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\nJeremy Doku scores a 97th-minute equaliser for Manchester City<\/p>\n
Manchester City’s title bid suffered a crushing blow despite them recovering from a second-half capitulation to snatch a 3-3 draw at Everton on Monday.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Doku curled in a superb stoppage-time equaliser to earn City a point in their pursuit of Premier League leaders Arsenal, but the two dropped at Hill Dickinson Stadium could be highly damaging.<\/p>\n
City had led 1-0 at half-time following Doku\u2019s first goal of a dramatic night, but Everton hit back with three goals in the space of 14 minutes \u2013 substitute Thierno Barry scoring a double either side of a Jake O\u2019Brien header, the Republic of Ireland international’s first league goal since March 2025.<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland quickly responded as City battled back and Doku had the final say with the last kick of the game, denying Everton boss David Moyes a first career win over Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n
The result leaves City trailing Arsenal by five points with just one game in hand.<\/p>\n
\nJeremy Doku scores a 97th-minute equaliser for Manchester City<\/p>\n
City at least did well to recover their composure after being stunned by Everton’s response after the break.<\/p>\n
They became loose and struggled to maintain possession in a highly damaging period, a far cry from the confident start they made when they had Everton penned in their own half for long periods.<\/p>\n
Their best opportunities early on fell to Rayan Cherki, who blasted over before having another effort parried by Jordan Pickford, while Antoine Semenyo also drove wide.<\/p>\n
Haaland was also denied a shooting chance by a James Garner challenge and Semenyo volleyed well over.<\/p>\n
Everton were slow to get going, but Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Beto both had shots blocked by Abdukodir Khusanov and Gianluigi Donnarumma cut out a dangerous ball after Merlin Rohl got behind the defence.<\/p>\n
City brushed off those scares and claimed the lead two minutes before the break.<\/p>\n
The visitors patiently played the ball around the box before Cherki eventually controlled and laid off for Doku to curl a superb shot into the top corner from 18 yards.<\/p>\n
That should have put City in command, but Everton rallied impressively after the interval.<\/p>\n
There were plenty of warning signs for City as Beto went close before Dewsbury-Hall drove over after Marc Guehi gave away possession.<\/p>\n
Iliman Ndiaye then forced a good save from Donnarumma before spurning a better chance when he fired straight at the keeper following a mistake by Matheus Nunes.<\/p>\n
City failed to learn their lesson and were punished when a weak Guehi backpass was pounced upon by Barry to score. City complained the flag had been raised for offside, but that was cancelled out by Guehi\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n
Everton compounded City\u2019s woes as O\u2019Brien thumped in a header from a Garner corner and Barry claimed another when a Rohl shot was deflected into his path.<\/p>\n
Haaland responded with a delicate lob immediately from the kick-off and City pushed on to the end, with Donnarumma heading forward for set-pieces.<\/p>\n
Doku struck for a second time from distance, securing a draw but handing Arsenal a big win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City’s title bid suffered a crushing blow despite them recovering from a second-half capitulation to snatch a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-432453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}