Everton boss David Moyes was pleased with the returns of Marouane Fellaini and Louis Saha yesterday against Newcastle.
"Louis got 15 minutes and we got Felli (Marouane Fellaini) back for maybe a bit longer than we wanted to," Moyes told evertonfc.com. "You could see maybe they were a bit rusty and we were just a little bit behind today.
"If you remember we played really well against 10 men against Liverpool when I thought we were excellent. Here we didn't do as well but you've got to remember we were without Pienaar, Osman, (Tim) Cahill and Arteta - the people who we think can make a difference in that situation."