Abdoulaye Doucoure scored the fourth-fastest goal in Premier League history; Beto and Iliman Ndiaye were on target as Everton thrashed Leicester City 4-0 at Goodison Park on Saturday.
Doucoure opened the scoring for the Toffees with 10.18 seconds on the clock, latching onto a long kick from Jordan Pickford, before slotting the ball into the bottom corner for his first league goal of the season.
A late Iliman Ndiaye goal caps off a perfect afternoon for Everton and David Moyes 💙#EVELEI pic.twitter.com/JslvcCTe8h
— Premier League (@premierleague) February 1, 2025
The strike was the Premier League’s fastest goal of the season and the quickest ever scored by a home team in the competition.
Guinea-Bissau forward Beto doubled the hosts’ lead in the sixth minute with another fine finish into the bottom corner, having gotten on the end of a pass from James Tarkowski.
The former Udinese man got his brace in first-half stoppage time, calmly slotting the ball past goalkeeper Mads Hermansen after getting on the end of a superb defence-splitting pass from James Garner.
10:18 – Everton’s opener was the fourth-fastest goal in Premier League history (00:10:18 seconds), and the quickest ever scored by a home team in the competition. Blistering. pic.twitter.com/AXpRjZzkuz
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 1, 2025
Ndiaye made it four for Everton in the 90th minute, benefitting from some poor decision-making from the Leicester defenders, who failed to clear their line. The Senegal international, however, got his sixth league goal of the season and his third in as many games.
Everton have now won three straight games since the return of manager David Moyes, and the win took them to 26 points and above Tottenham into 15th.
Leicester, meanwhile, lost for a fourth time in five league games as they remained 17th pending the outcome of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ visit to Villa Park.
