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Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeep! It’s all over at Goodison Park, where the points have been shared. On an evening when Richarlison missed enough chances to win three or four games, James Rodriguez put Everton ahead in the second half, only for his side to concede a soft late equaliser to Palace substitute Michy Batshuayi in the closing minutes.
90+3 min: The game threatens to end as it started with play scrappy and focussed in the middle third of the pitch.
90+1: Everton drive forward trying to find a winner. Richarlison picks out Sigurdsson on the edge of the Palace penalty area, but he is disposssessed.
90+1 min: We’ll have four minutes or thereabouts of added time.
89 min: Guaita dives low to his right and saves well from Richarlison, who chalks another one up in the debit side of his matchday ledger. He didn’t get much power behind his shot but it was heading for the corner.
87 min: The Belgian takes advantage of a lapse in concentration from the ball-watching Michael Keane to run on to a through ball down the inside left and shoot low and hard into the far corner.
Well, wouldn’t you know it! Batshuayi pulls Palace level just a few moments after coming on.
84 min: Palace substitution: Michy Batshuayi on for Jordan Ayew. After criticising his manager for not trusting him in an interview during the international break, Batshuayi is given the guts of 10 minutes to show what he can do.
83 min: Everton continue to lead but are looking anything but in control. Van Aanholt passes to Schlupp in a good position in the Everton penalty area but he shoots wide of the far post.
81 min: Richarlison is teed up by Digne and shoots his effort into the ground from about 10 yards out. The ball bounces up and is heading goalwards but Guaita saves superbly. It’s not Richarlison’s day and he looks thoroughly fed up with his lot in life.
78 min: A brace of Jean-Philippes enter the field of battle. Crystal Palace substitution: Jean-Philippe Mateta on for Christian Benteke. Everton substittution: Jean-Philippe Gbamin on for James Rodriguez. Well done to him after 20 months of unadulterated injury hell.
77 min: Zaha tries to drill the ball across the Everton penalty area but his effort is blocked by Godfrey.
75 min: Everton substitution: Seamus Coleman off, Ben Godfrey on. Gylfi Sighurdsson takes the captain’s armband from the Irish national treasure.
73 min: Having weathered something of a mini-Palace storm, Everton go in search of a second. At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, the next goal here will be crucial. Should Everton score it, you suspect that’s the game done and dusted. If Palace can rustle up an equaliser in the next 10 minutes, I wouldn’t put it past them to go on and win the game.
70 min: Now it’s Schlupp’s turn to have a cross from the left blocked. Michael Keane puts his delivery out for a corner, from which nothing comes.
69 min: Palace’s final ball lets them down again, with Patrick van Aanholt getting in behind the Everton defence, only to have his attempted cross blocked.
68 min: Palace substitution: Jeffrey Schlupp on for Jairo Riedewald.
67 min: Jordan Ayew shoots from the edge of the Everton penalty area but doesn’t trouble Olsen unduly. Palace are starting to bare their teeth.
65 min: A mix-up between James and Tom Davies in midfield leads to Wilf Zaha stealing the ball and bearing down on goal., He ends up shooting straight at Olsen and a half-decent chance goes begging for Palace.
63 min: Eze tries a shot from distance which is parried clear by Robin Olsen in the Everton goal.
62 min: Eberezi Eze is caught napping on the ball by Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who dispossesses him. The Palace man goes to ground and referee Kevin Friend gives him a free-kick I’m not sure was justified.
57 min: In possession of the ball on the byline a few yards from the goal post after Guaita had “saved” the ball his way following a Sigurdsson effort in the wake of an Everton attack down the left, Seamus Coleman is given all the time in the world to decide what to do with it. Quite wisely, he elects to tee up James and rolls the ball towards him in the penalty area. The Colombian rifles a right-footed shot into the bottom right-hand corner.
James Rodriguez marks his return to Everton’s starting side with a goal.
54 min: James sends the ball across the edge of the six-yard box from the corner flag and both Yerry Mina and Richarlison leap but fail to make contacrt with the ball. Richarlison gives his team-mate the stink-eye for getting in his way and putting him off. He seems to have the right hump on today, Richarlison, for some reason. He’s very spiky.
53 min: The ball breaks to Sigurdsson on the edge of the Palace penalty area. He pulls a low shot towards the bottom left-hand corner but it’s deflected out for a corner off Kouyate.
52 min: Eze takes the corner, passing the ball to Zaha on the edge of the penalty area. He runs into to traffic and loses possession but Everton struggle to clear the ball properly.
51 min: Seamus Coleman slides in to prevent Van Aanholt from squaring the ball across the face of the Everton goal. Corner for Palace.
49 min: Zaha runs out of road, collides with Richarlison on the edge of the Everton penalty area and goes down looking for a free-kick. Quite correctly, he doesn’t get one. If he had, Richarlison would probably have wanted to take it.
48 min: Wilf Zaha tries to play a weighted pass into the Everton penalty area but it’s blocked and the ball is cleared.
46 min: Gylfi gets the ball rolling for the second half, with Richarlison clearly not as enthused about taking the kick-off as he is free-kicks on the edge of the Palace penalty area. James tries to catch out Guaita with a sneaky shot from out wide after spotting the Palace keeper off his line. The Spaniard back-pedals to catch the ball.
Peep! The deadline remains unbroken at Goodison Park, where Everton have had the better chances in a match that has been decidedly low on quality. Palace haven’t been particularly bad but they are struggling to find any cutting edge in and around the Everton penalty area.
45+3 min: Palace free-kick about 40 yards from the Everton goal. Nothing comes of it and the half-time whistle is blown by Kevin Friend.
45+2 min: DIgne curls an ambitious and accurate cross-field ball towards Calvert-Lewin from the left. Palace clear.
45+1 min: We’ll have a minimum of two minutes of added time.
44 min: Free-kick for Everton about 40 yards from the Palace goal, in line with the left edge of the penalty area. James curls the ball in and Richarlison rises unmarked to head over the bar.
43 min: James tries a diagonal shot from distance after being teed up by Richarlison. The ball skids wide of the far post.
41 min: And take it he does, curling the ball high and wide of the angle of upright and cross-bar. I suspect he won’t be allowed to take the next one.
39 min: Kouyate fouls Richarlison just outside the Palace penalty area, a little left of centre. Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Digne and James all want to take the free-kick and are having a right old squabble over it. Richarlison has the ball in his hands and it appears possession is nine tenths of the law - he is determined to take it.
38 min: Everton are probably having the better of proceedings so far but neither side has looked particularly convincing, especially up front.
37 min: A Christian Benteke shot from the edge of the Everton penalty area is blocked by Holgate but the ball loops up in the air. It’s spinning out for a corner but Robin Olsen does well to keep it in play.
35 min: Everton switch play from right to left and Lucas Digne sends in a cross. It’s headed clear, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin lurking with intent.
34 min: Lucas Digne gets booked for “leaving one in” on Jordan Ayew’s instep down by the touchline near halfway.
33 min: Seamus Coleman swings another cross in from the right and Guaita manages to fist towards the touchline at his far post.
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