Premier League: How 'spellbinding' and record-breaking day at the bottom unfolded

Victory for Everton saw them ascent retired of the bottommost 3 on with Nottingham Forest

When you are warring relegation successful the Premier League things tin go hopeless - and usually a spot chaotic.

By the extremity of the last match, erstwhile Arsenal and England striker Alan Smith told Sky Sports: "It was a magnificent spectacle. It turned into everything you hoped it would be. Tension, goals, thrills, spills, perfectly spell-binding to watch."

Up archetypal were Leicester, who travelled to Craven Cottage needing triumph implicit Fulham to debar slipping into the driblet zone, but they rapidly recovered themselves 3-0 down by half-time.

It extended their nine grounds of 20 consecutive Premier League matches without a cleanable expanse and it was the archetypal clip successful 12 years Fulham could bask a three-goal pb astatine the break.

Surely that was crippled over? Perhaps not. Fulham went 5-1 up, but it was soon 5-2 and past 5-3. Eventually the whistle went successful London.

Craven Cottage had witnessed 8 goals successful a Premier League lucifer determination for the archetypal clip and the effect meant 4 teams sat wrong a constituent of each different astatine 17:00 BST.

Tom Cairney, who was playing his 400th league match, scored 2 goals for the archetypal clip since October 2019 erstwhile Fulham were successful the Championship

Step up Everton.

Mark, "a delighted Everton fan" was already feeling smug erstwhile helium messaged BBC Sport saying: "No-one wants to enactment up. Leicester are doing their champion to get relegated. Not arsenic bully arsenic Everton."

Second bottommost successful the table, Sean Dyche's broadside faced a Brighton broadside chasing European qualification. So erstwhile the scoreline work 3-0 successful their favour aft 35 minutes, those watching connected astatine the Amex were stunned.

"I'm struggling to judge this," erstwhile Wales defender Danny Gabbidon told BBC Radio 5 Live.

Ex-Everton goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis added connected BT Sport: "That was bonkers. It was a imagination commencement for Everton fans."

It was Everton's fastest three-goal pb successful a Premier League lucifer since 2018 and midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure had netted arsenic galore goals successful the archetypal 29 minutes (2) arsenic helium had successful his erstwhile 1176.

And yet Everton were not done. They added a 4th successful the 2nd fractional earlier Brighton yet scored. Though the past connection was had by Dwight McNeil to marque it 5-1 successful the 96th infinitesimal for the Toffees.

Having scored 5 goals, Everton had netted 16% of their full league goals this play (32) successful that 1 match.

Dwight McNeil enjoyed scoring truthful overmuch helium was celebrating earlier the shot had adjacent crossed the line

Suddenly, Everton were retired of the relegation portion and Leicester had dropped into it.

There was inactive 1 much crippled to travel astatine the City Ground between the league's bottommost 2 clubs - Nottingham Forest and Southampton.

Aly messaged BBC Sport saying: "The Forest-Southampton crippled has a batch to unrecorded up to aft these games truthful far..."

To which Forest instrumentality Pete Bancroft replied: "I'll instrumentality the drabbest 1-0 triumph you've ever seen."

"What is the grounds for fig of goals connected a three-game lucifer day?" Muhammad from London asked. "With Forest and Southampton's defences arsenic sturdy arsenic insubstantial paper, surely it could beryllium breached immoderate it is!"

With 14 goals already scored successful the earlier matches, we recovered retired 2 much would adjacent the grounds connected a three-game time successful the Premier League - past achieved connected 19 August, 2018 and this twelvemonth connected 29 April.

G from Scotland past predicted a "0-0 people bore" - but however incorrect they were!

Nottingham Forest had a precocious extremity ruled retired earlier James Ward-Prowse scored for Southampton to marque it 4-3 and acceptable up a nervy ending astatine the City Ground

The situation was accepted by some clubs astatine the City Ground.

Forest scored 3 by half-time for the archetypal clip since 1995, portion Southampton got 1 themselves too.

Three much successful the 2nd fractional took the day's extremity tally to 21, smashing the erstwhile Premier League precocious of 16 from 3 games, arsenic Forest won 4-3.

They moved supra Everton into 16th spot and, importantly, 3 points wide of the driblet portion with 3 games left.

A rollercoaster time and 1 everyone was looking guardant to watching backmost connected Match of the Day until we broke the quality that determination was not one, fixed it was a slope vacation Monday.

"What a day! Get Gary retired of bed, we request a peculiar Match of the Day to spot each these again," said Dan from London.

Chris Murphy added: "21 goals from 3 games, can't we get a last-minute MOTD cobbled unneurotic contiguous Gary Lineker?"

It was conscionable the 3rd clip this period astatine slightest 3 Premier League matches saw six oregon much goals being scored connected the aforesaid day. It was memorable and precise enjoyable.

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