Everton Home Form Under Pressure As Moyes Laments Defeat To Manchester United

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Everton’s search for a first home league win in 2025 continued as David Moyes watched a 1-0 loss to Manchester United at Hill Dickinson Stadium and warned that results must improve on Merseyside if the club are to meet their targets for the season.

Despite the defeat, Everton shaded several statistics against Michael Carrick’s in-form visitors, recording more shots overall and on target, and forcing a series of corners, yet the outcome extended a poor recent home run and highlighted a growing contrast between strong away form and fragile performances in front of home supporters.

The reverse was Everton’s sixth Premier League home defeat of the current campaign at Hill Dickinson Stadium, already one more than during the final season at Goodison Park in 2024-25, when Moyes’ side lost five league matches there, underlining how home form has dipped since the move.

Everton have now gone six home league games without a victory since a 3-0 success over Nottingham Forest on 6 December, collecting only two draws and suffering four defeats in that spell, while 21 of the club’s 37 total Premier League points have come away from home, a figure bettered on the road by only three teams.

Across the ninety minutes against Manchester United, Everton delivered what Moyes viewed as a largely controlled display, limiting clear chances against Senne Lammens while still managing 12 attempts at goal to United’s 11, with four efforts on target to the visitors’ three, and sending 10 corners into the penalty area without gaining a breakthrough.

Moyes acknowledged that the 71st-minute winner came from a rare lapse, as Everton pushed bodies forward and left space behind, but stressed that many aspects of the performance were positive, even if they did not bring any points and left United celebrating instead of the Merseyside club.

Everton counter-attack goal analysis and Moyes reaction

The decisive counter-attack began near the edge of Manchester United’s box when Matheus Cunha released Bryan Mbeumo with a precise forward pass, leaving Michael Keane isolated as Mbeumo advanced before rolling the ball across goal for Benjamin Sesko, who arrived unmarked and finished first time past the Everton defence and goalkeeper.

Moyes reviewed that move closely and said Everton’s shape had broken down, with a midfielder crossing inside the opposition area and the left-back also committed forward, leaving the team short-handed out of possession against a United side already known for quick transitions and dangerous forward runners.

Speaking to Sky Sports, Moyes said: "I'm not happy with the scoreline. We have to win games if we're going to move on. We've not been doing that quite as much as we'd like to, especially at home. But, performance-wise, we have lost narrowly to Manchester United. We narrowly beat them at Old Trafford earlier in the season. We were the ones celebrating then, and now it's them. I think we did well in lots of ways. We got done on the counter-attack, I thought we put in great effort to try and get the goal, but we just lacked the quality to get it. I've had a look at it. We had a midfielder crossing the ball into the box. We had a left-back in there. We just weren't organised off the ball," Moyes said of United's goal. "I have to praise them for their quick attack, but we've seen them do it recently. They've been doing it really well. They've got forward players who have that ability to run away and make chances. Most of the game we controlled it pretty well, but in that moment, we switched off and gave them that opportunity."