Everton stumble deeper into trouble with 3-2 defeat at Burnley

Everton fell deeper into relegation trouble with Burnley's Maxwel Cornet striking an 85th minute winner as the home side fought back to beat Frank Lampard's team 3-2 at Turf Moor on Wednesday to move within a point of the Merseysiders.

The win is a major boost for 18th-placed Burnley who are on 24 points after their fourth league win of the season with Everton in 17th on 25 and both teams having played 29 games.

Burnley grabbed a 12th minute lead when Cornet's corner found Nathan Collins at the back post and the Clarets defender was allowed the space to side-foot past Jordan Pickford to score his first goal for the club.

But the hosts' lead lasted six minutes with Everton pulling level through a Richarlison penalty after Anthony Gordon went down in the box after tangling with Ashley Westwood.

It was another penalty which gave Everton the lead four minutes before the interval when their Ukrainian left back Vitaliy Mykolenko cut inside Aaron Lennon and went down.

Referee Mike Dean initially waved away the penalty appeals but was sent to the monitor by the VAR officials and having reviewed the evidence pointed to the spot. Richarlison again beat Nick Pope with a cool conversion.

Burnley continued to scrap, however, and left back Charlie Taylor created the 57th minute equaliser, skipping past Jonjoe Kenny and cutting into the area before drilling a low shot across the face of goal which was hammered in by Jay Rodriguez.

Cornet then grabbed the winner when Ben Godfrey's mis-hit clearance fell straight to Matej Vydra and he slipped the ball back to the Ivorian who fired home to delight the home crowd.