No joy of six for angry David Moyes as Louis Saha sees red

18 September 2009 00:00
David Moyes 300[LNB]DAVID MOYES was left bitterly disappointed by his first experience of UEFA's radical new extra officials experiment.[LNB]There were six match officials on duty at Goodison Park, where striker Louis Saha was shown a red card in time added on at the end of a comfortable 4-0 victory over AEK Athens for flicking a hand in the face of Juanfran.[LNB]But the Blues boss was astonished that despite an extra official just yards from the incident, the provocation which led to the French striker's petulant reaction was missed.[LNB]'I was disappointed,' said Moyes. 'It was a ridiculous kick the boy has on Louis before he got sent off.[LNB]'It is amazing that they see the small arm but don't see the big kick - even with the extra officials.[LNB]'They were looking for something but if they did they initially got it wrong and not to see the kick in the box was really poor.[LNB]'We hope they get more decisions right than wrong and I didn't think the referee had an awful lot of big decisions to make tonight, but I think one of those he missed was the initial incident.[LNB]'We need to do everything we can to help the referees but if he was helped in the Louis Saha incident then I think he was wrong.'[LNB]Moyes also criticised the AEK players for spending a lot of time on the floor.[LNB]'Tonight was strange. British supporters and teams are not used to seeing players being on the ground as often as they were tonight,' he added. 'It's not something we see that much in England.[LNB]'I've always said the one thing we have to cut out of football is diving, that is the biggest thing in football that is wrong at the moment.'[LNB]Everton paraded new signing Lucas Neill at half-time after the defender signed a one-year contract.[LNB]And Moyes said he was pleased to have brought in the Australia international, especially as captain Phil Neville was likely to be sidelined by injury for a couple of months.[LNB]'I'm pleased to have him. It gives us another player, especially with Phil Neville injured for another couple of months,' he added.[LNB]'It is very rare you can get a player after the window closes but fortunately he was out of contract and we were able to get him here.'[LNB]Moyes was also delighted with the full debut of new Russian midfield star Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, who hand a hand in the first three Everton goals.[LNB]'He played very well,' said Moyes 'but he had to come off with a groin strain which was a shame because we wanted to give him as much time as possible.'

Source: Liverpool_Echo