CHERRY ON TOP
Daily Star Sunday|January 05, 2025
Brooks strikes to pick hole in toothless Toffees
Robert O'Connor
CHERRY ON TOP

EVERTON’S goalscoring woes continued at the Vitality Stadium.

Sean Dyche’s team look increasingly likely to be drawn into a relegation fight as they failed to produce a shot on target in 90 minutes, their poor run extended to one goal scored in their last five Premier League games.

Their inability to trouble their hosts was made to look almost comical by the ease with which Bournemouth cut through them, and another assured display made it five wins in eight for Andoni Iraola’s side.

The winning goal 13 minutes from time summed up everything Everton were not.

Milos Kerkez sent a fine cross into the box where it arrived at the perfect height for David Brooks to skip into the air and volley beyond Jordan Pickford into the far corner.

This story is from the January 05, 2025 edition of Daily Star Sunday.

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