The depth of United’s play with and with out the ball elevated after the break, and earned simply reward when Wheatley scored his second leveller of the sport. The place the primary was a group transfer, this was all his personal work, chasing down Everton’s half-time substitute Luca Davis, stealing the ball and ending ruthlessly into the precise side-netting.
United’s confidence subsequently matched the group’s depth. Sekou Kone struck over from lengthy vary, Wheatley and Moorhouse had close-range efforts blocked and Scanlon’s edge-of-the-box effort was saved after a fast counter-attack.
On the different finish, Harrison denied Graham nicely from one other harmful nook after which got here out to power Sherif to assume when one on one. The 2-goal marksman struck over the crossbar.
It proved a key turning level. Slightly over a minute later, Kone drove between males, picked a go out to Tyler Fletcher, who turned fantastically and shot from the realm’s edge to seek out the underside left nook.
Francis Gomez drilled one extensive of the precise submit because the guests loved a great spell, however United got here by means of it and benefitted from some fortune when Kone’s lengthy shot deflected in 5 minutes from time.
