Everton building strong foundations under David Moyes as identity is becoming clear

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Since returning, David Moyes has prioritised defensive solidity, smart recruitment, and developing young talent, making Everton a competitive force despite financial limitations. His emphasis on teamwork and stability laid the foundation for the club’s long-term ambitions, earning him respect as one of the Premier League’s most resourceful managers.

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00:00Well, looking at Everton and their sort of resurgence under David Moyes, now obviously

00:07three wins in the Premier League took them just away from that gap in terms of the relegation

00:13battle, something they were certainly in up until David Moyes came in. I mean, he's just

00:18made a fantastic difference. Where do they sort of push on now from this and continue

00:24that form? Obviously, some tough games coming up, but I mean, you know, Everton seem really

00:29full of confidence at the moment. If you are looking at the teams down there, you look

00:34above them a little bit, you've got the struggles of Tottenham at the moment with their injury

00:37crisis and the way things are going there. Then underneath them, it's sort of Wolves,

00:41Leicester, Ipswich, they're sort of really, really struggling. I mean, Everton have made

00:46real good ground into becoming a side that are pushing away from that relegation zone.

00:51How sort of impressed with them have you been after these few results?

00:55Yeah, it's been good. It has. There's definitely been a lift, obviously, results say that and

01:00performances as well. It's not like Everton have ground out plucky 1-0 wins in the first

01:06game. They lost narrowly to Aston Villa. There weren't a lot of difference in the two sides

01:12by a proper goal scorer and Ollie Watkins putting the goal away. It's just took the

01:19shackles off Everton a little bit now. They're not playing total expansive football but they're

01:26playing effective football. It's nice to watch as well. It's quick, getting the ball forward,

01:33not passing it for the sake of it, but not going long as much as well, which I think

01:39a lot of fans are getting a little bit perturbed by those tactics under Sean Dyche. You only

01:45have to look at the goals he scores against Leicester. The first one was a long ball from

01:53the kick-off, but that's what happens with every team. The second goal, the third goal

01:57were really nice through balls that the vessel latched onto. Players are a little bit more

02:02confident, I think, to go out and express themselves rather than playing a game of percentages,

02:08which it was a lot under Sean Dyche. I think the players have been lifted. Obviously, David

02:14Moyes has come in and tweaked a couple of things in terms of the team. He's deployed Jake O'Brien

02:20as a right back. He didn't really get a look in under Sean Dyche despite arriving last summer

02:25for £16 million. Jesper Lindstrom, who really struggled after arriving on loan from Napoli,

02:32has been given a bit of a lease of life. Illuminati as well, David Moyes has said he

02:40wants him to carry the ball a little bit more. I think that's what one player is benefiting

02:47as well. Vitaly Mikhalenko even got fours and put crosses in, which didn't really happen under

02:52Sean Dyche. So the shackles have come off a bit. David Moyes will be delighted, but he knows there's

02:57a lot of hard work still to do.

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