Everton Reaction: Win lifts Latics to fifteenth

Last updated : 26 November 2008 By Paul Farrington
Here is the reaction from both camps.

Steve Bruce

I always knew he [Henri Camara] made himself a bit of a cult-hero here a few years ago. He was very unlucky that I left him out after his performance last weekend because he played excellently well up at Newcastle.

All credit to him though, he's been patient, stuck at it and got his reward tonight.

We're delighted we've got the points for obvious reasons. It's arguably been one of our poorest performances if I'm being brutally honest, but it's all about the result.

There was an edginess and a nervousness about us in the first-half and it was good to get over that.

The one bit of quality was in the goal. It was a great ball by Brown and a marvellous bit of skill by Antonio to set up Henri, so I was very pleased with that.

Paul Scharner

Getting another three points on Saturday must be our target. We showed what we were capable of in the second half against Everton and I'm confident we can get the win on Saturday.

Tim Howard

When you lose a game, maybe it's easier to sit down and assess it. We've now got to lick our wounds and get back up - starting at Tottenham. Even during our little five-game run, we knew things needed to improve.

It was a bad night all around. We expected big things and wanted to keep our run going but it didn't happen. We have got to do a lot better.

We wanted to be hard to beat and we looked fairly comfortable. We had a great chance with Louis [Saha] early on, but in the second half we fell apart.

We didn't really look like ourselves. We weren't composed and it's difficult to put a finger on why it happened, as I thought we played pretty well in the first half.

All of a sudden we were under pressure and ran out of ideas, which was very disappointing.

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