The international break comes at a crucial time for Everton, offering a chance to regroup amid their recent Premier League form. While it allows injured players time to recover, key squad members will be away on national duty, risking fatigue or injuries. With momentum disrupted, David Moyes must ensure his side returns focused, especially with crucial fixtures ahead in the fight to raise up the Premier League table.
00:00Now Everton face a crucial test this international break as the mid-season
00:08pause is bringing both opportunities and challenges. With key players called up to
00:14represent their countries the club must navigate potential fatigue and injury
00:19risks while also benefiting from much-needed rest and tactical
00:24reassessments. The break could disrupt the team rhythm but it also offers a
00:30chance to reflect and regroup for the remainder of the campaign. For further
00:36insights into how Everton are planning to handle these dynamics I spoke to Will
00:41Rooney of Liverpool World.
00:45Well let's look at Everton and in terms of the international break now obviously
00:50good form and you know they've been drawing games a lot and you know
00:54finding a way to not lose definitely you'd say under David Moyes. Do you feel
01:00this international break comes at the right time for them or is it a dent in
01:03momentum or is it a nice time to sort of regroup and sort of go into this final
01:08little stretch and really make the most of it?
01:10I think it is just a good time to be honest with you. Look, it's not like all these players are getting rest, you've got
01:18Jordan Pickford going away, Gerard Bramford going away, Idrissa Ganege going away, a couple of others so it's not like
01:27they're gonna be on their holidays for a week and then they'd be back in training
01:31where they can work on things but as you said the finding ways not to lose
01:37games but they haven't been as convincing in recent weeks as they were
01:42in David Moyes' first few weeks during the second stint in charge maybe that is
01:48the so-called managerial bounce that you get but they've shown a lot of
01:55resilience you've got to credit that and it's a little bit of time to get the
01:58injured players back as well and the likes of Ilham Mundi, Dwight McNeil,
02:03Dominic Calvert-Lewin are gonna have two extra weeks you know to work back
02:07towards fitness. You said to me, to your man's old bros, you're gonna have more time on the
02:12training pitch, David Moyes has said that they'll have them in training and they won't get
02:15time off because he wants to get them up to speed for options and so I think it
02:20just does come at the right time to be honest with you you know if Evan has won that
02:25West Ham game it may be a little bit of a different fixture but the next fixture is
02:30the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Anfield, could Evan go to the well
02:36again? It's the worst answer, I don't want to say run on empty but their options are thinner
02:42because of the injuries at the pads and they've had to play the players a lot
02:50more than maybe David Moyes would have liked certainly in the attacking area of the
02:54pitch but what can they do now in the last nine games? Where can they finish
03:00Everton? There's a little bit of a mini-league going on with Man Utd and West Ham and Tottenham
03:05I think David Moyes would be saying well let's finish top of this mini-league
03:09then because you've got two clubs of the so-called big six there, you've got West Ham who is his
03:15former club who you know he said spent a little bit of money there at West Ham
03:20and they have got a good squad that's better than the position at the
03:24minute and it's all additional revenue for Everton you know it's three million
03:28pound per play so if they can finish above those three then you'll have an extra nine
03:33million pound there for Everton which will be important to the coffers so yeah
03:37it just comes at the right time I think David Moyes will be keeping his
03:44fingers crossed and the likes of Garner, Gale and Branford don't pick up any injuries during the international break.
03:50Yeah and obviously if you look at their sort of form a lot of them late goals
03:55late equalisers it seems like they are remaining in games a lot longer
04:00under David Moyes, what do you feel has been the key factor to this turnaround
04:03and finding a way not to be beaten and then also on top of that the running is
04:08quite tough you know you've got obviously the men's side Derby, they play
04:12Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Man City, Chelsea you know a lot of teams that will
04:17really give David Moyes's side a good test.
04:20Yeah definitely I think it's funny because Sean Dyser as you say he's the
04:27manager and keeper in games and he did keep Everton in a lot of games as well but he never fancied them to score in a lot of the games either, he and all the players will be
04:37worried that a big sun has come at Everton, they can be a part of
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