Moyes previews Everton's trip to Forest

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Moyes previews Everton's trip to Forest  29/12/2025  Turf Moor, Burnley, UK

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00:01Nottingham Forest, earlier this month, one of the three clean sheets in five during the month,

00:06and going further back, five in your last eight.

00:08What's kind of underpinned that really impressive defensive record?

00:12Well, obviously the goalkeeper makes plays a big part in it.

00:14He's a huge influence, but in the main, the two centre-halves have stood up to lots of things.

00:22And to be fair, last season they had a good record as well,

00:24and probably the season before that, their clean sheets,

00:26it's been scoring goals and making goals, it's always been,

00:30and just in recent games that's been a bit that side of it.

00:33Prior to it, we'd been doing okay, but we've just been a bit short in making goals and scoring,

00:42but the defensive record is a big part down to how well the defenders are doing.

00:48That win took you up to fifth at the time.

00:51How do you assess the picture now?

00:53It's not a big gap points-wise, but it's very hard.

00:56It's very hard.

00:56If you win two, you might move up to fifth.

00:58If you lose two, you might drop down to 15th.

01:00I don't know, I think, the way the league is.

01:03I think what we want to do is make sure that we're in a strong enough position,

01:06and that's why, whatever you say, picking up a point.

01:08Point for Burnley as well.

01:09Probably they would hope to get more.

01:11It's their home game, and they're needing it more.

01:14At the moment, we want to keep picking up points where we can.

01:20Adding to the total, we'd a light three, but our performance didn't merit that today.

01:25You know Barry's first goal for the club, obviously, in that Forrest game.

01:29How do you assess his output and his confidence level since then?

01:32I think he's played well in some games, even today.

01:35When he comes on, the keeper makes a really good save from him.

01:38Sorry, I keep referring back to today because we're talking about Forrest.

01:41But, yeah, look, I think he's improved.

01:44We've tried to give him a run of games to give him that confidence or show what he can do.

01:49But ultimately, any of the centre-fours we've got, they've got to score goals

01:52because that's, if you're a number nine, I think he's got one,

01:55and I think Beto's got one as well.

01:58So, that's not good enough, and we need to find more goals.

02:01When you play teams in quick succession, like you will do with Forrest,

02:05and you've come, obviously, more convincingly in that first game,

02:08how does that change their approach or dynamic?

02:11Yeah, look, I don't think any should be kidded with Nottingham Forrest.

02:14Nottingham Forrest is a team who qualified for Europe last year

02:17and were well up the league and played really well all last season,

02:21got positive results.

02:22So, I think the squad of players are certainly in a far better place

02:27than the league position suggests at the moment.

02:29That's funny for me.

02:30Are you happy to have some of the guys back?

02:33There's a chance, so we'll hope so.

02:36We'll wait and see.

02:38OK, that bit is embargoed till 12pm tomorrow lunchtime.

02:43Any further questions from the written lads?

02:47David, I thought Tim O'Rourke did really well today.

02:51I've seen a tough game against Newcastle a few weeks ago.

02:53I think he's responded really well to that.

02:56Are you glad he's shown that mental strength to come back from that?

03:01Yeah, I thought Tim played really well in midweek.

03:03I wasn't so sure today, but I'm still pleased that where he is,

03:07he's improving all the time.

03:09He generally struggled a little bit in the 90 minutes in the games,

03:12and he's happened to play them because we're short.

03:16We're short on substitution choices and what we can do, really.

03:21So, he's having to find a way of getting through the games.

03:23He's done well for us, so we're pleased with what he's doing.

03:25Yeah, and in terms of going forward,

03:30this is a particularly big opportunity for him with Adrisson up there at the moment.

03:34Yeah, get an opportunity to take the jersey and hang on to it,

03:39play well enough to do so.

03:42He's still got a bit to do.

03:44I mentioned it, I want him to keep playing forward.

03:46I want him to be a bit more positive in his overall play.

03:50But there's parts of his game very good,

03:52his recovery and getting back to win things back.

03:55He's been excellent.

03:56Finally for me, Simley, with Jacob Ryan,

03:59tough one against Arsenal,

04:00and then the penalty, the way he responded today.

04:03Yeah.

04:03No, we stuck at it.

04:05You know, we stuck at it throughout the game.

04:07We could have played much better, as I've said.

04:09But, look, they'd done, they made sure that Burnley didn't score today.

04:15And that gave us a chance of getting something.

04:17And we nearly nicked something,

04:18but it would have been harsh on Burnley if that had been the case.

04:23Okay.

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