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Barkley header nicks draw
- Updated: December 30, 2016
A Ross Barkley header nicked a late point for Everton as they drew 2-2 with Hull in an entertaining Premier League encounter on Friday Night Football.
The Tigers twice went in front as they looked to move to within a point of safety, with Michael Dawson putting them ahead within six minutes as he tapped home from a Robert Snodgrass corner.
But a bizarre David Marshall own-goal in the dying minutes of the first half saw Everton level, before Snodgrass struck a sublime free-kick, after hitting the woodwork not long before, to see Hull ahead once again.
As they looked to be heading for a much-needed victory, Barkley popped up with six minutes of normal time to play to head home from a Leighton Baines cross to seal the draw for the visitors.
Hull briefly move off the bottom of the table ahead of the weekend fixtures – one point ahead of Swansea – while Everton remain in seventh place.
Although the first half was fairly open, Hull came racing out of the traps and made the breakthrough with just six minutes on the clock to register their first goal in three games. Snodgrass delivered a corner that found an unmarked Dawson at the back post, who tapped home to put the hosts ahead.
Everton could have equalised on the quarter-hour mark as Seamus Coleman rattled the woodwork. It was a sublime cross from Gareth Barry that found the head of the defender to knock it goalwards, but it could only find the upright before Romelu Lukaku also saw …
