Thursday 21 April 2016 09:45, UK
David Moyes has described Everton's performance in their 4-0 Merseyside derby defeat to Liverpool as "terrible".
Goals from Divock Origi, Mamadou Sakho, Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho heaped the pressure on manager Roberto Martinez ahead of Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United.
Ramiro Funes Mori was sent off after 50 minutes and John Stones went off injured shortly after the third goal and Moyes, who managed Everton from 2002-2013 could not defend the display.
"You can't hide it, Everton were terrible tonight. Really, really poor," he told Sky Sports.
"They really missed Seamus Coleman and Phil Jagielka and things didn't go well for them in the game with injuries to the centre-half and the sending off and Gareth Barry coming off at half-time.
"But that wasn't the reason Everton lost; they lost because Liverpool were better and Everton didn't do well enough in the first half.
"It was a simple as that, they made the job too difficult."
Martinez described the result as "horrible" at full-time and insisted he was focused on improving the club's fortunes rather than his own future.
And Moyes had some sympathy for his successor.
"I feel for him because I know what it's like," he added.
"You can lose games and they didn't play well tonight. It's never nice when you get asked questions about your job and he has been put on the spot.
"He has to get his team ready to go again and play against Manchester United. He has got a great chance in a semi-final and there will be a big Everton support there.
"The job now is to get the team back up. It's very difficult because he's off a real bad result tonight and they've got a few injuries to key players."
Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher watched the match alongside Moyes and was also damning of Everton, suggesting they could easily have lost by more.
"I said at half-time Everton were embarrassing, and they were," he said.
"I've never known a derby game where it was so easy to pass the ball. When you play derby games the pitches seem really tight whether that be at Anfield or Goodison, but it was so easy for Liverpool.
"It could have been six or seven, no doubt about that. Martinez was forced into playing his full-strength team because it was Liverpool and because of their recent poor form.
"So to put in a performance like that was as though they had their flip-flops on looking ahead to the real 'big game' at the weekend."
