For 45 minutes at Goodison Park, Tottenham Hotspur showed why talk of Champions League qualification, and perhaps even a title challenge, should not be beyond Mauricio Pochettino’s team this season. By the end, it was clear they still have some way to go before realising the more ambitious claims that Glenn Hoddle and others have bestowed upon them.

Spurs had to settle for a point at Everton and one that Roberto Martínez’s team thoroughly deserved, after a second-half transformation that left Hugo Lloris the busier goalkeeper, when the France international had been virtually unemployed before the break. Aaron Lennon, the former Spurs winger, and Dele Alli illuminated an entertaining game with fine first half goals but the visitors’ enterprise and command faded after the interval in the face of a belligerent Everton response.