I’m happy with a 1-1 home draw with Everton who have been improving under Moyes. As long as we didn’t lose I would be happy. We had a couple of decent chances midway through the half. Schade picked out Wissa with a deep cross from the right, but his downward header was tame and comfortably held by Pickford. Moments later, Ajer glanced Lewis-Potter’s in-swinging delivery well wide of the target. Then Everton had a couple of chances, one from a quick counter attack, when Lindstrøm’s cross narrowly evaded Alcaraz inside the six-yard box, and another when Pinnock did enough to prevent Beto from getting a shot away. The game then sparked into life after an uneventful opening half an hour. Beto only had Flekken to beat after he had capitalised on a slip from Pinnock to latch on to Harrison’s through ball, but the goalkeeper raced off his line, stood firm and smothered the shot. It was a similar story two minutes later as Flekken darted out to deny the in-form forward after he had got in behind the Bees backline for a second time. Brentford finished the first half with a flourish. Pickford pushed away Wissa’s curling effort from the edge of the area, before the DR Congo international gave his side the lead in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Schade propelled the ball into the box, Mbeumo hit the crossbar with a close-range header, and Wissa reacted fastest to nod home from almost on the goal line. Flekken made another important contribution shortly after the restart, clawing away Harrison’s in-swinging corner from underneath the crossbar. On 64 minutes, Alcaraz engineered some space on the edge of Brentford’s box and his fierce strike nearly nestled into the bottom corner. Wissa had the ball in the back of the net for a second time on 69 minutes, turning in from close range, but the forward had strayed offside to receive Lewis-Potter’s pass. Nathan Collins then connected with Mikkel Damsgaard’s cross from the right but couldn’t guide his header on target under pressure from a Toffees defender. Everton levelled on 77 minutes. O’Brien ghosted in at the back post to meet Mykolenko’s cross with a stooping header which flew beyond Flekken and into the bottom corner. Beto found himself one-on-one with Flekken for a third time during the closing stages and was again left frustrated. The forward attempted to bend the ball into the far corner, but Flekken stood tall and got a strong hand to the ball. Janelt had a chance to win it for the Bees in the final seconds. Substitute Kayode’s long throw-in dropped kindly for the midfielder inside the six-yard box, but he didn’t get a clean connection on his strike and the ball bounced wide.
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