Everton got another hard-fought point while maintaining Sam Allardyce’s unbeaten start to his Toffees tenure, making it seven games without defeat.
However, it is the manner in which the Blues played that was both heartening yet frustrating. Solid in defence and giving up few chances, they grabbed a second straight clean sheet. But the Blues were poor when they had possession of the ball, struggled to create any real chances and should have put a poor West Bromwich Albion side sitting in the relegation zone to the sword, but failed.