This Everton fightback was vintage David Moyes.<\/p>\n
They may have shown more pragmatism than their travelling supporters would have preferred in London, but it was a savvy approach against a Brentford side that posed a serious threat on the counter-attack.<\/p>\n
Moyes’ players rolled up their sleeves and demonstrated the resilience and opportunism required to keep their European hopes alive. <\/p>\n
The stakes were high in what felt like a genuine six-pointer, and defeat would have been a setback.<\/p>\n
Instead, they remain firmly in the mix, with confidence intact heading into next Sunday’s pivotal Merseyside derby.<\/p>\n
Dewsbury-Hall embodied that spirit, continuing his emergence as a key figure under Moyes. <\/p>\n
The 27-year-old’s late equaliser took him to 10 direct goal involvements this season – seven goals and three assists.<\/p>\n
That is two more than his previous three campaigns in the competition combined, when he registered three goals and five assists in 72 appearances.<\/p>\n
There are still areas for concern, however. <\/p>\n
Pickford needs to rediscover his composure. Since joining Everton in 2017, only Jose Sa has conceded more Premier League penalties than Pickford’s six.<\/p>\n
The immediate reaction of Branthwaite, who berated his goalkeeper following the foul on Schade, spoke volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Everton fightback was vintage David Moyes. They may have shown more pragmatism than their travelling supporters would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-579202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}