{"id":92318,"date":"2023-08-30T22:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/?p=92318"},"modified":"2023-08-30T22:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:37:59","slug":"beto-and-arnaut-danjuma-spare-evertons-blushes-in-late-cup-win-at-doncaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/soccer\/beto-and-arnaut-danjuma-spare-evertons-blushes-in-late-cup-win-at-doncaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto and Arnaut Danjuma spare Everton\u2019s blushes in late cup win at Doncaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beto and Arnaut Danjuma saved Everton from an embarrassing Carabao Cup exit to the Football League\u2019s bottom side as Sean Dyche\u2019s men came from behind to edge past dogged Doncaster.<\/p>\n
Having lost their opening three Premier League games without so much as scoring, a tie against the side 92nd in the standings looked just what the doctor ordered for Sean Dyche\u2019s men.<\/p>\n
But Everton\u2019s start to the season threatened to go from bad to worse as League Two\u2019s bottom side took a deserved lead through Joe Ironside\u2019s header.<\/p>\n
Doncaster were dreaming of a famous win, but the Premier League visitors belatedly showed signs of life as striker Beto \u2013 on as a substitute early in the second half \u2013 scored a day after signing from Udinese, before Danjuma secured a late 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n
It was a gut punch for Grant McCann\u2019s side but a morale-boosting win for the Toffees, although Dyche will be alarmed by much of his side\u2019s display in South Yorkshire, where they return to take on Sheffield United on Saturday lunchtime.<\/p>\n
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They looked jittery from the outset and Joseph Olowu wasted a great chance from a corner that followed panicked play at the back.<\/p>\n
Doncaster continued to unsettle careless Everton, with Tommy Rowe lashing over from a corner before Zain Westbrooke thrashed a 25-yard drive just wide.<\/p>\n
\u201cPremier League, you\u2019re having a laugh\u201d rang around the ground as Everton toiled, taking 41 minutes to manage a shot of any kind at the Eco-Power Stadium.<\/p>\n
Danjuma slammed that effort across the face of goal and three minutes later the visitors fell behind.<\/p>\n
A short corner routine ended with the ball being played to the edge of the box, where Rowe swung over a cross for Ironside to flick a header past Jordan Pickford from six yards.<\/p>\n
Offside appeals were legitimate but there is no VAR at this point of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n
There would have been an immediate Everton response had goalkeeper Ian Lawlor not smartly stopped Amadou Onana, before Pickford prevented Rowe scoring a second in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
But Doncaster remained a threat after the break, with George Broadbent seeing a shot saved before Vitaliy Mykolenko blocked a Mo Faal effort with his hand from a Rowe cutback.<\/p>\n
Olowu nearly turned a Mykolenko cross past his own goalkeeper and off balance Beto\u2019s left-footed shot off target summed up their night.<\/p>\n
But that chance also lit a fire under the new boy and moments later he had his first goal in blue.<\/p>\n
Abdoulaye Doucoure played a hopeful ball down the left channel and Beto beat Olowu to smartly direct it home in the 73rd minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe scored a goal\u201d sung the dancing Everton fans, whose team were now in the ascendancy as Beto saw a header hit a post before Danjuma\u2019s curling effort kissed the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Play was scrappy as Doncaster attempted to hold on, with James Garner seeing a close-range attempt blocked before Danjuma broke Doncaster hearts.<\/p>\n
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Cutting in from the left and collecting a return pass, he made just enough space to get away a right-footed snapshot from just inside the box and beat Lawlor.<\/p>\n
Doncaster pushed for a leveller but they had run out of gas, while the offside flag denied Beto his second in stoppage time.<\/p>\n