Not even the added influence of Duncan Ferguson could help this time.
Unfortunately for Evertonians, this was a story that they have seen on far too many occasions this season. There was a different man in the dugout, but the outcome was still the same.
Of course there was the effect that many expected to see from the side. They were full of energy, guile, endeavour - everything that the caretaker boss will have been drilling into them in training.
