Source: Team_Talk
Wolves hit back to hold Toffees to draw
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake struck in the 75th minute to salvage a 1-1 draw for Wolves and leave Everton searching for their first win of the season.[LNB] Tim Cahill's 43rd-minute strike at Goodison Park on Saturday seemed set to get the home side's Premier League campaign up and running but with the visitors' first shot on target, Ebanks-Blake coolly slotted home a cross from Kevin Doyle.[LNB]With Moyes' men desperate to claim the three points, they poured forward, with both Cahill and substitute Louis Saha coming close, but the visitors' smash-and-grab point was secure.[LNB]Mick McCarthy's men had barely mustered an attack of note until their goal as Moyes' men showed every sign of atoning for last week's miserable defeat at Blackburn.[LNB]Diniyar Bilyaletdinov looked bright in the early stages and hathe first real chance for the home side after five minutes when he booted Mikel Arteta's half-cleared free-kick over the bar.[LNB]In the best chance negative Wolves had to offer, Matt Jarvis fired in a long-range free-kick which was easily held by Tim Howard, who for much of the game was a virtual passenger.[LNB]Neat work from Tim Cahill down the right played Sylvain Distin into the box in the 16th minute but the impressive Jody Craddock swept the ball off his toes.[LNB]As the home side continued to press, it was Leighton Baines' turn to curl a set-piece inches over the bar after Karl Henry was adjudged to have hauled down Steven Pienaar.[LNB]For all their attacking intent Everton were repeatedly let down with the final ball, with Cahill the offender on 22 minutes after a weak cross which was cleared by George Elokobi.[LNB]The home side had their best chance in the 25th minute when John Heitinga smashed a shot from 25 yards which was acrobatically tipped over the bar by Marcus Hahnemann.[LNB]Pienaar came close on 35 minutes with a rising shot which just cleared the bar, then Elokobi plucked the ball off Cahill's toes in the box and referee Lee Mason waved away penalty appeals.[LNB]The first half threatened to end in controversy when replays clearly showed Mikel Arteta had been fouled by Stephen Ward in the box, only for referee Lee Mason to award a free-kick.[LNB]But it hardly mattered as moments later Arteta's low set-piece struck the Wolves wall and rebounded for Cahill to slam left-footed into the roof of the net.[LNB]It was business as usual after the break with the home side showing all the attacking intent and going close through Jermaine Beckford who slipped while shooting in the box.[LNB]Then Bilyaletdinov missed a simple chance to grab a second goal when the busy Cahill headed down in the box and the Russian completely miskicked with only Hahnemann to beat.[LNB]In an all-too-rare foray forward, Wolves won a corner in the 63rd minute which Jarvis fired in low but Craddock could only find the sidenetting with his attempted back-heel flick-on.[LNB]Beckford should have done better on a swift counter-attack in the 71st minute, but after racing half the length of the pitch he allowed Ward to get in a saving tackle.[LNB]Wolves found their equaliser out of nowhere and there was an air of controversy about it after substitute Adlene Guedioura won the ball in a hard challenge on Heitinga.[LNB]Guedioura then released Kevin Doyle to charge down the right and with the home defence nowhere he hit a low cross for Ebanks-Blake to sweep home from close range.[LNB]Moyes made a double substitution in a desperate bid to claim back the points. Cahill went close with an attempted flick, and then Saha headed on to the roof of the net.
