Everton 2-2 Ipswich Town: Enciso leads visitors´ spirited fightback

Ipswich Town produced a spirited fightback to clasp Everton to a 2-2 gully successful the penultimate Premier League crippled astatine Goodison Park connected Saturday.

Everton’s fans enactment connected a amusement anterior to kick-off, and were rewarded by seeing David Moyes’ broadside spell 2-0 up wrong 36 minutes.

After spurning a bid of half-chances aboriginal on, Beto broke the deadlock with a guided header into the bottommost country earlier Dwight McNeil doubled the pb with a swerving onslaught from astir 20 yards out.

But McNeil’s effort was topped by a superb long-range extremity from Julio Enciso, who starred arsenic the Tractor Boys – whose relegation was confirmed past play – fought to get themselves backmost successful the game.

The 2nd fractional saw small successful the mode of goalmouth enactment compared to the first, though Enciso carried connected his lively performance.

Having been comparatively untroubled aft the break, the Toffees soon saw their pb gaffe from their grasp erstwhile substitute George Hirst nodded location astatine the backmost station successful the 79th infinitesimal to gully level.

The gully keeps Ipswich successful 18th place, a constituent disconnected similarly-relegated broadside Leicester City, portion Everton beryllium 14th with conscionable 3 matches remaining.

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— Ipswich Town (@IpswichTown) May 3, 2025

Data debrief: Toffees stall continues portion Ipswich combat back

Saturday’s gully means Everton person present won conscionable 1 of their past 10 Premier League matches (D6 L3), a crisp dip aft winning 4 of their archetypal 5 nether Moyes (D1).

Still, they started brightly, with Beto’s opener marking their 1600th Premier League goal, making them conscionable the seventh squad to scope that milestone successful the competition.

Despite racing into a two-goal lead, Everton ended the lucifer with an expected goals (xG) worth of conscionable 0.57, narrowly edged retired by Ipswich’s 0.81 xG.

Remarkably, it was the archetypal clip Ipswich person travel from 2 goals down to gain a Premier League effect since October 2001, erstwhile they drew 3-3 with Southampton.