David Moyes thought Everton deserved all three points after a late Robin van Persie strike earned Arsenal an unlikely draw at Goodison Park.
The in-form teams worked hard and cancelled each other out before Tim Cahill put the Toffees ahead in the 61st minute, heading home a deep Leighton Baines cross from the left for his 100th career goal.
But Van Persie scored deep into injury-time from an Abou Diaby long cross-field ball to earn the Gunners a point.
Moyes told Sky Sports: "It is difficult when you play so well tonight and I felt that we deserved all three points and for the life of me, I really thought we'd see it out.
"But good players punish you if you make mistakes and we just did one or two mistakes leading up to the goal."
He praised Cahill, saying he deserved his goal as he had worked very hard for it, as did the team.
"I'm disappointed we've not taken all three points but I'm not disappointed with the performance or how the players played," he said.
"I thought they went about it terrific, we showed our confidence, we passed the ball well and, when we had to, we were able to look after Arsenal."
Everton have just drawn twice with Liverpool and asked if it had pushed his team up a level, the challenge of playing all these top sides in a short space of time, Moyes replied: "I think it has shown exactly what the players at Everton can do and the standard they can set and I think recently they have shown it.
"Tonight, as I said, it should have been three points, it wasn't, but it shows how far we've come that we're disappointed in only getting a point."
But Moyes said the Toffees are unlikely to bolster their ranks in the remainder of the transfer window.
"I said that we were in for a couple of loan players but both of them look as if they won't happen."
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