BBCMon, November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM UTC·2 min readEverton boss David Moyes has been speaking to BBC Sport about the win: "I've tried coming here with 11 men and not got over the line. It was an important one for us. We brought brilliant support here. For 80 minutes, we were on the backfoot. We did some really good stuff in the opening part of the game. We were nice and fluid. To get over the line took a big job."
On Idrissa Gueye's red card: "I couldn't understand it. I don't think anyone could've expected it. Anthony Taylor told me by the letter of the law if you raise your arm you can be sent off. I don't think anyone else in the stadium would have thought anything of it.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"I quite like it when my players fight with each other because it shows they care and [put the] demands on each other. I'm disappointed he got sent off. He has apologised, praised the team and is grateful for the result. We move on. It was a brilliant goal, a great finish.
"That's what Jordan [Pickford] is. He is as good a goalkeeper as anybody. His saves are incredible. We were going to need him with 11 men never mind 10 men."
On being above Liverpool: "I hadn't thought of that for one moment. It's not something we have done very often."
Everton goalscorer Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall also spoke to Sky Sports after the match: "It was a rollercoaster game. I will sleep well, put it that way. I'm so genuinely happy for the lads considering how hard they all worked. It was a fantastic performance where we just gritted away, got a goal and showed that spirit. I'm so thankful we got all three points."
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementOn what happened between his team-mates Michael Keane and Idrissa Gueye: "It was just a moment of madness. It was obviously avoidable. All I can say is Idrissa apologised to us all at half-time and said his piece. That's all he can do and we move on from it."
On his goal: "I found myself in a little pocket, Jimmy [James Garner] found me and I thought to myself that I was going to swing it on my right. I can't say I've done that many times on my right foot. I didn't even know I had that in my locker, but I'll take it."
Did you know?
This is the first time Everton have won a Premier League game after having a player sent off in the first half since August 2006 against Tottenham.
Idrissa Gueye was the first player to be sent off in the Premier League for fighting with a team-mate since Ricardo Fuller with Andy Griffin for Stoke City on 28 December 2008 (vs West Ham United).
