Everton manager David Moyes spoke about his side’s lack of quality in front of goal following their 1-0 loss to Manchester United at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
Benjamin Sesko scored the only goal of the game after finishing off a lightning-quick counter-attack led by Bryan Mbeumo in the 71st minute. Besides Michael Keane’s powerful strike from distance, the hosts barely tested Senne Lammens in goal. They also seemed bizarrely overreliant on corner-kicks, but failed to make any of the 10 opportunities count.
The loss to United extended Everton’s winless streak at home to six matches. They haven’t won at their waterfront stadium since early December and have suffered four losses since then.
"I'm not happy with the scoreline that's for sure. You have to win games if you are going to keep moving on. We've not been doing that as much as we'd like, especially here [at home],” David Moyes told Sky Sports following his side’s 1-0 loss to Michael Carrick’s side.
"We've lost narrowly to United, we beat them narrowly at Old Trafford earlier in the season. I though we did well in lots of bits, we get done on the counter and they get the one goal. We put in effort to score but lacked quality to get the goal.
“Their goalkeeper [Senne Lammens] did a great job, made an amazing save from Michael Keane, looked as if he could take every corner kick. I thought there was a goal in there for us but we couldn't quite do it.”
Manchester United’s goal in the second half arrived when Everton had players committed up the pitch. Mateus Cunha launched Mbeumo into acres of space with a long ball and Michael Keane was always going to lose the 1v1 race against the Cameroon international.
Sesko utilised his afterburners to get well clear of James Tarkowski and found himself in acres of space. Mbeumo teed the latter up for a simple finish past Jordan Pickford.
“"We weren't organised well enough off the ball. I have to praise them [United] for their quick attack. We knew that would be the case, they've been doing that really well. They have forward players who have to ability to run away fast and make hances. Most of the game we controlled it pretty well but in that one moment we switched off and it gave them that opportunity,” Moyes assessed.
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2 Posted 24/02/2026 at 12:50:50
3 Posted 24/02/2026 at 12:56:53
Then why did you have you're two slowest players at centre half and your quickest best centre half at left back?.
"We weren't organised well enough off the ball"
How about in game management and recognizing this during the game?
Why not put Garner back into midfield to strengthen up, Mykolenko on at left back and move Branthwaite back to centre half ?
Why not have Armstrong's youth, energy and vigour in midfield instead of Gana who clearly looks like he's struggling?
If you needed to counter their pace through the middle there's some suggestions Davey
4 Posted 24/02/2026 at 13:09:50
5 Posted 24/02/2026 at 13:31:58
6 Posted 24/02/2026 at 13:39:45
And someone on the other thread wins a prize for predicting he would say exactly that.
7 Posted 24/02/2026 at 14:13:12
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1 Posted 24/02/2026 at 12:41:53
"Narrowly" is our middle name under Moyes, we even draw "narrowly".