James Tarkowski highlights Everton’s resilience after last-gasp draw against Brentford

James Tarkowski highlighted Everton’s “resilience” after the Blues came from behind twice to draw 2-2 with Brentford at the GTech Community Stadium.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall netted the equaliser in the 91st minute to secure an important point that keeps the Toffees in the hunt for Europe. Beto had scored earlier to cancel out Igor Thiago’s early penalty before the Brazilian striker grabbed his brace in the 76th minute.

“I feel like we've got [resilience] in the group,” said Tarkowski. “We've done it a few times this season already, scoring some late goals: Brighton away, quite late at Fulham, so we've done it a few times.

“And I thought we were going to score, to be honest. The way we were playing the last 10 minutes, the game got a bit open, but that was giving us opportunities to score.

“This is a tough place to come. They’re a team level on points with us, so it's good that we didn't let them get away from us in that sense. So we'll take the point, considering we didn't play great.”

Highlighting the role that youngster Tyrique George played after coming on from the bench, Tarkowski continued, “I thought Tyrique George came on and caused the full-back a lot of problems, which was good for us. The ball dropped to Kiernan, who is probably the one person we wanted to drop to because he's been so reliable this year.

“He's been brilliant for us this season. He's scored some massive goals for us, but he's just so reliable, so consistent. I'm glad it fell to him because I fancied him to put it away.”

 

---

//

Reader Comments

Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer ()

There are no responses so far to this article. Be the first to offer a comment using the form below.

How to get rid of these ads and support TW