The final score is Everton 1-2 Bournemouth. Rayan & Adli's goals in 4 minutes smashed Everton's hope for a second win in February.
2025/2026 Premier League
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Match Report:
Hill Dickinson Stadium is no place like home for Everton. Not yet, anyway. Sixth place and momentum in the push for European qualification was the tantalising prize for beating Bournemouth but, not for the first time at their plush new stadium, David Moyes’s team let it slip through their grasp.
Andoni Iraola’s visitors extended their unbeaten Premier League run to six games courtesy of second-half headers from Rayan, the 19-year-old Brazilian who could well be their latest gem, and Amine Adli. Bournemouth’s goals and a red card for the Everton defender Jake O’Brien arrived in an eight-minute spell in which the hosts imploded to leave themselves without a home win since 6 December. Moyes’s side have collected 17 points from their last eight away games but only eight from the last nine at home. Their quest for Europe is floundering on home soil.
“We missed a couple of good chances to get the second goal so we only have ourselves to blame, no one else,” said the Everton manager in a monosyllabic press conference that was over inside three minutes. His anger was palpable. Iliman Ndiaye had put Everton ahead from the penalty spot five minutes before the interval and Moyes’s side were superior when reduced to 10 men. But the clinical touch and the resolute defending that Everton routinely show on the road was absent once again.
Thierno Barry squandered two gilt-edged chances while Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall had a goal-bound drive blocked by the impressive James Hill. Both teams were responsible for a turgid, laboured opening half hour in which a disallowed goal by the offside Ndiaye was the only incident of note.
Mercifully, the contest improved after Djordje Petrovic spilled James Garner’s ambitious free-kick into the path of Barry. The striker had to react sharply but, unmarked inside the six-yard box, he sliced woefully wide. European football would be a considerable achievement by Moyes under any circumstances this season, but even more so given the painful lack of quality from Barry and Beto.
The miss did spark the home team into life, however. A minute later Ndiaye met Dewsbury-Hall’s cross with a first time effort that Petrovic turned on to a post. Everton were then presented with a penalty when Rayan was harried off the ball by Jarrad Branthwaite and unwittingly clipped the defender inside the area. Ndiaye swept the resulting spot-kick inside Petrovic’s right hand post.
Everton started the second half strongly but Barry failed to convert a delightful pass from Ndiaye, his tame effort allowing Álex Jiménez to block, and Dewsbury-Hall was denied following a mistake by Petrovic. Barry was distraught on the bench after being withdrawn shortly afterwards. He could have no complaints with Moyes’s decision.
Adrien Truffert served notice of Bournemouth’s belated improvement with a long-range drive that fizzed past Jordan Pickford’s far post. The left back’s effort arrived between two penalty appeals by the visitors, for a handball by Garner before the interval and a trip by Vitalii Mykolenko on Rayan, and though neither were given Iraoli’s players never lost focus. Rayan atoned for Everton’s penalty by scoring for the second game in succession for his new club. Truffert sent a cross over Vitalii Mykolenko and the winger, the recent £24.7m signing from Vasco da Gama, soared at the back post to beat Pickford with an emphatic header.
Three minutes later, with Everton again unconvincing in the air, Bournemouth were ahead. Pickford and his defenders were all at sea when Alex Scott delivered a free-kick into the Everton area. Hill headed across goal for Adli to steer a diving header into an empty net and, despite Enes Unal being in an offside position when the free-kick was taken, the winner stood.
O’Brien’s straight red for colliding into Adli and denying a clear goalscoring opportunity completed Everton’s costly meltdown.
“I’m very happy with the result,” said Iraola. “To be honest it wasn’t our best performance but football is like this. A draw would have been a fair result but we found a way.”
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42' Penalty Goal! Everton 1-0 Bournemouth (Iliman Ndiaye)
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61' GOAL! Everton 1-1 Bournemouth (Rayan)
65' GOAL! Everton 1-2 Bournemouth (James Hill)
69' Red Card! Jake O'Brien sent off
Line-ups
Everton XI: Gueye, Pickford, Tarkowski, Dewsbury-Hall, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Garner, Iliman Ndiaye, Jarrad Branthwaite, Jake O'Brien, Tyrique George, Thierno Barry
Subs: Keane, Travers, Beto, Nathan Patterson, Carlos Alcaraz, Tim Iroegbunam, Merlin Röhl, Tyler Dibling, Harrison Armstrong
Bournemouth XI: Ryan Christie, Marcos Senesi, Djordje Petrovic, Evanilson, James Hill, Adrien Truffert, Adli, Alex Scott, Jimenez, Alex Tóth, Rayan
Subs: Smith, E.Ünal, Lewis Cook, Brooks, Adams, Christos Mandas, Bafodé Diakité, Eli Kroupi, Veljko Milosavljevic