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Sun 05 Oct 2008, Goodison ParkReferee: Howard Webb
 Team Lineup 
24
Howard
2
Hibbert
6
Jagielka
5
Lescott
3
Baines
10
Arteta
21
Osman
25
Fellaini
   
20
Pienaar
(84)
9
Saha
(72)
22
Yakubu
Substitutes
14
Vaughan
(84)
28
Anichebe
(72)
26
Rodwell
8
Castillo
4
Yobo
19
Nuno Valente
1
Nash
 
 Match Quotes
Everton manager David Moyes
"If we can go in two up at half-time my team-talk is a lot different to what it was at 2-1. Newcastle deserved a draw, but for 45 minutes we were well on top, playing well enough, and we're maybe a bit diappointed to score two. We had the game won and we didn't take all three points."

- David Moyes

 
Everton 2
Newcastle United 2
Scorer: Arteta (17 pen.)
Scorer: Fellaini (34)
Scorer: Taylor (45)
Scorer: Duff (46)
Attendance: 33,805 FT (17:57)

 

Newcastle United hit back from two goals down against Everton to claim a welcome point.

The Toffees cruised into a two-goal lead at Goodison Park thanks to Mikel Arteta's penalty and £15m midfielder Marouane Fellaini's first for the club.

But Steven Taylor pulled one back a minute from the break with a far-post header and then made the equaliser for Damien Duff a minute into the second period.

Newcastle were under pressure from the start against an Everton side still smarting from their UEFA Cup exit in midweek.

Louis Saha fired wide, Ayegbeni Yakubu lifted a shot over the bar and Arteta saw a free-kick curl over.

Everton should have been ahead after seven minutes when Yakubu turned Claudio Cacapa far too easily as a ball came in from the left, but the Nigerian stabbed a 12-yard effort just wide.

Newcastle responded when Charles N'Zogbia appeared in yards of space on the left to fire a cross-shot just wide of the far post.

But Everton were ahead after 17 minutes. Nicky Butt was penalised for a sliding tackle on Baines in the box after the full-back looked to have lost the ball.

looking ragged

But the Newcastle midfielder did take his legs and made no contact with the ball. Referee Howard Webb had no doubt over giving Arteta the chance to drill home the penalty.

Newcastle hit back and after Tim Howard had pushed away a Michael Owen shot, Taylor's follow-up effort was chested off the line by Baines.

The movement of Owen and Duff caused Everton's backline plenty of problems, but Newcastle defended far too deep and it gave the Toffees the space and incentive to come forward.

It was Everton who almost went two ahead when Yakubu sent a near-post cross from Pienaar inches wide.

However, the second did arrive after 35 minutes when Baines' cross from the right was reached first by Fellaini in the six-yard box, and he stretched out a leg to see his debut goal for the club crash home off the underside of the bar.

Newcastle replaced Enrique with Bassong six minutes from the break, before Butt was booked for a trip on Saha.

The visitors were looking ragged, but they were given a lifeline when Taylor headed home at the far post seconds before the break from Geremi's cross.

Spurred by that late goal in the first period, Newcastle struck again a minute after half-time.

hauling back

Taylor was played in down the right and with Everton expecting a flag, Taylor kept running and crossed for Duff to guide home the equaliser. Replays suggested that Phil Jagielka had played Taylor onside.

Suddenly it was Newcastle coming forward. Saha almost sliced a corner into his own net and Howard saved from N'Zogbia.

Leon Osman forced a fine save from Shay Given as Everton regained some of their composure, but it was much more of an even contest by now.

Fabricio Coloccini saw a header blocked in the six-yard box before an extra striker, in Shola Ameobi, came on for Geremi.

Fellaini was booked for a foul on Duff, Geremi having also been cautioned for hauling back Pienaar.

Everton threw Victor Anichebe on for Saha, but it was Newcastle who almost grabbed the winner when it took a tremendous saving block from Baines to keep out an N'Zogbia shot with Howard beaten.

The hosts then sent on another striker, James Vaughan replacing Pienaar with six minutes left.

Anichebe sent a low shot inches wide while at the other end Ameobi sent a strike just past the far post.

 

 Fantasy Player Pick
Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor

(Newcastle)
Set up one goal and scored another in the Magpies' dramatic comeback.
 IKTS Snapshot
3 per cent
Just three per cent of IKTS players correctly predicted a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park.
Please note: Fixtures are subject to change. Reproduced under licence from Football DataCo Limited. All rights reserved. Licence no. NEWMEDIA/PREMLGEGE/FDCED0910/118839.
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Newcastle United
 
 Team Lineup 
1
Given
27
Taylor
2
Coloccini
6
Cacapa
3
Jose Enrique
(38)
20
Geremi
   
(74)
22
Butt
   
8
Guthrie
14
N'Zogbia
   
10
Owen
11
Duff
Substitutes
13
Harper
19
Xisco
30
Edgar
12
Bassong
(38)
42
Donaldson
23
Ameobi
(74)
41
Doninger
 
 Match Quotes
Newcastle United interim manager Joe Kinnear
"We had two kicked off the line, we were 2-0 down, we pushed the game all the way and if there was anyone going to win the game today it was us. We have worked two, three sessions morning and afternoon since I have arrived at the club. I think it is starting to show. I was very much concerned that maybe we didn't have enough experience in the side on the pitch, but I am an optimist."

- Joe Kinnear

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