Everton vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers

Winger Diniyar Bilyaletdinov's first goal for the club rescued a point against Wolves at the 89th minute.

Wolves looked to be heading for a much-needed victory when striker Kevin Doyle put them ahead with his third goal of the season, after 75 minutes.

A poor first half was eclipsed by an exciting second period as Everton chased victory and an explosive finish to the game saw Wolves substitute Stefan Maierhofer sent off for a second bookable offense.

Wolves had the best of the opening exchanges with Greg Halford’s long throw-ins probing the Toffee’s box three times in the opening ten minutes. Ebanks-Blake, making his first league start since the opening game of the season, added strength and running power up front and Wolves could easily have been ahead before half-time.

The Goodison Park faithful grew restless after fifteen minutes of almost continuous defense from the home-side, and midfielder Tim Cahill obviously sensed this as he kick-started Everton’s attacking threat. Cahill fired over the bar after latching onto Louis Saha’s flick-on and that attack appeared to spark Everton into life.

Wolves continued to cause Everton problems when they got the ball into the danger zone and Doyle produced a fine turn and shot from 15 yards to forced Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard into a fine save to his right.

The half time team talk sparked both sides into life as Saha forced Hennessey into a full length save, before Ebanks-Blake failed to make the most of a good chance after latching onto a Wolves throughball.

Everton slowly started to dominate proceedings as battling work from Osman allowed Saha a chance to test Hennessey again from the edge of the penalty box on sixty-three minutes. And, Everton, finally, get the least they deserved as Russian starlet Diniyar Bilyaletdinov scored an eighty-ninth minute equalizer.

Great work down the left hand side from substitute Jo saw him surge passed Elokobi before putting a ball across the face of the goal for Bilyaletdinov to fire home.

Everton failed to mount another attack and David Moyes will undoubtedly be upset at his side's inability to win the game after dominating much of the second half.