Moyes: “We need to make a lot of changes”
David Moyes was unhappy with last night’s performance against Glasgow Rangers and that this was the first pre-season game we have lost in two campaigns .
There is little question he had every right to feel that way after a display which left more ifs than buts from a team which is now just a couple of games away from the start of the season.
Pre-season is pre-season and it’s all about fitness but if we are being entirely honest we really needed to see more than we did last night against a pretty decent team.
Maybe had Mikey Antonio managed to convert an early chance it may have been different but apart from that the passing was often sloppy and there was little creativity out of midfield
Declan – yellow carded
And that Declan should have been yellow carded in a game where nothing was at stake apart from pride and confidence was disappointing.
Afterwards – delivering his verdict on the game – Moyes told www.whufc.com: “It’s pre-season and we’re trying to get the players in the right condition, and we didn’t really look that way tonight.
Look, it was always going to be a difficult game, there’s no doubt about that, but I’m disappointed with a lot of elements of the game and things that we did.
Rangers looked better, quicker, sharper tonight. I think they looked sharper in their head as much as anything and they played better than we did.
We were slow to press, slow in our decision making, so I didn’t see it as being a good team performance at all tonight.
They’re a good side, but I thought the goals showed the other side to us too.
It’s not like us to defend the way we did, but that wasn’t the main reason. We didn’t show enough attacking purpose and when we had a couple of half-chances we didn’t take them.
Look, it’s a pre-season game, so hopefully we can get it out of the way and move on.
You want to win the games and you want to go in [to the season] in good form. We certainly need to make a lot of changes and do something different, that’s for sure.”