Key events
Emile Smith-Rowe: “A real low blow today, we’re really disappointed to concede in the last couple of minutes,” the Fulham midfielder tells the BBC. “I thought we dominated today which is really annoying, so not happy.
“It’s really difficult, I thought we dominated at times and implemented the game plan really well and in the last few minutes you have to stay switched on and we didn’t today.
“I had a really slow first half, so it was important for me to get on the ball in the second half and inject something into the game. It was a good goal by Alex [Iwobi] as well so I was happy with that but disappointed with how it ended today.”
Everton 1-1 Fulham
Premier League match report: The second-half substitute Beto left it late to rescue a point for Everton after Alex Iwobi had returned to Goodison Park to haunt his former club. Andy Hunter reports from Merseyside …
Beto: ““For the supporters as well, they’ve supported me,” he says. “They’re always singing my name. As a player you just want to pay it back. I always put it in my mind to be ready as the day may come. And today it came. I’m happy to help the team, to help the Toffees. I will enjoy this one tonight, me and the team. Tomorrow is a day off.”
I’m not sure Everton’s fans are always singing his name, at least not in a particularly complimentary way, but they might sing it more often from here on in.
Beto: “It means too much to me, because I work hard,” says Everton’s unlikely hero. “Even if I don’t play I still work hard. I put my head up every week, every day I want to try to improve and to be better. To be able to help the team, for me it’s emotional because these last weeks were really difficult for me. God helped me and here I am today, happy because I scored a goal.”
Michael Keane: “It was a tough game,” says the Everton defender in an interview with Sky Sports. “They had a lot of the ball and we struggled to get a press on them. They had a lot of the ball but Beto comes on in the second half, I end up going up top just to try something different really because we didn’t create much today. Luckily, the big man was there to put one away.”
Full time: Everton 1-1 Fulham
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeep! Beto’s introduction was booed by Everton fans but the Guinea-Bissau international came up trumps deep in added time to rescue a point for his side with his fourth goal for the club.
His header cancelled out a fine opener by Alex Iwobi, who had put Fulham ahead with a fine strike from the edge of the penalty area after excellent work by Emile Smith-Rowe. Fulham will see this as two points dropped after dominating for long periods but for Everton, it’s very much a point gained.
90+6 min: Harrison Reed sends a free-kick from deep into the Everton box, where Michael Keane leaps highest to head clear. The referee blows for full-time and Everton have maintained an unbeaten run that now stretches to five games by the skin of their pearly-whites. It’s over at Goodison Park, where the points have been shared.
GOAL! Everton 1-1 Fulham (Beto 90+4)
Everton equalise! Oh my word! Ndiaye crosses to the far post from the left, Ashley Young steers a volley back across the face of goal and Beto is quickest to react. He heads home from close range to level the score.
90+2 min: Fulham double-substitution: Rodrigo Muniz and Jorge Cuenca on for Jimenez and Iwobi. It’s Cuenca’s Premier League debut after two appearances in the Carabao Cup.
90+1 min: We’re into six minutes of extras, with Fulham on the ball as they try to close this game out.
90 min: Beto leaps to get his head to a cross from the left but under pressure from Bassey, is unable to get too much purchase on his header. Leno gets down to save fairly comfortably.
89 min: It’s kitchen sink time for Everton, whose promising finish to the first half has not been replicated in the second. Fulham have been in the ascendency since the break and should probably be further ahead.
87 min: Beto stumbles into the Fulham penalty area with the ball at his feet and is off balance when he shoots. His effort is blocked but he wins a corner from his side. Nothing comes of it.
85 min: No, he is not. He retires to the bench and is replaced by Jarrad Brantwaithe, who comes on for only his second appearance of the season. The gods above Goodison give with one hand and take away with the other.
84 min: There’s a break in play while Dwight McNeil receives treatment for what looks like a knee injury. He looks OK to continue.
82 min: Lindstrom curls a shot goalwards from the edge of the Fulham penalty area after good work from Ndiaye on the left wing. It’s straight at Leno and doesn’t take much saving.
80 min: Everton double-substitution: Beto and Orel Mangala on for Doucoure and Calvert-Lewin. The Goodison Park faithful are unimpressed with those changes.
79 min: Fulham double-substitution: Harrison Reed and Harry Wilson on, Emile Smith-Rowe and Andreas Pereira off.
77 min: Fulham have a shot blocked and the ball drops Jimenez’s way on the edge of the Everton penalty area. He chests it down and tries to volley it into the top corner but his effort fizzes over.
76 min: Tarkowski is booked for a challenge on Issa Diop as the Fulham centre-back went on a rampaging gallop upfield. The Everton centre-half is furious, as he believes Emile Smith-Rowe should have been penalised for a worse challenge on Idrissa Geuye a few moments previously. He might have a point.
73 min: Nelson comes this close to getting to a speculative Periera pass in behind and it briefly looked as if the substitute might be able to hook the ball over the head on the onrushing Pickford. The bounce doesn’t go his way and the Everton goalkeeper claims.
71 min: Nelson sends a cross to the far post, where Iwobi tries to tee up Smith-Rowe. The Fulham midfielder can’t quite get on the end of his lay-off.
71 min: Reiss Nelson has taken up a position on the left wing for Fulham, with the goalscorer Iwobi moving to the other side.
69 min: Fulham substitution: Reiss Nelson is on for Adama Traore. Everton substitution: Jesper Lindstrom on for Jack Harrison.
67 min: I have one job but somehow still managed to credit Fulham’s opener to Everton in the headline and for that I humbly apologise. The record has now been corrected but my toes will take a lot longer to uncurl.
65 min: Antonee Robinson runs on to a ball in behind from Iwobi and drills the ball across the face of goal. Jordan Pickford gets down to intercept and Everton scramble clear.
63 min: That was an excellent goal from Fulham, with Smith-Rowe rampaging through the Everton half, charging past three blue shirts and playing the ball inside to Iwobi, whose low finish was superb.
GOAL! Everton 0-1 Fulham (Iwobi 60)
Fulham lead! The celebration is muted but the finish was not. Iwobi scores against his former club, firing with precision into the bottom corner after Emile Smith-Rowe had slalomed upfield past three or four Everton defenders before playing the ball inside to his teammate.
58 min: Kenny Tete fouls Calvert-Lewin to give away a cheap free-kick a long way out but McNeil’s delivery into the Fulham box is poor. Bernd Leno catches the ball under no pressure whatsoever.
56 min: Jack Harrison tries to cross from the right but his delivery is deflected off the outstretched foot of Robinson and loops up in the air. Fulham clear their lines.
56 min: Andreas Pereira tries his luck from outside the Everton penalty area but pulls his low diagonal effort wide of the far post.
54 min: Gueye is penalised somewhat harshly for bringing down Jimenez in the centre-circle. The duo were contesting a 50-50 ball and it seems like needlessly fussy officiating by John Brooks in a second half that has yet to spring into any kind of life.
53 min: Attendance watch: 38,742.
51 min: Fulham, who have yet to score from a set-piece this season, waste a corner and gift the ball back to Everton. Pereira and Smith-Rowe are the guilty men, the latter coughing up very cheap possession to Gueye.
49 min: Pereira tries to pick out Jiminez with a ball in behind from deep but the Fulham striker has to stretch to (mis)control the ball after bursting between two defenders. Pickford is a grateful beneficiary of his poor touch.
47 min: It’s a scrappy start to the second half and Adama Traore is penalised for a needless shove on Myolenko down by the byline. The two of them are having an intriguing battle which the Fulham winger is just about edging on my scorecard.
46 min: Michael Keane plays the ball back to Jordan Pickford after Antonee Robinson had played a speculative through ball in behind the Everton defence.
Second half: Everton 0-0 Fulham
46 min: Dwight McNeil gets the second half under way for Everton, who are playing into the Gwladys Street End.
Half-time: Everton 0-0 Fulham
Dominic Calvert-Lewin had the ball in the net for Everton, only to have his tap-in ruled out for offside after Idrissa Gana Gueye had smashed a wonderful shot off the underside of the bar from 25 yards out. Dwight McNeil will also feel he should have scored for Everton, after Mykolenko teed him up with an excellent cross.
Fulham have gone close too, with Emile Smith Rowe, Adama Traore, Andreas Pereira and Alex Iwobi all passing up chances ranging from the half-decent to the excellent. This game is there for the taking.
44 min: A Traore cross from the right is chested down by Jimenez into the path of Iwobi, who’d shouted at him to leave it for him, at the far post. Leaning back as he shoots, the Fulham midfielder fires over the bar from about five yards. Yet another excellent chance goes to waste but at least Traore is starting to get some decent crosses in. It’s half-time.
42 min: An Adama Traore cross from the right is too high for Raul Jiminez but drops kindly for Smith-Rowe at the far post. Perhaps caught unawares, his first touch is woeful and he runs the ball out of play.
38 min: Mykolenko sends an inch-perfect whipped cross from the left into the path of Dwight McNeil, who sends a thumping header straight at Bernd Leno. He should have scored!
36 min: The game drags itself up the Match of the Day pecking order as Tete fires over for Fulham, then Calvert-Lewin is denied again, this time by some good defending from Sander Berge. This is much better from both sides.
