Source: SKY_Sports
Moyes praises Toffees
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} David Moyes was full of praise for Everton after their battling 1-1 draw with Stoke at Goodison Park.[LNB] Everton fell behind to a Robert Huth header from a corner in the 50th minute before replying via a good strike from stand-in skipper Leon Osman five minutes later.[LNB]The draw ended a run of five successive victories for the Toffees and came after a 2-1 victory over BATE Borisov in the Europa League on Thursday.[LNB]Moyes agreed it had been a real battle, telling Sky Sports: "Stoke always make their games hard for you, especially away from home, they sit back in and they make it difficult but they've done it well.[LNB]"I thought we passed it quite well in the first half, made one or two opportunities without really getting in to score a goal."[LNB]While Moyes thought his side had been wasteful in front of goal, he could not criticise his players.[LNB]Terrific"Overall I thought the players have done terrific. They've played in midweek, they played last week, they have picked up a point today.[LNB]"Yes, we would have liked three, but it wasn't to be."[LNB]While Moyes is pleased to be playing in Europe, he does not have the luxury of being able to make wholesale changes to his team.[LNB]He said: "What we are having to do is put the same players back out so undoubtedly if you're a club that finishes in the Europa League and you want to do well in the Premier League, as we have done in the last couple of years, you need players to be able to change as you go along.[LNB]"At this moment in time we struggle to do it so it is great credit to, I think six or seven maybe eight of them that played in midweek, so well done to them."[LNB]DisappointedWhile Moyes was disappointed to concede a goal from a set-piece, he thought Huth made a really good jump and header to score.[LNB]"We will look at it, hopefully do better and not let it happen again," said the Everton boss, who was delighted for his goal-scorer Osman.[LNB]"It was a really good goal and he deserves it because he's worked as hard as anybody in the past week and his contribution to Everton over the years has been excellent."[LNB]
