By Gary Rose BBC Sport 23 Apr From the section Premier League Share this with Digg Facebook Google LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Copy this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43779259 Read more about sharing. Everton manager Sam Allardyce defended his side’s style of football as they laboured to a 1-0 win over Newcastle. Theo Walcott scored his first goal since January to lift the hosts up to eighth in the Premier League. Some fans have criticised the Toffees’ displays under Allardyce, but the former Newcastle boss felt his side played well on Monday. “What was wrong with our style? You can’t knock our football,” he said to Sky Sports after the match. “You can knock some of our passing that went astray, but you can’t knock me for that. I don’t pass the ball. “Apart from the last 10 minutes we dominated the game and there was only going to be one winner.” A dull first half bore all the hallmarks of an end-of-season, mid-table encounter with goalscoring opportunities at a premium. However, the deadlock was broken soon after the break when Yannick Bolasie’s cross deflected off DeAndre Yedlin to Walcott, who took a touch before driving the ball into the roof of the net. The game briefly opened up after that and Newcastle substitute Dwight Gayle should have done better when he hooked a shot over from close range, before Seamus Coleman made an important headed clearance in stoppage time. Ultimately, a lack of quality in the final third proved Newcastle’s undoing as… [Read full story]
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