Premier League - Burnley down Everton

Eurosport - Sun, 23 Aug 18:19:00 2009

Burnley secured their second Premier League win of the season with a 1-0 victory over Everton at Turf Moor.

FOOTBALL 2009-2010 Premier League Burnley Wade Elliott - 0

Having started the brighter, Burnley took the lead against a backdrop of Everton pressure and chances, Wade Elliott guiding the ball past Tim Howard via a Phil Neville deflection.

Everton had plenty of chances to draw level; the most notable of which was a Louis Saha penalty that he arched wide of the post, but last year's fifth-placed side lie bottom of the league following two defeats from their opening two games.

Clearly still carrying some psychological baggage from last weekend's 6-1 mauling at the hands of Arsenal, Everton started nervously and were almost behind after a minute.

The Toffees looked uncharacteristically unorganised, and Martin Paterson was left unmarked to thud a header against the bar before Joseph Yobo cleared.

Unable to shake the cobwebs, the Toffees found themselves under siege and if it were not for two timely Neville interceptions they could have been at least a goal down within the opening 15 minutes.

Having settled, the Merseyside club began to find fluidity and worked the ball well for Tony Hibbert. The right-back's cross was tantalisingly close to the out-stretched boot of Saha.

Now in control of the midfield, Everton were exposing gaps behind the Burnley full-backs. This time Steven Pienaar cut inside to fire goal-wards but the imposing figure of Clark Carlisle blocked the South African's effort.

Just as it seemed a matter of time before Everton took the lead, Elliott struck a sucker punch.

Having picked up a loose ball, Steven Fletcher found Elliott just inside the box. The winger opened his body and tried to whip the ball around Neville and into Howard's top right-hand corner - it was probably going in anyway but the deflection left Howard with no chance.

Everton just about edged a poor first half but couldn't muster an equaliser.

The visitors, although chasing the game, persisted with Saha up front on his own as late as the 66th minute. With the introduction of Jo, Everton instantly looked more threatening.

The Brazilian flashed a couple of efforts wide before Hibbert charged forward to win a dubious penalty, which Saha dragged wide.

Everton went on to dominate and Saha had the ball in the net only for referee Phil Dowd to disallow it for an infringement. Yet, Saha appeared galvanised by his penalty miss and struck a beautiful half-volley just wide.

Burnley had the odd break away chance, the pick of which was Chris McCann's wonderfully improvised overhead kick that Howard was equal to.

Bikey gave Everton one last chance to salvage a draw but Jo could only fire the free-kick straight at the wall.

Marcus Foley / Eurosport

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  1. Ref comment 64 please excuse my ignorance who the heck­ is Zaki when he's at home ?

    From Ross H, on Mon 24 Aug 6:42PM

  2. Only three games gone and Burnley hit the headlines. ­ It is upsets like this which is good for the Premier­ League. How boring would it be if it was similar to the­ Scottish Premier League where it is a two horse race­ season after season. This is no fault of Celtic and­ Rangers who to be quite brutal need to be competing­ with the likes of Liverpool, Man U. Chelsea, Arsenal­ and the team in form Spurs. on a regular basis.­ Apologies to other Scottish sides.

    From Ross H, on Mon 24 Aug 6:33PM

  3. When Zaki will sign for Burnley?
    he isn`t bad player
    i­ hope he can join Burnley
    he will do very well
    i am sure

    From yoab m, on Mon 24 Aug 3:31PM

  4. XD Burnley seem to be trying to win the EPL lol

    From Farjina, on Mon 24 Aug 1:25PM

  5. Superb Burnley, you gave us a right battering and much­ needed, you could have won the match by 2 or 3 more, we­ started and continued to look second place to your­ teams determination and effort.
    If you carry on like­ this you will be looking at a top 5 finish to the­ season !! and we will be where we deserve to be along­ with BLACKBURN at the bottom..
    From an Evertonian fan­ and exile

    From jetchem1991, on Mon 24 Aug 12:50PM

  6. What the hell are some of you so called football fans­ on? Burnley where riding their look again like they did­ against united, and good look to them. They got their­ goal adn defended it. That is football for you, and at­ times you can play world class and still loose to a­ team that is nowere near as good as yours but you­ loose. If you ever played football yourself you know­ what i am talking about. So come on and stop getting on­ your managers and players back and just applaude the­ other team for winning, even if it hurts, like i did­ when we lost last week. You never know, your team might­ beat liverpool or chelsea next and all is forgotten.

    From detlevmeyer, on Mon 24 Aug 12:43PM

  7. Excellent stuff Burnley!!...always had a soft spot for­ the clarets.... love from a City fan!.

    From Chris W, on Mon 24 Aug 11:08AM

  8. Hey andrew n. You a toffee. You don't even know the­ name of your team manager. It's "Moyes".­ and he is the root of all your problems so far this­ season...

    From Omser, on Mon 24 Aug 8:53AM

  9. Kudos to Burnley, keep it up !!

    From ispurs, on Mon 24 Aug 7:42AM

  10. everton chavs innit

    From xlylalsfnglaw, on Mon 24 Aug 5:35AM

  11. donney i not upset about the money we lose . but we­ shouldn't losse like this?? at least we should be­ draw if we awy with this team, am i correct?? i­ beleived i will get it back next round.
    everton is one­ of the good team not like berby or leed ok. if we lose­ again wwith the normald good team then i should shut up­ and quiet ok, but this team we again now is just lucky­ to win on play off from the behind of champion­ ship.
    moyle if the player dont want to stay with us­ just kick his bum sell him and forgust to the new good­ player man
    my self i hate any player like that. they­ should known behind the football there is the heart­ relationship at weel.without the current club is you­ guy going tobe this good. what the f.

    From andrew n, on Mon 24 Aug 2:08AM

  12. hi everyone i still dont understand why all the coach­ always leaves all the good player on the bench when­ they play away ??????? until the lost behind and then­ put them on try to equalist back?????????? like this­ game??????
    moyle wake up man , dont do like this again­ man.you hurt my feeling moyle.

    From andrew n, on Mon 24 Aug 1:54AM

  13. come on everton what kind of the football of you played­ man??
    i bet on 10 legs of multi and it come good result­ of the 9 except on you man everton?
    moye did you known­ you took away of my $237.000 dollars ticket just for­ you to win or draw
    what are f
    how can we trust your guy­ again man??
    hey the team you play with is bunley it not­ arsenal ,liverpool,m u ,chelsea.
    come on wake up­ man.
    you dont want to lose all your fan­ yet???????????????????

    From andrew n, on Mon 24 Aug 1:24AM

  14. beers will be on Billy Ken tonight......Moyes wont see­ much of it that's for sure.....greedy scoucers the­ lot of um!

    From Brizzie Blue, on Mon 24 Aug 1:04AM

  15. It was Lescott's doing for screwing up the heads of­ the players. And the way he played the first game of­ the season he did that out of spite! Just hope DM has­ someone lined up ready as we do need fresh blood in the­ team. But to be honest I don't think we will get­ out of the bottom half till after the Jan window where­ DM have more time to buy players. Then we could rise up­ to the top half but to be honest I don't think we­ be up there in the top 5 this year. Plus DM has got to­ get rid of Hibbert He way past it and he proved it yet­ again. Just some time soon we can get on and win a game­ and start to move on after the Lescott mess. As many­ said money rules the game now! And I can't see why­ DM get the blame? It down to the players at the end of­ the day and there no funding for DM to buy decent­ players so now we could get money from Lescott and get­ some fresh legs in and see if they can prove me wrong!.­ From a Everton supporter.

    From j.s.jones73, on Mon 24 Aug 12:13AM

  16. everton are @#$%

    From xlylalsfnglaw, on Sun 23 Aug 11:34PM

  17. WILLIAM, it has to do with Lescott saga. Such drama­ impacts on all players and not only him. Moyes should­ have sold him quickly instead of thinking he can say­ say ''No'' and things would be back to­ normal. But I believe Everton will bounce back in time­ to mount a CL qualification pressure.

    From Half A Brain, on Sun 23 Aug 10:35PM

  18. I do not know why Everton appear to have lost so much­ confidence playing in the Premiership. The team seem to­ go into each game expecting to lose and until the­ players believe in themselves and play as well as they­ know they can play our awful run could well continue. I­ am amazed that Moyes has not been able to provide the­ motivation required. Everton have to realise that if­ you lose the first four games the chances of setting up­ a winning run becomes much more difficult and as we­ have seen in the past Everton are not that good at­ getting off the bottom.

    From WILLIAM, on Sun 23 Aug 10:03PM

  19. two games in and so many *hit comments,EVERTON will­ bounce back an finish higher than most so go *u ck your­ self

    From dirk pitt, on Sun 23 Aug 9:56PM

  20. burnley will foul like hull

    From Tinkara, on Sun 23 Aug 9:26PM
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