up yellow placards that read ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ in reference to the Merseyside club’s 10-point deduction for an alleged breach of profit and sustainability rules.
Their appeal against that penalty was held this week with a verdict due in mid-February.
Tottenham took just four minutes to go ahead through Richarlison. Spurs moved the ball well down the left-hand side and Destiny Udogie’s pass was lashed home by the unmarked the Brazilian.
Everton had a period of concerted pressure in the Tottenham box without creating much in the way of opportunities, until Harrison rather unwittingly scored on the half-hour mark.
A corner was met at back post by James Tarkowski and his header into the six-yard box was directed goalwards by Dominic Calvert-Lewin and it went in off Harrison.
Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario felt he was fouled by Harrison as the corner came over, but a VAR check allowed the goal.
Spurs was back in front against the run of play four minutes before halftime as it broke quickly and from James Maddison’s flick, Richarlison placed an excellent shot beyond former team mate Jordan Pickford, his ninth Premier League goal in eight games.
There were fewer chances in the second half but Everton remained a threat from the set-pieces and got its reward as Christian Romero’s attempted clearance from a free-kick was only steered into the path of Branthwaite, who beat a flailing Vicario.
Burnley comes from behind to earn dramatic 2-2 draw with Fulham
January signing David Datro Fofana scored twice in the second half to earn relegation-threatened Burnley a dramatic 2-2 draw with Fulham in the Premier League on Saturday and ease some of the gloom at Turf Moor.
Fulham struck twice in four first-half minutes to put itself in a commanding position, only to be undone at the death when Fofana bundled over the equaliser in stoppage time.
The Chelsea loanee had earlier pulled a goal back for Burnley on the counter-attack in the 71st minute when he headed past Bernd Leno seven minutes after coming on, after being picked out by fellow new boy Lorenz Assignon’s pinpoint cross.
Joao Palhinha nodded Fulham in front in the 17th minute when he met Andreas Pereira’s corner virtually unchallenged at the near post and Rodrigo Muniz doubled the visitors’ lead in the 21st with a classy finish.
The draw kept Burnley second-bottom of the standings, seven points from the safety zone, while Fulham moved up to 12th.
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