With those garish red shoes showing off the sun's rays, Dimitar Berbatov clutched at his leg and exited the overall game. No true point in seeing this one out. And with that, on the 30th second, Fulham's chances of finding such a thing at their most horrible of away grounds faded. The subplots that comprise success and failure in soccer a' the concept spike, the pursuit of a place inside the top four, the tussle to avoid relegation; well none of them were to be found at Goodison Park. Everton experienced a great year without finishing their search well for a trophy under David Moyes. Fulham, meanwhile, had previously hit the 40-point mark and seemingly safe from the fall, there clearly was no motivation to do with any level of intensity. The preconditions suggested this would be no match of the day. And it showed. Fulham hadn't won a group fitting inside their whole history at Everton. With nothing really at risk, that questionable information was unlikely to alter from the moment Steven Pienaar swept the host's in to a 16th moment lead following some fast and complicated five-a-side football down Everton's right side. Perhaps the most significant discovery from your day lay deep in Moyes's programme notes. Four paragraphs in, he references the near future a' apparently one spent with Everton. "The target now for myself and the team is always to continue steadily to build on which we've already achieved and to help keep moving the group forward," he wrote enthusiastically. Moyes did not make himself. But he is clearly thinking about what are the results next at a club he's handled across 12 conditions. After ward, Moyes joked about celebrating his 50th birthday party however you like. "It would have been a wild rave," he commented, notably uncharacteristically. Moyes was more serious, though, about reaching a on his future at the end of the campaign. "When you have been [somewhere] 11 years, you had hope that you'll get the value and enough time to make a decision." An indication of Moyes's current thinking is exhibited in his group selections. Because it was reported in 2013 would be Phil Neville's last at Everton, he has maybe not appeared in a shirt and Phil Jagielka has already been mounted as his replacement as club captain. Neville wasn't even in the squad against Fulham. A number of Moyes's most reliable players are similarly over the age of 30 and Moyes understands that gradually, his squad will require reshaping. Probably here is the start of the program. Moyes also still thinks there's at the least a remote potential for European certification. "We'll continue and see what happens," he said. "We'll probably need to win every game but we've beaten last year's total with the things currently and hopefully that shows an indication of progress. If we do enter Europe, we'll certainly have received it because the sides above us [currently] are all really good sides." Regardless, for the second strategy in series, it is likely that Everton will finish it above Liverpool. Moyes won't level is own team's results by the performance of their Merseyside competitors. As much as Everton have increased lately, Liverpool have degenerated. Most importantly for Moyes, he feels this Everton team may be the most acceptable he's had since marking his arrival at Goodison Park with a success, which ironically came against Fulham on a warm spring morning higher than a decade before. Everton did not need to show any quantity of consistent venture to secure the details in this fitting. However it always felt comfortable. Fulham's defenders could not handle the pace and motion of Kevin Mirallas, Leon Osman and Seamus Coleman for the operator. "It was a good footballing goal," Moyes said. "It was earned because we developed enough similar opportunities." Those possibilities dropped to Mirallas and exchange Ross Barkley, who could have secured the result earlier only for Mark Schwarzer to palm away on both occasions. Martin Jol, the Fulham director, later refuted suggestions that he is about to replace the Australian goalkeeper in the summer by recruiting Roma's Martin Stekelenburg. "As long as Mark is fit, we'd prefer 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: J Moss Man of the match: Pienaar (Everton) Fit rating: 5/10
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