Moyes: “They were brilliant but the defence needs work”
It could hardly have gone more perfectly for the new man in charge with his captain leading supremely on the pitch and scoring twice whilst the record signing produced a goal from the footballing gods.
There may well be manager bounces but this was a somersault to leave the man in charge of the opposition- and desperately wanted as our new man by so many – staring bleakly down the barrel.
West Ham were superb and the boss couldn’t have been more pleased as we came out of the bottom three we had fallen into with Villa’s win earlier in the day.
This was a great start but that’s all it is at the moment although Moyes can now approach the future with much confidence after a great start.
Talking at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2020/january/01-january/david-moyes-players-made-it-easy-me he said:
He said: I’m smiling, aren’t I, and that makes a change! I’ve got to say the players were brilliant today. It was a great performance and I was actually disappointed we didn’t get another one late on, because we might have done.
“Anyway, I’ve got to say the players played really well. They were great and the supporters were great as well. They gave us a real backing and I think, to be fair, the players gave them something to shout about today.”
I felt that once they got the goal, they started saying to themselves ‘I’ve got a bit of belief here and we can do this’ and I thought their confidence did come back.
“For periods in the second half, we controlled the game and passed it well and maybe we could have had other goals.
“For me it was good to see people like Seb getting a goal and Felipe get a getting a goal and it would be wrong of me not to say how well Mark Noble played today. I think I’ve come back and it’s a new man. Maybe it’s his brother because he was so good today he looks much younger than when I left!”
“I said to the players that what they’ve done today has to be the least they do in all the games. The one thing I will say is we will get much better. I believe the players will get better and hopefully they’ll grow in confidence from this result.
“I want the football to improve. I’ve got a lot of work to do on the defensive stuff because I still feel we gave up a couple of chances that I didn’t like.
But we’ve been in for a day and a half and I can’t take any credit for the result. I have to give it all to the players because their attitude today was good.
“I did say to them ‘I think you have got to show the supporters you care, you want to do something different and be better.”