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Everton boss David Moyes on facing high flying Sunderland in the Premier League
Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK
Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK
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00:01Good afternoon everyone, welcome to our press conference to preview our game against Sunderland.
00:05We'll start off with Peter Skye.
00:07Hi there.
00:08You OK?
00:09Good, thank you.
00:10Can we start with some team news? How are the guys looking ahead?
00:13Who do you want to know about?
00:14Well, I know Nathan Paterson is still out until late November.
00:17Yeah, he's had a small procedure on his groin, so he's obviously not available for this game.
00:24Yeah, we know Gerrard is obviously longer term.
00:26Everyone has come out of Tottenham recently.
00:28Yeah, I think so. I think we've got a couple of knocks and bruises in one or two people with little bits.
00:33But hopefully we'll be OK.
00:35Actually not for Monday.
00:36Looking back at that game on Sunday, I don't think many people watching it would have thought it was 3-0.
00:40Obviously we know the challenge of Man City before that.
00:42So where do you think the team are right now getting to these two games before the next international break?
00:47Well, we were disappointed to lose 3-0.
00:49I don't think we'd lost by that amount of goals, I think, since I came in.
00:53So that was a disappointment.
00:55Overall, I thought the performance, I've had a chance to look back at it.
00:58The performance was fine.
00:59Obviously set pieces play a big part in football.
01:02I know that as much as MD always have done.
01:05So we have to deal with it a little bit better.
01:08Obviously Sunderland going into this game off the back of that impressive win at Chelsea on Saturday.
01:13What do you think of that performance and the challenge that they'll present to your team on Monday?
01:17I don't think it was just their performance at Chelsea.
01:19I think their performance all season has been really, really good.
01:22I think a lot of people have been surprised by it.
01:25But they've got a great crowd behind them.
01:28They've been really strong at home as well.
01:30But obviously winning at Chelsea for MD is a big result.
01:33I think the point of total is best by 17 years.
01:36Yeah.
01:37Actually, you know, it's gone back a little bit because the last recent years I think there's been a lot of media talk about how the promoted sides tend to go down.
01:47I think it sounds as if a lot of them have been listening to that and spent a lot of money trying to make sure that they give themselves every opportunity to stay up.
01:56So I think that Sunderland, Leeds, Burnley are all doing that at the moment.
02:02And, you know, over recent years it's not been easy for the promoted teams to do that.
02:07But this year they're having a really good go at it.
02:09That just sort of unlines the competitiveness, I guess, of that Premier League right now until these teams coming up and still give you a real good game as well.
02:16Yeah, well, no, we know that.
02:18I don't think here at Everton we've ever thought that the teams coming up wouldn't give us a really good game.
02:22But I do believe that the Premier League is a big strength.
02:26There's not much between many of the teams.
02:28You know, the games are pretty close.
02:30Yeah, there might be a few teams near the top who in the main would be better.
02:34But I think the rest of the league is quite competitive and not much between it.
02:39Your first time taking the team back to Sunderland since your season there.
02:42How do you reflect on that year or that season?
02:47I had a really good time.
02:48I loved being up there.
02:49Difficult in as much as we didn't do so well.
02:53But overall I had a really good time at Sunderland.
02:57It was a good club.
02:58Maybe at that time we adjusted a little bit on the back end of a sort of difficult period.
03:03But no, it was a good time.
03:06I had no problem with that.
03:07Just disappointed that we didn't do a bit better.
03:09I think it was Jordan Pickford's first time back there since he was there.
03:12Can you tell us a little bit about how he's developed since you first met him there
03:16and had him in the team there?
03:18He's become now ex-caps for England signing that contract as well.
03:22Yeah.
03:23He's hugely developed since then because he's come on greatly.
03:27Personally, he's done a lot of really good things.
03:30He was a young boy who was an outstanding young goalkeeper.
03:33Most teams in the country would have been interesting at the time.
03:37Everton got him early and he's going on to be a really good servant for Everton.
03:42I think he's improved year on year and the proof is in the pudding.
03:48The amount of clean sheets he's tended to keep in the Premier League season recently has been very good.
03:53Thank you very much.
03:54Thanks, Pete.
03:55All the odds are Simon at Premier League Productions.
03:56Simon.
03:57OK.
03:58Was it maybe right club, wrong time then with that in mind?
04:02With Jordan.
04:03Not for you.
04:05He'd probably still have to.
04:07Yeah.
04:08I think possibly it was in some ways.
04:11We were all, you know, I think in management you have to experience different opportunities.
04:18I explored the one at Sunderland and just unfortunately we didn't get things to go for us.
04:24I look back at it with disappointment but moved on from then.
04:28Sunderland have moved on and I've moved on since then as well.
04:31It does feel like to some degree that Everton is a similar club in many ways in terms of the history, the fan base
04:37and perhaps they're now starting to match the ambition of this club.
04:41Yeah, you know, we're in a city where we're a really good team in Liverpool which we have to be competitive with.
04:46Sunderland, if you work up at Sunderland you've got to be competitive with Newcastle United and you can see how well Newcastle United are doing but Sunderland are challenging them this year.
04:56Over the years we've challenged Liverpool in the city here and maybe not recently.
05:01And maybe the same with Sunderland, Sunderland maybe recently haven't challenged Newcastle.
05:05But hopefully both Sunderland will challenge Newcastle and we will challenge Liverpool a little bit as well.
05:12I know you mentioned set pieces there, Sunderland another one of the clubs at the moment who are trying to utilise that long throw quite a lot.
05:19I don't know if you saw this week, Jolion Lescott was writing about the time when you and he were here the first time round
05:26and about how you found a way to sort of overcome that and he was quite praiseful of you.
05:33Well I think in years gone by we always used long throws or you expected teams to use long throws.
05:40Have you found a way to stop or to counter-act it?
05:44Them scoring or throwing?
05:47He was saying that when you were here the first time that you got them all on the line and then rushing out to do it and it was a way that everybody should pick up.
05:57I was trying to think of how I was doing that. Jolion must know more than me now.
06:04I can't remember that but maybe if you ever saw what Jolion was saying I would remember.
06:10But I think everybody's looked at set pieces all the time and it's become very much in fashion.
06:16But I never thought it really had ever gone out of fashion to be honest.
06:19Have you found a way to negate it without going with all your secrets?
06:24No, I don't think you can absolutely negate it because I don't think there's anybody that good.
06:30I think we're seeing some incredibly innovative set pieces whether it be corner kicks or long throws and people are doing it.
06:39But I don't think you'll ever have it done exactly.
06:45But I think we'd always sort of take pride in making sure that we were good enough to sort of defend it or maybe score an hour going from them as well.
06:54Thanks Simon, we'll go to Julia right on the other side.
06:57Hi David.
06:58Just on that then, there's been a lot of former managers talking this week about set pieces and all that type of stuff and you're saying it's constantly evolving.
07:08Does football just go round in a circle as to what kind of happens and how everyone plays?
07:15Look, I think in some ways, possibly. I mean, I think if you were doing it two or three years ago, folk would have been saying, no, what are you doing that for?
07:26I still believe it was there. I still think that even two or three years ago people were taking long throws and people were taking, you know, working on corner kicks.
07:33I don't think anything's really greatly changed. I just think that there's a little bit of media picking up on it.
07:40The team at the top of the league scoring more goals from set pieces than even open play, for example.
07:45So I've always thought at West Ham we were very good at set pieces, you know, we had good deliverers with Craig Dawson who could head it.
07:52So it made it look as if we were actually very good at set pieces.
07:55Quite often you need people who are really good deliverers and quite often you need people who are very good at heading the ball as well and brave.
08:02I think you can have the best set piece coach in the world, but if you don't have anybody who can deliver it and you don't have anybody who can head it, you'll still not get any success.
08:10So it is a big topic at the moment, yeah.
08:14We've sort of had this discussion before that strikers are always judged on goals and fans get frustrated when they don't see the goals going in.
08:22There were chances against Spurs to get some goals. Can you, I don't know, lift the curtain away a little bit and just reveal to people what goes on with strikers.
08:30When you're going through a bit of a dry patch and you're in the training ground every day and maybe confidence is a bit low, how do you manage that?
08:38Well, you're right with the question because, you know, obviously we want more centre-forwards to score more goals.
08:44I think we're, and whatever we say, we are making more chances, we're having much more of the ball than we've had.
08:50We're being more creative in what we're doing. So this is where you're hoping that we make a few more chances and the forwards get it.
08:57And we've just, a couple of the games recently, we've just not quite got on the end of two or three things, which maybe on another day we do.
09:03It changes the outcome, it changes the mood.
09:06So it's very difficult for MD. You know, a footballer, footballers can lose confidence, you know, when their form isn't so good.
09:13You know, could be a centre-forward, could be a centre-half, goalkeepers.
09:16You need to, they all need to have confidence to play well.
09:19But centre-forwards are the ones who sort of thrive on the feeling of getting the goals.
09:23So, look, all you can ever do is keep putting them in the right positions and hopefully they'll get the goals.
09:30We also have to get plenty of balls in to give them those chances to do so.
09:34If strikers are low on confidence then, and I don't know if that's the case with Beto and Tierno right now,
09:40do at some point you have to say, do you know what, I'm going to try and fix this in another way?
09:44Such as, I don't know, Illermann has played Stryker, could he come in or do you think you just keep going with this and hopefully they'll get a goal?
09:51No, of course, I will look to see if there's other options.
09:53If I think that I'm not getting what I want then I'm going to look to see what else there is.
09:57I wouldn't, but we've got two people who are number nines and, you know, are that way.
10:04Ellie, you mentioned, you know, it gives you a less sort of focal point, gives you very little, you know,
10:12changes how you may have to play and build different times if we do that.
10:16We've got one or two other people who could possibly come into that debate as well.
10:22But no, we wouldn't bury our head in the sand, we're certainly thinking about it.
10:28That's for you to do there. That's why you're in the manager's seat.
10:31I just wanted to mention as well, Seamus Coleman in the last international break, I think he got a player of the match performance for Ireland, did one of his games and did really well.
10:41How close is he to your thinking? Could he come back in at any point into the first team?
10:45Seamus has done really well. I was pleased to get the games for Ireland because it got him some more minutes under his belt, got him a bit more match ready.
10:53So, yeah, he's never been out my thinking. But in the main, the former big Jake's been very good.
11:00We've not really had any reason to do it. It gives us a lot of other things, gives us a little bit more stature.
11:05He's a very quick boy, so it gives us a lot of other things.
11:10But Seamus has always been there and as far as I'm concerned, I'll always be there or thereabouts.
11:16Would you like this?
11:17I like this one?
11:18If you would like this one for years.
11:19If you could give this one a bit, you can do this.
11:24And suppose here I do, if I can give it an article about his dogs.
11:29Which is what you're saying?
11:30Well, I'm so sorry, if I can give it a couple of other things you want to do, I want to throw this one out there.
11:33I'm so sorry.
11:36Yeah.
11:38I'm so sorry.
11:39I'm so sorry, I was as sorry.
11:42I'm so sorry.
11:43Let's see.
11:44I'm so sorry.
11:45I'm so sorry.
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