Mondays Premier Review

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Manchester City 1-1 Everton:
Wayne Rooney scores his 200th Premier League goal, while Raheem Sterling earns hosts a point (August 22 2017)

Wayne Rooney scored his 200th Premier League goal but a late strike from Raheem Sterling earned Manchester City a point in a 1-1 draw which saw both sides had a man sent off.

The 31-year-old is back at his boyhood club after 13 record-breaking years with Manchester United - an allegiance City fans reminded him of on Monday night.

Jeered from the outset at the Etihad Stadium, Rooney certainly enjoyed making it 1-0 to Everton in the 35th minute when he met strike partner Dominic Calvert-Lewin's square pass with a left-foot finish through the legs of goalkeeper Ederson and in off the post. Only Alan Shearer, with 260, has more Premier League goals than Rooney.

The match further turned in Everton's favour when two bookings in the space of three minutes just before the break saw £50million summer signing Kyle Walker dismissed - first for a challenge on Leighton Baines and then for a somewhat harsh aerial challenge on Calvert Lewin.

The 10 men of City pushed hard for an equaliser in the second half and it looked as though Ronald Koeman's Toffees would hold firm to pick up a win they were 10/1 to achieve pre-match, only for Sterling to drill home with eight minutes remaining after Mason Holgate headed a Danilo cross into his path.

The numbers were evened up when Morgan Schneiderlin got his marching orders late on for a second booking after fouling Sergio Aguero but despite desperate pressure from the hosts to find a winner, both sides had to settle for a point.