Dominic Calvert-Lewin now has 5 goals and has scored for a third successive Premier League game as Everton beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to maintain their perfect start to the season.
The striker, having scored a hat-trick against West Brom last weekend, picked up where he left off by scoring Everton’s first of the game after Seamus Coleman’s cross found him inside 10 minutes.
Crystal Palace, on the other hand, had also won their opening two Premier League games and looked like they weren’t prepared to lose as Cheikhou Kouyate powered a header home from a corner to equalise.
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Joel Ward was judged to have handled Lucas Digne’s header inside the area after the ball hit his wrist, with Richarlison scoring the resulting penalty. Ward was making his 250th appearance for Crystal Palace.
The victory sees Carlo Ancelotti’s men continue their winning run and sends them to the top of the Premier League.
They have now started a league campaign with three straight wins for the first time since 1993.
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Stats and facts from the match (Backed by Opta)
- Crystal Palace have gone 12 Premier League games without a win against Everton, losing six and drawing six since a 3-2 win at Goodison Park in September 2014.
- Everton have won four of their last six away games in the Premier League (L2), as many as in the previous 20 combined.
- Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the first player to score in each of Everton’s first three Premier League games in a single campaign since Steven Naismith in 2014-15.
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Danny Ings’ struck early during the win at the Turf Moor and it proved to be enough as Southampton secured their first points of the Premier League season.
It was Ings’ third goal of the season and it came in the fifth minute, prodding home Che Adam’s cut back as Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side got their season up and running.
Chris Wood did have the ball in the back of the Southampton net early in the second half, but his effort was ruled out for offside, while Charlie Taylor’s powerful drive was tipped round the post by Alex McCarthy as Sean Dyche’s 400th game in management ended in defeat.
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The win is Southampton’s first in the Premier League at Turf Moor and their first at the ground in a top-flight game since 1971.
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