Just a couple of days ago, David Moyes voiced his displeasure at the lack of goal contributions from his on-loan winger pairing. Jack Harrison and Jesper Lindstrom, on loan from Leeds United and Napoli respectively, had failed to register a goal or an assist this season until Saturday.

“Let’s be fair, you won’t have longevity if you’re not going to get me assists and you’re not going to get me goals. You have to find ways of coming up with those numbers, it’s just the world that we’re in,” he sounded off at the pre-match press conference.

“We can get all the statistics now and we can talk about it. Those two are both attacking players, I think both of them have done well but yeah, I need goals from them, I need assists from them. They both need to improve. They’ve done a really good job in recent weeks but there's parts of the game we want them to improve on.”

The veteran manager’s words seemed to work a trick when both Lindstrom and Harrison combined to score the opening goal for Everton at Molineux Stadium. After collecting the ball from Tarkowski in the final third, Lindstrom lifted his head up to find Harrison in acres of space on the left. He took a touch to make his way into the box and rifled in a shot that took a couple of deflections and beat Jose Sa at his far post.

Harrison finally got on the scoresheet for the first time in 39 appearances while Lindstrom registered his first assist of the season which delighted Moyes.

“We can't keep expecting Beto [to score]. We need Jesper and Jack to come up with the goals and Jack's got one today, which I'm pleased about. He scored a few goals in his time at Leeds United, so he knows how to do it and I'm glad he got one tonight,” Moyes said post-match.

“One's not enough for me, you know, we need [Harrison and Lindstrøm] to come up with more and more assists but I’m pleased they got the goal tonight.”

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Robert Tressell
1 Posted 09/03/2025 at 13:17:21
I think he's trying to give Lindstrom encouragement to impress - but he's running out of time.
Andrew James
2 Posted 09/03/2025 at 20:07:10
Moyes is right. Whether rightly or wrongly, his former Everton sides used to get a lot of goals and assists from the midfield and defence. That usually was sufficient as it was rare to have a 20 goal a season striker.

We need to be able to know we can rely on the flanks and midfielders to score a good amount per season and that just hasn't been the case in recent seasons.

Mark Murphy
3 Posted 09/03/2025 at 21:48:00
It’s a good article Anji but unless I remember it badly Lindstrom didn’t really ping a pass to Harrison. Looked to me like he shaped to shoot and the ball ricocheted off the defender to Jack.
I’ve not seen a replay but that’s how it looked to me?
UTFT
Liam Mogan
4 Posted 09/03/2025 at 21:50:59
It was definitely a pass Mark

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