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KEANE CAN’T DO IT ALL ON HIS OWN

Toffees ace gives Spurs timely Euro boost

- ■ by PAUL BROWN

MICHAEL KEANE settled the own goal derby to keep Tottenham’s dreams of Europe alive.

The Everton defender deflected Giovani Lo Celso’s off-target shot into his own net to help Spurs win for only the second time in 10 matches in all competitio­ns.

No team has benefited from more own goals than the north Londoners this season and no team has scored more of them than Everton.

The Toffees have also now gone a monumental­ly awful 40 games without victory away to the traditiona­l top six.

On celebrity fan Sly Stallone’s 74th birthday, they were hoping to give themselves a fighting chance of Europea football.

But their hopes hit the canvas, with key man Mason Holgate limping off injured and Carlo Ancelotti’s side looking punch-drunk.

All was not rosy for Jose Mourinho’s men either though with Hugo Lloris and Heungmin Son having to be separated after an angry half-time bust-up. Two of the game’s most decorated managers. Two of the country’s most successful clubs. Spurs have built their new stadium. Everton will soon be building theirs.

But if the Toffees are a few years behind off the pitch, they started the day only one point behind Mourinho’s men after something of a surge under Ancelotti.

After a dismal showing in defeat to Sheffield United, Mourinho recalled Toby Alderweire­ld for his first minutes of the restart, with Harry Winks also back.

For Everton, one academy graduate replaced another, with Tom Davies coming

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