We started the derby at the wrong tempo

THE FORMER EVERTON DEFENDER TACKLES THE BIG GOODISON ISSUES

- MICHAEL BALL

Idrissa Gueye tackles Hugo Ekitike

I SPOKE with other Evertonians after the Merseyside Derby and they said: “It’s the same old... what do you expect?” I told them: "I expect something different!”

It is a mental block.

It’s a different manager, different players, even different owners, but the same outcome. It's got to be down to confidence and belief.

Even if you're up against a quality opponent, you've got to make it difficult for them, you can't give the other team so much time and space, but that’s what we were guilty of.

Given Beto's history of causing Virgil van Dijk problems and Vitalii Mykolenko coming back in, you couldn't argue with the starting lineup that David Moyes picked.