{"id":291639,"date":"2026-02-11T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:16:10","slug":"no-opinion-moyes-not-drawn-on-obrien-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291639\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No opinion&#8217; \u2013 Moyes not drawn on O&#8217;Brien dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simmering David Moyes refused to be drawn on his thoughts regarding the dismissal of Republic of Ireland international Jake O&#8217;Brien in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0210\/1557745-obrien-sent-off-as-everton-lose-magpies-beat-spurs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Toffees 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match press conference that lasted two minutes and 40 seconds, Moyes could barely contain his annoyance after his side self-destructed to lose 2-1 at home.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts looked in control, if not comfortable, after Iliman Ndiaye\u2019s first-half penalty but they fell apart in eight second-half minutes to blow their chance of moving into sixth in the Premier League and enhancing their unlikely push for European football.<\/p>\n<p>They twice conceded uncontested header and then had O\u2019Brien sent off for bringing down Adli as he tried to race through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No opinion on it, no opinion on referees anymore,&#8221; he responded when asked for his opinion in the sending off.<\/p>\n<p>Defeat was their fifth at Hill Dickinson Stadium \u2013 they have won only four and just once since 8 November \u2013 but Moyes was in no mood to offer any insight into why they are struggling so much at their new home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(We are) playing good teams in the Premier League. Bournemouth are a good team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We probably missed a couple of half-chances, good chances, to get the second goal so we only have ourselves to blame, no-one else,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The players are doing a great job here, we just didn\u2019t have quite enough tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A simmering David Moyes refused to be drawn on his thoughts regarding the dismissal of Republic of Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-291639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}