Everton moved out of the Premier League relegation zone with a ruthless 5-1 win at Brighton on Monday, while Leicester’s hopes of survival are hanging by a thread after a 5-3 defeat at Fulham.
Everton moved out of the Premier League deportation zone with a ruthless 5- 1 palm at Brighton on Monday, while Leicester’s expedients of survival are hanging by a thread after a 5- 3 defeat at Fulham.
Nottingham Forest also pulled itself clear of the nethermost three as it beat fellow struggler Southampton 4- 3.
Brighton is in the quest to qualify for Europe for the first time in the club’s history, but a heavy schedule appeared to have taken its risk on Roberto De Zerbi’s men as they were torn piecemeal by an Everton side that hadn’t won down since October.
The Toffees had the dream start as Abdoulaye Doucoure opened the scoring after just 34 seconds.
Doucoure’s brilliant blitz from Dwight McNeil’s cross doubled Everton’s lead before Brighton goalkeeper Jason Steele veered McNeil’s cross into his own net.
De Zerbi responded by making four half- time negotiations and Brighton peppered the Everton thing but was caught out on the counter-attack when McNeil showed great poise to round Steele to make it 4- 0.
Alexis Mac Allister pulled a thing back after Kaoru Mitoma’s original trouble came off the post.
But McNeil had the final say-so as he rounded off a glowing performance by smashing into the top corner in cessation time.
A first palm in eight games lifts Sean Dyche’s men two points clear of the drop zone.
“It’s a quality of performance that we want to make, ” Dyche said. “ It shows it’s in there- it’s the thickness I ’ve been searching for. ”
Brighton remains in seventh, two points behind Tottenham with two games in hand, but its outside shot at a top- four finish appears gone.
Leicester master Dean Smith admitted his players are floundering with the pressures of a deportation battle after a disastrous protective display at Craven Cottage.
The Foxes, who astoundingly won the Premier League in 2016 and lifted the FA Cup two times agone, are gaping deportation in the face.
Palms for Everton and Forest pushed Leicester into the deportation zone and they also face a tough run- heft with titleholders League- chasing Liverpool and Newcastle to come ahead ending the season at home to West Ham.
Only Leeds and Bournemouth have conceded more pretensions than Leicester in the Premier League and protective scarcities were again its undoing at Craven Cottage.
Pretensions from Willian, Carlos Vinicius and Tom Cairney put Fulham 3- 0 up before half- time.
“The first- half is what killed us, ” said Smith. “ You can’t give three- thing leads at this position and anticipate to come back. ”
“Some of them are floundering mentally with the pressures, but that’s for me and the coaching staff to sort out and pick the right platoon. ”
Cairney and Willian struck again on either side of Harvey Barnes ’ consolation thing to make it 5- 1.
Jamie Vardy also saw Leicester’s first penalty of the game saved by Bernd Leno in an action- packed alternate half before the callers pulled two further pretensions back in the final 10 twinkles.
James Maddison converted a alternate penalty before Barnes attacked to make it 5- 3 after a calamitous protective blend- up between Shane Duffy and Leno.
Timber moved three points clear of the drop zone in a seven- thing suspenser that nearly sealed Southampton’s fate.
“There was so important that went on in the game, ” said Forest master Steve Cooper. “ I’m pleased with some of the quality we showed in attack, creating chances and scoring, but we didn’t cover ourselves in glory with the pretensions we conceded. ”
Two pretensions in three twinkles from Taiwo Awoniyi put timber on the road to palm before Carlos Alcaraz pulled a thing back.
Morgan Gibbs- White restored the hosts ’ two- thing lead from the penalty spot, but they had to survive some nervy moments after Lyanco’s title made it 3- 2 early in the alternate half.
Danilo rounded off a fine platoon move 17 twinkles from time to give Cooper’s men breathing space at the bottom despite James Ward- Prowse’s penalty in cessation time cutting the arrears formerly more. Know More Football News…
