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13 min Everton are coming into the game. Garner’s beautiful return pass releases Grealish on the left side of the area; his cutback is met by Dewsbury-Hall, whose shot is blocked. The ball rebounds to Garner, who belts well wide from the edge of the area.
11 min Mykolenko arrows a ball into the box for Tarkowski, still up following a corner. He chests it down to Keane, who waits for the ball to bounce and whacks a shot from the edge of the area that deflects over the bar.
The resulting corner is headed over under pressure by Barry. Very tough chance.
8 min: Chance for Newcastle An early ball in from the left is smartly controlled by Barnes, who then rakes a shot that is blocked by the lunging Keane and deflects safely across goal.
I think Barnes’ original shot was going wide but I wouldn’t put the farm on it.
6 min Thiaw’s goal came after 58 seconds, making it the fastest in the Premier League this season. Phil Foden scored after 59 seconds for Manchester City against Leeds earlier today.
3 min Livramento plays a one-two in midfield and guides a through pass that is crucially cut out by Tarkowski. Newcastle have made the perkiest of starts to the game.
GOAL! Everton 0-1 Newcastle (Thiaw 1)
A wicked inswinging corner from Lewis Miley is headed in from three yards by Malick Thiaw. It was a good header, steered decisively wide of Pickford, but the delivery from Miley was outstanding.
19 secs: Pickford denies Elanga! An early chance for newcastle. Woltemade sturns Keane expertly in the centre circle and slides a simple pass that allows Elanga to stretch his legs. He’s too quick for O’Brien and slides a slightly tame low shot that is pushed round the post by Pickford. No matter, because from the corner…
1 min Everton kick off from right to left as we watch. Newcastle are wearing their green change strip due to a clash with Ever- oh.
“G’day Rob,” writes Chris Paraskevas. “Hope you’re well! You might think that I struggled to wake up for this 4.30am kick-off but some exciting wildlife developments mean that there are now four different species of animal that wakes me up each morning before my alarm goes off:
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The Amazonian Parrot next door (classic)
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The local Australian King Parrots (I’m not kidding: a male and female couple have started loitering around too)
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The local magpie squadron
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The puppy next door.
“Given I’m operating within a daily parameter of a maximum one hour of peace and quiet, snapping our losing streak away would really help ‘quieten the noise’ from both Eddie Howe’s critics and the local wildlife.”
The players are ready for action and will be happy when they can start running: it looks freezing on Merseyside, and it’s raining as well. Not a night to be wearing short shorts.
Premier League results
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Brentford 3-1 Burnley
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Manchester City 3-2 Leeds
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Sunderland 3-2 Bournemouth
Brian Brobbery scored the winner for high-flying Sunderland, who were 2-0 down after 15 minutes at the Stadium of Light. Manchester City lost a 2-0 lead at home to to Leeds before Phil Foden scored an injury-time euphoria-inducer, and the prolific Igor Thiago added two more goals in Brentford’s win over Burnley.
Eddie Howe says Nick Pope injured his groin during training yesterday, hence his absence today.
Team news: Ramsdale starts for Newcastle
Everton manager David Moyes makes two changes, both enforced, from the win at Old Trafford. Jake O’Brien replaces the injured Seamus Coleman at right-back; Tim Iroegbunam covers for the suspended Idrissa Gueye.
Aaron Ramsdale starts in goal for Newcastle, but Nick Pope hasn’t necessarily been dropped; he’s not in the matchday squad. That’s one of six changes to the XI that started the defeat to Marseille. Lewis Hall, Joelinton, Lewis Miley, Nick Woltemade and Anthony Elanga replace Fabian Schar, Sandro Tonali, Joe Willock, Anthony Gordon and Jacob Murphy.
Everton (4-2-3-1) Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko; Garner, Iroegbunam; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish; Barry.
Subs: Travers, King, McNeil, Beto, Dibling, Alcaraz, Aznou, Welch, Campbell.
Newcastle (4-3-3) Ramsdale; Livramento, Thiaw, Burn, Hall; Miley, Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton; Elanga, Woltemade, Barnes.
Subs: Ruddy, Schar, Tonali, Gordon, J Murphy, Willock, A Murphy, Ramsey, Neave.
Referee Craig Pawson.
There are three early games in the Premier League. Barry Glendenning has the latest news from that little 3pm triptych.
Preamble
Wotcha. Saturday night, according to Watford legend Elton John, is tickety-boo for fighting. But Everton got those primal urges out of their system at Old Trafford on Monday, so now they can concentrate on the more wholesome task of beating Newcastle at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
If they do, it will continue a quietly impressive start to the season. Everton start this game in the bottom half of the table – but it’s Spandex-tight in there and they’re only five points behind Chelsea, who were second at the start of the day. “That’s what I do – I win,” said David Moyes when he returned to West Ham in 2019. Everton’s outstanding victory at Old Trafford was Moyes’ 282nd in the Premier League; only Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have won more.
Newcastle, who have finished fourth, seventh and fifth in the last three seasons, are down in 14th and could do with some promethazine hydrochloride. Couldn’t we all. Travel sickness is a recurring problem for Eddie Howe’s team, with their only win in eight attempts coming against Union Saint-Gilloise.
They have two winnable home games – Spurs and Burnley – up next, so this would be a good day to get their Premier League season on the road.
Kick off 5.30pm.
