A look at Wayne Rooney's touchmap shows how he's having to let others do the attacking. We know he can score from the halfway line but today he's looking less threatening and instead offering discipline as others around him get forward. So far, Wazza is yet to touch the ball in the area or even around it.

He's involved, with 34 touches. Huddersfield's Aaron Mooy is having more ball than anyone else out there with 56.

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A lovely floated cross by Elias Kachunga needs Jonjoe Kenny to be perfectly placed in the six-yard box to clear. That was dangerous.

Thomas Ince again gets down the left. He's overlapped by Scott Malone but elects not to use him. Swings in a cross but it's over everyone.

Thomas Ince counters down the left and he's attacking Cuco Martina. He finds a yard from the angle of the area and drills one high into the side netting. A decent effort.

I did some research recently which showed Ince has had one of the highest number of shots without finding the net across the whole league this season.

So Huddersfield, what have you got?

A seventh straight league away game without scoring would equal the club record set in 1988.

They have to find something or it's four defeats in a row too...

We are back under way, just the one change as I've just mentioned.

Wayne Rooney tries a lofted ball over the top but it's cleared.

Chelsea loanee Kasey Palmer is coming on for his first appearance since late August. Colin Quaner goes off.

The Big Sam Bounce, it's a real thing you know?

Just take a look at the graph, numbers don't lie. A manager who often has many critics but you can't really argue with the impact he has, initially at least.

Can he find something here?

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The players are just coming out of the tunnel. Remember we were a little delayed in finishing the first half because of several stoppages.

I mentioned how much Everton have given the ball away earlier, a quick run through their team and there are some pretty low pass-completion rates.

Tom Davies on 56%, Dominic Calvert-Lewin on 43%, Cuco Martina on 58%. You would think they need to sort this. Allardyce surely can't continue to allow direct balls to the relatively inexperienced Calvert-Lewin.

A quick glance at the stats. Shots wise, the only one which forced a decent save was from Cuco Martina, other than that it was tame stuff.

If you are just tuning in we have had a lot of stoppages and three bookings in three minutes - Tom Davies, Scott Malone and Jonjoe Kenny.

Other than that, this fixture is hurtling toward a poor position in the Match of the Day running order.

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Thank goodness that's over for a while.

It's been head-scratchingly bad to be honest.

Wayne Rooney gives the ball away in midfield. Huddersfield build and Elias Kachunga - the best player out there for me so far - runs at his man to win a throw.

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If I had to sum up this first half succinctly I'll just go for.... dire.

Four added minutes. I told you we have had several hundred thousand stoppages.

We have the 678,760th stoppage of the match as Mathias Jorgensen is down in the Huddersfield box. He looks like he will be OK.

Everton's passing accuracy so far today is 63%. That's lower than every other side currently playing in the top tier as we speak.

A cross into the box is pulled down by Gylfi Sigurdsson but he shows too much of it to a defender.

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Idrissa Gueye clips Elias Kachunga in full flow. That's a free-kick for the away side near the corner flag. Crossing opportunity. Aaron Mooy whips it in and it is glanced for a corner.

In comes the delivery... CHAOS IN THERE...Jordan Pickford has to dive at the feet of Laurent Depoitre just two yards from goal and the ball is scrambled away. That was close.

In the opening 30 minutes or so Everton have looked to Aaron Lennon repeatedly down the right. It has delivered little but ensured Gylfi Sigurdsson on the opposite flank has been peripheral. Just eight touches for him and many of them have been woeful set-piece deliveries.

There are many out there who think Sigurdsson should be more central. What do you think?

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"Is this a library?"

The Huddersfield fans keep on singing it. If they were indeed looking for a library then they've gone radically wrong today.

Their side have possession again. Everton have looked disjointed throughout and even though they win it back, Jordan Pickford can only lump the ball forward. We will have another stoppage due to a clash of heads.