Home comfort at last for Everton, Leeds beaten by Sunderland

2026-03-03 - 22:23

Everton’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (left) celebrates after scoring the second goal against Burnley at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. (Everton pic) LIVERPOOL: Everton shrugged off a seven-match winless run at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium with a 2-0 defeat of Burnley boosting their chances of European qualification, but Leeds United’s Premier League relegation fears deepened with a 1-0 home defeat by Sunderland on Tuesday. James Tarkowski’s first-half header and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s second-half shot gave eighth-placed Everton their first home win for almost three months to put them on 43 points, two behind sixth-placed Chelsea. Fifteenth-placed Leeds had the chance to move nine points clear of 18th-placed West Ham United but missed out as Sunderland took the points thanks to a second-half penalty converted by Habib Diarra at a raucous Elland Road. Leeds had seen a goal by Joe Rodon ruled out for offside shortly before Sunderland’s penalty, awarded after a VAR check for a handball by Ethan Ampadu. Bournemouth and Brentford drew 0-0 – a result that moved Bournemouth into the top half and left Brentford seventh. Bottom club Wolverhampton Wanderers were hosting fifth-placed Liverpool in a later kickoff.