Thierno Barry couldn’t catch a break at first. He went 16 games for Everton without a goal, and it looked rough. But now? He’s scored four times in his last nine matches, and his latest strike pulled a point out of the fire for a Leeds United team that honestly just fell apart.

Barry’s first few months on Merseyside were tough—confidence clearly shot. But once he finally got off the mark in that 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest, something clicked. Tonight, he was right where he needed to be, pouncing on a sluggish cross from Idrissa Gueye and turning it into a reward for Everton’s fight and effort. They deserved it.

Leeds actually started strong. James Justin put them ahead about half an hour in, finishing from close range after a storm of attacks. Everton were lucky to reach halftime just one goal down.

For Everton fans, this was the energy they’d been craving, especially after a brutal week where Jack Grealish got ruled out for three months with a broken foot. Watching Barry, Gueye, and Ndiaye take charge in the second half, you could feel the mood shift. Moyes’ team looks in safe hands.

Leeds really could’ve put the game away early. Pascal Struijk hammered a shot over the bar, and Ilia Gruev wasn’t far off either, both inside the first 15 minutes. In between, Dominic Calvert-Lewin had a chance for Leeds when Anton Stach sent him through, but Jake O’Brien managed to throw him off just enough to keep the ball out.

Farke, under pressure from those five losses in six games—not to mention the boos from fans against Villa—switched up the formation. He leaned heavily on his full-backs, and for a while, Justin and Jayden Bogle made it work. Justin even opened the scoring, blasting home after Bogle’s cross split the Everton defence.

Joe Rodon started that move, grabbing a loose ball and linking up with Bogle and Stach, whose passing just sliced through Everton. Justin timed his run perfectly, stormed into the box, and buried it.

By halftime, Leeds looked set for their first away Premier League win in almost four months. Calvert-Lewin nearly made it two, too, smacking the post after another great ball from Bogle.

But after the break, Everton woke up. Around the hour mark, they started piling on the pressure. Ndiaye saw a goal-bound shot blocked by Sebastiaan Bornauw, and just a few minutes later, Thierno Barry forced Karl Darlow into a full-stretch save with a clever outside-of-the-boot effort.

Barry hadn’t scored much since arriving in England, but with about 15 minutes left, he beat Bornauw to Gueye’s low cross and smashed the ball into the roof of the net. The Hill Dickinson crowd went wild—suddenly, you felt like Everton could win this.

Gueye almost turned hero again moments later, rattling the crossbar with a rocket from the edge of the box. The comeback wasn’t complete, but Everton’s attitude and energy had completely changed the game.