Everton drew 2-2 with Manchester United at home. After the match, Everton manager David Moyes gave an official club interview, discussing topics such as the team's fighting spirit, Tyrique George's performance, and Ainsley Maitland-Niles' debut goal.

David, this team has always shown this kind of spirit since you've been managing Everton. You showed it again today.

Moyes: We certainly need to show that spirit because we fell behind twice in this match, and I don't think we should have been in that position. The whole match was actually very tight.

We didn't start the second half as we wanted. We've discussed that and tried to ensure we do better in those aspects. At half-time, we made only minor adjustments to our formation and positioning for the second half, but the game quickly turned against us. However, we still managed to equalize to 1-1, which I thought we deserved. At that point, it looked like we had the chance to go ahead, but then we fell behind again.

So, credit to these players—they kept fighting and eventually equalized again.

Tyrique George scored his first Premier League goal for Everton, continuing his excellent start to the season. How pleased are you with his performance?

Moyes: I'm very pleased with Tyrique's performance. I thought he caused problems for the opposition on the left wing throughout the match. Before their player received a yellow card in the first half, there should have already been a yellow card decision.

I think everyone needs to understand that we won't ask Tyrique to do too much in such a short space of time. Because he's a very young winger with huge potential, his performances will inevitably fluctuate. Sometimes he might not get much playing time, but today I thought he did well. Every time he got the ball today, I felt he could cause problems for the opposition and looked like he could do something at any moment.

When he was in a position to shoot, we wanted the finish to be better, and he has that ability. Today his shot was executed very well, and he finished it into the net.

So I'm very pleased. This goal will give him confidence, and hopefully, as he gets more playing time, these matches will also help him continue to develop.

Maitland-Niles has played at Goodison Park before, but coming to Everton today for his debut must be very special, right? I mean, that finish was absolutely brilliant.

Moyes: If you want to introduce yourself to a new club in a certain way, it would be hard to find a better way, wouldn't it? We actually made a late change to our substitution. We originally planned to let James Garner continue at right-back for about 10 more minutes to see how it went. This was also because we wanted to help James recover and hoped he could get sufficient playing time.

But he got cramp quickly, so we had to bring on Ainsley. We still know him, but we haven't worked with him much. He's barely trained with us, including defensive drills, and we still need to work on those aspects. Perhaps we could have defended better for the second goal we conceded.

So I hope to have the chance to train with him, to see his specific responsibilities in this position, and also to help him understand what we want him to do at right-back, and then see whether he can do these things according to our requirements.

This has happened several times since you returned to the club. Last week you equalized in extra time, and this week you equalized in stoppage time again. You were also asked at the pre-match press conference that the teams you manage always have this fighting spirit. So, looking at the upcoming matches, how important is this spirit? And securing these points today also extends the team's unbeaten run since the start of the new season.

Yes, I think these points are very important. As you said, it allows us to continue our current momentum—we're currently on two wins and two draws. Of course, I actually wanted to win today.

When the score became 1-1, what was in my mind was: "No, we're going to make it 2-1 now." So I'm perhaps a little disappointed now because we then fell behind 1-2, which was disappointing.

And honestly, at that point it seemed very difficult for us to equalize again. But the players kept fighting and showed very strong fighting spirit. I never doubted their spirit for a moment. The substitutes also played a role. Hayden Hackney was very helpful after coming on. We also had to adjust our right-back position, letting Maitland-Niles make his debut, and he scored a fantastic goal for us.

What does it mean to you to send the Everton fans home happy? Because you've made it very clear, and everyone knows what this club means to you and what Everton fans mean to you. What does it mean to you to give them this result today?

Look, I want to give them three points. I was hoping we could win the match and then celebrate together with them. A draw at home is acceptable, of course, but I want to win. No, I was hoping to eventually get three points, and I hope to continue building this momentum.

Because we have some very difficult matches coming up. We also know that whenever there's a chance to win a match, we have to try to take it, because with the number of players we have available right now, the upcoming matches will be very tough.

But we need to take more chances and also need to do better. In the first half, we had some opportunities but didn't finish them. If we'd handled them better, we might have scored or at least created better goalscoring chances. Merlin sent a very good cross to Tierney.

So we did create some opportunities. We need to find a way to improve our finishing, because we can't keep failing to score like this. When you need to chase the game, you have to push your formation forward. We pushed forward to equalize, and then conceded the second goal.

When we fell behind 1-2, we had to push harder to attack. Manchester United therefore got some chances on the counter-attack and could have scored again. But in the end, we managed it and scored in the final moments. So hopefully, we can do better defensively and also improve our attacking play.

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