{"id":799309,"date":"2026-10-11T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799309\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:54:13","slug":"hull-and-everton-play-out-entertaining-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799309\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull and Everton play out entertaining draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similarly, Everton are in good form and have now avoided defeat in their opening six league matches for the first time since 2013-14. In that season, they finished fifth under Roberto Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A point at Hull puts The Toffees in fifth and only outside of a Champions League spot on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton were narrowly the better side and created several good opportunities. They thought they had scored in the first half only for Brennan Johnson&#8217;s effort to be ruled out, with the Wales forward offside when steering the ball in after Harrison Armstrong&#8217;s shot had been cleared off the line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry also had several chances before his eventual goal, having a close-range header saved and failing to connect to a pass across goal when three yards out and the scores level at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton were playing their first match since it was revealed their owners The Friedkin Group (TFG) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cmvg9pgg4keyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are exploring the sale of the club.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Similarly, Everton are in good form and have now avoided defeat in their opening six league matches for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799309","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=799309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}