The manner of his arrival as Crystal Palace manager was unfortunate, to put it mildly, but Oliver Glasner will have drawn encouragement from his first view of Roy Hodgson’s former team as they earned a valuable draw at fellow strugglers Everton at Goodison Park. The point and the performance was of far more help to the visitors than Sean Dyche’s toiling team.
Jordan Ayew swept Palace into a fine lead in front of the former Eintracht Frankfurt head coach but a late header from Everton substitute Amadou Onana salvaged a point for the badly out-of-form hosts. The point took Everton out of the relegation zone on goal difference from Luton Town, who have played a game fewer, but they will need a vast improvement to stay out of it regardless of the outcome of their appeal against a 10-point deduction.