Everton 0-2 Nottingham Forest: Live | Beto on to Broja

78′ – Lindstrom swings in, Sels and Branthwaite collide and the keeper wins it.

76′ – Free kick for the Blues in their own half, Pickford’s long ball goes to nobody and bounces clean through to Sels. What was the plan there, we all want to know?
Now Ndiaye is fouled by Aina, the referee takes advantage and finally blows for a foul as the Everton player is bundled over.
Free kick to the left, Lindstrom to take, from the wall, corner.

74′ – Shorter cross from Patto this time, Mangala nips in front and his side-footed shot goes into the side netting.
Broja comes off now, with Beto on. Gibbs-White is also leaving the game, as is Wood.

71′ – Patto immediately wins a corner on the right side. Lindstrøm to take, low and poor. Comes back to him and his left foot attempt is better, comes off the back of DCL and then clears.
Excellent cross from Patto, just above Broja, just short of DCL. Everton are still trying.

68′ – Interesting double switch now, looks like Dyche is going to make a run for it after all. Calvert-Lewin is on for Gueye with Patterson replacing Young. Expect Doucoure to drop into midfield and Broja to play out of the DCL.
Nuno Gomes has gone for his Wolves favorite Willy Boly, leaving with Sosa, three defenders to counter Everton’s two strikers. Boly straight into the book for wasting time.

64′ – Oh boy. Pickford wastes a shot, reacts quickly to the rebound shot and then does very well to save a third shot.
The corner is cleared for another one. MGW takes it again and it’s off to another corner. Pickford cushions the ball away and has been cautioned. The third is cleared.

61′ – Shambles from Everton and it’s in the back of the net, 2-0 to Forest. Gibbs-White appears to have hounded Mangala with a hand in the midfielder’s face, but the referee says play on. It turns into a counter, which Doucoure then fluffs his defensive lines on, with the ball coming back to Elanga and then Wood, who finds Gibbs-White to slot it past Pickford, with Everton stretched and not a defender to be found near ​​the ball. Game over looks.

58′ – Good work from Ndiaye who wins the ball back after losing it, finds Doucoure who feeds it to Lindstrom, the winger cuts in and shoots, the ball doesn’t arc back and goes wide.
Calvert-Lewin is warming up now, but will Dyche stick with one striker or take Doucoure instead?

Hmm, that flag looks familiar!

53′ – Lindstrom slips and Forest have a 4-on-3, Gibbs-White tries to curl in a shot that goes horribly wrong, Blues survive again.
Now Branthwaite is booked for a solid challenge on Gibbs-White – sometimes they’re given as fouls, sometimes they’re good, what do you say.

51′ – Everton press high and Tarky steals the ball close to the box, the ball bubbles to Doucoure who tries to turn and shoot, blocked.
Good hustle from the Blues but need a moment or three of magic to get a goal,

47′ – Elanga deceives Myko and runs free in space, goes down easily as Gana presses him and the Everton midfielder is shown a yellow card. Free kick about 25 yards out, Gibbs-White over it, short for Elanga and Myko clears. The ball bounces back into the box and Milenkovic wants a penalty as Branthwaite held his shirt, the referee listens to VAR and thinks there is no problem here. Not much different from the punishment the Blues wanted when the same pair collided in the other box.

46′ – Everton have made the one change at half-time with the woeful Jack Harrison off and Jesper Lindstrom on for him.
Good move for the Blues with a right-footed cross from Myko going just over Lindstrom.

Halftime thoughts – Everton didn’t do enough in the attacking half to warrant anything out of this game and were caught out on the counter allowing Forest to grab the opening. There will only be more of this in the second half as Forest double down on defending and beating the Blues on the counter.

45+2′ – Broja is down holding his back as play continues and eventually the half-time whistle blows so he can get some attention. Everton go into the break with 1-0 to Forest.

45+1′ – Phew, quick chance for Forest through the middle, but Sosa puts his shot just wide.

45′ – Tarky with a very good sliding tackle on Wood, it had to be with him on a yellow. The striker goes down anyway and wants a foul. The ref gives a drop ball which Wood doesn’t let Pickford kick away and Goodison bounces high.
Two minutes must be added here.

44′ – Williams wins a cheap free-kick from Broja and the striker is quite distraught. Goodison agree with the on-loan striker.
Oooh, Broja creates a chance and then hammers it into the goal with his left foot from outside the box, flying past the far post.

41′ – Argh. Quick counter for the Blues from a throw-in on the right, comes to Myko as Forest is stretched at the back and the cross from the Ukraine international is crossed and it goes wide.

37′ – Direct football almost works for the blues. Myko in space, quick cross and Morato does well to get between two blue shirts to head clear.
Now Branthwaite charges into the box with the ball at his feet and his opponent has a handful of his shirt and beats him over, but the referee is not interested in the penalty shouts ringing around Goodison as the Everton defender goes down.

32′ – Oh! Broja starts a move in the left channel, finds Myko, whose cross is headed into the goal by Broja, but slips past.

30′ – Another wasted chance. Everton free kick from midfield into the box, the ball is recycled by Mangala’s cross to Harrison who tries to beat two men and promptly loses the ball and fouls an opponent.

27′ – Good cross now from Myko, but Broja can only kick it on and off target. There isn’t really anyone attacking the penalty spot and the six-yard box right now.

24′ – Goalless cross from Ndiaye goes over Broja and out. Not quite training for the Blues, must keep the ball.
Long aerial from Tarky finds Broja in the box, he shows exquisite control to bring it down but the ball slips away from him.

21′ – Aina’s mistake wins the Blues another corner. Inswinger from Young, Branthwaite gets his shoulder on it, over and out.

19′ – Broja wins a corner from Anderson, first opportunity for the Blues on set pieces. Ndiaye to take from the right, played short to Harrison and his backheel to Ndiaye is blocked and the chance is wasted. Oh.

15′ – Ndiaye attacks with speed but can’t beat his man one-on-one. Forest counter now, and just like that they are ahead.
Chris Wood gets the opener with a superb padded volley. Wood beats Tarky to a long ball, Elanga finds him back in space and with the centre-halves in disarray, the striker scores again this season, 1-0 Forest.

12′ – Tarky shields the ball well in the middle third and somehow gets to the box with the ball at his feet, plays it through to Broja but his flick doesn’t quite work.
Now Elanga has a yard or two on Mykolenko and swings a cross, Wood is unmarked but can’t put the target on target. The Blues can’t keep giving away opportunities like that.

11′ – Skov counters with speed from a Harrison giveaway, the Blues defend well and the ball comes to Wood, who tries a volley from distance that is way wide.

8′ – Come on referee. Tarky overpowers the ball and follows up with a heavy but fair tackle and somehow referee Tony Richardson judges it not only a foul but worthy of a booking!

7′ – Broja’s first involvement should have won the Blues a corner, but the assistant referee signals a goal kick and he is booed.

5′ – Branthwaite makes a poor clearance and then Pickford comes out wide to collect a ball which Tarkowksi hacks away poorly. Miscommunication early on here.
Brilliant run from Ndiaye there! Turns between two Forest players and then gets into a shooting position at the edge of the box and shoots wildly over, ex.

2′- Early free kick for the Blues as Harrison is brought down. Skov can clear something before Elanga tries to drive free, but loses the ball.

1′ – Gana gets us started.
There was one change to the Forest starting line-up, with Ramón Sosa replacing Murillo, who tweaked something during the warm-up/

For the last time in 2024, Everton came out to the air raid siren followed by the dim notes of Z-Cars. The Blues’ first ever league match was against Nottingham Forest on 3 September 1892, ending in a 2–2 scoreline.

We have a minute’s applause here to remember all the Evertonians who passed away this year.

Everton: Dyche finally pulls the plug on the Calvert-Lewin affair and gives Broja his first start, although Harrison inexplicably keeps his place.

Nottingham Forest: No changes for the visitors.

Everton’s season continues on a strange track, where they can’t score and don’t win games, but have tightened up the defense so they don’t get beaten either. Draws against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City to be celebrated in any given year, but with the Toffees struggling to beat teams around them, they still sit just above the relegation zone.

Visitors Nottingham Forest, on the other hand, are having a rare Midas-esque season where everything they touch has turned to gold. Forest sit in fourth place at the moment and with Manchester City, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United they have taken full advantage of the situation.

Competition: Premier League Matchweek 19

Date and start time: Sunday 29 December at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET / 3:00pm BST

Stadium: Goodison Park, Liverpool, EnglandGreat Britain

Capacity: 39,572

Weather: 45°F/7°C, partly cloudy, 5% chance of precipitation, 9 mph wind

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Forest and Everton were neck and neck for much of last season as both clubs saw the Premier League deduct points for breaches of profit and sustainability rules, but both survived the drop comfortably in the end.

The Blues had the edge over Forest last season when they did the double, a 1-0 win thanks to Dwight McNeil at the City Ground followed by a 2-0 win with Idrissa Gueye and McNeil again scoring the goals at the end of ​The April clash at Goodison.