Late West Ham equaliser frustrates Everton FC boss David Moyes

05 April 2010 00:00
DAVID MOYES was left frustrated after Everton conceded a late equaliser after being denied a penalty against relegation-threatened West Ham.[LNB]The Blues looked set for an eighth successive home win when Yakubu headed in to make it 2-1 six minutes from time, but Ilan levelled with a diving header just seconds after the restart.[LNB]Moyes conceded his side had not necessarily done enough to deserve victory, but expected them to hold on to their late advantage.[LNB]'We're disappointed to be 2-1 up and then throw it away in the last three or four minutes,' he said.[LNB]'The game was tight but we didn't play well enough to merit more. But sometimes when you don't play brilliantly you hope to win it, and it looked as if we'd done that.[LNB]'You definitely have to give some credit to West Ham, they made it hard, got a lot of people behind the ball and we found it very difficult to get through, especially in the first half when we had the baulk of the possession.[LNB]'We tried to do it right and we tried to play but we just never really got to the level we've been at in some other games.'

Source: Liverpool_Echo