Everton make light of Manchester United on David Moyes' return

This dismal Manchester United display will not quite go down as the poorest of a terrible season, which says it all about David Moyes's first term in charge.
A 2-0 Champions League defeat at Olympiakos may end with that dubious honour, though there are still four matches remaining and nothing would surprise.
Yet if the United board want a barometer of whether this group of players are performing for Moyes, then folding in such insipid fashion on the Scot's return to his former club offers a fair one.
The defeat produced yet more unwanted statistics. United are on course for their lowest league position since finishing 13th in the 1989-90 season.
This is the first time Everton have done the league double over United in 44 years. And, in 12 matches against the Premier League's top six teams Moyes's side have managed only six points. The growing pressure was signalled in his post-match press conference.
Asked what he can do to convince fans that United will improve, Moyes said: "They realise it has been a difficult season. The supporters have supported the team. They understand it has not been good, I recognise it has not been good, it needs to be better."
Yet as the briefing finished, Moyes refused to answer when pushed if the board still recognise that this was going to be a difficult campaign.
While there was further disquiet on MUTV, the club's in-house channel, as former player David May was moved on when suggesting Moyes may be out of his depth, the manager appeared to see a different contest to most witnesses.
"I didn't think we deserved to go in 2-0 down at half time, that's for sure," Moyes said, before concurring with the suggestion that possession is pointless with no end product. "Correct, I agree with that," he said.
Disjointed, clumsy, aimless and sluggish: all the words familiar to United fans during the campaign could be attached to this particular outing.
Here is one more: lucky. As in fortunate that Everton did not seriously embarrass Moyes and his team by stuffing five or six past them on an afternoon when Roberto Martínez underlined why his side are challenging for the Champions League and United currently trail them by 12 yawning points.
Seamus Coleman's pace has been a telling factor in Everton's rise under Martínez. The way in which Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Buttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptness.
Time and time again Coleman skated along his right corridor at will. The Irishman was also able to turn inside whenever he liked as he did when unloading one left-foot shot.
Later Steven Naismith, who excelled all afternoon, blasted over from a Romelu Lukaku knock-down, after Mark Clattenburg had earlier turned down a penalty appeal when the Scottish forward's attempt hit Jonny Evans's hand inside the area.
This all pointed to Everton's domination with a further measure of how little United played the match in home territory.
Everton's opener had been coming. On 27 minutes Lukaku caused Phil Jones to slip by swerving. The Belgian's shot was handled by the defender and Clattenburg booked Jones and pointed to the spot.
Leighton Baines strolled forward, coolly sent David de Gea the wrong way, and Everton had a first successful penalty against United in league competition for 42 years.
Kevin Mirallas, operating ahead of Coleman, ensures Everton right's flank is comprehensively jet-heeled. After slicing open United with one delivery, Mirallas doubled Everton's advantage.
The goal derived from a combination with Coleman: the latter's weighted ball found him in precise fashion and the Belgian made no mistake.
If the buildup had been about Moyes's return to Everton – he was booed before kick-off, while a person dressed in a grim reaper's outfit lurked behind the dugout –half-time posed the question of whether the Scot could salvage this match. The answer would prove resoundingly in the negative.
Arsenal's 3-0 win at Hull City earlier on Sunday had further increased the damage of Everton's defeat to Crystal Palace here last week. Yet this victory ensures that their pressure is maintained on Arsenal.
Of the quest for Champions League qualification Martinez, who said that Sylvain Distin will have a scan on Monday after being replaced by Antolín Alcaraz at half-time with a hamstring injury, said: "We learn not to look elsewhere."
Moyes may spend now until the end of the season peering over his back. He cannot afford to have many more performances like this.