LIVERPOOL: Everton shrugged off a seven-match winless run at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium with a 2-0 defeat of Burnley boosting their chances of European qualification, but Leeds United’s Premier League relegation fears deepened with a 1-0 home defeat by Sunderland on Tuesday.
James Tarkowski’s first-half header and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s second-half shot gave eighth-placed Everton their first home win for almost three months to put them on 43 points, two behind sixth-placed Chelsea.
Fifteenth-placed Leeds had the chance to move nine points clear of 18th-placed West Ham United but missed out as Sunderland took the points thanks to a second-half penalty converted by Habib Diarra at a raucous Elland Road.