“Now that I’ve seen it, it’s probably seen as an offside goal”

Everton head coach David Moyes agrees with VAR and referee Craig Pawson’s decision to rule out Jake O’Brien’s equaliser in his side’s 3-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur at home.

O’Brien had the ball in the back of the net from a corner-kick to cancel out Micky Van de Ven’s opener just six minutes later, but his equaliser was ruled out by VAR after Jack Grealish and Iliman Ndiaye were deemed offside for straying beyond the line of the goalkeeper during the move.

Moyes, while initially disappointed with the referee’s decision, came to agree with it in the aftermath of the contest.

“Well, at the time, I was disappointed because it looked like a good enough header and a good goal but I think, looking at it now, now I’ve seen it after the game, I think Ili is behind the goalkeeper and I think it’s probably seen as an offside goal, just because he’s behind the goalkeeper,” said Moyes.

Moyes and his coaching staff will also be perplexed by the way the Blues’ centre-backs and goalkeeper Jordan Pickford allowed Van de Ven to score twice from corner-kicks. It was the first time that the Toffees’ defence was breached from a set-piece this season, and Van de Ven’s double, followed by a late Pape Matar Sarr goal, brought an end to Everton’s unbeaten run at their new waterfront home.

“I don’t think that we deserved to lose 3-0 but if you don’t defend set pieces well enough, then you’re always liable to lose the game. It’s not something that’s been a big problem with us but it was today, whether that was because of the quality Spurs had or whether it was down to how poor we were defending it, then that could be argued.”

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