Spirited Everton Suffer Newcastle Defeat
9th March 2019
Calvert-Lewin’s headed goal – his eighth strike from 15 starts in all competitions this season – was a peach
- Everton were hit by three second-half goals as Newcastle United overturned a two-goal deficit to condemn the Blues to defeat at St James’ Park
- Salomon Rondon halved the deficit on 64 minutes. And fellow striker Ayoze Perez scored twice in quick succession late in the game to inflict a cruel defeat on Marco Silva’s team
- Digne scampered forward on the overlap and was the recipient of the most delicious reverse pass from Bernard – Bernard, in fact, was making a habit of this, delivering a carbon copy on the stroke of half-time which nearly played in Gylfi Sigurdsson
- Everton were firmly in the ascendancy at this point. Dubravka had saved from Sigurdsson inside 60 seconds. And even then, the Newcastle ‘keeper had already been called into action, given the hurry up by a fast-advancing Calvert-Lewin and forced to slash the ball clear from outside his box
NEWCASTLE, United Kingdom- Everton were hit by three second-half goals as Newcastle United overturned a two-goal deficit to condemn the Blues to defeat at St James’ Park.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison struck before half-time, with Jordan Pickford keeping out a penalty from Matt Ritchie when Everton were one goal to the good.
Salomon Rondon halved the deficit on 64 minutes. And fellow striker Ayoze Perez scored twice in quick succession late in the game to inflict a cruel defeat on Marco Silva’s team.
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Everton had appeared capable of opening up their hosts every time they crossed halfway in the first hour of a feisty contest.
Calvert-Lewin’s headed goal – his eighth strike from 15 starts in all competitions this season – was a peach.
Lucas Digne was the creator, the fourth time Everton’s left-back has crossed tellingly for the striker this term.
Digne scampered forward on the overlap and was the recipient of the most delicious reverse pass from Bernard – Bernard, in fact, was making a habit of this, delivering a carbon copy on the stroke of half-time which nearly played in Gylfi Sigurdsson.
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On this occasion, Digne lifted a cross to the near post where Calvert-Lewin arrived to flash his 18th-minute finish across Martin Dubravka and into the far corner.
Everton were firmly in the ascendancy at this point. Dubravka had saved from Sigurdsson inside 60 seconds. And even then, the Newcastle ‘keeper had already been called into action, given the hurry up by a fast-advancing Calvert-Lewin and forced to slash the ball clear from outside his box.
Sigurdsson had another effort blocked by defender Florian Lejeune after a slick one-two down the left saw Digne sprint onto Bernard’s pass to clip in a low ball.
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Fast forward to minute 32 and Everton’s second goal represented a kick to the solar plexus for the home team.
It came 60 seconds after Pickford made amends for fouling Rondon to concede a penalty by saving with his legs from wing-back Ritchie’s blast down the middle.
Everton sprang up the other end, refused to let Newcastle off the hook and, eventually, went two up.
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Richarlison had a fairly easy job to turn the ball home for his 11th Premier League goal this term after Dubravka could only push Andre Gomes’ low cross directly to the Brazilian’s feet.
Newcastle had not been without their chances, penalty aside. Perez was over with a looping header after Pickford punched out a Ritchie cross.
Fabian Schar was wildly off-target from distance shortly before he stretched out a leg at the other end to prevent Calvert-Lewin getting on the end of Sigurdsson’s curling cross from the right.
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