Everton FINALLY score their first goals of the season

When new Everton striker Beto said he grew up dreaming of playing football in England, he would have hardly envisaged bailing his team out at the club standing 92nd of 92 in the Football League.

But in equalising at Doncaster Rovers after a blistering run and fine finish, the towering Portuguese forward marked his first day on the job by doing what no Everton player had done in three matches this season: score a goal.

It set Everton on their way to a first win of the season, after Arnaut Danjuma also scored late on, and meant an extremely positive debut for Beto a day after signing masks over the cracks of another dismal performance for the Toffees.

For well over an hour, they were outplayed by the team sitting bottom of League Two. ‘Sacked in the morning,’ came chants from the Doncaster fans at Sean Dyche, along with ‘can we play you every week?’ and ‘Premier League, you’re having a laugh’.

Dyche knows that an opening hour like this to any top-flight team would see them thoroughly dismantled but Beto and Danjuma’s late goals buy him some time and crucially give Everton their first win and goal of a frustrating campaign.

Less than 50 seconds were on the clock when Doncaster gave Everton a serious fright, when Jordan Pickford gave away possession inside his own 18-yard box with a heavy touch. From the resulting corner, Joseph Olowu was unmarked in the box but got his header all wrong.

Pickford, wearing the captain’s armband here, was subjected to many humorous taunts early on as fans behind his goal chanted, ‘Aaron Ramsdale, he’s better than you’ at the England No 1, to which the goalkeeper replied with a sarcastic wave and smile.

But it was a sloppy start for Everton, who allowed Doncaster to get into dangerous positions and