Monday evening, Everton achieved the feat of winning against Manchester United (1-0), in a match where the Toffees played with 10 men for more than an hour of play because of a lunar expulsion: midfielder Idrissa Gueye received a red card after an argument with his own teammate Michael Keane. After the match, Everton coach David Moyes downplayed the importance of this episode, which according to him reflects the warrior state of mind of his players.
“If nothing had happened, I don’t think anyone in the stadium would have been surprised. I thought the referee could have taken a little more time to think about it. I was told that according to the rules of the game, if you slap your own player you can get in trouble. But there’s another aspect: I like my players to fight among themselves when someone hasn’t done the right thing. If you want that toughness and resilience to get a result, you want someone to respond. I’m disappointed that we got a red card. But we’ve all been footballers, we get angry at our teammates. He apologized for the red card, he congratulated the players and thanked them for it, and apologized for what happened.”declared the Scottish technician at the microphone of Sky Sports. Would the speech have been the same without victory at the end?
