With Palace expecting a cross, Izzet instead curled an exquisite lob over Kevin Miller from the corner of the penalty area.Late goals have cost Leicester points of their own against Chelsea and Newcastle in recent weeks, but the statistics show that O'Neill's team are never more dangerous than in the closing stages. Despite playing for more than an hour against 10 men - who had taken the lead shortly before half-time - and enjoying the majority of the possession, the home team had failed to create a single clear-cut chance and seemed to be heading for their third successive goalless game in front of their own fans.Leicester kept at their task, however, and 90 seconds into injury time Muzzy Izzet salvaged a point with a piece of skill totally out of keeping with what had gone before. Substitutes not used: Oster, Ball, Bilic, Cadamarteri, Southall (gk) Referee: P.Durkan (Dorset).Bookings: Leeds: Radebe. Everton: Farrelly, Speed.Man of the match: Watson.Attendance: 34,869..

Leicester City 1 Crystal Palace 1 Among the many admirable qualities of this Leicester City team, there are surely none as important as their indomitable spirit. As they proved once again at Filbert Street on Saturday, Martin O'Neill's side never know when they are beaten.For 90 minutes Leicester looked desperately short on ideas and creativity. Substitutes not used: Lilley, Maybury, Molenaar, Beeney (gk).Everton (3-5-2): Myhre; Short, Watson, Tiler; Ward, Williamson, Farrelly, Speed, Hinchcliffe; Ferguson, Barmby. Their one difficulty of late has been in stirring themselves before being given a jolt by the opposition. Speed's penalty failure should have been that jolt, but Leeds only showed the urgency they needed when Jimmy Hasselbaink was belatedly introduced for the last 20 minutes.Hasselbaink presented Harry Kewell with a sitter, which the Australian wasted, but Everton, after their recent horrors, deserved to leave with something.Leeds United (4-4-2): Martyn; Halle, Wetherall, Radebe, Robertson; Kelly, Bowyer (Hasselbaink, 72), Ribeiro, Haaland; Kewell, Wallace.

"When it is, I'll stand up and be counted."Kendall stood up to be counted with two selections for this match, sticking with vast experience in one case and reluctantly discarding it in the other - and being vindicated both times.His new goalkeeper, Thomas Myhre, was preferred to Neville Southall and had an excellent debut, with two first-half saves preventing Leeds from taking control. At 24, Myhre can give Southall 16 years and, on this brief sample, could be the replacement Everton need.Conversely, Kendall brought back one of his old stalwarts from his previous reigns at the club, opting for Dave Watson ahead of Slaven Bilic, who is due to begin a five-match suspension.Watson's presence at the heart of a back three gave Everton a potentially statuesque look, but the old stager was the most accomplished defender on show, holding them together during their shaky phases and coming close to poaching a goal at the other end.George Graham has become the Premiership's most comfortably ensconced manager with a lucrative new contract that will keep him at Elland Road well into the new millennium, by when, on previous form, Kendall will have left Everton and returned at least once.Graham was philosophical about his side falling so far below their recent, rousing standards. If Gary Speed's penalty had not been saved admirably by Nigel Martyn, it would have been an even better and more unexpected afternoon. Everton, after all, had not won at Leeds since 1951.Although Everton's point took them above Barnsley at the foot of the table, the uncertainties about Kendall's position amid the power struggle that is going on at Goodison remains.Purely in playing terms, he is entitled to the patience for which he appeals "It's not my team yet," he said on Saturday.

Substitutes not used: O'Neill, Hedman (gk).Sendings-off: Coventry: Williams, Breen Booked: Villa: Staunton, Yorke. Coventry: Burrows, Williams, Huckerby, Hall.Referee: G P Barber (Pyrford).Man of the match: Staunton.Attendance: 33,250.. Leeds United 0 Everton 0 Of two managers at the opposite ends of the job security spectrum, it was Howard Kendall who came away from Elland Road marginally the happier. After a run of five defeats, merely avoiding the same fate at one of the Premiership's in-form clubs counted as a minor triumph. Substitutes not used: Oakes (gk), Collins.Coventry: Ogrizovic; Shaw, Burrows, Williams, Telfer (Strachan, 74), Breen, Huckerby (Haworth, 69), Whelan (Hall, 56), Dublin, Soltvedt, Nilsson. Villa could ill afford to be without the man who scored in the decisive win over Athletic Bilbao and also produced the vital away header in the 2-1 first leg defeat in Bucharest a fortnight ago.Goals: Collymore (21) 1-0; Hendrie (71) 2-0; Joachim (85) 3-0.Aston Villa: Bosnich; Charles, Staunton, Southgate, Ehiogu, Wright, Grayson, Draper, Milosevic (Joachim, 72), Yorke (Hendrie, 34), Collymore (Curcic, 86). The Coventry manager, who confirmed that he will fine Breen, said: "Our disciplinary record doesn't help That's up to individuals They need to grow up We will try and stamp things out.

If not, then we will play individuals who can be trusted."Dwight Yorke is struggling to be fit for Villa's Uefa Cup third round second leg home match against Steaua Bucharest tomorrow. Yorke had to be substituted in the first half with a heel injury. In the two home games with Everton and Coventry he's really looked the part."Further goals from Lee Hendrie - his first for Villa - and Julian Joachim left Coventry still looking for their first win in 24 attempts in 64 years at Villa Park.Coventry's misery was compounded by the dismissals of Paul Williams - for two bookable offences - and his fellow defender, Gary Breen, who pushed Gary Charles in the face after the two had squared up to each other.Coventry also had David Burrows and Darren Huckerby booked for dissent and Gordon Strachan is understandably concerned about his side's disciplinary record. Stan Collymore, the Aston Villa manager's pounds 7m summer recruit from Liverpool, had managed only one goal in four months and had not found the net in his 13 previous games, but his first goal here paved the way for what proved to be a comprehensive victory."I was pleased and relieved for him," Little said after the game. "I am sure that the goal he scored today will help him and we hope he goes on from here."While things haven't been going as well as he would have liked, we have kept on encouraging him and urging him to keep going and, since he came back from his nose operation, he's been doing well.