“I think the way we played in the second half, (we) should not be scared of anyone”, said the Dutchman. “We played quite well for 30 minutes, but we didn’t defend well enough”. Yes, of course. Could we have closed it down better? Obviously it’s a different kettle of fish in the top flight but they’ll look to take momentum from their opening day performance.
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Brad Guzan makes a save from Patrick van Aarnholt during Middlesbrough’s match with Sunderland.
“It’s a massive three points for us”. So I don’t know.
“We might have got something out of it second half, we did get a goal back and maybe nobody would have complained had it ended 2-2, but we were very much patched together and we ran out of steam”.
Middlesbrough proved they are ready to compete in the Premier League with their 2-1 victory over Sunderland, according to head coach Aitor Karanka. Moyes says that the switch act the back unsettled his side. “We were patched up for a long period of the game”. We needed halftime after about 35 minutes to regroup. We didn’t really have a central midfield player left after that, and we didn’t have a centre-half either.
“The only thing I thought was disappointing was that our intensity was terrific but we couldn’t keep it up in the last 10 minutes”.
Watford v Chelsea- Saturday- 3:00PM- Watford 1-3 Chelsea- After beating West Ham late on last Monday, Chelsea showed spells of great football with Eden Hazard showing his form of the 14/15 season throughout parts of the game.
“We were clinical when we got the chance and we saw it out in the second half. It wasn’t an easy game for us given the nature of our team”.
Moyes has already made a number of signings to his squad, including bringing in Adnan Januzaj on loan from former club Manchester United.
Moyes opted to stick with the 4-2-3-1 system that saw Sunderland nearly steal a draw at the Etihad Stadium last week, with a few changes of personnel in order thanks to injury problems, in addition to the sale of Younes Kaboul to Watford. We get it, but we’re not posting the testicle here.
Moyes expects the young players in his squad to improve as they gather Premier League experience, but concedes the Black Cats’ survival chances will nearly certainly be determined by the quality of their signings before the transfer window swings shut.
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“I think it will be, I don’t think you can hide the facts, that will be the case”. But when we really needed it again to go in the last five or ten minutes, we had just used up all our gas.
