Europa League - Moyes calm after Benfica defeat
Eurosport - Thu, 22 Oct 23:12:00 2009
David Moyes has refused to hit the panic button following Everton's mauling by Benfica in the Europa League.
The Portuguese giants hit five without reply on Thursday, as Benfica put a makeshift Everton side to the sword.
Moyes was forced to shuffle his deck and square pegs clearly did not fit into round holes.
The Scot believes Everton are still well placed to progress and feels it would be folly to overreact.
"I have said to the players that this is a different competition and we have had two wins and a defeat so it's not that bad," said Moyes.
"It wasn't a second string defence, it was playing out of their position. We put out the best we had and the players did as well as they could.
"I only have praise for the players tonight."
Everton face Bolton at the weekend and they may be without Diniyar Bilyaletdinov.
"I'm not sure (if anyone will be back) and we also picked up an injury to Diniyar Bilyaletdinov as well so we will need to assess him," he revealed.
"I would like to play Benfica with my best team because they are a good team."
Related Stories
Sport Latest
-
Live Now
There are currently no live events taking place.
-
Results
Football| Premier League Match Birmingham City 2 - 1 Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers 3 - 1 West Ham United Manchester United 3 - 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers Sunderland 0 - 2 Aston Villa Football| FA Cup Match Stockport County 0 - 4 Torquay United Football| SPL Match Dundee United 0 - 3 Rangers Football| Ligue 1 Match Valenciennes 0 - 0 AJ Auxerre Football| Club World Cup Match Pohang Steelers 1 - 2 Estudiantes (La Plata) -
Coming Up
Dec 16
Football | Premier League Time Match 19:45 Burnley v Arsenal 19:45 Chelsea v Portsmouth 20:00 Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City 20:00 Liverpool v Wigan Athletic Football | Europa League Time Match 18:00 Hertha BSC v Sporting CP 18:00 CSKA Sofia v AS Roma 18:00 Panathinaikos v Dinamo Bucuresti 18:00 sc Heerenveen v FK Ventspils 18:00 FC Basel v Fulham 18:00 Sturm Graz v Galatasaray 20:05 Club Brugge v Toulouse FC 20:05 CFR 1907 Cluj v PSV 20:05 Sparta Praha v FC København 20:05 Athletic Bilbao v Werder Bremen 20:05 Partizan Beograd v Shakhtar Donetsk 20:05 CD Nacional v Austria Wien Football | Ligue 1 Time Match 18:00 Le Mans v Grenoble 18:00 FC Lorient v Olympique Marseille 18:00 Olympique Lyon v Boulogne-sur-Mer 18:00 AS Monaco v Rennes 18:00 Montpellier HSC v Girondins Bordeaux 18:00 AS Nancy v OGC Nice 20:00 Paris Saint-Germain v RC Lens Football | Club World Cup Time Match 16:00 Atlante v FC Barcelona Football | Coppa Italia Time Match 20:00 Internazionale v Livorno
Fantasy Football 2009/2010
Sport Newsletter
Catch up with all the latest news
Sign up to our free daily newsletter to recieve the latest news straight to your inbox. Make sure you don’t miss a thing.
Sign up now
Most Popular Stories
-
Viewed
- Olympics and Olympic Sports - Olympic weightlifter gives birth while training Viewed 40,116 times
- Scorecard: india vs. sri lanka Viewed 36,938 times
- Premier League - Ryan Giggs Sports Personality of the Year award sparks betting probe Viewed 20,267 times
- Boxer found pregnant at weigh-in Viewed 18,586 times
- Premier League - Catalans call up Fabregas Viewed 14,989 times
-
Commented
- Di Grassi gets Virgin drive Commented 228 times
- Olympics and Olympic Sports - Olympic weightlifter gives birth while training Commented 174 times
- Renault set to reveal F1 plans Commented 162 times
- SPL - Celtic linked with Pedersen Commented 150 times
- Premier League - Catalans call up Fabregas Commented 144 times
-
Rated
- Olympics and Olympic Sports - Olympic weightlifter gives birth while training Rated 152 times
- Premier League - Catalans call up Fabregas Rated 121 times
- Ding gives 276 pies to charity Rated 97 times
- Premier League - United brush aside Wolves to go joint top Rated 23 times
- Ferrari 'would let Schumacher go' Rated 20 times
-
Emailed
- Top five highest earners in sport Emailed 10 times
- Premier League - Torres gets Liverpool back on track Emailed 7 times
- Ecclestone slams Brawn amid Button talks Emailed 2 times
- Australia beat India in thriller Emailed 2 times
- Gay undergoes successful surgery Emailed 1 times
This site is Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! and Eurosport. All rights reserved.
- Terms of Service
- Updated Privacy Policy
- Copyright/IP Policy
- Remarks and Suggestions
- Corporate info
- Jobs at Eurosport
Notice: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy.
Comment 1 - 5 of 5
even with your best team, you will still lose against benfica
just compare the players everton will have no chance on the 5th of november
moyes is right in some respect, but its also his fault the squad isn't big enough. 11 first team players out, it's pretty much what we expected.
at least we didn't get beat by having JUST our TWO best players out.
We'll see Fahmi.There will be fireworks on Bonfire night.Boom,boom.
sorry folks but what he suppose to do?if you guys familiar with Benfica's players you should know better that Everton have no chance to beat them even with full 1st eleven.
EXCUSES EXCUSES .
Please login to post a comment
Not already a Yahoo! user ? Sign up to get a free Yahoo! Account