EPL: Huddersfield Town 0-2 Everton

Gueye's strike was just his third goal of the season

Everton beat Huddersfield 2-0 at The John Smith's Stadium to increase the Terriers' Premier League relegation fears.

The visitors opened the scoring six minutes before half-time thanks to Cenk Tosun's neat finish - the Turkey striker's fifth league goal since joining the club in January.

Sam Allardyce's side sealed the win when Idrissa Gueye drove home a second with just 13 minutes remaining to keep Everton eighth in the table.

However, Huddersfield are now just three points clear of 18th-placed Southampton with three fixtures to play.

Despite dominating the first 45 minutes, it was Everton who went in ahead at the break after a careless moment from Rajiv Van La Parra, whose stray cross-field pass was intercepted by Theo Walcott.

The former Arsenal forward broke clear over halfway, before releasing Tosun, who still had work to do before finding the bottom left-hand corner.

Leighton Baines and Morgan Schneiderlin were available after recovering from knocks, but Dominic Calvert-Lewin was absent through injury. And despite returning to training after a knee problem, this game came too soon for Iceland forward Gylfi Sigurdsson as the visitors made one change from Monday's 1-0 win over Newcastle with Nikola Vlasic replacing Yannick Bolasie.

That was the visitors' first effort on target in the game and they almost doubled their lead with their second, 12 minutes after half-time.

However, after playing a neat one-two in the box with Nikola Vlasic, Seamus Coleman was unable to beat Jonas Lossl at his near post, although that miss was soon forgotten as Everton went further ahead.

Meanwhile, left-back Leighton Baines produced another accomplished display for his side, reminding Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate that even at 33, he still has much to offer in that role after creating the visitors’ second, the 82nd Everton goal he has been involved in in the top flight.

Substitute Oumar Niasse broke clear to the right-hand byline, before picking out the unmarked Leighton Baines on the edge of the area. The left-back's lovely layoff was then driven home by Gueye as Everton made it just one defeat in their last seven league encounters.