EPL Results Week 19: Friday's 2016 Premier League Scores, Top Scorers and Table

Matchday 19 of the 2016-17 Premier League campaign kicked off Friday with Everton traveling to the KCOM Stadium to take on Hull City.

Hull entered the fixture hoping to climb out of the bottom spot in the league table, and a win would put them into 18th, a point behind Crystal Palace. Everton, meanwhile, were looking to close the gap on Manchester United and inch toward European qualification.

Below is a recap of Friday's clash and an updated look at the Premier League table.

Matchday 19 Results

Date	Home	Result	Away
Dec. 30	Hull City	2-2	Everton
Dec. 31	Burnley	-	Sunderland
Dec. 31	Chelsea	-	Stoke City
Dec. 31	Leicester City	-	West Ham
Dec. 31	Manchester United	-	Middlesbrough
Dec. 31	Southampton	-	West Brom
Dec. 31	Swansea City	-	Bournemouth
Dec. 31	Liverpool	-	Manchester City
Jan. 1	Watford	-	Tottenham Hotspur
Jan. 1	Arsenal	-	Crystal Palace

Matchday 19 Goalscorers

Player	Club	Goals
Ross Barkley	Everton	1
Michael Dawson	Hull City	1
Robert Snodgrass	Hull City	1

League Table

Pos.	Club	P	W	D	L	GD	Points
1	Chelsea	18	15	1	2	+27	46
2	Liverpool	18	12	4	2	+24	40
3	Manchester City	18	12	3	3	+19	39
4	Arsenal	18	11	4	3	+20	37
5	Tottenham Hotspur	18	10	6	2	+20	36
6	Manchester United	18	9	6	3	+9	33
7	Everton	19	7	6	6	+2	27
8	Southampton	18	6	6	6	-2	24
9	West Brom	18	6	5	7	+1	23
10	Watford	18	6	4	8	-8	22
11	West Ham	18	6	4	8	-9	22
12	Bournemouth	18	6	3	9	-8	21
13	Stoke City	18	5	6	7	-8	21
14	Burnley	18	6	2	10	-11	20
15	Middlesbrough	18	4	6	8	-4	18
16	Leicester City	18	4	5	9	-8	17
17	Crystal Palace	18	4	4	10	-4	16
18	Sunderland	18	4	2	12	-15	14
19	Hull City	19	3	4	12	-25	13
20	Swansea City	18	3	3	12	-20	12

Friday Recap 

Hull manager Mike Phelan was a little over six minutes away from seeing his club secure three critical points. Then, Ross Barkley delivered an equalizer for Everton in the 84th minute, and the match ended 2-2.

NBC Sports Soccer shared a replay of Barkley's goal:

The match had begun brightly for Hull as Michael Dawson put them ahead 1-0 in the sixth minute. Curtis Davies did a great job of heading Robert Snodgrass' corner into the path of Dawson, who ran in at the far post and finished with a right-footed volley.

According to the Liverpool Echo's Phil Kirkbride, it's the 11th time Everton have conceded first in the league this season.

Hull's lead lasted until the first minute of first-half injury time. David Marshall failed to properly clear a corner kick and instead knocked the ball into his own net.

Snodgrass broke the deadlock with a free kick in the 65th minute that curled inside the top-left corner. Joel Robles got a hand to the ball but couldn't make the save.

OptaJoe shared how important Snodgrass has been for the Tigers this campaign:

The good news for Hull is that Friday's draw ends their three-match losing streak in the Premier League. The bad news is that they remain without a league win since Nov. 6. They're also still three points behind Palace, who have yet to play in Matchday 19.

Phelan remained optimistic in his interview with Sky Sports (via The Independent) despite Hull surrendering Barkley's late goal:

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It was a battling performance. I'm pleased with the players, they've come through another tough, difficult game and they've shown terrific spirit.

Credit to all the players at this football club—they're all putting a real shift in. They're training hard, they're listening and they're learning.

They've got everything to look forward to, which is to progress up this league, and we've got a real battle on our hands in the second half of the season, but I think we're up for it.

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Looking ahead, Hull are about to embark on a brutal stretch of fixtures that includes Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool over the next month-and-a-half. Their standing in the league table is unlikely to improve through February.

Although Everton showed mental strength to come back twice from one-goal deficits, it wasn't a great performance from the Toffees. They squandered an opportunity to earn an away win against a club that entered Friday with the second-worst home record in the league.

On Twitter, manager Ronald Koeman took positives and negatives away from the result:

Everton have tricky fixtures against Southampton and Manchester City at Goodison Park to begin the new year. Taking four points from the two matches would be a great way for the club to kick off 2017.