Blackpool at home

Blackpool took the lead through an Neal Eardley free-kick on ten minutes before Everton immediately responded through Tim Cahill with a towering header.

Everton had the better of the first half but the Tangerines re-took the lead straight after the re-start when an almighty scramble in the Everton box culminated in David Vaughan firing past Tim Howard from close range.

In almost a carbon copy of the first half, Everton immediately responded, this time through Seamus Coleman who fired past Matthew Gilks from just inside the area following a lapse in collective Blackpool concentration.

Following their almost customary slow start to the campaign, the Toffees took 10 points from a possible 12 in the month of October. Despite that rich vein of form, David Moyes's Everton travelled to Bloomfield Road level on points with a side roundly tipped for relegation during pre-season.

Despite their fruitful start to the season, Blackpool's focus remains on survival; while their visitors will again have European ambitions and both managers had near full strength squads to choose from coming into this fixture.

Everton named an unchanged team as they looked to maintain their Premier League revival - Jack Rodwell was deemed only fit enough for a place on the bench despite an appearance for the reserves during the week. Ian Holloway made only one change to the side that on Monday recorded their first top-flight home win since 1971 with Keith Southern making a first Premier League start in place of Elliot Grandin.

Facing a side that have lost all three Premier League matches this season when they have conceded the opening goal, the Tangerines - looking for back-to-back top-flight victories for the first time in 44 years - began with more purpose and were lucid in their forward play.

Their early endeavour was rewarded after only 10 minutes when Eardley dispatched a free-kick past Tim Howard from 25 yards out after Mikel Arteta was adjudged to have impeded Charlie Adam.

The American will have been disappointed not to have gotten anything on the kick that, although hit at pace, appeared to pass him at a comfortable height for the keeper.

That goal appeared to strike the visitors into action and the intensity of their play, following a slow start, rose visibly.

That increase in intensity bore immediate dividends when Sylvain Distin slid the ball between Eardley and Craig Cathcart and into the path of Ayegbeni Yakubu. The Nigerian picked out the onrushing Cahill, who thudded a header past a helpless Gilks on 13 minutes.

The rest of the half was dominated by Everton, who utilised over-lapping full-backs Phil Neville and Leighton Baines to great effect. Blackpool were enterprising at times but lacked a cutting edge.

Yakubu and Coleman went close before the young Irishman had the best chance of the half to give his side the lead - having turned his man this way and that, the player who was on loan at Bloomfield Road last season could only look on as his whipped effort dropped just the wrong side of the post.

Holloway will have been the happier of the two managers to hear the half time whistle with the sides at parity and following the proverbial flea in the ear his side emerged from half-time with real intent.

And following an almighty scramble in the Everton box, which almost certainly included a handball by DJ Campbell, David Vaughan followed up his own blocked shot to fire past Howard from close range to gives his side the advantage once more.

Yet Everton again found an immediate riposte, it was left for impressive Coleman to fire past Gilks from an angle after Stephen Crainey misjudged an angled, lofted ball over his shoulder.

The match remained a closely fought affair with both sides playing an open, expansive brand of football but it was Everton who fashioned the chances of note. First Steven Pienaar fired tamely at Gilks having exchanged passes with Cahill before Louis Saha latched onto the South African's through ball to drag wide.

Both bosses made attacking substitutions with Jermaine Beckford and Marlon Harewood entering the fray but this one was destined to remain a draw.