Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace | David Moyes Reaction

you want to start. >> Hi D, congratulations on the win. What your thoughts on the on that performance and a very important win too? >> Uh I thought I thought there was there was a good performance uh for lots of the parts of the game. I thought we uh we didn't do well enough on the transition in the first half where we should have get lots of more chances from what we done. And when they transitioned, because of the the two different systems in the game and the way it played, when they transitioned, I thought their chances were better than ours. Obviously, the goalkeeper makes a great save. It looks like the center forward should have probably scored with the one that hits the post, I think. Uh, but I thought we had opportunities to have big chances and I didn't think we done it as well in the early part of the first half. But, uh, the goal from Kieran just before Halime, I thought that the game sort of and froed a little bit. It was an incredibly open game I thought certainly in the first half. >> Kean seemed to be just his influence was growing just just before >> growing. He was one of the ones who could have done with making a couple of passes a little bit cleaner and better when we broke but his goal was uh his goal was very good and you know I don't know what he got last year eight or nine goals for us. So it's a good start for him. Uh you know he gets off to off to scoring a goal. David, the um thing that was so evident in the second half was like there was contributions from everyone, Ro um Hayden Hackne, Tyreek George, everybody seemed to play a part and if you're going to progress, that's that's the template you've set today. >> Yeah, I I mean I've got to say I'm really pleased with I thought Hayden's performance was good. I thought Harrison performed well. I thought Merlin performed well. So I think a lot of the ones who are are relatively new to the team and the ones who I'm probably expecting to take a bit of time to settle, you know, breaking them into the the Premier League in some case, I know it's not the case with Merlin or with uh with Tyreek, but it is still they're very young in their in the sort of number of games they've got in the Premier League. Uh you know, Melon went in as played right back and you know was doing as well as MD done very well. But you can't sort of um underestimate the importance of the confidence that a win like that will give you today >> coming coming through something difficult early on and then >> absolutely you know for for us uh I don't think we've won I think you say for four years I don't think we won in the opening game of the season >> 2021 >> so even for us and what we want to build here and I I said in the press conference on uh Friday that you know we're trying to make the Hill Dickens in a bit more. We're points total away from home last year was fantastic. And if if we reach that again this season, we'll be in a we'll be in another really good position. We just need to make sure that we're home form is is a bit more regular if we can and get a few more wins here. So to win today's was was really big for us. David, you also said in the buildup to the game that you you'd been struggling over the summer to get that that kind of fade out towards the end of the season out of your system. Has that today done it? >> Yeah, it has. But I think that I think when you've been in it this long, you know, you I'm always one of these people, you know, you don't want to miss a chance in football because when you miss the chance, it's it, you know, someone else will take it and quickly. And uh, you know, for long long times last year, I was sitting here saying, you know, we'll get we'll get an outside chance at Europe and It got very close at one point. So, but today was today was a great way to start it off and you know I I think because of the the likes of Hayden Hackne coming in Harrison I mean Harrison's 19 and and played really well today. Hayden Hackne, I would have probably ideally sort of built them into the team. So, which I done with Phil Jagiela, Leighton Baines, you know, you could name Bundles who at that time when we brought the boys in the championship and I don't think everybody should be expecting them to come and hit the ground absolutely running and be, but I thought Hayden and Harrison done a great job today. >> Hi, David. Can I just ask about Barry? It's obviously the perfect start to the season for him to get on the score sheet. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Is that number nine shirt now now his to kind of >> maintain his first choice or >> No, I think he I think look we I think the the the center forward shared the goals around last year. Uh I'll certainly want more from him. He scored a good goal and look strikers will be will be uh judged probably on their goal. So you can walk away and be really happy with it. I thought you it would be it'd be wrong not to to mention the quality of the cross from Ji. You know what I mean? TO getting in the right spot was huge and uh and scoring with a header was was really big for us because it was an important time in the game and actually after that part we should have probably gone on and got it looked like we were more likely to go and score more goals for probably the next 10 minutes after that. Uh and that's a bit I feel as if we're needing to uh be better when we've got a chance to to score more goals. we got better and and and finished it off maybe a bit better get another goal. >> And in terms of his kind of development this season, what are the what are the next steps you're looking at? Is it like more consistency? Is it finding that kind of ruthless streak? >> Things like his play. I need his buildup play to be better. I need him to be able to retain the ball for us so that we can play into him more often. Uh I want him to get in the right spaces, which he did today for the for the cross. I want him to be in a position he had a couple where the ball get played and he didn't quite deal with with his feet, you know. Sometimes he's out linking up when he doesn't need to be out linking up. So I think there's lots to his game, but I said last year when you're a young striker coming in. I think he's come in with a really really positive attitude this year as well. He's come back with a something which has stirred him up a little bit more as if he's got something to prove. So today he got his goal and and he started really well. >> Hi David. um talked about how well some of the younger players stepped up today, but you also had some big moments from some of the more senior players as well. Brilliant save from Jordan Pikford in the first half at nil nil and obviously the goal from Keen and Dby Hall. Just how important is it to you that those senior players do step up to provide moments like that because they've changed the games? >> Yeah, well it was good because you know we're we're know we've lost a couple of at the moment you know we've not get Jimmy Gardner. We've not get Nard. So we're playing with a really really young and inexperienced team. the goalkeeper made a save which could have made a different know if if they score you know we might have been happy to chase the game in a different way and maybe these younger players aren't ready for that and not going to be once we get the goal they were able to play a little bit with a little bit more comfort was a brilliant save from Jordan really was so uh he was and I have to say if I've got any praise for Jordan you know the training he's done when he come back he's looked as sharp as attack I think he looks lean I think he's kept himself in good condition or he's got himself ready. So, I like I've liked to look at Jordan since he's come back into training after the World Cup. >> It was great to see James Garner back in the squad as well today. How far is he off a start, do you think? >> Well, we wouldn't have we wouldn't have put him on the bench if we had anything else only. So, we've tried to get I don't know maybe 15 20 minutes out of him today, whatever it was. He's not had any games. He's not done the preseason, but we've needed it because we don't have anybody else at the moment, you know, and I knew that if we got in the game like we did, you know, I might have needed him to cover for for sort of more more worried about their boys, you know, they would tire quickly. Hayden a little bit, but Harrison's got great legs, so we're not quite so worried about him and Kieran a little bit as well. So, we needed him, but is he ready? No. >> Thank you. >> Hi, David. There's been a lot of talk about right back so far this summer and you mentioned that James who's played there quite a lot isn't ready fitwise. You got Jacob Bryan on the bench as well but Merlin got the nod. How do you feel like he did and do you think it's something that he can develop in to over the course of the season? >> Yeah, he's he's keen to he's keen to do well and shows that he could be a right back Merlin and because of that you know we're happy know he can play other roles for us pardon the pun but he can play other other roles which mean that we can play him further forward. We can play him in a different way. He's got a he's got a different sort of level of athleticism to some of the other boys in some ways and he's a good footballer generally and he can score if we get get him closer to the goal. So, but he's also doing okay. And I was saying again, I'm just referencing my press conference. I was saying that, you know, we're everybody's talking about a right back. So, I'm saying well, I hope it's better than Jacob Ryan. I hope it's better than than Melon Ro or what they're offering. And obviously we always trying to get better than what we've got in every position to be truthful. You're always as a manager you're trying to think and it's you know it's not that easy to just go and get yourself better than than how those two Melon in preseasons played really well. Certainly deserves the chance to play. If you weren't able to get another one over the line, are you confident with the the players who you've got? I mentioned obviously James and Jake as well as Merlin that you'll be able to survive the >> Yeah. No, we would we we definitely would like a like a right back. We would, but I think that we we're all concerned about it because it's more that so for example today while we're playing Merlin right back, I couldn't play him in midfield as well. So today keeps me short of numbers in midfield and I'm you know I'm having to balance a little bit of you know what we want you know uh look we can still play Jacob Bryan right back. He's proved certainly against a lot of the quick boys he's he's really good and and he'll give us something if we need in that position but he prefers to be a center back. >> Take one more from you. >> It's only it's only something little. Are you aware you sent the prime minister home very happy today? Uh yeah, I spoke to the prime minister on the phone, told him, "Lads, there'll be tax cuts and there'll be you'll be free beer for everybody." I don't know. No, don't say that. But he'll not be coming back again. But uh no, he he actually somebody put him on Andy Gray came down into the office and uh and his assistant Peter Reed phoned down. So So yeah.