Leeds’s Luis Sinisterra keeps Everton and Frank Lampard waiting for win

Not for the first time, Anthony Gordon demonstrated precisely why Frank Lampard is so resistant to the idea of selling him. Gordon’s goal was not quite sufficient to provide Everton with a first win of the season but the coveted winger played a key part in securing a hard-won point on a night when Lampard’s players needed to be streetwise to contain a Leeds side apparently reborn under Jesse Marsch this season.

With Jack Harrison shining wide on the home left, at times terrorising Everton’s Nathan Patterson and Luis Sinisterra scoring an eye-catching equaliser a ferocious yet fragile Leeds bristled with menace yet retained a decided vulnerability to counterattacks.

Lampard’s quest for a first Premier League win saw the Everton manager preside over a switch from a 3-4-3 formation to a 4-3-3 featuring three wingers in Gordon, Dwight McNeil and Demarai Gray.

The visitors had hoped to include Neal Maupay but Lampard’s new striker, a £15m arrival from Brighton last Friday, was unavailable as the Premier League failed to process the paperwork required to rubber-stamp his registration in time. August bank holiday Monday and its attendant head office closure was cited as the reason why but Everton were left deeply unimpressed.

No matter; it took Gordon only 17 minutes to remind Elland Road that wingers can score too. The 21-year-old’s second goal in two games was a good one, involving an assured, beautifully weighted, low shot placed beneath Illan Meslier after Gordon had ghosted into the area to meet Alex Iwobi’s fine through pass with the sort of blindside run Lampard built a career on.

Small wonder Chelsea have spent the summer in hot pursuit of Gordon and his price can only have risen after a goal he initiated from wide on