The players have done a great job today and really stepped up today. Everton are a really good side and they’ve started the season well.
We’ve started the season well too and I want us challenging all the big teams and playing the best we can, and today we played really well.
We were a bit short as we were without a couple of the midfield boys today, and even shorter when we lost Tomas to injury in the second half, so we switched to three at the back and managed to see it out in that period.
We want to get back to the standards we set last year. We set really good standards last year and scored quite a few goals from set pieces where Paul Nevin does a great job in prepping us and trying to get them right.
We argue and fight over where we think the best chance of scoring is and today we got one in the end.
It was a really tight game. It wasn’t an easy victory by any stretch of the imagination.
Our job now is to get out of Thursday night football and into the Tuesday and Wednesday night one and a Saturday rather than a Thursday/Sunday one, and if we want to do that we’re going to have to do well in the Premier League and we’re going to have to try and balance it the best we can.
At the minute we’re good. We’ve got just a couple missing today which we can’t afford, really. We can’t afford too many to be out of the squad as we go along, so hopefully we’ll get everybody back.