Source: Team_Talk
Everton v QPR reaction
Everton manager David Moyes accepted familiar shortcomings cost his side as they dominated the game against QPR but lost 1-0 at Goodison Park.[LNB] Despite creating the better chances - Leighton Baines hitting the crossbar with a free-kick and Tim Cahill missing a header from close range - it was the visitors who made the breakthrough in Saturday's Premier League contest.[LNB]Tommy Smith converted QPR's only real chance of the game in the 31st minute to secure the Londoners' first points on their return to the top flight.[LNB]Moyes had to leave experienced players Mikel Arteta, Marouane Fellaini and Louis Saha on the bench because of a lack of fitness, and with no money to sign anyone in the summer Everton came up short.[LNB]"The performance probably didn't deserve to lose over the course of the game but we did," said the Scot.[LNB]"We are the home team against a newly-promoted team and expected to make the play and score the goals, and we weren't able to do that.[LNB]"It wasn't because QPR dominated the game and outplayed us, we had good chances to make better opportunities and didn't do so.[LNB]"Tim missed a good one and we were a bit unlucky with Baines' free-kick.[LNB]"But if anyone is surprised and disappointed, they shouldn't be because we have been saying for a year or two we could do with an injection of wide players and centre-forwards.[LNB]"We are disappointed we didn't win because I thought we should have gone on and got a result."[LNB]The only bright spot for the Toffees was the performance of Ross Barkley, a 17-year-old academy graduate who made his first-team debut and was the best player in a blue shirt.[LNB]"I said to the players after the game I was disappointed with how they played but not to Ross," Moyes added.[LNB]"He got a big pat on the back. He nearly carried the team; he made chances, tried to take chances and looked really good.[LNB]"He's not long turned 17, we gave him a chance and he certainly didn't let us down."[LNB]QPR boss Neil Warnock was delighted to get their first points on the board after last weekend's 4-0 home defeat to Bolton, especially after a virus within the squad had restricted his options.[LNB]"In a way the attitude we came up with epitomised the whole result," he said.[LNB]"I said to them 'give me everything' and they fought for each other.[LNB]"I said 'let's go and enjoy it' because I'd rather be pulling up at Goodison Park than some of the Championship clubs we were last year.[LNB]"It was a well-worked move for the goal and they showed we can compete in the Premier League.[LNB]"In the circumstances we've had in the last 24 hours to do what they did was quite amazing and I couldn't be prouder.[LNB]"People like Patrick Agyemang (who started up front) were not in my thoughts for the last six weeks and at one o'clock, I had to tell him he was playing - it is like something out of a comic book."
