MIKEL ARTETA admits Everton are putting pressure on themselves with their slow start to the season – as he revealed he would consider being selected by England.

Hopes of bouncing back from the opening Premier League defeat at Blackburn Rovers were dented when David Moyes’s side were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.

Tim Cahill gave Everton the lead two minutes before the break, but the Goodison outfit were made to pay for a host of missed opportunities when Sylvan Ebanks-Blake netted an equaliser on 74 minutes.

After Wednesday’s Carling Cup tie against Huddersfield Town, Everton’s next two top-flight games see them travel to Aston Villa on Sunday before returning from the international break with a home clash against Manchester United.

And Arteta accepts Moyes’s men cannot afford to already start falling behind the leading clubs and need a first victory of the campaign as soon as possible.

“We need to analyse things, but we don’t need to panic because we could have won comfortably against Wolves,” said the midfielder. “It is a disappointing result. I thought we had done enough to win the game.

“It puts a lot of pressure on yourself if you are always playing catch-up, we are playing Villa away from home now and the Carling Cup in midweek, so we just need to get that win and those first three points.

“We know that a lot of teams will come here and sit and defend and make it difficult for us but that is the challenge.

“We should have controlled the game better in the second half and taken the chances to add to the first goal. No-one is happy.

“The most important thing was to get three points today and start building the confidence up, but we haven’t done that. The pressure grows when other teams are winning and that is why we need to start as soon as possible.”