Everton pay the penalty

Andy Johnson missed two penalties as Everton were held by FC Metalist in the Uefa Cup.

Everton were left incensed by the referee after FC Metalist forced a draw from the first leg of their first round Uefa Cup tie at Goodison Park. The Toffees were held to a 1-1 draw by the Ukrainians, despite dominating the game. Andy Johnson had the ball in the back of the net after converting a second half penalty, but was forced to re-take it and missed. He later blazed another penalty over the bar, but the Toffees will be frustrated not to have had yet another spot-kick from the game. Metalist nicked a crucial away goal through Zeze to tie the game after Joleon Lescott had given Everton the lead in the first half. A 30-minute delay at the start due to traffic and turnstile problems took the edge off the occasion somewhat, and it was soon clear that Kharkiv were a fit, strong and hugely committed outfit. On 23 minutes Everton got their breakthrough. James McFadden's hard running won a corner on the right and the Scot took it himself, lifting the ball into the box for Lescott to power away from his marker Valentyn Sliusar and head home from six yards for his third goal of the season. Kharkiv gathered themselves after the blow of conceding and it took a brave save from Wessels at Marco Devic's feet four minutes from the break to keep Everton ahead. Clearly Everton needed more than one goal to take to the Ukraine in a fortnight, but their front pairing of Johnson and Yakubu Aiyegbeni was hardly firing on all cylinders. After Vitalie Bordian had been booked for kicking the ball away from a free-kick, the Ukrainians had a man sent-off and survived a twice-taken penalty. The spot-kick was given on 68 minutes when Oleksandr Babych was penalised for pulling down Lescott in the box. Kharkiv were furious and Seweryn Gancarczyk was sent-off for arguing. Johnson then fired the penalty home, only to be made to take it again because of encroachment. Second time around he saw his second effort saved by Goryainov. Worse was to follow for Everton. Metalist took off substitute Antonov and replaced him with Hicham Mahdoufi on 76 minutes. And with the new man's first touch, he flicked the ball through Lescott's legs to allow Zeze to fire home the equaliser. Two minutes from time Johnson amazingly wasted another spot-kick, firing high over after Babych had pulled down Victor Anichebe. The Metalist defender, booked for the first penalty he conceded, was shown another yellow and then red for this offence. But even when Johnson did net in injury-time, the goal was disallowed for a foul on Goryainov by Anichebe.

Everton	Team Statistics	Metalist Kharkiv
1	Goals	1
1	1st Half Goals	0
10	Shots on Target	4
5	Shots off Target	2
3	Blocked Shots	1
8	Corners	1
19	Fouls	28
4	Offsides	3
1	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	2
77.2	Passing Success	69.5
16	Tackles	35
62.5	Tackles Success	68.6
53.9	Possession	46.1
56.8	Territorial Advantage	43.2