Newcastle will be left to rue the Gordon penalty miss and the fact they did not have a proper striker to finish all the chances they created. Everton will be very pleased to have a point.
Jordan Pickford: “We know playing against Newcastle is tough. We grafted and we’re at our best, but we were resilient. We can show more quality going forward. To get a point and not lose is important.
“I watched the game against City and fancied him going to the keeper’s left and it’s come off my knee. He did not execute it perfectly.
“He tried to double bluff and I got the better of him.
“He asked me why I went that way and I told him because he’d gone right with the past two.”
Chris Paraskevas emails: “When the Premier League broke away from humanity in the early 90s do you think they envisaged a late Saturday / Daylight Savings kick off three decades later that so devoid of quality that it might have cured my insomnia?
“Feels like two points dropped because of Gordon’s bad day at the office, but I think that might have just masked some familiar failings on the road: Newcastle didn’t ask enough questions of a team low on confidence, didn’t work Pickford anywhere near enough. They got what theh deserved and things could have been so much worse.
“Where’s Paul Mitchell at? Hopefully searching for a striker, assuming signing players is still allowed these days.”
I don’t think they will be selling the VHS in either club shop.Kári Tulinius says:
“Both Everton and Newcastle are much more comfortable playing on the back foot, and since neither team has felt the need to get proactive, the match has felt very tentative. I hope that one of the teams will go for it, but suspect that both sides fear that committing men forward will mean getting done on the break.”
“We used to have a rule for penalties playing on the streets of Newcastle “Nae blasters”, and it’s good that Anthony Gordon is following that tradition,” says Brian Robson.
