We’ve got players playing out of position. Eric has come on at half-time and the last time he played would have been weeks ago, but at the same time I think a lot of their chances came from balls into the box and being very aggressive which they’re good at. Sometimes you’ve just got to defend and we did. Vic was outstanding today with a couple of brilliant saves. He’s been brilliant from day one for us, and we haven’t always needed him like we did today. Other times it’s probably one or two saves a game, if that, but he’s been important in our build-up and in our organisation. But today we needed his goalkeeping. It wasn’t just the saves he makes. They’re so strong from corners and put so much pressure on the goalkeeper, and I thought he stood up really well
Obviously the result is very pleasing against a very difficult opponent today in Everton, who have been the form team of the competition for the past few weeks. You can see why today, they worked hard and we kind of got on top of them in the first half, apart from our goals our football was good. We looked really threatening and then after we got 2-0 ahead we just eased back a little bit and I thought that allowed them to get back into the game.
We just took a bit more time on the ball and some of it was because of them. They kept working hard and in the second half it became something of a transitional game. We had to show some resilience and some strong defending in the box and a couple of outstanding saves from Vic, who was brilliant again today. It had a little bit of everything. A different type of performance from us. I guess the pleasing thing for us is that we got the three points.