Everton v Blackburn Rovers 01-04-1995

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00:00He has been almost as invisible as Lord Luke in these last four months, but today he starts an Everton match

00:05for the first time since Joe Royal's first game in charge in November.

00:10Amakachi and Stuart Barlow are the front two in the absence of Paul Rideout, who's fighting for fitness for next week's semi-final,

00:17and Duncan Ferguson, who is one of five Everton players suspended today.

00:21The others are Eberle, Samways, Unsworth and Limpar, although the last two will be eligible to face Spurs a week tomorrow.

00:28Well, Blackburn have Paul Warhurst suspended, but all their internationals came home safe and sound.

00:34It's a measure of how far the Premiership leaders have come that seven of this team were on national duty this week,

00:41and two of those who were not, strikers Shearer and Sutton, have scored 53 goals between them for Blackburn this season.

00:49Richard Witschke, the Dutch international on loan from Bordeaux, is one of the substitutes.

00:54Smiling referee, Dermot Gallagher. The last time he was here, Everton was smiling.

01:01It was Joe Royal's first match in charge, and they beat Liverpool 2-0.

01:06They've also beaten Manchester United here quite recently.

01:09So what can they do against Blackburn? That's Sutton.

01:12And now Shearer. Oh, and Sutton's in straight away!

01:15And what a start for the Premiership leaders.

01:19The first 20 seconds, and Chris Sutton scores.

01:28Well, Kenny Dalgleish looks as stunned as anybody, but he couldn't have asked for a better start than this.

01:34And Everton's defensive system today hadn't settled at all.

01:40Dave Watson's head there, then Earl Barrett, then Shearer.

01:43Watson got the wrong side of Sutton, who steered it past Southall.

01:49An astonishing opening to this game.

01:52And Chris Sutton, the man who scored it, unlocked a defensive system that Joe Royal had intended to play with three central defenders today.

01:59Barrett, Watson and Ablett, but where were they?

02:03Joe Royal would like to know.

02:07Six minutes gone, and Alan Shearer gets Blackburn's second goal, and Everton are all over the place.

02:16Kenny Dalgleish's team make a startling opening to this game.

02:21It was played in low, the free kick to Sutton, but when it came out, Shearer drove it equally low,

02:27but accurately past Southall, and the SAS, as they call them, Sutton and Shearer, have each struck

02:34inside the opening six and a half minutes.

02:38Shearer makes it 34th of the season.

02:40And it wasn't too far.

02:54It's a weapon that Everton will be hoping to use in the semi-final, the free kicks and corners of Hinchcliffe,

03:01but they need something today here.

03:03Goal!

03:04Graeme Stewart, the scorer, Blackburn are upset because the player on the ground injured,

03:12which preceded the goal.

03:14There he is now.

03:15He was out of the game, but Everton weren't hanging around.

03:18That's a great piece of vision by Graeme Stewart.

03:21He knew where the England goalkeeper was, Tim Flowers, which was off his line.

03:25And how long did it take for him to size up the situation?

03:29That's a beautiful chip.

03:33And don't forget it was Stewart who was the hero when Everton last came back from two down here.

03:38On the final day of last season, they beat Wimbledon 3-2, and he got a most, shall we say,

03:45unusual goal to win it.

03:46Now here's Barlow.

03:48Amakachi.

03:50Barlow!

03:50Oh, post!

03:53Oh, I don't believe this.

03:55The rebound didn't quite go for Amakachi and Everton, but it could have been 2-2.

04:00And the ground is, well, you can hardly hear yourself speak.

04:04Horn.

04:06Jackson.

04:07In the middle again, Barlow.

04:09It's too, oh, he's bundled over, but the ball had gone.

04:13All sorts of things are going on here.

04:17There's a real edge to it now.

04:18Barlow hits the post.

04:20Flowers, I think, got a fingertip to it.

04:22Got to be seen as a good save.

04:24Barlow's...

04:25Oh, and Henry didn't win that one.

04:28It's the first time that Watson's beaten him, and it was nearly the equal.

04:31I thought there was a case there, I must say, from this angle.

04:34The referee, who was in a better position than Lee, didn't think so.

04:39There's the header back in by Jackson now then.

04:42Does Pearce's left arm knock Stewart over?

04:44Everton players are still talking to the referee.

04:51They obviously hold the same view as the commentator.

04:57Well, that's put another edge on it, hasn't it?

04:59This is Sutton now, getting himself fairly strongly dealt with.

05:09Henry clears yet again.

05:12Watson's in the middle of that.

05:13Sutton gets his head to it.

05:15It's out.

05:15It's a corner.

05:17It's next to a goal.

05:19It's just what Everton wanted.

05:22So that Hinchcliffe can swerve one in again.

05:27Jackson, the player nearest to him.

05:29Ablett on the line.

05:30Watson to come in.

05:32There goes Watson.

05:34Flowers is flattened.

05:35Amakachi's there.

05:37Can they scratch?

05:37Oh, it's on the line.

05:39What on earth is happening?

05:40It's Scrant.

05:41Oh, and driven again.

05:43And Blackburn, they haven't survived, and they have now, but haven't they?

05:51Well, you've heard of goal-mouthed scrambles.

05:54This is one

05:55which

05:58involved about nine or ten players.

06:03Amakachi trying to get it over the line.

06:05Two or three Blackburn defenders preventing it from going there.

06:08Another shot coming in.

06:11Well,

06:12this is what makes the Premiership so exciting.

06:16And how many other countries in the world do you get that sort of action?

06:23With all this hectic activity,

06:25you have to remind yourself that Blackburn are edging nearer a six-point lead

06:29in the Premiership.

06:32But only edging at the moment.

06:35Everton have got more to offer yet.

06:37Here's Horne.

06:40That's shot by Parkinson.

06:46No!

06:46Off the line by Hendry.

06:48Fantastic clearance.

06:50Hinchcliffe, the man denied.

06:51Here's Ablett.

06:54Flowers was beaten.

06:55And that had to be one of the finest pieces of Lustig's defending.

07:00Graham Stewart

07:01was the first man in

07:03as Horne gets the ball across.

07:06But it's here,

07:07when Hinchcliffe has the second shot,

07:09that Hendry performed so well for his goalkeeper.

07:11and keeps the score at 2-1.

07:19Again,

07:20of Manchester United,

07:23Everton are still

07:24in relegation trouble.

07:26That has to be the summary

07:28of a match that was frantic,

07:31fiercely contested.

07:33Everton

07:33made a bold attempt

07:35to recover ground lost

07:36in the first six minutes.

07:38Didn't quite achieve that.

07:40Partly because Hendry and company

07:41were so utterly determined,

07:44particularly in the second half.

07:46in the second half.

07:47Thank you very much.

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