DAVID MOYES has set his Everton players a target for the rest of the season – overhaul Liverpool and give themselves a chance of a return to Europe.

The Goodison outfit can cut the gap on their sixth-placed neighbours to three points if they defeat Birmingham City at home in tonight’s rearranged Premier League encounter.

Victory would give Moyes’s men their first hat-trick of top-flight triumphs in more than a year.

Although Birmingham’s surprise Carling Cup triumph over Arsenal last month has taken one of England’s three automatic Europa League qualification places, sixth place would suffice provided either Birmingham, Arsenal, Manchester United or Manchester City win the FA Cup.

And a bullish Moyes, whose team have finished inside the top six in four of the last six seasons, said: “I am going to try and do it. I don’t know if it is realistic or not but we are going to try and make a run for as high up as we can.

“We want to try and stay away from the bottom end and if we can, get another win or two and then we will make sure we can’t get pulled back into that, but we have work to do.

“We have won three out of our last four Premier League games so we are doing okay.”

Four of Everton’s next five games are at home, with six of the final 10 fixtures at Goodison.

Having lost just three of their last 25 league games on their own turf, Moyes admits that advantage could prove crucial during the run-in to what has been a difficult campaign.