Everton 0-0 Newcastle United: Match Review

George Priestman from LiverpoolWorld covers the Everton game with all the key talking points.

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00:00Everton made it three games unbeaten in the league after drawing Milner with

00:03Newcastle at the weekend at Goodison Park. The big team news came with Jair

00:08Brantford who wasn't available for this game after suffering an injury in

00:11training which was again another blow for Everton having only just

00:15returned last weekend in the win over Crystal Palace.

00:18Despite that Everton started pretty strongly and had a goal ruled out for

00:21offside by Abdoulaye Diouf Khoury who's brilliant

00:24header from a brilliant James Garner cross was

00:27ruled out for offside but it was a strong start from Everton at that time.

00:32However James Tarkowski who has been an ever-present in Everton's

00:35lineup in the league since signing in 2022 made what was a very very rare

00:40mistake when he gave away a penalty for his

00:42foul on Sandro Tonali. Having rugby tackled the midfielder to

00:46the ground the VAR had no choice but to give a penalty

00:49and it was ex-Everton striker Anthony Gordon who stepped up

00:53to take the spot kick. He was met by plenty of cheers given that

00:58his exit from Everton was far from amicable in

01:012023 and when Jordan Pickford saved the penalty

01:04which was down to his right which was a brilliant save Everton fans were

01:08extremely happy to see an ex-player who definitely not loved by the fans anymore

01:13missed that spot kick but it was a huge chance for Newcastle and Jordan

01:17Pickford as always came to the rescue for Everton.

01:20Everton then had their own penalty shout turned down by

01:23the VAR and the referee on the day. Carver Lewin was seemingly brought down

01:27by Dan Byrne having already had a shot on target saved and

01:30he was just about to fire in the rebound

01:32but collided with the big centre-back and it looked like he impeded him

01:35but nothing was given. Sean Dyche was hugely frustrated after the game and

01:39called the incident bizarre and the Sky Sports RefWatch panel team

01:43Stephen Warnock claimed it was an astonishing moment that

01:46Everton were not given a penalty for that incident.

01:49But a point made it three games unbeaten and they remain 16th in the

01:52Premier League table two points ahead of Crystal Palace

01:55who are sat in the relegation zone and heading into the international break

01:59they have a chance now to see if they can get Brantwight fit and back for the

02:02fixtures that start in two weeks time and they do have a favourable fixture run

02:06now where they will look to put together a

02:09little bit of form and try and add some points to their tally

02:13and get up the table having what was being

02:15a very difficult start for them this season.