Everton and Stoke City had to settle for a stalemate at the Britannia Stadium on Tuesday, as their Premier League match ended in a 1-1 draw.
Peter Crouch’s own goal in the first half was cancelled out by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cameron-Jerome-c8284 in the 69th minute, who scored within two minutes after coming on as a substitute.
The draw enabled Everton to remain at the seventh place in the league table, after http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 were stunned 1-0 on the same night by Fulham at Anfield. The Toffees have now opened up a three points lead over their Merseyside rivals, and stretched their unbeaten
run in the league to seven games in a row.
On the other hand, a point out of the game helped the Potters leapfrog Norwich City to the 13th place and kept them in contention of a top-half finish.
The game got off to a quick start with both the sides exchanging a couple of early attacks. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sylvain-Distin-c34430 took Everton’s first attempt on goal from a corner
kick, but his header went off target.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Victor-Anichebe-c36018 made way for Magaye Gueye in the 22nd minute after picking up an injury.
Gueye aimed to make an immediate impact and made a probing run down the left-flank, but his decent cross was fired over the goal by the in-form striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Asmir-Begovic-c6841
who tipped the ball over for a corner.
However, the Toffees broke the deadlock at the stroke of halftime in a bizarre manner. Pienaar played a quick pass to Hibbert from a free-kick, who delivered a searching cross in a crowded Stoke box. Crouch made a desperate effort to make a clearance but
headed the ball into his own goal, to grant the initiative to the visitors.
However, the home side came out blazing after the halftime break and threatened in front of goal from set pieces. The Potters manager made a few adjustment mid way into the second half, as he brought off Crouch and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jonathan-c18993 Walters who made way for Jerome
and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ricardo-Fuller-c30989 respectively.
Jerome responded immediately to his manager’s move, as he scored the equalizer for the home team. The English International made a startling run from close to half-line, charged inside the Everton box and took a powerful shot at goal. The ball took a wicked
deflected of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Phil-Jagielka-c29902, before beating Tim Howard to the back of the net.
Both the sides could have scored the winner in the closing stages of the game, with Jerome firing his header over the crossbar from close range, and Leon Osman’s shot late in the game was blocked by the Stoke goalkeeper.
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