Scroll down to spot the apical 10 fastest Prem strikes
- Joshua Jones, Sport Reporter
- Published: 16:27, 1 Feb 2025
- Updated: 16:27, 1 Feb 2025
EVERTON made past with their record-breaking extremity aft conscionable TEN SECONDS against Leicester.
Abdoulaye Doucoure wasted nary clip putting the Toffees successful beforehand successful the immense relegation six-pointer.
From Everton's kick-off, James Garner passed the shot straight backmost to Jordan Pickford.
The goalkeeper past punted the shot upfield, wherever Doucoure pounced connected immoderate woeful Leicester defending to thorax the shot down, tally past the Foxes statues and slide the shot past Mads Hermansen.
Incredibly, the authoritative scoreboard had inactive not adjacent travel connected the surface connected the Premier League's provender of the match.
The authoritative clip of the extremity was 10.18 seconds.
That made the ace speedy onslaught the fourth-fastest extremity successful Premier League history.
But it besides was the fastest extremity scored by a location squad since the league's reformation successful 1992.
Shane Long inactive holds the all-time record, scoring for Southampton astatine Watford with 7.69 seconds connected the timepiece successful 2019.
Philip Billing recovered the nett aft 9.11 seconds for Bournemouth astatine Arsenal successful March 2023.
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And the different subordinate to interruption the ten-second obstruction was Ledley King's extremity against Bradford, putting Tottenham successful beforehand aft 9.82 seconds.
Not lone did the Doucoure extremity etch his sanction into the grounds books, but it besides gave Everton the cleanable commencement against Leicester.
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All-time quickest Premier League goals
- Apr 23, 2019: Shane Long (Southampton) astatine Watford - 7.69 seconds
- Mar 4, 2023: Philip Billing (Bournemouth) astatine Arsenal - 9.11 seconds
- Dec 9, 2000: Ledley King (Tottenham) astatine Bradford - 9.82 seconds
- FEB 1, 2025: ABDOULAYE DOUCOURE (Everton) v Leicester - 10.18 seconds
- Jan 18, 2003: Alan Shearer (Newcastle) v Man City - 10.52 seconds
- Jan 31, 2018: Christian Eriksen (Tottenham) v Man Utd - 10.54 seconds
- Mar 17, 2001: Mark Viduka (Leeds) astatine Charlton - 11.90 seconds
- Sep 30, 1995: Dwight Yorke (Aston Villa) astatine Coventry - 12.16 seconds
- Apr 1, 1995: Chris Sutton (Blackburn) astatine Everton - 12.94 seconds
- Jan 10, 2004: Kevin Nolan (Bolton) astatine Blackburn - 13.48 seconds
David Moyes knew a triumph would determination his broadside 9 points wide of Leicester successful the relegation battle.
On six minutes, the imagination commencement got adjacent amended erstwhile Beto bushed the offisde, got successful down and buried his finish.
And the Guinea-Bissau striker, 27, grabbed his 2nd of the day and 3rd of the play successful the league conscionable earlier half-time, keeping his composure successful beforehand of extremity aft Garner's delightful done ball.