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.
81 min: Everton make a proactive substitution: Doucoure is replaced by Sigurdsson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
75 min: Burnley make their first change: Ashley Barnes comes on for Jay Rodriguez.
74 min: Everton probe to no great effect.
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.
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.
69 min: Richarlison wedges in from the left. James Rodriguez shapes to volley, but Mee heads the dropping ball away from his dangerous boot.
67 min: The corner’s worked back to Brady, who takes a skelp from 25 yards. Allan blocks bravely.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
55 min: Brady comes bowling down the right and wins a corner off Godfrey. A few Burnley eyes light up.
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.
52 min: Nothing comes of the resulting corner.
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.
50 min: Brady and Lowton combine well on the right touchline, nearly opening Everton up. Not this time, but a nifty interchange nonetheless.
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.
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!
Everton get the second half underway. No half-time changes.
Half-time entertainment.
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.
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!
45 min +2: Brownhill is back on after a brief dab down with a wet sponge.
45 min +1: The first of three added minutes goes by without incident.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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