Everton boss David Moyes speaking to Sky Sports about Idrissa Gueye’s red card: “We don’t see it very often. If nothing had happened afterwards, I don’t think anybody in the stadium would’ve been surprised. I thought the referee could’ve maybe taken a bit longer to think about it. I’ve been told that if you slap your own player or if you leave an arm in then you could be in some form of trouble, but there is another side to it. I quite like my players fighting each other and getting annoyed with each other.
“If you want a winning team, with the resilience and toughness that got us the result, then I think you’ve got to have players that are going to react in that way. I’m disappointed we got the sending off but every player will tell you how angry they get with their team-mates.
“He has apologised in the dressing room for the sending off, praised the players endlessly for their performance tonight and thanked them for it.”
Moyes, on the game: “I’m incredibly proud of the players and the supporters here today because I know it has been a regular occurrence where we’ve not got a result here. We have come close loads of times and not quite been able to get over the line, but tonight we incredibly got over it with 10 men. I think it was probably the hardest way to get a good result here.
“At full-time, I felt for all the supporters who had made the journey because we obviously had to just sit in and defend for large parts of the game. I thought we started the game brilliantly well, looked quite comfortable, but the sending off meant the game changed. The resilience and toughness behind the scenes at Everton is really good and the players showed that tonight.
“It was never going to be an easy game for us with 11 players, but to do it with 10 players was an incredible job by the players. It was all about good goalkeeping and defensive resilience. It is very hard to fault my players for how they played.”
On Seamus Coleman’s injury: “I was surprised he picked something up because he has played a few minutes recently. He just felt a nick in his hamstring, which was a bit of a disruption to us. These things happen in football and you have to cope with them.”
🗣 “I don’t agree with that sending off” 🟥
Ruben Amorim feels Idrissa Gueye shouldn’t have been sent off for his exchange with fellow Everton team-mate Michael Keane 👥 pic.twitter.com/CR9WU1lN7h
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) November 25, 2025
Everton goalscorer Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to Sky Sports after the match: “It was a rollercoaster game. I will sleep well, put it that way. I’m so genuinely happy for the lads considering how hard they all worked. It was a fantastic performance where we just gritted away, got a goal and showed that spirit. I’m so thankful we got all three points.”
On what happened between his team-mates Michael Keane and Idrissa Gueye: “It was just a moment of madness. It was obviously avoidable. All I can say is Idrissa apologised to us all at half-time and said his piece. That’s all he can do and we move on from it.
“The reaction from the lads after it was unbelievable, top tier. We could’ve easily crumbled, gone in on ourselves and lost the game comfortably, but it probably made us grow even more as a team.
“The manager just said he would deal with the situation another time and it was just about keeping to the plan that we had. He just wanted us to continue what we were doing and focus on the things we can change.”
On his goal: “I found myself in a little pocket, Jimmy [James Garner] found me and I thought to myself that I was going to swing it on my right. I can’t say I’ve done that many times on my right foot. I didn’t even know I had that in my locker, but I’ll take it.”
Man Utd’s Ruben Amorim also gave his thoughts on the red card decision: “Fighting is not a bad thing. Fighting doesn’t mean that they don’t like each other.
“Fighting is that… ‘you lose the ball, I will fight you, because we will suffer a goal’. That was my feeling when I watched.
“I don’t agree with that sending off. I am going to say that. I know it’s violent conduct, the referee explained. I don’t agree with that.
“I hope my players, when they lose the ball, they fight each other. That is a good feeling, not a bad feeling,” he added.
“Idrissa apologised to us at full-time and said his peace.”
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall gives his take on Everton’s red card incident between teammates Idrissa Gueye and Michael Keane 🟥 pic.twitter.com/zh0rKLrvfk
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) November 24, 2025
“I’m so happy, I’m so genuinely happy for the lads”
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall reacts after the scoring the winner at Old Trafford for 10-player Everton 😃 pic.twitter.com/LQd1XOj9qT
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) November 24, 2025
“We can’t win games in this way.”
Ruben Amorim shares his post-match thoughts on Man Utd’s defeat at Old Trafford 😬🗣️ pic.twitter.com/2wVAnHoNDW
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) November 24, 2025
Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville said of the red card incident on Sky Sports: “There is no doubt a hand comes out to the face but it didn’t look too much.
“They might have had to send him off purely because there is a strike to the face.
“They were not fighting, it wasn’t a scrap. It could have been dealt with by a yellow. I don’t think it needed to be a red.
Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher: “I just think, can a referee manage the situation a bit better?
“Can you get the two of them together and say: ‘Hey can you behave yourselves?’ Just sort of manage the situation rather than, that’s the rulebook.”
David Moyes reacts to the red card decision with Gueye apologises for fighting with Keane in Everton’s win at Man Utd. This is what Twitter users are saying…
@agbnufc_: Shades of Bowyer vs Dyer you love to see it.
@ChelsChris03: That is the softest red card I’ve ever seen. Let’s just say if that was 2 united players it’d never be a red card
@mevans_11: Agree with @GNev2, think a yellow would’ve been fine. If that’s against an opponent, I think it’s a yellow 50% of the time. The fact that it’s his own teammate should see it even more likely to be a yellow. The ref couldnt wait to show the red! Only at Old Trafford 🙄 #MNUEVE
@PaulCarrott3: Before people start getting on to Gana or Keane… that’s a joke of a red card. Awful from the officials. Point to the rule book all they want, it’s just really poor refereeing.
@trenry14: That’s one of the most ridiculous sendings off ever. If it’s on an opposing player it would be soft but correct but on your own team mate a yellow at worse. Once again another ref wanting to grab the headlines.
@ViscogliosiLuca: Is that really worthy of a red card?. A bit of handbags, nothing more than that
@Ash_LFC7: So pushing your own team mate gives you a red card now 🤣 Honestly the PGMOL are an utter embarrassment. Football is a dying sport.
@obenny17: What a load of bollocks. That’s not a red card. What’s VAR for if it can’t be used to reverse it here?
@HopeDah26: Keane actually pushed him in the chest first. So a word with both of them from the referee should’ve been enough. How many times do players slap or head butt each other when they’ve done something defensively or alike.
@SZ_ctid: That’s a ridiculous decision from the ref, just let them sort it out amongst them and play on
