Moyes masters defensive art (0)
- 25 Jan 09, 07:03 PM
Everton's resurgence in reduced circumstances has gone almost unnoticed amid the switches of fortune in the title race and the managerial spats across - but two displays at Liverpool sum up the renaissance fashioned by manager David Moyes.
Moyes took Everton to Anfield for a Premier League game on Monday stripped of virtually all of his attacking resources and without suspended آ£15m midfield man Marouane Fellaini.
Everton earned a courtesy of Tim Cahill's late header, and returned for still without Fellaini but further depleted by the loss of influential midfield orchestrator Mikel Arteta.
No-one would suggest Everton did anything other than mount a rearguard action to earn a replay at Goodison Park, but equally no-one should diminish the standard of their defensive excellence.
For a team with no strikers, Everton have found a way of - for now at least - .
