Source: Liverpool_Echo
Everton FC manager David Moyes urges fans not to blame Jermaine Beckford
DAVID MOYES refused to put the boot into blooper sub Jermaine Beckford - after the Blues striker spurned no fewer than three clear chances during Saturday's shock drubbing by West Bromwich Albion.[LNB]The misses came just five days after Beckford's last-minute miss at Sunderland.[LNB]A rueful Moyes said afterwards: 'He had chances and we hadn't had too many clear-cut chances prior to that, so you give him credit for getting in there and getting the chances.[LNB]'But the ratio of goals to chances is at quite a high level in the Premier League because you don't get many, and I've just said in there (to Beckford) that that was quite a number of chances not to get one goal from.'[LNB] Beckford, introduced as a 55th-minute substitute for the disappointing Yakubu, saw one chance parried by Scott Carson and cleared off the line, hooked another narrowly wide and volleyed the best opening of all wildly over the crossbar from inside the six-yard box.[LNB]The timing was unfortunate for the forward, coming just days after his last minute miss at Sunderland[LNB]'You've got to score them haven't you?' added Moyes. 'I think the chances come at whatever level you play at, but you've got to score them. He's just got to go and do it again.[LNB]'We've been saying for the last eight weeks that Everton haven't been taking their chances. Today we got the double whammy in that we didn't score and then we lost a player.[LNB]'When you come to a club you know what you're good at. If you're a centre-half it might be heading it, if you're a winger it might be crossing. If you're a good goalscorer it's finishing and that's what he does.'
