Source: FOOTYMAD
Hodgson defiant again
Roy Hodgson thought his side gave a good account of themselves yesterday. Most Reds fans thought the team gave another mediocre performance in the 2-0 defeat by Everton, but Hodgson declared himself pleased with the display if not the result. "This was always going to be a difficult game to win," said the boss. "We suffered at the hands of an early onslaught, which you invariably do here at Goodison. They put us under pressure and made it difficult for us to get the ball, but towards the end of the first half we started to do better - we were starting to more than even the game out "I thought the shape of the team was good and I thought the quality of our passing and moving was good today. "We had plenty of the ball in the second half and we were camped out in their half of the field in the final third for large periods. "I thought we caused them plenty of problems, but you're never going to get the really clear one-on-one chances when teams are defending a two-goal lead. "We are conceding too many goals and yet today I think we were a little bit unlucky to do so. Even in the good spell of pressure Everton had at the beginning, we weren't shipping goal chances. "But it is a problem that we're letting in goals. We need to score goals to take pressure off the fact we could let them in, especially when you're playing with the sort of line-up we were at the end of the game. "Good teams score goals and don't let many in and that's what we have got to be trying to do as well. We need to get better in both areas. "In particular today, one could argue with all the possession we had in the second half and the time we had in the final third, we should have scored because the possibility was there."
