{"id":790736,"date":"2026-10-03T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:16:09","slug":"everton-play-out-a-score-draw-with-blackburn-rovers-behind-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790736\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton play out a score-draw with Blackburn Rovers behind closed doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help keep the remaining members of the squad match-fit during this extended internaitonal break, Everton played out a 3-3 score-draw with Blackburn Rovers behind closed doors at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Only snippets of information have been provideed by Everton and The Echo but it appears that:<\/p>\n<p>Christian Norgaard got a run out after recovering from a mysterious \u2018small\u2019 injury that has been enough to keep him sideline for a whole month since joining the club on transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n<p>Charky Alcaraz scored from the penalty spot in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Travers saved a penalty at the other end<\/p>\n<p>Theirno Barry also got on the scoresheet before the break<\/p>\n<p>After half-time, the Everton defence that included Keane and Tarkowski collapsed abysmally, letting in three goals!<\/p>\n<p>Youngster Jason Nsangou came on and scored a late equaliser after Jack Grealish played him in. <\/p>\n<p>Youngsters named by Everton were Joshua van Schoor, John Dodds, Ezra Carrington, Harvey Foster and Melvin Matos<\/p>\n<p>Other youngsters who may bave played include George Pickford, Zach Lee and Seve Patrick,  Luca Davis, Reece Lambert, Francis Boggan and Ceiran Loney.<\/p>\n<p>Other players not mentioned will likely have included Kieran Dewsbury-Hall, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Hayden Hockeny,  Merlin Rohl\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Jason Nsangou\u2019s goal:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Academy forward Jonathan Nsangou on target in today&#8217;s behind-closed-doors game at Hill Dickinson Stadium. \ud83c\udfaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/reLUsWuk1w\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk=\"{&quot;ctaType&quot;:&quot;Link&quot;,&quot;ctaSubType&quot;:&quot;main&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/reLUsWuk1w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Everton\/status\/2106044033189446058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk=\"{&quot;ctaType&quot;:&quot;Link&quot;,&quot;ctaSubType&quot;:&quot;main&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 2, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To help keep the remaining members of the squad match-fit during this extended internaitonal break, Everton played out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}