Moyes Bela Manchester United Meski Kalah
Moyes Defends Performance After Defeat
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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London (B2B) - David Moyes mengaku Manchester United tampil bagus meski ia tidak bisa memahami mengapa timnya kalah 0-2 atas Everton dalam lanjutan Liga Utama Inggris (Premier League) pekan ke-35, Minggu.
Moyes menderita kekalahan kedua musim ini atas mantan klub asuhannya, Everton. Kekalahan ini berarti secara matematis United mustahil lolos ke Liga Champions musim depan.
Sepanjang laga, United hanya mampu melepaskan dua tembakan sesuai target namun Moyes bersikeras timnya hanya sedang sial.
Moyes mengatakan pada konferensi pers usai laga dilansir dari ESPN, Minggu (20/4), "Kami bermain sangat baik di babak pertama. Untuk kalah 0-2 tidak seperti apa yang saya harapkan. Kami tampil baik, kami mengendalikan permainan dengan baik, kami mampu melakukan penguasaan bola," kata pelatih asal Skotlandia ini.
"Kami telah mengumpan bola sangat baik, meneruskan bola tapi kami tidak memiliki umpan matang, tapi saya tidak berpikir kami pantas kalah 0-2 di babak pertama," ujar Moyes membela timnya.
Leighton Baines mencetak gol penalti setelah Phil Jones menyentuh bola sontekkan Romelu Lukaku kemudian Kevin Mirallas mencetak gol kedua Everton.
"Saya rasa ada dua sebab kami kebobolan begitu rapuh. Gol pertama (bermula) dari tendangan keras Ross Barkley di atas lapangan, menungkik ke bawah, kami mengakui gol seperti itu sangat mengerikan. Yang kedua melalui skema yang lebih baik tapi kami harus bertahan jauh lebih baik daripada yang kami lakukan," katanya.
Di sisi lain, pelatih Everton Roberto Martinez justru membiarkan Manchester United mengusai bola dan menerapkan serangan balik untuk mengancam United.
"Itu laga di mana kami sangat senang membiarkan mereka menguasai bola. Kami bersabar. Secara psikologis itu sulit karena pertama kalinya musim ini kami memberikan bola kepada lawan," kata Martinez
"Saya pikir kami punya serangan balik yang menghancurkan. Kami penuh energi dan dinamis," katanya.
Dalam sejarah klub, Everton kini mengoleksi poin tertinggi di Liga Utama Inggris dengan 69 poin dan berhasil mengalahkan United dua kali dalam semusim di liga untuk pertama kalinya sejak 1969-70.
"Itu hal yang besar," tambah Martinez. "Kami tahu bahwa sejak tahun 1969 kami tidak pernah menang ganda atas United dan saya pikir itu bagaikan memenangkan liga. Ini memberitahu kalian bahwa pemain kami siap untuk mengembangkan sesuatu yang istimewa."
Martinez juga memuji David Moyes karena sudah meletakkan pondasi yang kuat di Goodison Park. Tapi dia menekankan telah membuat perbedaan dengan mempromosikan pemain muda seperti Ross Barkley dan John Stones.
Martines berujar, "Saya adalah orang yang sangat beruntung ada di sebuah klub sepakbola yang segala sesuatunya hasil karya yang David lakukan lebih dari 11 tahun. Sebelumnya saya masuk ke klub yang tampak seperti bom. Saya ingin mengubah banyak hal tapi saya tidak ingin kehilangan apa-apa," katanya.
"Kami membawa 10 pemain yang merupakan jumlah besar kemudian kami memberikan peran besar bagi para pemain muda. Kami membutuhkan kualitas yang tidak diketahui dari para pemain muda untuk melihat seberapa jauh kami bisa menekan tim tapi David Moyes yang meletakkan pondasi," kata Martinez, juru taktik Everton.
London - David Moyes claimed Manchester United performed well in their 2-0 defeat at Everton and insisted he could not understand how his side lost the first half by two goals.
The former Everton manager suffered a second defeat of the season to his old club to mean it is mathematically impossible for United to qualify for the Champions League.
But while his side only had two shots on target at Goodison Park, Moyes insisted they were unfortunate.
"We played very well in the first half," he said in a news conference. "To go in 2-0 down wasn´t what I expected. We had good play, we had good control of the game, we had the bulk of the ball."
"We had passed the ball really well, kept the ball but we didn´t have the final pass, the killer through-ball or the little bit that was needed in the final third but I didn´t think we deserved to go in 2-0 down at half time, that´s for sure."
Leighton Baines scored a penalty after Phil Jones handled Romelu Lukaku´s shot before Kevin Mirallas added a second goal.
And Moyes accepted: "I thought the two we conceded today were rank, rotten. The [first] goal was a big kick up the pitch from Ross Barkley, nodded down and picked up, for us to concede a goal like that was terrible. The second was a better move but we should have defended it much better than we did."
Roberto Martinez claimed Everton were happy to let United have the ball and for his own side to operate on the counter attack, and felt United rarely threatened Tim Howard´s goal.
"It was that sort of game where we were happy for them to have the ball," he said in his news conference. "We had to be patient. Psychologically it was a tough performance because it was the first time this season we gave the ball to the opposition.
"We could have kept that better at times but it would be stupid to try and criticise a pristine performance to keep a clean sheet. I thought we were devastating on the counter attack. We were full of energy and dynamic."
Everton have already recorded their highest-ever Premier League points tally of 69 and have beaten United home and away in the league for the first time since 1969-70.
"That is a big thing," Martinez added. "We knew that since 1969 we never done the double over United and I think that is when we won the league. It tells you this group of players is ready to develop something special."
Martinez praised his predecessor Moyes for laying the foundations for his work at Goodison Park. But he stressed he has made a difference by promoting untried players after Ross Barkley and John Stones excelled in the victory over United.
He said: "I was a very fortunate man to walk into a football club that everything was in place from the work David did over 11 years. Previously I went into clubs that looked like a bomb. I wanted to change many things but I didn´t want to lose anything.
"We brought in 10 players which is a massive amount and then we gave a big role for the young players. We needed that unknown quality from the younger players to see how far we could push the group but David Moyes laid the platform."
