Home comfort at last for Everton, Leeds beaten by Sunderland

LIVERPOOL, England, March 3 : Everton shrugged off a seven-match winless run at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium with a 2-0 defeat of Burnley boosting their chances of European qualification, but Leeds United's Premier League relegation fears deepened with a 1-0 home defeat by Sunderland on Tuesday.

James Tarkowski's first-half header and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's second-half shot gave eighth-placed Everton their first home win for almost three months to put them on 43 points, two behind sixth-placed Chelsea.

Fifteenth-placed Leeds had the chance to move nine points clear of 18th-placed West Ham United but missed out as Sunderland took the points thanks to a second-half penalty converted by Habib Diarra at a raucous Elland Road.

Leeds had seen a goal by Joe Rodon ruled out for offside shortly before Sunderland's penalty, awarded after a VAR check for a handball by Ethan Ampadu.

Bournemouth and Brentford drew 0-0 - a result that moved Bournemouth into the top half and left Brentford seventh.

Bottom club Wolverhampton Wanderers were hosting fifth-placed Liverpool in a later kickoff.