Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Everton: Premier League – as it happened

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⚽️ Premier League updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-off ⚽️ Live scores | Tables | Top scorers | And email James 1min: Spurs have settled early and are pinging the ball around the edge of Everton’s box, the camera finds a couple of young fans in the crowd who hold up a sign: “Please score a goal”. Not sure who they support… Peeeeeep! Everton kick off, let’s go.

80 mins: Tottenham surge and Tonali drives a shot from outside the box, Branthwaite gets his body in the way again.

79 mins: Maddison replaces Marmoush and the Spurs fans roar. Big ten minutes incoming.

77 mins: Everton have got all the posession, if there is to be a goal you’d fancy it would come from the visitors.

74 mins: Chance! Johnson gets the ball unmarked 15 yards out, has time to take a touch but lashes it first time and it’s no good. Gah.

Seconds later he is subbed off for Hackney. O’Brien also comes on for Everton – Maitland-Niles the man to come off.

71 mins: Everton fans shout for a pen for handball as Tonali’s clearance cannons off a team-mate but there’s nowt doing.

70 mins: Grealish hacks clear to end a Spurs attack but they come again. Bergvall whips a cross towards Savio at the back post… his cut back… fails to find a team-mate.

69 mins: Yellow card for Dewsbury-Hall for a needelssly wild challenge on Tonali.

68 mins: Spurs are on the back foot again and the fans are growing more and more restless.

66 mins: The air was all sucked out of the THS for a split second there with Kinsky’s boo boo.

65 mins: Oh my days! Kinsky you lucky sausage! The Spurs keeper is too laissez faire with a pass out and it goes straight to Dewsbury-Hall on the edge of the box… he shoots but without much power and Kinsky spares his own blushes with a save. Cripes.

64 mins: David Moyes unleashes Grealish for George… 63 mins: Substitution time! For Spurs it is Fernandes, Bentancur and Solanke who make way for Tel, Kudus and Bergvall.

61 mins: Good spot this from Chris Finnegan:

> “Hello Jimbo, not sure if you were referring to Withnail or a Guinness advert when you wrote ‘tick follows tock’ earlier, but if it’s the former then this sprang to mind from Uncle Monty de Zerbi... > > “It is the most shattering experience of a young manager’s life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself: ‘I will never play the Dane.’ Erickson left six years ago and none of the others want to come here.”

60 mins: Subs incoming? De Zerbi is about to bring on Tel and Bergvall in and Moyes has summoned Jack Grealish.

59 mins: ‘Come on you Spurs’ rings around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as the home fans will their team on, they manage an attack into the Everton box but both Robertson and Tonali have their crosses cleared without any real danger building.

57 mins: Everton have all the play now and Spurs are clinging on a little it feels. The home fans burst into song to try and get their team going but you can feel the nerves through the telly.

55 mins: Everton surge forward and get a corner. Close! George fires towards goal through a crowded box, Bentancur is in the right place to block, that was going in.

54 mins: The second half is thus far sprightlier from both sides.

George Ronczy raises his head over the parapet: “Spurs fan here. This team is an improvement every game, they are starting to gel. Ten out of today’s 20-man are new to the team, it’ll take time. Today’s passing is crisper, faster, more accurate. Defense is solid, midfield is solid.

And I wish I had a dollar every time I’ve heard or read “He’s got to do do better.” Of course he does, it didn’t go in. If half of those did, teams would be scoring four times every game.”

53 mins: “Spurs’ motto is ‘To dare is to do’. Everton’s is Latin for something like ‘Nothing but the best will do’. Are they having a laugh? Would someone, anyone, please do a goal, for the love of all that is precious?!” Peter Oh is at the end of his tether.

51 mins: Tarkowski shoves Marmoush into the advertising boards with some 1970s style defending. Ouch.

49 mins: Close! Everton nearly break the deadlock, George beats Gray on the left and dinks in a dangerous cross to the back stick… Barry heads goalwards and Kinsky has no idea where the ball is and is massicely fortunate that it strikes him on the back of the head and deflects wide. Nervy moments for Tottenham.

46mins: Peeeeeep. Here we go. Oh, what’s this – a shot on target by Tottenham!Sadly Fernandes’ effort is a grubber along the turf that barely reaches Pickford. The Spurs fans cheer ironically, they are well aware of the barren stats.

“Here is my early prediction” writes JP. “Teams will struggle to reach 70 points. The team getting 75 will surely be champions. Whether Arsenal get to ninety or they just about scrap to 70-75 remains to be seen.”

Both these sides would snatch your hand and plenty else off for that. Here the come for the second half, can Spurs end their goal drought? Can they even get a shot on target? Let’s find out.

“Very unusual to have gotten to half-time in an Everton MBM without a nervous/exasperated/very occasionally contented email from Mary Waltz on the West Coast of America” writes Justin Kavanagh. “I can understand those Spurs fans who have given up the ghost on this season already, but Everton seem to have steadied the ship, so presumably she’s got something more important on today.”

Jamie Redknapp has the audacity to disagree with Chris in Corfu and says on Sky Sports that “Savio has looked sharp, he’s been the bright one on the pitch.”

A scruffy half comes to a close with Everton’s corner being cleared away easily. Spurs go another half, three on the bounce now, without a shot on target. Everton have come back into it after being nowhere for the first fifteen minutes, De Zerbi’s men started quickly out of the blocks but just had no killer pass or end product.

46 mins: Close! Garner swings in the free kick without too much venom, it is on target but Kinsky can palm it wide without too much alarm. One more minute of added time and an Everton corner.

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