Everton manager David Moyes was asked about his strikers' lack of goals in the pre-match press conference to preview the trip to Sunderland
Everton manager David Moyes during his pre-match press conference to preview the trip to Sunderland
Everton manager David Moyes during his pre-match press conference to preview the trip to Sunderland
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Everton manager David Moyes has admitted he’ll look at other options if strikers Beto and Thierno Barry keep failing to score goals. The pair of them have just one Premier League goal between them this season.
That came courtesy of Beto header in the 3-2 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Barry, a £27m purchase from Villarreal in July, is yet to get off the mark in 10 outings.
Asked about the duo’s confidence in his pre-match press conference for Monday’s trip to Sunderland, Moyes said: “Obviously we want our centre-forwards to score more goals.
“Whatever we say, we are making more chances, we’re having much more of the ball than we’ve had, we’re being more creative in what we’re doing, so this is where you’re hoping we make a few more chances and the forwards get it.
“In the couple of games recently we’ve not quite got on the end of two or three things which on another day we do and it changes the outcome, changes the mood.
“It’s very difficult for anybody, footballers can lose confidence when their form isn’t so good – it could be a centre-forward, it could be a centre-half or goalkeepers – they all need to have confidence to play well.
“But centre-forwards are the ones that thrive on the feeling of getting the goals. So, all you can ever do is keep putting them in the right positions and hopefully they’ll get the goals.
“We also have to get plenty of balls in to give them those chances to do so.”
In terms of whether Iliman Ndiaye, Everton’s top scorer last season with 11 goals, who is also leading the way so far this term on three having been primarily deployed as a winger, could be moved into a central attacking role, Moyes replied: “I will look to see if there are other options and if I think I’m not getting what I want, I’ll look to see what else there is. We’ve got two people who are number nines or that way.
“Ili, you mentioned, gives you less of a focal point and changes how you may have to play and build at different times if you do that.
“We’ve got one or two other people who could possibly come into that debate as well but we won’t bury our head in the sand, we’re certainly thinking about it.”