Moyes: What Forest Win Shows About Everton Progress

David Moyes outlined Everton's ambitions after their impressive 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday.

As the Blues moved up to fifth in the Premier League with a second win inside four days – along with another clean sheet – the Toffees boss discussed a first Club goal for Thierno Barry, the spirit of his squad despite injuries and suspensions, another eye-catching performance from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, and his happiness for Evertonians.

WATCH MOYES' REACTION TO EVERTONTV AFTER THE BLUES' IMPRESSIVE 3-0 WIN OVER NOTTINGHAM FOREST

MOYES ON... WHAT PLEASED HIM MOST ABOUT THE FOREST WIN…

We’ve won four out of five, with one disappointment in there but, overall, we’ve got the win, we’ve got the goals and I think, more importantly, we’ve got the clean sheets.

If we're going to be any way successful, whether that be whatever part of the league it is, we're going to have to get clean sheets and we've suddenly started to get a few now, which is really pleasing.

HIS SQUAD STEPPING UP WITH LIMITED NUMBERS…

If Michael wasn't fit today we would have been really struggling to fill the midfield so it was great to have him out there. It allowed Jimmy to go into midfield along with Kiernan which gave us solidity there.

We were annoyed about that. I just didn't think it was like Everton. It wasn't the way we do things. We've actually started the two games recently pretty well, so we hope we can continue getting that goal early.

It was only when I came in after the game that I realised Kiernan didn’t score the opener. I was thinking Kiernan had two goals today!

A FIRST EVERTON GOAL FOR THIERNO BARRY…

I think the crowd have recognised there's an improvement. They think he's got close. I have to say, I have to give huge praise to Ili Ndiaye for the weight of his pass. It allowed [Barry] to walk onto it and stroke home at one touch. He couldn't have put it any more perfect.

It was really, really good play by Ili and obviously a really good finish with Thierno.

ANOTHER PLAYER-OF-THE-MATCH DISPLAY FROM DEWSBURY-HALL…

He's given us something else. We're having to play him a little bit lower at the moment and a bit deeper in the team because of the players we have missing. We picked up two wins on the bounce which is not easy in the Premier League at the moment.Even today, they had a chance at 2-0, which could have put us on the back foot and fighting. But we ended up with a great result for us.

JUMPING TO FIFTH IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE AND LOOKING UP…

This club should be challenging for Europe or in Europe. But I think people need to give us time and understand how bad it's been in the past few years or how low it's been – that you just can't suddenly turn up and think you’re going to end up with that. I don’t at the moment but I’m going for it and so are the players. Our aim is to try to do that. The players know that.

But if you lose two games, then I'm looking over my shoulder so we've got to be careful we don't get carried away. We’re not doing that but there was much more about the players' mentality today, it was much better than it was after Man United. I didn't like the way we went into the Newcastle game. Today I felt it in the dressing room, they were going into this game confident but a bit more determined, a bit more feeling we've got something we have to do at home here.

The support's always great. It was great to hear the noise and the support at the end of the game. So, we need it here. We need it for us to improve. We need a crowd to get right behind the team all the time.