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Former Everton boss David Moyes rues failing to silence crowd on Goodison return
Sunderland manager wanted 'low level' match only for Blues to ease to 2-0 triumph
BY
PHIL KIRKBRIDE
son crowd and keep Sunderland's match with
Everton on a "low level".
But the former Blues boss admits he was bitterly disappointed with the Black Cats' first-half performance after they trailed to Idrissa Gueye's first goal for the club.
Everton went on to secure the win when Romelu Lukaku struck 10 minutes from time to make it 2-0 - but not before the Blues survived a major scare.
Moyes says, from his spot on the touchline, he thought Jermain Defoe's deflected effort which struck the bar had crossed the line but replays confirmed it hadn't.
Two minutes later, Lukaku raced clear to seal the win for Ronald Koeman's side.
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"Jermain makes a great bit of space to try and get it but, credit to Everton, one of their defenders gets back to make the block and it loops over the goalkeeper," Moyes said.
"But for technology it might have been given as a goal because from where we were it had gone in but, obviously, it hadn't.
"I thought we were really poor in the first half. I wanted to come here and frustrate the crowd/ I know what it's like here, I wanted to keep them quiet, I wanted to keep the game low level for as much as I could and for long periods we did that.
"But we didn't play well when we got the ball, we gave it away, we never did anything well with the ball so that was really the key message (at half-time) and I was glad we only went in 1-0 down because the boy hits the post not long before half-time which changes it.
"But at 1-0 down we are always in with a chance in the game and we couldn't play any worse than we had done in the first half.
Sunderland manager David Moyes is greeted on the pitch by his former Everton chairman Bill Kenwright
"I told them that and told them to take the ball a bit more and be a bit braver, and I thought we did that. It was never going to be an easy game for us but it gave us a chance."
Sunderland remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table with 12 games remaining and currently in need of four points to climb out of the bottom three.
"I think today's game was always a tough game for us, away from home against Everton, not one we would necessarily be getting judged on," Moyes concluded.
"I'm looking forward to our good run, I'm sure we've got a good run to come."
