Saha unplayable, says Moyes

Everton boss David Moyes has praised striker Louis Saha, whose four goals on Saturday lifted them to a thrilling 5-3 win over Blackpool.

In a see-sawing encounter at Goodison Park, Everton were 2-1 up then 3-2 down after an hour before Saha levelled the scores and a cracking volley from Jermaine Beckford put Everton 4-3 in front.

Saha sealed the win with his fourth goal six minutes from full-time, and Moyes was full of praise for the 32-year-old Frenchman, who has overcome a sluggish start to the season to score eight goals from his past six league games, with six of those in the league.

“He was unplayable and unstoppable. Use whatever words you want to use, but that was Louis today,” Moyes told Sky Sports.

“He took his goals great and he led the line brilliantly getting other people into the game.”

Moyes also reserved praise for Ian Holloway’s Blackpool side, whose attacking play has won plenty of admirers this season.

“I’ve had a chance to see them a few times and they’re great entertainment for anybody watching them,” he said.

“For us and our supporters today it was a really good result and a good performance as well albeit a couple of defensive lapses. We had to score five goals to win it.”

Blackpool boss Holloway lamented some poor defending from his side, who have now lost their past five English Premier League games – and seven of their past eight – to sit in 15th position, just four points clear of the drop zone.

“That’s what’s happening to us, to be perfectly honest with you we committed suicide there,” Holloway said.

“Some of that defending I’m quite embarrassed about, we’ve got to sort that out.”

“We got ourselves in front and I tried to do what we did against Liverpool and solid it up, we had about 10, 12 minutes left.”

“That’s three weeks in a row now that’s happened, but the lads have got to stop feeling sorry for themselves and look at it.”