Everton 1-0 Sheffield Utd: Live | Gomes and Dobbin, Doucoure and McNeil

69′ – Everton substitutes – Abdoulaye Doucoure comes on for Andre Gomes and Dwight McNeil for Lewis Dobbin. Gomes’ 100th Premier League game for the Blues.

68′ – Brereton Diaz comes in late and shoots at Onana with the ball well out. Attwell comes on and gives him a talking to but it’s pretty clear the referee has no control over this game.

66′ – Dangerous cross into the Everton box, Young does well to head past Brereton-Diaz and although his header goes last, it’s a shot wide of the goal. Attwell’s third mistake today on corners/goal kicks.

63′ – Arblaster departs before further trouble, with teenager Curtis coming on to make his debut.
Free kick by Young into the box, Foderingham needs a couple of tackles to pick the ball up.

57′ – Brereton Diaz sends a wild shot over. Now he has the ball in the box again and Tarky, clever enough, gets across to block for a corner.
Taken short, shot attempt blocked and Garner breaks.

55′ – Arblaster slips and hits Garner. Yellow card, looked pretty bad, but the Everton player is up again.
Double change for the Blades, with Slimane and Lowe on, Brooks and Larouci off.

52′ – Garner tries to get in and takes a weaker left-footed shot, and it’s exciting.
He feeds Doucs running down the right lane, the ball comes back to Garner and this time he tries a right footed shot that is blocked.

49′ – Delightful cross here, Onana finds Gana in space on the right in the box, not quite a shot opportunity and Gueye passes it back to Onana whose shot is deflected into the corner.
Now the corner goes to Gana and he takes a shot which is also partially blocked and goes over.. and the hapless Stuart Atwell scores?! Goodison is confused and noisy about it. The second corner the Blues have been denied in this game.

47′ – Immediately Everton keep the ball in the opposition half, pass it carefully and try to make that decisive final pass.

46′ – Second half underway.

Halftime Thoughts – It wasn’t nearly as bad as we expected. A beautiful, sunny day and the Blues lead at half-time, playing decently enough.

45+3′ – The half-time whistle follows.

45+1′ – Everton corner from a cross blocked by Coleman. Foderingham hits hard then collects the rebound.
Now a Garner cross, but Doucs can’t make solid contact, wide.

44′ – Sheffield corner after Tarky blocks an attempted cross from Archer. The ball flies into the box before Garner clears and puts McNeil on the break. He finds Doucoure going through the middle but he flies onto the ball and is eventually covered by three defenders.
Three minutes to add here.

39′ – Save Pickford! Sheffield with the best move of the game with a number of yellow shirts in the box but the England #1 is quick off his line and makes a brilliant tackle/save.
Now Brooks steps in and takes a shot and Pickford saves again. Everton take their foot off the pedal here.

35′ – Argy-bargy here and what’s that?! DCL and Robinson go up for a high ball with the Everton player leading with his shoulder. Captain Blades is livid and has a bloody thrust into the chest of the flying DCL. Somehow, the referee books both players?! How is Robinson doing on the field? How to book Dom?

31′ – GOAL! Flowing movement here, with Doucoure banishing his ghosts from a yard or so. DCL brings a high ball down the middle of the field, passes it to Onana, then to Gana who catches McNeil and finds DCL screaming down the left. Dom rounds the keeper and sends a cross into the six yard box where Doucs heads home, 1-0 to the Blues and deservedly so.

30′ – Arcaș tries a speculative shot from distance, scored twice against the Blues in the previous game from similar efforts, but it goes well wide.

29′ – DCL are certainly feeling their oats today, they make some space and fire in a mower from outside the box, a deflection takes the sting out of the shot and the keeper bundles it wide.

27′ – Ben Brereton Diaz can break but Ashley Young, almost 39, comes screaming down the length of the pitch to stick a boot in and steal the ball, with Branthwaite in close attendance.

25′ – McNeil ventures well up the middle, splashes the ball wide of Young, his cross is easily taken by Foderingham. Goodison is full of life, not because of the quality of play on the pitch, more because we are at the end of the season.

21′ – Everton are doing well on the ball, right into the Blades box where they run out of ideas and it all breaks down there.

18′- Brooks fouls Onana in an aerial challenge and it’s a free kick from a promising position. Terrible, terrible free kick and the opportunity is gone.

13′ – Doucs, my God! DCL does brilliantly to get behind the backline to a long ball, brings it down so well and then feeds Doucoure’s run… and the midfielder, one on one with the keeper, hits straight at Foderingham!
The Blues get a corner from which the Blades eventually clear, argh. Doucs’ form has been abysmal since his return from injury.

10′ – Hamer just tackles McNeil as the Everton man runs off on the break, but the referee doesn’t deserve a card.
The free-kick from the middle eventually goes to Doucoure in the air, his header is tamed at Foderingham and he was offside anyway.

5′ – Ashley Young makes a run down the left and a corner is denied by a referee’s miss, and a howl of outrage goes up, but it doesn’t drive away the noise of the party going through the stands.

3′ – Dominic Calvert-Lewin looks lively today, tries a shot straight at the keeper from a tight angle.

1′ – Under way at Goodison Park for the last time this season.

Everton – Sean Dyche hands off to club captain Seamus Coleman and Amadou Onana.

Sheffield United –

Everton will go into their final home game of the season with the satisfaction of securing Premier League safety in time, having faced one of the most adverse seasons in the club’s history. Positive updates from a dream new stadium have been sandwiched between Premier League points deductions for somewhat harshly enforced profit and sustainability rules and a horribly failed takeover of the club from 777 Partners Worldwide.

Today’s opponents, Sheffield United, are the bottom club in the league and have already been relegated and will be playing for pride. Goodison Park failed to serenade the Everton players on their tour of honor, given how pitch invasions have been expressions of relief in recent years, but a quiet spring afternoon should once again be a opportunity for that today.

Competition: Premier League Week 37

Start date and time: Saturday, May 11 at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET / 3:00pm BST

Stage: Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Capacity: 39,572

Times: 73°F/23°C, mostly cloudy, 0% chance of precipitation, 13 mph winds

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Everton gave the Blades far too much respect and space in the first leg of this match, with both sides trading chances and goals in a 2-2 draw, but it was only Jordan Pickford’s heroics in the 99th minute that kept them two or McBurnie, with miraculous saves. kept the point for the Blues.

Sheffield United last visited Goodison in May 2021 when they beat a gassy Toffees side under Carlo Ancelotti 1-0 behind closed doors. Everton could still have made it to Europe at that point, but defeat put paid to that, leaving the Blues to wonder how they could have fared under the Italian maestro in the continental competition.