Everton players were left frustrated after their 2-2 draw with West Ham United.
Despite having lost just once in eight games, the Toffees are still struggling to put a strong winning run together and pull themselves away from the bottom three.
Midfielder Leon Osman said: "We knew they were going to come here and make it difficult for us and they did that. It was a frustrating afternoon.
"We felt we were just starting to pick up pace and get a bit of momentum, so it is not the result we wanted.
"But we fell behind twice and we still managed to show character to get back in the game. At least we have managed to get something.
"I don't an Everton team has ever given up on a game until the ref blows his whistle.
"That is a few times this season we have managed to salvage something in the last minute.
"It's positive from that point of view but we have got to start winning games from the first minute rather than having to scrape one in the last minute."
