EVERTON’S pre-season campaign began with a defeat at Gigg Lane on Friday night but nobody of a blue persuasion will be panicking.
The first half went exactly how David Moyes would have wanted. Although Bury started off with plenty of enthusiasm, Everton’s class soon began to show and they started creating accessible chances for James Vaughan and Louis Saha.
Saha, who had impressed during the four days spent in St Andrews, broke the deadlock when he found space in a crowded penalty area to flick Leighton Baines’s cross past Wayne Brown with a deft header on 22 minutes.
Not surprisingly, wholesale changes were made at the interval, but what was not envisaged was the complete turnaround that followed.
With a number of young reserve players on the pitch, Everton let their guard slip; Ryan Lowe (64) and Efte Sodje (70) took full advantage of poor marking to score two goals in six minutes.
