Everton hit by familiar weakness in defeat as Bournemouth taunt Toffees

Everton’s goalscoring woes continued in a 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth on the Vitality Stadium.

Sean Dyche’s workforce look more and more like being drawn right into a relegation combat as they failed to supply a shot on track in 90 minutes, as their poor run prolonged to 1 objective scored of their final 5 Premier League video games.

Their incapacity to hassle their hosts was made to look nearly comical by the benefit with which Bournemouth minimize by them repeatedly, and one other assured show made it 5 wins in eight for Andoni Iraola’s aspect.

The successful objective 13 minutes from time encapsulated all the pieces Everton weren’t. Milos Kerkez despatched a finely-calibrated cross into the field the place it arrived on the excellent top for David Brooks to skip into the air and, with the form of confidence that his workforce’s sensible season to date imbues, volleyed past Jordan Pickford into the far nook.

Goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga began on the bench having hung out at residence in Spain after his associate had given delivery to twins. Mark Travers deputised however Iraola needn’t have misplaced sleep over his choice in objective such was the absence of something like a menace from Everton.

The workforce had doggedly earned goalless stalemates towards Chelsea and Arsenal in December in addition to a deserved draw towards Manchester Metropolis, however this show had much less of a heroic really feel and extra one from a aspect with little thought and even much less ambition.

Bournemouth had been the higher workforce just about all through. Early on, Dean Huijsen’s flick-on helped an extended throw to achieve Dango Ouattara who scraped the ball goalwards, Pickford dropping well to his proper to avoid wasting.

Everton’s goalkeeper was relieved to see Antoine Semenyo’s deflected strike zip inches huge through Jarrad Branthwaite, then Evanilson dragged past the far put up after delicate footwork to create area contained in the field.

More and more because the half wore on, residence supporters railed towards what they deemed to be timewasting by the guests and there was little argument that Everton had been clinging on.

Semenyo burst down the proper and arrange Justin Kluivert with a devilish reverse cross, Pickford racing out to dam and rescue his defence as soon as once more as the group taunted away followers with “how do you watch this each week?”

With the ultimate play of the half, Huijsen appeared on the again put up from a deep cross however might solely angle his header onto the roof of the web as Everton slunk off at half-time grateful to be stage.

Bournemouth picked up the place that they had left off after the interval. Pickford bought right down to palm away a low drive from Semenyo, then produced his best save of the lot to forestall Ouattara from squeezing the ball contained in the put up from the sting of the field.

Defender Nathan Patterson seemed to take Everton’s goalscoring destiny into his personal fingers when he burst by the center and to inside vary of objective, earlier than demonstrating the identical form of eye for a end as his attacking team-mates and delivering the ball excessive into the Bournemouth supporters behind Travers.

It was starting to really feel destined to float in the direction of stalemate. Then up popped Brooks, rising to place his left foot by Kerkez’s cross to lastly get the higher of Pickford.