Bournemouths

David Brooks scored a beautiful volleyed objective 13 minutes from time to increase Bournemouth’s unbeaten Premier League run to a club-record eight video games and transfer the workforce three factors behind the Champions League locations.

The objective was the antithesis of an insipid Everton show as Sean Dyche’s workforce did not register a shot on the right track in 90 minutes, the prospect of a relegation scrap seeming unavoidable on this proof as their dreadful run prolonged to at least one objective of their final 5 matches.

For Bournemouth, the unlikely goal of a first-ever European qualification appears to be like more and more inside attain, however head coach Andoni Iraola was fast to deflect reward on to his gamers.

“I don’t play, the essential half is those who had been on the pitch,” mentioned Iraola. “I’m joyful as a result of it’s not simple to go eight video games unbeaten within the Premier League.

“Now we’re enjoying 4 groups which can be forward of us within the prime 5, it’s going to be harder to maintain the run going. However no less than we wish to preserve the efficiency stage and provides us an opportunity in opposition to anybody.”

Bournemouth’s credentials might be examined on that run during which they face Chelsea, Nottingham Forest, Newcastle and Liverpool however ought to they nonetheless sit inside hanging distance of the highest 4 come the beginning of February, supporters will rightly begin to dream.

‘We have to change the quantity of pictures we get on the right track’

Bournemouth’s type gives a stark distinction for Dyche’s Everton, whose attacking woes had been compounded when striker Armando Broja was pressured off injured within the first half. Reflecting on one more clean drawn by his shot-shy workforce, Dyche mentioned: “We have to change the quantity of pictures we get on the right track.

“We’ve definitely been attempting for 2 years to do this. It’s very troublesome to search out gamers who’ve that innovative, ones who can rating a objective.

“It’s the truth. I didn’t know the truth once I first obtained right here, it has shifted considerably. However these are the realities.

“That is the squad, these are the gamers we’ve obtained, that is attempting to continually maintain gamers right into a extra offensive unit while defending correctly.

“No assurances of any form. Each time that whistle blows, no supervisor can guarantee a end result goes your means.”

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

It was starting to really feel destined to float in the direction of stalemate. Then up popped Brooks.

The profitable objective encapsulated all the things Everton weren’t. Milos Kerkez despatched a finely-calibrated cross into the field the place it arrived on the good top for Brooks to skip into the air and, with the sort of confidence that his workforce’s good season thus far imbues, volley past Jordan Pickford into the far nook.

“We actually deserved this one,” mentioned Iraola. “We had been controlling the sport because the starting, we knew in opposition to Everton it’s troublesome to attain as a result of they’ve an excellent keeper and good centre-backs.

“We had the persistence. In all probability we must always have scored earlier. I believe everybody watching the sport was feeling that the objective was coming.”