Moyes frustrated after Everton hold Arsenal 1-1

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Moyes frustrated after Everton hold Arsenal 1-1  05/04/2025  Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK

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00:00David, good afternoon.

00:02You well?

00:03Yes, thank you.

00:04A point against a team in Premier League and Champions League contention,

00:08how satisfied have you got to be with that?

00:10Really satisfied.

00:12We didn't start well, but we showed a bit more in the second half,

00:17which got us back in the game.

00:19It's been a difficult week,

00:21a team at the top of the Premier League, a team who are second in the league,

00:24and I think we've given them both decent games.

00:26What have you learnt about your players in those two games?

00:30I'm beginning to understand them a lot more.

00:34I think they've got great resilience, the players here.

00:36They stick at it, they're very committed.

00:39We were all disappointed and angry with each other at half-time

00:44because we started slowly, sluggishly,

00:47and made mistakes which we didn't think we would do.

00:52So we tried to sort that out.

00:54Tactically, we just made a slight change in how we were going to try and press Arsenal

00:59because we found it a struggle in the first half to get the ball off them at times.

01:02But we got a bit better in the second half,

01:05and great credit, we were able to get a point out of it.

01:0935 points, job nearly done?

01:11Nearly done.

01:13Obviously, mathematically, we're not safe yet,

01:17but I'm hoping to take a visit to the stadium this week,

01:21which would indicate that I think we're pretty close.

01:24So I want us to keep getting ready now for Premier League football.

01:30I know I've got a bit to do and I hope I'm not speaking too soon.

01:35Are you old school and want to get to 40 points?

01:37I want to get to 60 or 70 points if I could, to be honest.

01:41But at the moment, when I came in a few months ago,

01:45I think if you'd given me 40 points, I'd have taken you out for a drink.

01:50Shane?

01:53Hi David, Mikel's come in and said he's watched it 15 times and it's not a penalty.

01:58What did you make of it?

01:59Well, I've watched it zero times,

02:02and I couldn't tell you if it was a penalty or not,

02:05because I've not seen it back yet.

02:07But Jashon Healyman's class, he was able to tuck it away,

02:12and the general form was acceptable.

02:14We've missed some, we've missed some, which we have,

02:16but we've missed other people as well.

02:18We're just beginning to get players back.

02:21Thankfully we weren't getting them back now when we were needing loads of points

02:25and everybody was feeling under pressure.

02:28The players who have come in, whoever's played,

02:30has done a great job of getting us the points.

02:32We've not had Dwight, we've not had Ellis since the Liverpool game here at home,

02:37Dominic and Brogia as well,

02:41so they're just beginning to come back into the scene, which helps us a lot.

02:45It gave me a chance today to change it,

02:48to try and look at Tim as well after the game in midweek.

02:51We had an injury to Mikko,

02:54so Pat will get a chance to play as well.

02:57So we were always thinking about making a couple of changes,

03:00but some of them were a bit enforced anyway.

03:04I was about to ask about the changes, David,

03:07was that also to do with the amount of work they had to do

03:09against Liverpool at Anfield the other night?

03:12If you look at it, probably off the ball for the two games we've had to beat,

03:16we're not going to have all the possession, that's for sure,

03:19and we're probably having to work really hard off it.

03:22I thought Duke's done an amazing job in the work he's done,

03:24especially at the start of the second half, him in Beto,

03:27and they needed to because we hadn't done it particularly well in the first half.

03:31But I thought the second half we got about them much better

03:34and gave ourselves a chance.

03:36Carlos Alvarez comes out to the side today,

03:38I just wonder why he has to do to end the new contract in your eyes?

03:43We'll see, we'll talk about contracts at another date,

03:46not today, but we just thought we had an opportunity to try and change things about,

03:52and we thought the best people for the job up at the top end was Dukes,

03:56and Beto and I thought Dukes proved that was the right choice.

04:02Joe?

04:06Dwight McNeil made a late cameo as well,

04:08how pleased are you to have him back, how much hope can you offer?

04:12It's a bit like we've not been able to get any of the boys to games in under-21s at the moment,

04:18because we feel as if we want to get them closer to the first team as quick as we can,

04:22and we've done that a bit with Tim when he was on the way back,

04:25and we're doing it the same way early as well,

04:28we were not quite sure if we'd start him today,

04:30but in the end we felt we might as well do so to get him back in it,

04:34but he pulled up, Patil having nearly enough of his first games pulled up,

04:37we cramped in the second half as well,

04:40so all those boys are just on their way back,

04:43and Ellie's a bit the same,

04:47who was the other one you asked me about?

04:50It was McNeil.

04:51Sorry?

04:52It was McNeil that I asked about.

04:55No, that was the only one.

05:04Hi David, you talked about a tough week playing the team's first and second in the league,

05:08your next three games are against the team third, fourth and fifth,

05:11you've done quite well against the top six so far this season,

05:14how much confidence can you take from this last week going into those tough games?

05:19You probably said it in the programme notes,

05:21I've actually looked forward to the games to see how we're going to compete,

05:25I didn't really like the first half, a lot of the stuff we'd done,

05:28but I thought generally the two games we've tried to show we're resilient,

05:34we can stick at it, we've made chances in both games,

05:37which before a committee it was probably one of the big things,

05:40how are you going to score any goals or how are you going to create any chances,

05:43even today when we didn't play particularly well in the first half,

05:46I thought we made one or two opportunities.

05:49I'm looking forward to playing the games,

05:52because I'm happy to find out about all the players and see what they can do.

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