DAVID MOYES hailed Everton’s team spirit after the Blues pulled back a two-goal deficit against Aston Villa on Saturday.

Villa led 3-1 at Goodison after a Christian Benteke brace and a goal from Gabriel Agbonlahor had cancelled out Victor Anichebe’s strike.

But a Marouane Fellaini double – the equaliser coming in the third minute of injury time – rescued a point.

And Moyes said: “We need that spirit, but we also need the quality and we need to do the job.

“I thought we, apart from the first five minutes, controlled most of the game. We got back into the game deservedly but then we gave them a goal straight after it and we thought ‘here we go again’.

“We found ourselves having to chase nearly the whole game and it was only really in the last few minutes that we got back level and we nearly got a goal in that period.

“I thought we played well apart from the opening five minutes or so.

“We didn’t defend well, but we played well throughout and when we were behind the players kept going trying to get back into the game and we did so.”

Moyes also praised the threat Villa offered with their powerful front three causing problems on the counter attack all afternoon.

“If anybody’s doesn’t think that Benteke and (Charles) N’Zogbia and Agbonlahor can’t cause you problems then they’re wrong because they are really good attacking players with speed and power and pace.

“You have to be ready for that. We were ready but we didn’t deal with it that well.

“I think it’s two points dropped.

“Over the week we’ve had Bolton in the Cup, West Brom and Aston Villa and if you’d have given me four points and a win in the Cup at the start of the week I might have taken it off you, but after getting into the position we were in you want to try and win.

“When it went to 3-3 even in the minute or two we had left we had two chances to win it 4-3. We were a bit unlucky there.”