Ainsley Maitland-Niles scored an incredible injury-time winner to deny David Moyes’ Manchester United a victory in a frantic 2-2 draw.
The home side’s promising start was ended when they came so close to scoring. Fernandes met Mbeumo’s perfectly weighted header but volleyed the crossbar and Matheus Cunha wasted another great chance, firing over from Marcus Rashford’s back pass after being put clean through by the winger.
United dominated possession and would have felt aggrieved to go in at half-time level as Everton had no attempts on target, save when Thierno Barry came close just before the interval when heading a dangerous Merlin Rhl ball just over from close in.
However, United scored one minute and one second into the second half. Mbeumo cut inside from right after an Mbeumo and drilled an unstoppable shot from 18 yards to open the score.
Everton equalled seven minutes from the end when George smashed the ball from an acute angle over the United goalie and looked to have secured the winner when substituting Eko headed Luke Shaw’s cross in 88 minutes, but then came the moment Maitland-Niles.
The loan signing sent an outrageous shot from 25 yards into the net, the final action of a wild match, and prevented Moyes’ side from suffering an earlier season defeat.
