Moyes on Everton's 4-0 Leicester win
01/02/2025
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
01/02/2025
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
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00:00We'll do a few extra questions for the Mondays at the end, which will be on Vardal until 10.30 on Sunday night.
00:07Okay, who's going to start us off, please?
00:12David, congratulations, another win.
00:15Perfect day?
00:16Brilliant result, great performance in many aspects.
00:22Sometimes we didn't play quite so well, but, by the way, if you'd given me three wins
00:27in out of the four games I've had at the moment in the position we're in, I'd say thanks very much for taking that.
00:32But to score the goals, and probably, if we'd maybe said we might have got a couple more today as well,
00:37with chances to do it as well, so really, really pleased with the players.
00:40I thought their performance was really good and, look, they're doing a lot of really good things.
00:45The intent to the side was very clear from early stage again, but, I mean, you don't get many better starts than that.
00:51How pleased were you after seven minutes when you 2-0 up?
00:53Oh, wow, I think after eight seconds I was thinking, my goodness, this is fabulous.
00:58But, look, the second goal backed it up.
01:02We knew, there are less that I think have improved recently, I really do.
01:06I think they've passed it well through the middle of the pitch, Harry Winks.
01:09They've got a style when they played under Maresc as well and I think that,
01:14so I was concerned about it and you can see we were off the ball a little bit,
01:17but I think the minute we won the ball back we always looked a threat.
01:20And it's great to see that we're beginning to look at more of a threat on the counter-attack at times as well
01:25and we've done that today.
01:27So much talk about a need for a striker and goals coming from a forward for Everton.
01:31Beto putting his name forward like that must be very satisfying, pleasing at this stage.
01:35I'm really pleased for Beto, but the people who have been here much longer than me will know more about Beto.
01:40I'm just getting to know him, he's a great kid.
01:42He works hard in training, he tries to improve himself.
01:47Sometimes in life you need an opportunity, don't you?
01:49And today he got an opportunity.
01:51Probably his reception coming off the pitch was as good as we've heard here for a long time.
01:56So, good credit to him that he stuck at it and he took his two goals well.
02:01And James Garner was another enforced change with Mangala being injured.
02:05Again, another superb performance.
02:07Yeah, I thought James done great.
02:09I think his pass for the goal was fabulous.
02:11I was a little bit concerned at how he would be playing.
02:16It was long even, I think we probably got him to about 70 or 80 minutes.
02:20Because I just need him to be right and get through.
02:25That was his first game really, so I thought he'd done a great job for us.
02:28I'm pleased to have him back.
02:31David, you only said a few days ago that you can't magician the side scoring goals.
02:37Where have you found that one from?
02:42By the way, I think the players have just given themselves a little bit of confidence and real positivity.
02:48We generally have asked them to try and score the goals.
02:53Half time again today, like we did against Tottenham, we said it's the fourth goal we need.
02:57That's what we're planning to do.
02:59So we're only trying to give them as much confidence and confidence as we can.
03:04We've got a good strong base defensively, which we've had, which is in place.
03:11We're trying to find ways to create a few more goals.
03:14I think today Jesper had a great chance there.
03:19I think Beto might have had a chance for another one as well.
03:24You can come away from it saying we got a goal chopped off our offside.
03:28I thought our corners were a bit more of a threat today than we'd been in the other weeks.
03:34So we're just starting to pull things together.
03:36But hey, I'm certainly not getting carried away.
03:38And the only job to do just now is make sure that we're a Premier League team.
03:42So just on that, not getting carried away, 10 points clear now.
03:46Can you start looking up instead of over your shoulders?
03:48I wish it was 10 points clear at the top of the league, let me tell you that.
03:52In the position you're making it sound.
03:54But we can't until we're in a strong position.
04:00But I've got to say today's result is a big result for us.
04:03It puts us in a position where we're getting a bit closer to the teams above us
04:07rather than the teams below us getting closer to us.
04:10So let's start seeing if we can start climbing the league.
04:13But again, the job to be done is to make sure that we're a Premier League team next year.
04:19Hi David, good to see you.
04:21Hi there, good to see you.
04:22I've been seeing Illiman and I kind of be a one-man band this season
04:26and under the previous tenure as well.
04:28Today he had a lot more freedom on the ball, he looked a lot more himself.
04:32The way that I looked at it, obviously not from a manager's point of view,
04:35but the way I looked at it was the fact that a lot of your defenders
04:38had a lot more time on the ball, they were a lot more assured on the ball.
04:40When you had someone like O'Brien or Gerard Pranthway on the ball,
04:43and especially James Garner's reintroduction to the team,
04:45it composed the team a lot, it calmed the team a lot down as well.
04:48Where do you look to move forward with this team
04:51with the quality that you have in possession on the ball?
04:54I think what you said is that we are trying to get ourselves
04:58a little bit more better in control of the ball.
05:01I don't want to take any of the good habits that are already in this team,
05:04and there's a lot of really good habits in the team,
05:06but I want to try and add a little bit of composure.
05:10We thought Jake, coming into the team two or three weeks ago,
05:13might do that for us a little bit as well.
05:15You saw he's got speed as well in his game,
05:20but he's just a big young boy at the moment in his trade.
05:24Gerard's comfortable in the ball and it's good we're in the ball.
05:29It's the first time I've really had Jimmy in the team to see what it's about.
05:34We're beginning to play better,
05:37but I actually thought we played better quite well in a few of the games at the moment.
05:41I think there's signs that we're showing better signs.
05:44Ideally, if I'm being honest, going forward,
05:47quality, the level of players we're going to have to bring to the club
05:50to start challenging the teams much higher up in the league,
05:54that will probably be how it dictates we go forward really.
05:58You have to work with what you've got and get results with what you've got.
06:01That's the way I've tended to always try and work.
06:04Should I ask about Carlos Alcaraz-Davies?
06:07It looks like the club are in talks with him.
06:09What's the latest on that?
06:10I'm hearing that there's ongoing conversations at the moment.
06:14I don't think there's anything confirmed or definite or not done.
06:18I might find out some more later today.
06:21We're trying to add some bodies to what we've got.
06:26Do you think you're going to be working on Monday night?
06:28I've done a few.
06:30Fellaini was the latest.
06:32Fellaini was the worst.
06:34I think it was after midnight, if I've been honest, when it got done.
06:38I've been a few late ones,
06:41but Fellaini's take some beating when we brought Fellaini in.
06:44If we were really fortunate enough to bring in another Fellaini,
06:48it would be great, but probably unfortunate this window.
06:52We might not be able to do that.