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FULL TIME: EVERTON 2-2 WIGAN ATHLETIC: EVERTON 2 - 2 WIGAN ATHLETIC. A fantastic second half rescued what was a dismal first 45. Neither team deserved to lose in what was a battling performance by the visitors
The fourth official signals 2 minutes of added time
The 90 minutes approaches as the players seem content with the draw. neither team look to stretch the play and force a winner
A flurry of yellow cards and substitutions leaves the game on a knife edge as neither team want to lose this one
David Wright comes on to replace Landzaat
Baines booked for dissent after booting the ball into the stand after conceding a foul
Heskey boooked for use of the elbow on Lescott
Beattie booked for a challenge on Fitz Hall
The game finally settles into a sensible rhythm as possesion seems to be the key
The Everton players seem shell-shocked as Scharner keeps Wigan in the game
This game has really come to life as both teams seem to be playing for all three points
EVERTON 2-2 WIGAN ATHLETIC (SCHARNER): Scharner once more as he fires home from inside a crowded penalty box (2-2)
Beattie slides the ball into the left hand bottom corner to put Evertons noses in front once more (2-1)
Osam is felled from behind by Denny Landzaat
EVERTON 1-1 WIGAN ATHLETIC (SCHARNER): Great work from Kilbane as he crosses for Scharner to head home into the top left hand corner (1-1)
Antomio Valencia is replaced by Gary Teale
James Beattie gets stripped off and replaces Lee Carsley
Plenty of time for Wigan to get on level terms but Everton continuing to press
Johnson charges forward and unleashes a shot from range which brushes Kirklands left-hand post
Kirkland forced to make another good save down to his right as Osman fires goalwards from 15 yards
The Everton fans raise the roof as they have another three points in their sights
EVERTON 1-0 WIGAN ATHLETIC (JOHNSON): Johnson pokes the ball home from close range after Kirkland can only parry the ball from Cahills shot on the angle
Lescott disposses Heskey and feeds Johnson but the Everton striker is caught offside
The second half gets underway at Goodison. Fingers crossed for a better 45 minutes
HALF TIME: EVERTON 0-0 WIGAN ATHLETIC: HALF-TIME: EVERTON 0 - 0 WIGAN ATHLETIC. A dissapoining first-half with neither team coming close to opening the scoring.
The fourth official signals 2 minutes of added time to be played
The Latics have a throw level eith Evertons penalty box. The long throw causes some confusion but is eventually cleared by Hibbert
Kilbane places Lescott under pressure and the Centr-half is forced to go back to Howard
It seems to have worked as Valencia links up well with Heskey to fire off a shot from a tight angle but the shot sails wide
Paul Jewell sends out his subs as a sign to the starting eleven. Switch on or you're off. David Moyes follows suit and has done the same
The pace of the game has totally been lost as neither team are showing any signs of quality. Both teams continue to give possession away cheaply
Heskey and Lescott are providing each other with problems as neither dominate
Valencia booked for a cynical foul on Lescott
Paul Jewell kicks a water bottle as frustration gets the better of him after Lescott is fouled
Kilbane cuts inside and threads an inch perfect pass to Baines who slides a ball across the area but to no avail as Heskey is left floundering off the pace
Cahil and De Zeeuw are at it again as this time the Wigan man falls to the floor dramitically after a hefty Cahill challenge
The Everton fans are in fine voice, aiming their frustrations at the referee and De Zeeuw who they feel should be having an early bath after his altercation with Cahill
Free-kick to Everton from wide on the right after De Zeeuw is adjudged to have fouled Cahill. The free-kick is wasted as the ball flies over everyones head for a goal-kick
The referee shows leniency with Kirkland and infact shows a yellow to De Zeeuw
De Zeeuw and Cahill have a little coming together on the edge of the area and the Wigan keeper Chris Kirkland races out to push Cahill in the chest
Arjan De Zeeuw with a thunderous challenge but the ball breaks to Johnson who slides a ball through to Cahill but again quality defending by Baines denies a shooting opportunity
The Wigan Back four are holding a high line allowing Everton some possession, but the Toffeemen are finding it hard to penetrate an organised Wigan unit
Wigan look to improve on their away record here today and look in fine form as they push the home side on the back foot
Arteta and Boyce with a forceful challenge in the middle of the park. Throw-in Everton on half-way
Great defending form Emmerson Boyce as Everton look threatning through the industrious Cahill
Todays referee Alan Wiley pulls Tim Cahill up for backing into the Wigan Centre-half after Howard blasted the ball up-field
Inswinging corner from left by-line taken right-footed by Denny Landzaat to far post, saved by Tim Howard.
The game gets underway at Goodison Park with Everton looking to continue their run of good performances after beating Liverpool last weekend
After the heady heights of last week's derby win Everton came crashing back down to earth with a humbling draw at home to Wigan. Like last Saturday they dominated and deserved to win, but unlike the famous victory over their old foes the Blues failed to keep their poise and concentration until the very end and paid the price for sloppy defending as two Paul Scharner goals cancelled out Andy Johnson and James Beattie's second-half strikes. In a niggly first half David Moyes side did almost all of the early running. With quarter of an hour gone Johnson's electric pace had Wigan on the back foot as he chased down Phil Neville's hopeful through ball and forced Fitz Hall into a mistake. Everton's man of the moment picked up the loose ball, jinked past a prostrate Hall and fired a left footed drive goalwards only for Chris Kirkland to save low to his left. Seconds later Carsley almost gave the Blues a deserved lead when he headed Leon Osman's cross inches wide from four yards out. The pressure seemed to get to Wigan as first Arjen De Zeeuw and then Kirkland took exception to a seemingly innocuous Tim Cahill challenge. A handbags at dawn style scuffle ensued before both Wigan players were eventually booked. Jorge Valencia's persistent fouling, on a somewhat theatrical Mikel Arteta, added to the bad feeling between the sides and led to his entry into referee Alan Wiley's book just before the half hour mark. The Ecuador international should have got his own back five minutes before the break but he fired wide from six yards out to squander the best chance of the half. Four minutes into the second period Everton got the break their extra endeavour deserved through who else but Johnson. His persistence forced Emmerson Boyce into a mistake and from the resulting passage of play Kirkland saved superbly from Carsley, after Cahill's dangerous cross, and Johnson forced the ball over the line from six yards. That lit the touch paper for the Blues as they streamed forward in search of a second. De Zeeuw was lucky to get away with a handball in the box under pressure from Cahill and Osman was denied twice in two minutes by the acrobatic excellence of Kirkland. But the Blues dominance made way to complacency and after Gary Naysmith's dwelling on the ball had almost allowed Denny Landzaat to equalise Joseph Yobo's inability to deal with a run-of-the-mill clearance saw the ball land at Kevin Kilbane's feet and cross was headed home by Scharner. Moyes' stunned troops responded almost immediately with the ever impressive Osman coaxing Landzaat into a foul inside the box. Beattie stepped up and converted the penalty with some aplomb, high to Kirkland's left. Unbelievably, for a team that had spent the entire first hour camp in their own half, Wigan then went up the other end and equalised again. Andreas Johansson's low cross dribbling home via Scharner's left boot. Johansson tested Tim Howard later on after another under par Yobo clearance and Osman flashed a last second effort high over the bar as both teams tried to bring a goal scoring end to a quite bizarre afternoon. Everton will be desperately disappointed they couldn't build on last week's win but more concerned at the manner in which they threw away what should have been a straightforward three points.
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