Soccer: Everton captain Phil Neville was ultimately satisfied with a 2-2 draw against Merseyside derby rivals Liverpool but thought the Toffees should have capitalised on overturning a two-goal deficit.
In an absorbing first-half Leighton Baines’s own goal and Luis Suarez’s strike put the Reds in charge at Goodison Park but Leon Osman halved the deficit almost immediately before Steven Naismith levelled 10 minutes before the interval.
Although the second 45 minutes could not replicate the events before the interval, the match ended in controversy when Suarez had a last-gasp goal ruled
out for offside, only for replays to show the Uruguayan was in fact behind the last defender.
“I think when we were two-nil down we’d have took a draw but we got back into the game so quickly and we felt we had the momentum,” Neville told Sky Sports
1. “We maybe should have passed it a little bit better, took that extra touch. I think we needed control of the game in the wide areas.
“These games are fast and furious and you go home later and you analyse whether it was an offside goal. We also had chances to score so maybe both teams are happy with a draw in the end.”
Neville was booked on the stroke of half-time for diving after falling over under no contact from Daniel Agger. The former Manchester United man admitted: “It was a stupid thing to do by myself. I don’t find myself at that end of the pitch and I actually thought Daniel Agger was coming to take me out.
“Rightly so I got my butt kicked at half-time, put myself under pressure with the yellow card and I couldn’t really commit to tackles in the second half. I won’t do it again, that’s for sure.”
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