While Merseyside will host a Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, it may yet stage Europa League football in July. Everton remain in the race for seventh place with a fourth straight home win and while their destiny is out of their hands, Leicester still have to visit Manchester City and Wolves must go to Liverpool. Everton’s neighbours could yet help book them a place in continental competition. Ben Mee’s own goal and Seamus Coleman’s strike continued Everton’s spring surge as they added Burnley to Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United on their impressive list of scalps at Goodison Park.
As Everton exerted early pressure, Burnley’s supporters made their own entertainment by barracking Jordan Pickford with chants of “England’s No 4,” referencing their own trio of international goalkeepers. As Burnley had taken 28 points in 17 games since December’s 5-1 demolition by Everton, Tom Heaton has emerged as much the best of their triumvirate of shot-stoppers.
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