1-0 defeat at Hill Dickinson Stadium<\/a> on Monday. Ahead of Saturday\u2019s game at Newcastle, the Everton manager insisted that went against his gameplan but he, and other managers, would seek any advantage that the laws of the game offer. However, he also believes referees should take a harder line to try to eradicate jostling at set-pieces.<\/p>\n\u201cTruthfully, it wasn\u2019t the plan for our corner kicks to end up like that. But I think there\u2019s a bigger issue with it,\u201d Moyes said. \u201cIt has been allowed to let go, whether it be blocking of goalkeepers or blocking of defenders, and you get the feeling now that referees really don\u2019t want to get involved in any of it. It is nearly wrestling to an extent, which it shouldn\u2019t be. It should never have got to this situation, but I think it\u2019s been really poor that they\u2019ve not tried to deal with it well enough and stop it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are now allowed lots of blocking, for example. In my day, if you blocked someone it would have been a free-kick. But blocking has become a big part of it. Let\u2019s be fair, the best at it \u2013 but with style \u2013 would be Arsenal: good delivery, good style, but ultimately there\u2019s a lot of dark arts in it such as blocking the goalkeeper from the back or the front, blocking defenders and making it difficult for them to be your key headers of the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a big thing in football, but I do think the level of refereeing has let that part of the game drop. And managers, if we see somebody else doing it and not getting punished for it, then we are all on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
More wrestling match than football as Manchester United and Everton players indulge in some dark arts from a corner. Photograph: Simon Stacpoole\/Offside\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ironically, Moyes felt Everton\u2019s approach in the closing stages against United worked against his team. He wanted more variety from Everton\u2019s corners but claimed: \u201cIt was very difficult to get the message on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moyes admitted: \u201cThe plan was not to deliver the corners in the fashion we did the other night. They shouldn\u2019t have been delivered as close to the goalkeeper. They should have been delivered into different areas at different times according to what we had worked on. It became a bit of a wrestling match and I didn\u2019t think it showed enough quality or enough thought.\u201d Andy Hunter<\/p>\n
4. Glasner wary of United\u2019s Carrick bounce<\/p>\n
Oliver Glasner credits Michael Carrick for imbuing Manchester United with a \u201cgreat spirit\u201d and \u201cclear structure\u201d since his appointment last month. No team has picked up more Premier League points in 2026 than United, with Carrick winning five of his six games in charge since replacing Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n
Palace have been a thorn in United\u2019s side in recent years, winning three of their five last encounters, but Glasner expects Carrick\u2019s side to be in fine form on Sunday when the Eagles head to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
The Crystal Palace manager, Oliver Glasner, steered his team into the last 16 of the Uefa Conference league on Thursday. Photograph: Adam Davy\/PA<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, when Man United plays at home against Crystal Palace, everybody there is expecting now a win,\u201d said Glasner. \u201cThey are a very good team now. They gave a very good balance between, it\u2019s a very experienced team, with really, very experienced Premier League players, and very young players with huge talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good mix they have now, but I think the most important thing for them is they are consistently playing with their team and have a clear structure in the way they are playing. This is what I could see against Everton. They have a great spirit right now. It was really impressive seeing Matheus Cunha celebrating winning a duel in their own box. This, I think, is what Michael Carrick brought into this team.\u201d PA Media<\/p>\n
5. Andrews hopes sceptical fans won over<\/p>\n
Keith Andrews admits he understood the \u201cscepticism\u201d surrounding his summer appointment but says he loves being at Brentford after a good start to life as head coach. Earlier this week, Andrews signed a new six-year deal at the Gtech Community Stadium having guided Brentford to seventh with 11 games to go.<\/p>\n
Brentford was Andrews\u2019s first job as head coach and he admits he knew he had to earn the fans\u2019 belief. \u201cI love being at this club, I love the challenges that it brings, the level that we are at, and what we need to do to strive and not just survive at this level. It\u2019s right up my street,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily doubt myself, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019ve ever suffered with that. That\u2019s not being overconfident or arrogant. I always try to take a step forward and, when I don\u2019t, I learn from my mistakes.<\/p>\n
Keith Andrews moved from set-piece coach to head coach at Brentford over the summer. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska\/Reuters<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I said I wanted to earn my stripes it was aligned to the fans and my relationship with them, I felt like I needed to earn their belief in me, fundamentally, and scepticism around my appointment in the summer which I understood at the time. I did want to grasp that opportunity with both hands so, hopefully, I\u2019ve done that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brentford travel to Burnley on Saturday where a win could take them closer to a place in Europe next season, and they could have long-throw specialist Michael Kayode back in the side. Andrews added: \u201cMichael is back in training; we\u2019ll see how he is tomorrow. I think he should be in and around it. He just picked up a little knock, and it wasn\u2019t quite right to have him involved last weekend.\u201d PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Title run-in all about \u2018little details\u2019 Pep Guardiola has told his\u00a0Manchester City\u00a0players their pursuit of honours in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-321012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321012","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=321012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}