Newcastle 0-1 Everton: Barry's tap-in earns first away league win as Ramsey sees late red

A tap-in from Everton striker Thierno Barry in the 49th minute gave his side a 1-0 win at Newcastle on Monday night, Everton's first away league victory of the season. Newcastle were booed off at half-time and again at full time, and substitute Jacob Ramsey was sent off in stoppage time for two yellow cards in under 90 seconds.

How the goal came

Everton midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall took a quick free kick, Newcastle were slow to react, and Everton's Tyrique George ran into the box unmarked. His low shot squirmed under goalkeeper Lukas Horníček and Barry tapped in the rebound. Newcastle manager Matthias Jaissle argued the goal should have been disallowed for a foul by Barry on defender Fabian Schär in the build-up, but it stood.

Everton had been the better side before that and could have led earlier. Barry swung at a good chance in the 24th minute and missed the ball completely, and Everton's Harrison Armstrong sent a first-time effort wide from Dewsbury-Hall's cut-back in first-half stoppage time. Neither side had a shot on target before the break.

Newcastle did not have a shot on target until the 85th minute, through substitute Yoane Wissa. Five minutes later Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford made a good save with his leg to keep out another Wissa effort. Newcastle's Anthony Elanga had hit the post in the 66th minute. Our match data has Newcastle with 17 shots, only two of them on target, against five on target for Everton.

Ramsey's red card came in the 98th minute. Booked for one late challenge, he was shown a second yellow for catching Armstrong above the ankle, and he will miss Saturday's trip to Fulham.

Boos at St James' Park

Jaissle did not argue with the reaction from the stands. “After a performance like that, I can understand that. That's a reality, and I am responsible for that,” he told Sky Sports, adding: “We were not brave enough in possession. Too many long balls.” Sky pundit and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said that watching Newcastle of late, “especially at home”, it feels “flat and a little bit boring”.

The numbers back the unease. Newcastle have won one of their five league games at St James' Park this season and conceded in all five, and BBC Sport says it is now 14 home league games without a clean sheet, the longest run in the club's league history. They have lost three of their last four league games.

What it changes

Everton move up to seventh on 13 points, two behind Liverpool in fifth. Newcastle are 13th on 11, four points above the bottom three, where Crystal Palace are 18th on seven. It was Everton's second win over Newcastle in a week, after a 3-1 Carabao Cup fourth-round victory on Thursday in which Barry also scored.

Barry has eight goals in 12 games in all competitions this season; among Premier League players only Manchester City's Erling Haaland, with 13, has more, BBC Sport notes. Everton have also kept a clean sheet in four of their nine league games, a tally only Arsenal and Brighton (six each) have bettered. Everton manager David Moyes said: “We're creating chances. That's the big thing for me.” Defender James Tarkowski called Monday's display “probably our best performance of the season”.

Everton did it without Jack Grealish again. The Manchester City loanee was left out of Thursday's cup tie for a breach of club discipline, which BBC Sport says is understood to stem from an unauthorised absence from training, and he was not in the squad on Monday either. Moyes said he did not yet know whether Grealish would be available for Friday's home game against Coventry. Asked whether there was a way back, he replied: “Of course there is.”