It is in games like these that Everton are haunted by the failings of the January transfer window.
There were points for the taking at Goodison Park. Everton were the better side before they fell behind to Ollie Watkins' second half penalty. This was not a bad performance.
But it was a result heavily influenced by the limitations of the squad Sean Dyche inherited. Frank Lampard suffered before him. As he sought game changers against Wolves, Southampton and West Ham he had few genuine options to turn to. The transfer window offered hope that might soon change. Instead it was transition in the dugout, not the transfer market, and Dyche picks up the problem his predecessor was unable to contend with.
