Iwobi rescues point but Everton and Leicester remain in relegation trouble

This was a frenetic, see-sawing and at times truly silly game of football that embodied the emotions of a relegation scrap. Dominic Calvert‑Lewin’s second goal of the season earned Everton an early lead but from there this match descended into chaos and when James Maddison missed a penalty to give Leicester a two-goal buffer after goals by Caglar Soyuncu and Jamie Vardy there was always scope for Sean Dyche’s side to cling on.

And so they did, Alex Iwobi striking an equaliser in the second half. So amateurish was the defending in parts, it was hard not to feel neither team deserved to walk off the pitch victorious and in the end, after four fraught minutes of second-half stoppage time, they had to settle for a point that does little for either side.

Daniel Iversen was surely the man of the match, the Leicester goalkeeper making a string of fantastic saves, the best of which he saved until last when he palmed Abdoulaye Doucouré’s stinging drive to safety with three minutes of normal time to play. Everton also had to recover from losing their captain, Séamus Coleman, to a serious-looking knee injury.

If anything typified the desperation of these sides then it was the early goalmouth scramble that culminated in Michael Keane attempting an overhead-kick on the edge of the Leicester six-yard box and Calvert-Lewin juggling the ball with his feet in a bid to keep an Everton attack moving.

Everton settled far quicker and further defused Leicester’s pre-match enthusiasm when Calvert-Lewin leathered a penalty down the middle of Daniel Iversen’s goal.

Michael Oliver pointed to the spot after taking a dim view of Timothy Castagne’s clumsy shove on Calvert-Lewin. Dyche glanced at his watch, Calvert-Lewin blasted in and he wheeled