Everton laments over Yak, Yobo

14.01.2008

Yobo

EVERTON boss Dave Moyes admitted the club missed the quality of his African players - despite its 1-0 victory over Manchester City.

Joleon Lescott grabbed Everton’s winner and Moyes said: “We missed the flair of Steven Pienaar and the strength of (Ayegbeni) Yakubu and Yobo Joseph. But we know this will be a difficult month.

“But we defended really well, and Tony Hibbert did a really good job on (Martin) Petrov, who has been terrorising defenders.

“It is getting really tight now for fourth spot. Looking at the way the results are going, we know we just have to hang in there and hope we are in the right place at the end of the season. But that will be tough, there is nothing between anyone these days in the top half.”

The duo of Aiyegbeni and Yobo are in Nigeria’s camp in Malaga,Spain,towards the 2008 edition of Africa Nations Cup,which starts this weekend in Ghana.