{"id":152012,"date":"2025-11-25T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152012\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:11:07","slug":"i-like-my-players-fighting-david-moyes-defends-idrissa-gueye-after-everton-bust-up-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I like my players fighting\u2019: David Moyes defends Idrissa Gueye after Everton bust-up | Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Moyes said he likes his \u00adplayers \u201cfighting each other\u201d after Idrissa Gueye was sent off in the 13th minute for slapping his teammate Michael Keane in Everton\u2019s 1-0 win over Manchester United<\/a> at Old Trafford on Monday.<\/p>\n

The victory was a first at Old Trafford in the Premier League for the visitors since 2013. After Gueye\u2019s red card, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall\u2019s 29th-minute strike proved the winner as United lost for a first time in the competition at home after an opponent was reduced to 10 men.<\/p>\n

Gueye\u2019s marching orders came after he approached Keane, was pushed away, and then slapped the defender on the cheek, causing the referee, Tony Harrington, to send him off for violent conduct. Gueye later apologised to his teammates.<\/p>\n

Moyes said: \u201cI like my players fighting each other, if someone didn\u2019t do the right action. If you want that toughness and resilience to get a result, you want someone to act on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf nothing happened [no red card], I don\u2019t think anyone in the stadium would have been surprised. I thought the referee could have taken a bit longer to think about it. I was told that [by] the rules of the game that if you slap your own player, you could be in trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m disappointed we got the sending off. But we\u2019ve all been footballers, we get angry with our teammates. He\u2019s apologised for the sending off, he\u2019s praised the players and thanked them for it and apologised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defeat ended United\u2019s five-game unbeaten run. Ruben Amorim<\/a> \u00adechoed Moyes\u2019s sentiment. The head coach said: \u201cFighting is not a bad thing. Fighting doesn\u2019t mean that they don\u2019t like each other. Fighting is that you lose the ball [so] I will fight you because we will suffer a goal. That was how I felt when I watched. And I don\u2019t agree with the sending off.\u201d<\/p>\n

United remain on 18 points, two behind Crystal Palace in fifth place, which may again be enough to seal a Champions League place.<\/p>\n

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Amorim said: \u201cI know at which point we are at the moment. I have that feeling during this [unbeaten] run. I always talk about that \u2013 we are not there, not even near the point that we should be to fight for the best positions in the league. We have a lot to do and we need to be perfect to win games. We were not perfect today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matheus Cunha\u2019s head injury ruled him out of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Moyes said he likes his \u00adplayers \u201cfighting each other\u201d after Idrissa Gueye was sent off in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-152012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}