Thierno Barry celebrates on his knees after scoring against Coventry
Thierno Barry got Everton back on track after they had fallen behind at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Photograph: Steve Taylor/PPAUK/Shutterstock
Thierno Barry got Everton back on track after they had fallen behind at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Photograph: Steve Taylor/PPAUK/Shutterstock
Thierno Barry double fires Everton to comeback win against Coventry

The most optimistic Evertonian – if that is not an oxymoron – could not have envisaged David Moyes’s team sitting fifth in the Premier League and Thierno Barry just behind Erling Haaland in the goalscoring chart at the end of the club’s calamitous transfer window. Yet there they are, team and striker defying all expectations, following a rousing if fortuitous comeback against luckless Coventry.