The walk out of Hill Dickinson Stadium felt frustratingly familiar on Monday night. This is a fresh campaign in a very new stadium and yet a theme is already starting to develop - one of missed opportunities for a club that is going places but maybe not quite so fast as it could be.

I was pleased at the start of this game and pleased for the 15 minutes of the second half. Everton had lost back-to-back matches heading into the West Ham draw and a big part of the defeats at Anfield and Molineux was the slow starts.

That needed to change, I expected it to change, and it did change. Everton were most impressive in the build up to Michael Keane’s opener and then at the beginning of the second half. At the break, new Hammers boss Nuno Espirito Santo sent his side out early - he could not have said much in his first teamtalk - and I expected a reaction. Instead, it came...