Brown happy with point

Hull boss looking for his side to now record clean sheets

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Hull boss Phil Brown was happy with a point but disappointed not to keep a clean sheet as Everton battled back from two goals down to earn a draw at the KC Stadium.

Michael Turner put the hosts ahead on 18 minutes with a header from a corner and the Tigers then added a second through a Phil Neville own goal from a corner on 50 minutes.

But Everton showed great determination and Tim Cahill got one back off the bar on 73 minutes - although there was some uncertainty whether it had crossed the line.

Five minutes later, Leon Osman got the equaliser after Yakubu played a great one-two with Louis Saha down the left and then crossed for him to slot home.

Win

Brown told Sky Sports: "When you are two-nil up in any stage in any game - whether it be in the Premier League or any of the divisions - you are looking to win the game, you are looking to close it out.

"But to be fair I think in the first half, and I am not being disrespectful to Everton, without Lescott and without Saha (who were brought for the second half), they weren't as potent a threat as what they were in the second half.

"The second half, it was a totally different team - they got a hold of the game, they went 4-4-2, they looked more comfortable and they caused us a lot of problems.

"In the first half we looked comfortable, we played some of the best football that we've played so far this season and you have to be like that - you have to be at full tilt in the Premier League - certainly where we are concerned.

"But I've got a changing room in there that's very, very disappointed - and they are disappointed because they've just drawn the game against a team that finished fifth in the Premier League last year so it is a tremendous measure of the progress that we've made at the football club.

"But it's up to us now to dust ourselves down from the two goals that we conceded and, as I said at half-time, clean sheets win games and we didn't keep a clean sheet but we got a good point."

Learn

He added: "We have to make sure we learn from it and we have to take the clean sheet mentality into the next game."

Brown had seen a replay of Cahill's 'goal' but felt it was not conclusive.

Concluding he said: "For sure, in the first half we controlled the tempo of the game which is very, very pleasing but in the second half Everton got to grips with the game and some of the fluency and the passing and movement that they showed was second to none.

"We didn't quite deal with it in the second half but it is a good point - it is still eight points now from five games and if we continue in that mode then we will be okay."