With these garish orange shoes showing off sunshine, Dimitar Berbatov clutched at his leg and left the overall game. No true point in seeing this one out. And with that, on the 30th second, Fulham's likelihood of finding anything at their most horrible of away grounds vanished. The subplots that comprise success and failure in basketball a' the subject rise, the search for a location inside the top four, the tussle to avoid relegation; well none of them were can be found at Goodison Park. Everton have had a good period without ending their visit a trophy under David Moyes. Fulham, meanwhile, had previously hit the 40-point mark and seemingly safe from the decline, there was no determination to do with any number of intensity. The preconditions suggested this would definitely be no match of the day. And it showed. Fulham had not won a group installation within their entire record at Everton. With nothing seriously at risk, that questionable figure was unlikely to change as soon as Steven Pienaar grabbed the host's in to a 16th minute cause following some rapid and elaborate five-a-side soccer down Everton's right side. Perhaps the most significant discovery from the afternoon set deep in Moyes's program notes. Four sentences in, he references the long run a' seemingly one used with Everton. "The purpose now for myself and the club is to continue steadily to moving the staff forward," he wrote enthusiastically and to build on which we've already reached. Moyes did not make himself. But he's obviously contemplating what happens next at a club he has managed across 12 months. A short while later, Moyes joked about celebrating his 50th birthday party however you like. "It will be a wild rave," he commented, notably uncharacteristically. Moyes was much more serious, though, about reaching a on his future at the end of the campaign. "When you've been [somewhere] 11 years, you'd hope that you'll get the respect and enough time to produce a decision." An indication of Moyes's current thinking is displayed in his staff selections. Because it was announced in 2013 could be Phil Neville's last at Everton, he's maybe not appeared in a shirt and Phil Jagielka has already been mounted as his replacement as team leader. Neville wasn't even in the squad against Fulham. Many of Moyes's most reliable people are equally on the age of 30 and Moyes appreciates that gradually, his squad will need reshaping. Perhaps this is the start of that program. Moyes also still believes there's at least a remote chance of European qualification. "We'll continue and see what happens," he said. "We'll probably need certainly to win every game but we've crushed last year's total with the points today and hopefully that shows an indication of improvement. If we do enter Europe, we'll certainly have acquired it as the sides above us [currently] are typical really good sides." Regardless, for the second campaign in sequence, it is likely that Everton will finish it above Liverpool. Moyes will not level is own team's achievements by the performance of these Merseyside opponents. Up to Everton have improved in recent years, Liverpool have degenerated. Most importantly for Moyes, he feels that this Everton staff is the most acceptable he's had since marking his arrival at Goodison Park with a success, which ironically came against Fulham on a sunny spring afternoon more than a decade before. Everton didn't need to show any amount of regular company to secure the details in this fitting. Yet it always felt comfortable. Fulham's defenders could not cope with the pace and movement of Kevin Mirallas, Leon Osman and Seamus Coleman for the operator. "It was a good footballing goal," Moyes said. "It was earned because we produced enough similar opportunities." These opportunities dropped to Mirallas and replacement Ross Barkley, who might have secured the result early in the day only for Mark Schwarzer to hand absent on both occasions. Martin Jol, the Fulham director, later refuted suggestions he is about to change the Australian goalkeeper in the summer by recruiting Roma's Martin Stekelenburg. "As long as Mark is fit, we'd want to keep him," Jol said. Everton (4-4-2 ): Howard; Coleman, Jagielka, Distin, Baines; Mirallas, Fellaini, Osman, Pienaar; Jelavic (Barkley 67), Anichebe. Fulham (4-4-2 ): Schwarzer; Manolev, Senderos, Hangeland, Richardson (Duff 56 ); Emanuelson, Enoh, Karagounis (Rodallega 77), Kacaniklic; Berbatov (Petric 30), Ruiz. Referee: T Moss Man of the match: Pienaar (Everton) Fit rating: 5/10
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