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David Moyes is asked about Mark Noble, who starts for the first time since the opening day:
He’s been a bit unlucky not to have played before but the form of the team has been very good and he understands that. His personality on the pitch, it’ll be a tough game for us and I just feel his quality will help us tonight. Antonio’s getting closer, but not ready for the game.
I think we have to play really well without the ball. Chelsea’s possession stats have been really high this season, we’re going to have to deal with that. We’re a better team this year. I think in all aspects. The early part of the season we certainly scored more goals, since then we’ve been doing much better at not conceding. We have to make sure we do both tonight to get a result.
Frank Lampard has a chat. He speaks annoyingly quickly, and way too fast for me to accurately transcribe everything, but this is the gist.
We’ve got to deal with [our recent form], because I think what we’ve found is that in the Premier League if you drop your intensity you lose points. So we lost two games. What our game has been about is energy and speed, as well as different qualities. We need to go back to that tonight.
We were unbeaten in a long time, we found a consistency that a lot of teams have struggled with this year, and we got a reality check. Some of the basics we dropped down on. 15% is enough to lose games, so I want a reaction.
