Everton stunned Manchester United with two goals in the final 14 minutes from substitutes Dan Gosling and Jack Rodwell to beat the champions 3-1 on Saturday and stop them going top of the Premier League. The victory gave Everton a notable trio of successes after recent wins at Goodison Park over Manchester City and Chelsea and came after manager David Moyes made two late substitutions which clinched what he called a "brilliant victory".
Everton had won only one of their previous 29 league games against United and lost 13 of the last 17 at Goodison to them. That record looked like it might remain intact when Dimitar Berbatov put United ahead with a powerful shot that went in off the underside of the bar after 16 minutes. Everton though, missing injured midfielders Marouane Fellaini and Tim Cahill, equalised two minutes later through striker Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, who was first to react from a clearance by Jonny Evans and lashed a left-foot screamer away from Edwin van der Sar into the net.
Gosling, a 20-year-old midfielder signed from Plymouth Argyle two years ago, replaced Bilyaletdinov after 71 minutes and put Everton 2-1 up five minutes later with a shot from close range from Steven Pienaar's cross. Rodwell, 18, who replaced Pienaar after 88 minutes, scored Everton's third two minutes later after a surging run that took him into the United area where he fired wide of Van der Sar to seal Everton's first win over United since 2005.
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