Everton FC News: We’re too good to be in this position says Everton FC’s Tim Cahill

Dec 1 2009 by Ian Doyle, Liverpool Daily Post

We’re too good to be in this position says Everton FC’s Tim Cahill

Everton FC News: TIM CAHILL believes Everton are too good to be relegated despite admitting they are in “a lot of trouble” in the Premier League.

The Goodison outfit stand just three points and two places above the drop after taking a miserly six points from their last eight Premier League matches.

Liverpool were the latest team to profit from their woes by snatching a scarcely-deserved 2-0 win in Sunday’s Merseyside derby at Goodison.

But Cahill believes David Moyes’s side can take heart from their performance despite admitting life is not going to get any easier in the coming weeks.

“I think that's the best we've played in a while,” said the Australian. “Our passing was good, we made lots of space with our movement and had two disallowed goals.

“We were strong from corners too. It's hard to take but at this stage it's not going to get any easier.

“We're in a lot of trouble – the only way we can get out of it is by playing and working our way out of it. We're too good to be in this position.”

Everton have won only one of their last 11 matches in all competitions – a fortuitous 2-1 triumph at West Ham United last month - and have netted just nine goals during that period.

Cahill accepts the team are having trouble scoring goals, not helped by continued fitness concerns over Yakubu and Louis Saha that prevented either from starting on Sunday.

But the 29-year-old believes the improved performance against Liverpool, which came four days after a demoralising 3-2 defeat at fellow strugglers Hull City when Everton were 3-0 down at half-time, was a major positive.

“It's just one of those things and nothing's going to fix it except our mental attitude as individuals and a team,” he said.

“I'm a lot more positive though - we played better football and had a much better attitude.

“We couldn't hit a barn door at the minute but I'm much happier with our approach.

“It's the overall attitude and mental toughness that counts. The attitude against Hull wasn't good enough but against Liverpool it was a lot better and we will keep fighting.”

The problems with Yakubu and Saha persuaded Moyes to start with on-loan Brazilian Jo as the lone striker.

And Moyes defended the decision to continue with just one up front until late on, when he sent on Yakubu to partner fellow substitute Saha.

“I thought we were worse in the last 10 minutes when we went to two up front,” said the manager.

“People talk about systems and styles but I thought it was more to do with the energy and commitment.

“The last 10 minutes we really didn't show a great deal.”