David Moyes delivered a snap reaction to the thrashing from an in second gear Manchester City and went a little coy on us all.
He told the BBC: “We didn’t play well today. There are reasons for that, (our italics) and also the quality of Manchester City.
“We didn’t do things as well as we should. You need things to go for you and a bit of good fortune when you play a team like Manchester City.
“We grew into the game. I thought we did it better in the last 15 minutes of the first half. You need to have the quality off all-round top defenders if you are to do things further up the pitch.
Now the big thing is to try to win the next game.”
It would have been helpful if he had elaborated on the things he said what the reasons were in full although it seemed to most that he may have been talking about everything!