James McCarthy suffered a double leg fracture as Everton drew 1-1 with West Brom.

There was a minute's applause before kick-off in honour of former Baggies forward Cyrille Regis, whose death was announced on Monday at the age of 59.

West Brom went ahead on seven minutes through Jay Rodriguez. Everton midfielder McCarthy had to be taken off on a stretcher just after the hour mark following a collision with Salomon Rondon, which looked to have resulted in a double leg break.

The hosts were level on 69 minutes through substitute Oumar Niasse, set up by Theo Walcott, making his debut after a transfer from Arsenal.

Everton boss Sam Allardyce was satisfied with the point: “The only positive thing I can say to the Everton fans is Oumar snatched a point for us and it stopped the run of three defeats in a row.

“We have picked up a point from 1-0 down, which showed our resilience. We are one of the best teams at picking up points from losing positions, which is a positive.

“But the performance was not very good to watch. We were all disappointed for two reasons in the end – the performance and James' injury.

"I was not very happy with what I was seeing [prior to sending on Niasse] and neither were the supporters. We had to do something to change the way we were playing and, in the end, that change got us a very precious point.

"The header from Theo and the finish was the best piece of skill we showed all afternoon.

“I do not think we deserved any more than a point. Certainly, the performance was well under par from what we expected today but that is something for us to sort out and the players to take a bit more responsibility over."