DAVID MOYES admits Everton FC are being hampered by their lack of creativity after slipping to defeat against Stoke City yesterday.

Robert Huth’s 15th-minute goal was enough to consign Everton FC to their fourth defeat in seven home Premier League games this season.

It brought Everton FC’s mini-revival of two successive wins to a shuddering halt and ensured Stoke’s first win at Goodison since April, 1981.

With Louis Saha absent through injury, Moyes’s EFC men failed to produce a single shot on target against a Potters team that had conceded 15 goals in their previous five league games.

And Moyes said: “Their keeper hasn’t had a save to make and goals win games and they got one and we didn’t.

“We had a massive amount of the ball and positions to create chances and score goals but didn’t get anything on target or put good balls in.

“We were in good positions to create opportunities and we didn’t do that. You need goalscorers and creators of goals.

“We didn’t create but that’s credit to Stoke. Over the years they’ve been good at not conceding chances and goals.

“That’s not been the case in recent weeks but they normally don’t concede much, they’re hard to break down and they proved to be that here. It’s always tough.”