Carsley keeps Everton on Euro course

Newcastle 1 Everton 1

Lee Carsley's 56th-minute free-kick gave the visitors their reward for a determined defensive display following Craig Bellamy's fifth-minute opener.

The Magpies trudged off the pitch as if they had suffered a fourth successive home defeat after turning in a display good enough to win but finding themselves denied by keeper Nigel Martyn on several occasions, the woodwork on two more and former Magpie Alessandro Pistone's back at the death.