Andy Hunter has filed his match report, so that’s my cue to clock off. Thanks for your company and correspondence, some of it unprintable. I’ll be back in midweek for the cricket. For now, do enjoy Andy’s piece on how Maitland-Niles put the smiles back on the faces of Everton’s fans.

Both teams had a fine goal from the right wing, followed by a fine goal from a sub. Everton’s second equaliser was the finest of the four. And Maitland-Niles might not have got on the field had it not been for the injury to James Garner, who had just moved to right-back. But David Moyes had already grabbed the initiative by sending on Jack Grealish – and Michael Carrick had blunted United by withdrawing Marcus Rashford. Carrick may have been thinking of the next two games: before the Manchester derby next Sunday, there is United’s return to the Champions League on Thursday.

“Incredibly annoyed about that,” says Joshua Keeling, who supports United. “We’ve got to win when we go ahead twice, especially when we’re winning with seconds to go. Also, Everton scored after the added time – not sure why the referee has played over the five minutes, but it’s cost us there. The derby is now an even bigger game.

”Having said all that, Everton will take points off a lot of teams at home this season, and I think we’re on the right track under Carrick. Just some issues to sort out early in the season.”

Everton inch up to eighth, on five points, level with Liverpool among others. Man United are 11th wiht four points, sandwiched between Brighton and Sunderland. And both clubs will remain there as Arsenal and Chelsea are above them.

Here’s the man of the moment, Ainsley Maitland-Niles. “It felt like a win,” he says. “The crowd was with us, we fight to the end and that’s how you get that type of result. The ball fell to me at the edge of the box, I put my foot through it and it ended up in the top corner.” Not content with hitting a worldie, he’s now doing my job for me.

Meanwhile the build-up continues to the big game of the weekend. It’s Arsenal v Chelsea, it’s That Defence v Rogers and Palmer, so do feel free to join the great Rob Smyth.

United had more of the ball (55-45), but Everton had more shots (18-14), more corner (4-3), more shots on target (6-3) and more grit. United, not for the first time, didn’t seem to know how to kill their opponents off. They scored twice in the second half, yet spent 40 minutes in between doing very little.

So United concede twice for the third time out of three. And Everton remain unbeaten!

90+5 min Corner for Everton! They equalised with one last weekend…

90+4 min Chance for Everton! More wiggling from Grealish, leading to a shot for Hackney, which goes over the bar.

90+3 min Another glimmer for United as Yoro gets well forward, but his little through ball is not what Sesko had ordered.

90+3 min Dorgu and Mazraoui combine to reach the box, but the move fizzles out. Rashford and Shaw they are not.

90+2 min George goes for goal, and glory, again – but he’s so excited that he has forgotten about the offside rule.

90+1 min Grealish goes for a big shot, blocked by Maguire. And now Shaw is going off, to be replaced by Mazraoui. Five mins of added time!

90 min Paul Moody was right: Luke Shaw has put in a performance to Silence the Doubters.

86 min United’s last shot on target was 37 minutes ago – the one that went into the net.

84 min Credit to David Moyes, for bringing Hackney on, and for keeping George on – he switched to the right when Grealish arrived.

83 min United subs: Yoro for Dalot, Santos for Mainoo.

81 min The free kick finds Branthwaite, whose flicked header is on target and punched clear by Lammens. Everton still on top…

78 min The next yellow goes to Dalot, as Grealish sharpens his dance steps and has to be clawed back. Free kick to Everton on their left wing.

78 min Grealish shapes to dance past Dalot, who tackles him solidly. Fernandes goes down, some way away. Everton advance into the box, where Mainoo makes an even better tackle. Maguire gets booked, possibly for complaining about Fernandes.

“Luke Shaw,” says Paul Moody. “Answering recent criticism…l ively game… nervy at 57 min, must remember to breathe out.”

77 min Garner goes off to be replaced by another new recruit, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, three years after his last PL appearance fro Southampton.

76 min Garner goes down off the ball! David Moyes will hope it’s just cramp.

75 min A third Everton sub: Hayden Hackney, Michael Carrick’s mini-me, replaces Rohl, so Garner may be moving to right-back.

74 min United escape and Mbeumo tries to reprise his goal, only to run into yet another block.

73 min A sharp shot from Dewsbury-Hall, blocked by a combination of Barry and Martinez.

72 min Maguire tries a through ball to Sesko, who doesn’t see it coming. It feels as if United will need a second goal to get the win.

70 min Everton free kick: nothing doing except Tarkowski climbing all over Maguire, which is no mean feat.

69 min Subs for United: Sesko for Cunha, as expected, and Dorgu for Rashford, as not expected yet unless there’s a niggle involved.

68 min Grealish could have an assist already! He wiggles in from the left and tees up Dewsbury-Hall, whose shot is all accuracy and no power.

67 min It’s Grealish time! On comes the dear old ponytail, out comes the big smile, and out come the cheers.

66 min The game has swung from too slow to not slow enough for anyone trying to capture it. In the past minute alone, we’ve had a shot from Tielemans with his left foot and Shaw with his right.

64 min Rashford twists and turns, leaving Rohl with twisted blood – and a yellow card. But the free kick is wasted as Fernandes blazes a follow-up shot into Row Z.

63 min Luke Shaw has been booked for something I missed, sorry. Meanwhile the commentators are full of praise for Tarkowski, who made that tackle on Cunha.

61 min Almost vintage Rashford! He runs and runs and then does some dancing before back-heeling to Cunha, who goes down – no pen, says John Brooks.

60 min The hourglass flips over, and Sesko and Grealish wonder when they will come on stage.

59 min Everton push forward with more conviction, roared on by the crowd. Barry has a shot smothered by Shaw, and then Dewsbury-Hall has more time but can’t get a clean connection.

58 min United again counter from the corner, with only slightly more success. Cunha delays his pass and picks the wrong runner – Mbeumo, who has George to race with, rather than Rashford in more space.

57 min Chance for Johnson! A good diagonal ball by Dewsbury-Hall tees up a shot that just loops over.

56 min Garner’s looping corner is headed clear by Mbeumo. United threaten to counter as Rashford advances with the ball, but he and Cunha are not humming the same tune.

54 min Better from Everton, with a spell of possession and a shot from Johnson, well blocked by Shaw. The sparky George wins a corner off Dalot.

53 min United advance, slowly and inconclusively. Their build-up was often too leisurely in the first half, but now it can afford to be. And there will be more gaps as Everton have to take a risk or two.

50 min At one end, a neat turn by Barry yields less than it deserves. At the other, a neat cross from Rashford can’t find a taker.

49 min That goal, which came out of nowhere, was United’s first on the road this season and the first time they’d taken the lead, home or away.

47 min Mainoo, boosted by that assist, charges through the midfield, but Cunha’s lay-off can’t quite reach Rashford. Then Everton bounce back with a cross from the left that would be dangerous if anyone was on the end of it.

46 min No subs yet. United kick off and go sideways in midfield.

The players are out again, or at least United are. Everton wait in the tunnel as James Tarkowski lobbies John Brooks about something.

On xG, there’s not a lot to separate the teams. Everton 0.34-0.32 United. The United forward line has been the more imposing of the two, but James Garner, who captained their Under-21s before being brainlessly sold to Everton, has been the main man in midfield. And Jarrod Branthwaite, who was coveted by United a couple of summers ago, has been immense in defence.

And I’m late to an early spot from Justin Kavanagh. “Lovely footage from the tunnel,” he said, “of Lammens fixing up his captain’s tracksuit collar while standing behind Fernandes. Now that’s what you like to see in a keeper: an obsession with the little details and a fussiness for positioning and everything in its right place.”

Time for a glance at the post. “The chippy stall in your photo,” says Gary Naylor, “did some very good ones garnished with herbs and chillis a fortnight ago. Hard recomnend.

“It might get some extra trade today as I understand that there may be a ‘Not a pound inside the ground’ boycott. Feels a bit performative that – but protests are.” Very true.

45+3 min One last sortie from United. Cunha slips in Rashford, who is well marshalled by Branthwaite. Another shot from Fernandes, another block – and again it’s Branthwaite, who is quite clearly the man of the last three minutes.

45+1 min Everton are finishing the half with some intensity. Mykolenko sends in a long throw, the ball falls to Branthwaite, whose low shot is on target – and well saved by Lammens, without much of a view.

45 min Barry breaks free down the right, but never manages a cross. There will be three more minutes, thanks to that early knock for Maguire.

44 min United have some possession and a few half-openings, but no shot.

42 min The next bad ball comes from Fernandes. And then Everton have a proper chance! Johnson whips in a cross and Barry again gets his head to it. This header is far more confident … but over the bar.

40 min United get forward, only for Mbeumo to play a loose pass to Cunha. At this rate, Sesko will be getting more than his usual 25 minutes.

39 min Everton have a chance! Well, a quarter-chance. A free kick comes in and Barry rises to it, but his header is a bit woolly.

38 min Will Unwin emailed again a few minutes ago. “Excitingly, half an hour in, Everton’s xG sits at an impressive 0.01, having managed one off-target shot and nothing else. Not a classic of the genre.” Ha.

36 min Rashford beats one man, two men, but not the third man, Tarkowski, who puts the ball out for a corner. A better ball in from Fernandes leads to a brawl in the box and the ball squirts out for a goal kick.

35 min Fernandes’ free kick is tame, Mbeumo’s follow-up cross is even worse, and both are easily headed away.

33 min Cunha plays a one-two with Rashford, who sends him through – to win a free kick as Brennan Johnson brings him down. It’s just outside the area, almost on the byline.

33 min We keep getting 30 seconds of action followed by two and a half minutes of lassitude. Maybe that’s football?

31 min Lammens comes for a cross and fails to make it – but he does have Dewsbury-Hall, unnoticed by John Brooks, sticking an elbow in his throat.

30 min Another cross from Rashford, whipped in hard and well defended by Branthwaite.

28 min Everton knock the ball around in the sunshine. Garner plays two piercing passes, one down the left to Mykolenko, one towards the right to Armstrong, but it all ends in a goal kick.

26 min Garner wins the ball well in midfield and Everton threaten something, which comes to nothing. They’ve had one shot so far to United’s six.

24 min The game is opening up. United spring forward and again the old firm of Rashford and Shaw combine well, but Rashford’s curling cross finds no takers as Mbeumo seems not to see it coming. Sesko might have gobbled that up.

21 min The first big chance! Rashford gets a good ball from Mbeumo and escapes down the left. His low cross is left by someone and received by Cunha, who can only hit it over the bar from near the spot.

20 min Fernandes’ corner is headed away by Rohl. Dalot takes a volley and there’s another block – by Cunha.

19 min Another shot for United, also a long one, and also tame – from Cunha this time. Everton are defending well in a doughty 4-5-1… But as I type that, Fernandes finds some space and he gets a better shot in – blocked by Branthwaite.

18 min Shot from Tielemans, but he’s a long way out and Pickford has no trouble coping with a bouncing ball.

16 min Everton do well down their left as Dewsbury-Hall’s toes begin to twinkle. But United drive them back and then slow things down.

15 min Mainoo, usually so tidy in tight spaces, picks the wrong moment to play a backheel, but Maguire does the clearing up.

13 min Now we do have the first yellow: Armstrong, for getting Fernandes in a rather random headlock.

12 min Diogo Dalot goes in heavily on Tyrique George. Could be an early yellow but John Brooks opts for a lecture.

11 min Rashford starts to sprint away on the counter, but he’s shepherded out. His last United goal was against Everton, and so was the second-last – he scored two in a 4-0 home win in Ruben Amorim’s rather short-lived honeymoon period.

10 min And now Everton want a penalty! Barry goes down in the six-yard box as Martinez bears down on him. The ref waves away the appeals.

8 min Chance for United! They string together a lovely sequence, right to left, and Rashford releases Shaw on the overlap. His chipped cross brings a knock-down from Mbeumo and a volley from Fernandes … which hits the bar!

6 min Brennan Johnson skims a cross in and Maguire manages a clearance. As Everton come again, Tielemans gets into trouble and his new mate Mainoo tidies up.

5 min Senne Lammens goes long too – all the way to Pickford. Maguire returns.

5 min Maguire is on his feet now, with a plug in one nostril and a bottle of water in one hand. He trots to the touchline for the obligatory minute off.

4 min After lying on his side in worrying fashion, Maguire manages to sit up. A replay suggests it might be a broken nose – his face went into the back of Barry’s head.

2 min Long ball from Pickford. Harry Maguire goes up for it with Thierno Barry and goes down in a heap. Leny Yoro starts limbering up.

1 min Moyes and Carrick exchange fond smiles and Everton kick off.

The teams come out. Blue tracksuit tops and red ones. Jordan Pickford and Marcus Rashford. Kobbie Mainoo and James Garner. Harry Maguire and James Tarkowski. Bruno Fernandes and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.

“Looking forward to your top post-match analysis as much as your present...” says Paul Moody, generously enabling me to link to my free newsletter, United Writing. “Also looking ahead to tough games… City next Sunday... Hoping for 1-3 today and be very entertaining.”

“Selected scuttlebut,” says Ian Copestake, promisingly, “from Everton fans on the train from Birkenhead to the game is that the fans have been lied to. Promises made by the new owners (shiny new stadium not mentioned) have not been fulfilled. Mutiny is round the corner (probably at Sandhills).”

An unexpected proposal from John Stedman. “I like the new(ish) Dining Across the Divide series [in the Saturday magazine] and hereby propose a new feature: Drinking Across the Sporting Divide, which you can pitch to your taskmasters in Guardian Towers.

“As a follower of LFC with no Liverpudlian antecedents, I suggest meeting you in a locale of your choice to debate in civilised tones the eternal recently manufactured enmity between your team and mine. The George and Dragon in Fordwich should be within The Guardian’s Blind Date budget.”

John, I like where you’re coming from.

And here’s our correspondent at the ground, Will Unwin. “There is a subdued atmosphere at Hill Dickinson,” he reports, “as those in blue funnel into the ground, rightly concerned by the long term. Folarin Balogun’s failed move leaves them with only Thierno Barry as a recognised striker, although whether he can be prolific is unknown.

“Michael Carrick is also short in certain positions and this is the start of a long season where playing twice a week could catch up with United. Left-back is the obvious problem position if Luke Shaw gets injured. He played every Premier League game last season, but that was without the rigours of European football in between. His fitness record includes plenty of blemishes, so everyone will keep a close eye on his performances and availability.”

David Moyes is talking to Sky, and of course he’s asked about the transfer window. “That’s all gone now, so we have to play football and that’s what we’ll do.” And what is he expecting from the fans? “Nothing different to usual. They’re always really good to us.”

It wouldn’t be an Everton game without a word from Mary Waltz. “Greetings from California,” she says, at what must be the break of dawn over there. “This season started so well. Points taken. Moyes at the helm. Of course we will add on deadline day.......... Or maybe not. Life as an Everton fan. Sigh.”

The first email comes in from Joshua Keeling. “United fan here,” he says. “Agree that all three results are possible. It’s never easy, going to Everton. Feels like United need to win today ahead of the derby next week.”

Yes … they could probably only afford one defeat in this mini-season of five matches before the long international break, and they used it up at the first opportunity.