Highlights, report and reaction: Brentford 1 Everton 1 | OneFootball

Yoane Wissa scored his 13th goal of the Premier League season as Brentford drew 1-1 with Everton at Gtech Community Stadium.

Wissa gave Thomas Frank’s side the lead in the final seconds of the first half, nodding home from close range after Kevin Schade’s long throw-in led to panic inside the Toffees’ six-yard box, but Jake O’Brien’s header on 77 minutes earned the visitors a share of the spoils.

There was one enforced change to the side that beat Leicester City 4-0 as Yehor Yarmoliuk replaced the injured Christian Nørgaard.

The teams traded speculative efforts during the opening five minutes. Keane Lewis-Potter’s strike from 20 yards skipped narrowly wide of Jordan Pickford’s right post, while James Garner’s attempt from slightly further out sailed over the crossbar.

Idrissa Gueye was the next player to try his luck from distance, but his shot also landed in the west stand.

Brentford carved out two significant chances midway through the half.

Schade picked out Wissa with a deep cross from the right, but the forward’s downward header was tame and comfortably held by Pickford.

Moments later, Kristoffer Ajer glanced Lewis-Potter’s in-swinging delivery well wide of the target.

Following a quick Everton counter attack, Jesper Lindstrøm’s cross narrowly evaded Carlos Alcaraz inside the six-yard box.

Jack Harrison’s diagonal ball was headed back across goal by O’Brien and Ethan Pinnock did enough to prevent Beto from getting a shot away.

The game then sparked into life after an uneventful opening half an hour.

Beto only had Flekken to beat after he had capitalised on a slip from Pinnock to latch on to Harrison’s through ball, but the goalkeeper raced off his line, stood firm and smothered the shot.

It was a similar story two minutes later as Flekken darted out to deny the in-form forward after he had got in behind the Bees backline for a second time.

Brentford finished the first half with a flourish. Pickford pushed away Wissa’s curling effort from the edge of the area, before the DR Congo international gave his side the lead in the fourth minute of stoppage time.

Schade propelled the ball into the box, Bryan Mbeumo hit the crossbar with a close-range header, and Wissa reacted fastest to nod home from almost on the goal line.

Flekken made another important contribution shortly after the restart, clawing away Harrison’s in-swinging corner from underneath the crossbar.

On 64 minutes, Alcaraz engineered some space on the edge of Brentford’s box and his fierce strike nearly nestled into the bottom corner.

Wissa had the ball in the back of the net for a second time on 69 minutes, turning in from close range, but the forward had strayed offside to receive Lewis-Potter’s pass.

Nathan Collins then connected with Mikkel Damsgaard’s cross from the right but couldn’t guide his header on target under pressure from a Toffees defender.

Everton levelled on 77 minutes. O’Brien ghosted in at the back post to meet Mykolenko’s cross with a stooping header which flew beyond Flekken and into the bottom corner.

Beto found himself one-on-one with Flekken for a third time during the closing stages and was again left frustrated. The forward attempted to bend the ball into the far corner, but Flekken stood tall and got a strong hand to the ball.

Vitaly Janelt had a chance to win it for Brentford in the final seconds. Substitute Michael Kayode’s long throw-in dropped kindly for the midfielder inside the six-yard box, but he didn’t get a clean connection on his strike and the ball bounced wide.

Brentford: Flekken; Ajer (Kayode 81), Collins, Pinnock, Lewis-Potter; Janelt, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard; Schade (Maghoma 76), Mbeumo, Wissa

Subs not used: Valdimarsson, Carvalho, Mee, Konak, Ji-soo, Morgan, Arthur

Everton: Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Garner, Gueye (Iroegbunam 75); Lindstrøm (Young 75), Alcaraz, Harrison; Beto

Subs not used: Virginia, Begović, Patterson, Keane, Chermiti, Sherif, Heath

Attendance: 17,082

Frank: A draw was probably fair

Brentford head coach Thomas Frank admitted that the Bees' performance was "not through the roof" against Everton.

“As always, there were many good things, but also some things we could have done better," he said.

“I felt that our performances are quite consistent: we are in that bracket of not too bad, quite good, but not top. A lot of the time, that could have given us three points today.

“The performance was not through the roof, we probably lacked the last edge to go 2-0 up; if we had done that, we win the game.

“That said, Mark Flekken makes three unbelievable saves. He first gave us the opportunity to win the game with the first two saves, and then he made sure we got a point in the end.

“A draw was probably fair.”

Flekken: I’m gutted we didn’t keep the clean sheet

Mark Flekken shared his frustration after Brentford’s 1-1 draw with Everton.

“I’m happy with my own performance but gutted that we didn’t keep the clean sheet,” said the goalkeeper.

“It was a good fight, a tight game, and we were a bit unlucky with Wissa’s goal [that was ruled out for offside]. If we had gone 2-0 up, it would have been done and dusted.”

Asked what was going through his head when Toffees forward Beto raced towards him on three occasions, Flekken responded: “Not too much! You have to stay calm, stay patient, and to not offer him a space to go for. React on his action. It all sounds a bit easy, but the patience is the hard part.”