DAVID MOYES hopes that familiarity will breed more goals for Louis Saha following his match-winning double at West Ham.

The 30-year-old has hit three goals in two games after an initially sluggish start to his Everton career as he struggled to regain full fitness following his long-term injury problems.

The Everton manager acknowledges that, after four years in the all-conquering Manchester United side, Saha is unfamiliar with the gruelling work ethic instilled into his new Everton team-mates.

But he also feels that he is doing well in his attempts to play catch- up and his current run of form is proof of his gradual improvement since joining from Old Trafford in a cut-price deal towards the end of the summer transfer window.

“We are still getting to know Louis Saha,” admitted Moyes. “At times some of the things he does are strange, but we are getting to know him and he is getting to know us. But if he keeps playing like that he will find himself scoring plenty of goals.

“He has got ability on the ball if you get it to him. But maybe at Everton we require a bit more work than he may have needed at Manchester United; because they have the ball more often.

“It’s early days but he has got great ability and hopefully those goals will give him real confidence. It was his cross for the first goal, the second one he got on the end of a pull- back and then he rifled one in from 20 or 25 yards.”

Saha is also providing his manager with a welcome selection dilemma for when Yakubu returns from the heel injury that ruled him out at Upton Park.

And Moyes is drawing comparisons with Yakubu’s slow start in his first couple of months at the club before he hit his stride at around the same time last year.

Moyes added: “Louis would tell you just now that he doesn’t think he is playing as well as he can. But goals get goalscorers going and then the performances come from that. We are getting more used to him.

“It was a bit like Yakubu last year. He wasn’t involved but then he got amongst the goals and has become really important for us.

” I hope Louis doesn’t think he is going to play every week – but he will be thinking that he has got more chance of being a regular and maybe at the age he is it is regular playing time that he requires.”

Moyes expressed some sympathy for opposite number Gianfranco Zola, whose side have suffered five defeats in their last six games.