Moyes bemoans familiar failings

IF ever a game could sum up a season, this might just have been it for Everton.

Plenty of bright play and a stack of chances received the rather desultory reward of a single point thanks to some profligate finishing and the Merseysiders will sit down for Christmas lunch just two points clear of the relegation zone.

Diniyar Bilyaletdinov’s sixth-minute strike was all the hosts had to show for their early dominance, although Louis Saha had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside minutes after the Russia international had opened the scoring.