Everton's lack of bravery cost them in derby as David Moyes must learn from Arne Slot

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If Everton had a real go at Liverpool, tried to push them and got beat, then we’d probably accept it a bit more.While we did that early on, towards the end if felt like we were thinking: “Let’s just get in with a draw, we’ll be fine with that.”Can David Moyes learn a lesson here? Liverpool took the gamble in going: “Let’s be brave and get up the pitch as quickly as we can.”We need to learn, while we soak up pressure and we’re really good at being compact, you don’t want to be doing it two or three times when you could just do it once and receive the ball back.

If Everton did that, it would help our midfielders like James Garner, Idrissa Gueye and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to get closer to their opponents to make it tighter and more difficult for them.When we’re sitting deep, Liverpool’s midfield could do anything they wanted. If we want to be playing in Europe and challenging in the next few years, that’s what happens when you make mistakes against top teams and unfortunately, we weren’t punishing Liverpool when they made mistakes.After that, we just needed to get in for half-time.

Liverpool started to get a little bit of rhythm while we were dropping deep and giving them a lot of space.Having reset at the break, we started asking questions again and I felt we could overrun them as they wouldn’t be up to the battle if Everton could get the next goal. The equaliser in the last home derby from James Tarkowski came from getting the ball into the box and popping the question but we didn’t do that in the latter stages.Unfortunately, the corner that brought Liverpool’s winning goal came from space in the midfield because we were leggy.