Thierno Barry ended his long wait for a first Everton goal as the Toffees beat Nottingham Forest to move up to fifth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Barry, who joined in the summer from Villarreal, had gone 16 games without scoring before finally getting on the scoresheet for David Moyes’ side with the second goal against Forest.<\/p>\n
It came with his 19th shot and just his second on target in his Everton career.<\/p>\n
Everton made a dream start to the game when a second-minute cross from the in-form Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall deflected off Nikola Milenkovic and into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
But they had to wait until first-half stoppage time to add to their lead when Iliman Ndiaye led a quick counter-attack before feeding Barry, who rolled the ball beyond goalkeeper Matz Sels.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest struggled to create many opportunities, although Nicolas Dominguez did have a prodded effort blocked on the line by James Tarkowski.<\/p>\n
Dewsbury-Hall clipped the outside of the post with a powerful strike but would not be denied adding a late third when he drilled a strike into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
The win made for an unhappy return for ex-Everton manager Sean Dyche, who was sacked at the start of the year after a poor run of form left them in relegation trouble.<\/p>\n
He was replaced by David Moyes for his second spell at the club and the former Manchester United manager has overseen a significant improvement that has Everton firmly in the mix for a top-10 finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thierno Barry ended his long wait for a first Everton goal as the Toffees beat Nottingham Forest to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-330031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}