Everton left the Stadium of Light with a point but it could have been so much more had they made their early dominance count.

The brilliance of goalscorer Iliman Ndiaye and the disappointment of Thierno Barry’s close-range miss were placed in stark contrast in most of the summaries written of the game - many of which, like David Moyes, concluded the failure to double the visitors’ lead was the game’s major turning point.

After that, Sunderland dominated and equalised through Granit Xhaka before laying siege to the Everton box. This is what the national media made of the draw.

OPINION

The Times did not spare Barry, headlining their report on whether his was the “miss of the season”. While Martin Hardy concluded Sunderland should have beaten Everton, he acknowledged the away side’s early dominance, including after Ndiaye’s opener.

He wrote: “Everton were in the ascendancy then, with Jack Grealish and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall particularly impressive. They should have extended their...