BY JOE APU
Everton new boy, Ademola Lookman hit the ground running for his new side as he scored in his EPL debut to stun Manchester City 4-0 and deliver a serious blow to Pep Guardiola’s Premier League title hopes.
The young Nigeria who was bought from Charlton Athletics for £11m on a four-and-a-half-year deal until June 2021 left no one in doubt that he is ready for the big league challenge giving credence to his England Under-20 international, where he scored seven goals in 25 games this season.
“It feels great to be an Everton player. As soon as I heard about Everton’s interest I knew this would be the right place for me.” And indeed it is the right place for him as he scored just before the end of the game in which all the top players of Manchester City including Aguero and Iheanacho were in action.
Romelu Lukaku coolly side-footed in a Kevin Mirallas cut-back and the Belgium internationals combined again after the break, Mirallas drilling Lukaku’s through-ball across the keeper.
Tom Davies sent Goodison Park into raptures on just his second league start by dinking a third over Claudio Bravo and £11m debutant Ademola Lookman fired between the legs of the keeper in injury time.
In the other EPL game of the day, Zlatan Ibrahimovic delivered his most important goal yet for Manchester United as he sent Old Trafford wild with his 19th of the season in all competitions to salvage a 1-1 draw with their fiercest rivals Liverpool on Sunday.
James Milner, so often a scourge of United, had silenced the home crowd with a 27th minute penalty as Liverpool seemed to be coasting with relative comfort to a crucial Premier League win until the irrepressible Swede struck with an 84th minute header.
The draw put Liverpool into third spot, alongside second-placed Tottenham on 45 points, but left Chelsea seven points ahead of the pack after 21 games, while United, who saw the end of their nine-match winning streak, remain sixth with 40 points.