Mark Lawrenson: Everton FC need to believe they are winners again

Nov 24 2009 Liverpool Daily Post

MOST teams can come away from Old Trafford and accept they were well beaten – but under David Moyes, that has never been good enough for Everton.

I watched Saturday’s game for the Match Of The Day broadcast, after which Moyes was honest enough to admit that he can use excuses about players missing, but it’s his job to put out a team that can win games.

And those players need ot get into that mindset quickly – starting at Hull tomorrow night.

The thing that worried me most about the defeat at United was that Everton looked as though they were waiting to be beaten.

It was nothing to do with the way they set up. Moyes hasn’t really got the resources to go at United with two strikers, the way Sunderland did so successfully.

And there’s nothing wrong with the one up front system anyway. In fact, when Everton went on their great run last season, they did it without any strikers a all.

And it’s not that the commitment wasn’t there. They juts played a little bit lie a team that didn’t have the belief that they would get anything.

That’s something you rarely see, even when going to a place where they never win.

Marouane Fellaini and Tim Cahill barely got over the halfway line as they were chasing United around the midfield, which is where they won the game from.

As it turned out, it was all too routine a victory and that’s unusual for any team against a side that David Moyes put out.