Everton beat Man Utd despite Gueye seeing red for slapping teammate

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s superb first-half extremity seals 1-0 triumph for the visitors, who had 10 players for astir of the game.

Everton enjoyed their archetypal Premier League win astatine Manchester United for 12 years contempt playing virtually the full crippled with 10 men aft midfielder Idrissa Gueye was sent disconnected for slapping his ain teammate Michael Keane.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s superb first-half extremity connected Monday sealed a 1-0 triumph for the visitors, who shrugged disconnected the 13th-minute incidental that had a furious Gueye dismissed aft helium and Keane squared up.

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United came into the lucifer astatine Old Trafford connected the backmost of a five-game unbeaten tally and could person moved up to 5th with a win.

They dominated possession, particularly successful the 2nd half, but Everton defended superbly to repel the hosts who looked blunt successful attack.

Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford made respective good saves to sphere his side’s lead, the prime of them to claw distant a Joshua Zirkzee header with 10 minutes remaining.

A 2nd distant triumph of the play lifted Everton supra metropolis rivals and champions Liverpool into 11th place, level connected 18 points with United, who are supra them connected extremity difference.

Everton suffered a large stroke successful conscionable the 10th infinitesimal erstwhile they mislaid skipper Seamus Coleman to injury.

But worse was to travel 3 minutes aboriginal with the scarcely believable bust-up betwixt Gueye and Keane

The Premier League Match Centre posted connected X: “The referee’s telephone of reddish paper to Gueye for convulsive behaviour was checked and confirmed by VAR – with the enactment deemed to beryllium a wide onslaught to the look of Keane.”

Gueye is the archetypal Premier League subordinate to beryllium sent disconnected for warring with a teammate since 2008.

Idrissa Gueye slaps Michael Keane successful the look and earns himself a reddish paper [Adam Vaughan/EPA]

The location assemblage anticipated waves of onslaught but United failed to instrumentality vantage of their numerical advantage, proving toothless against David Moyes’ battling team.

Instead it was 10-man Everton who recovered the net, taking the pb courtesy of a fantastic onslaught by Dewsbury-Hall successful the 29th minute.

Dewsbury-Hall received the shot and surged towards goal, beating Bruno Fernandes and Leny Yoro earlier bending the shot into the apical corner.

United huffed and puffed for the remainder of the half, with Pickford clawing distant a Fernandes changeable from region arsenic the half-time approached.

Ruben Amorim, marking the archetypal day of his maiden crippled successful complaint of United, brought connected Mason Mount for Noussair Mazraoui astatine half-time but his squad created little, contempt dominating possession.

Amorim threw connected Kobbie Mainoo and Diogo Dalot for Casemiro and Yoro successful the 58th infinitesimal but inactive United looked blunt.

Pickford kept retired a almighty Zirkzee header with conscionable implicit 10 minutes of mean clip to spell and Everton hung connected for a celebrated win.

Speaking aft the game, Dewsbury-Hall said it was a “rollercoaster” of a game.

“I’m truthful genuinely blessed for the lads and however hard they worked. A fantastic show of gritting away, getting a extremity and keeping that spirit,” helium said. “So gladsome we got the 3 points.”

He said Gueye apologised to the squad astatine full-time for the incidental with Keane.

“We determination connected from it. The absorption from america was unbelievable. Top tier,” Dewsbury-Hall said.

“We could person crumbled, but if anything, it made america grow.”

United defender Matthijs de Ligt said the effect and show was a “step back” for his broadside aft a decent run.

“I deliberation the crippled says enough; against 10 men for 70 minutes and not creating that galore chances,” the Dutch defender told Sky Sports. “Today was not a bully nighttime for us.

“We lacked the patience to play done the lines, and we crossed a batch of balls. We request to bash a batch more.

“In each aspects today, it felt similar a measurement back. Not conscionable the effect but the strength and the focus.”