Fulham beaten after second-half collapse at Everton

Everton 3 Fulham 0

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Second-half goals from Gylfi Sigurdsson and Cenk Tosun gave Everton a 14th consecutive victory at Goodison Park over Fulham.

Sigurdsson made amends for a penalty miss shortly after half-time with a well-hit strike from the edge of the box and a simple side-foot finish either side of Tosun’s header, leaving the Whites without a Premier League win in four matches.

Fulham edged a tightly-contested first half, with André Schürrle blazing over early on and Ryan Sessegnon striking the crossbar from a tight angle just before the break.

But, five minutes into the second period, Denis Odoi was ajudged to have pushed Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the box when he was through on goal, although Sigurdsson’s spot-kick came back off the crossbar.

The Iceland international redeemed himself only a few moments later as he smartly diverted Odoi’s interception into the far corner at the first time of asking with his weaker foot.

The Whites – who lost Manchester United loanee Timothy Fosu-Mensah to a shoulder injury early on – had a glorious chance to equalise on the counter-attack with Schürrle and Luciano Vietto two-on-one, but the latter took too heavy a touch that allowed keeper Jordan Pickford to collect.

They were made to pay straight after, as Tosun nodded in a Theo Walcott cross at the back post midway through the second period.

It took much of the sting out of Fulham’s build-up momentum, after boss Slavisa Jokanovic changed shape to a 4-2-3-1 and looked tighter at the back for most of the game.

But Sigurdsson wrapped up the points for the Toffees by dispatching a pull-back from substitute Bernard, meaning that Fulham have still failed to collect any points at Everton since 1959.