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We asked for your thoughts after Sunday's Premier League game between Everton and Tottenham.

Here are some of your comments:

Everton fans:

Mike: For 70 mins a breath of fresh air performance and show of commitment from Everton. Haven't seen that for a long time. Then the panic button once Spurs scored. Shouldn't have been that nervy but pleased for Moyes.

Chris: Phew. Good job we were three up. Where have that Everton been? Only in the last 15 minutes did it seem nerves got hold of them, as if they couldn't believe they were 3-0 up. Had visions of a capitulation again but well done. Great finish from DCL, more of the same please and a bit more confidence in the last quarter of a match. Thoroughly deserved win but kept supporters' nerves jangling.

Sudesh: Everton played their best football in ages, and it's all thanks to David Moyes. Same team, but the transformation under Moyes' management is remarkable. His tactics were fresh, dynamic, and nothing like the predictable play we saw under Dyche. The players were full of energy, pressing hard, exploiting space, and showing real flair. It was a joy to watch – proper football! If this is what Moyes can do already, I can't wait to see what's next. COYB!

Les: They should not be letting any team get back in the game full stop - 3-0 at half time, should be 5-0 at the end. Everton always sloppy in last 15mins. Glad for DCL but not with his cocky comments - "it's not my first rodeo". Fighting for relegation because you can't score, that's not the first rodeo the fans endure!

Tottenham fans:

Martin: This is getting embarrassing! Ange might have done well in a two horse league in Scotland and he might have world class ideas. What he's got to realise is he doesn't have 20 world class players. We are thin on the ground without a defence to cope with being left exposed by his tactics. Time for a change I think.

Doug: Pathetic first half. Got a bit more alive in the second half but too little too late, the damage was done. It's not just down to injuries as the main players aren't performing either with the exception of Dejan. It's now at the point where most fans have had enough of losing. I'm not one for changing managers but I'm not seeing any improvement in the team - if anything we are worse. Things need to change now or Ange needs to go.

Tony: Enough is enough. Another horror show. Outclassed, outfought and out run by Everton. The players have given up. The injury record means nothing.

Lindsay: We have some very talented young players who are being asked to do a job which isn't suited to them. The lack of Plan B is finally coming home to roost. Arrogance is OK until the ignorance prevents the acceptance of a problem which is in need of solving. I think Ange's race is run at Spurs. More importantly, has Daniel Levy got in place a risk contingency plan? We're in a total mess.

Phil McNulty
Chief football writer

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Everton are the latest crisis club to seek a cure for their ills in the healing hands of 'Dr Tottenham' and their manager Ange Postecoglou - and come away feeling reinvigorated and revitalised.

David Moyes was the biggest beneficiary as Everton secured their first win since his return as manager with a 3-2 victory, but Spurs counterpart Postecoglou's position will come under even closer scrutiny after a seventh defeat in 10 Premier League games.

'Dr Tottenham' is the latest cruel jibe aimed in the direction of Spurs - the theory being if you are a team or manager in desperate need of a tonic, then look no further than the surgery in north London.

Among the satisfied patients this season have been Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town - both of whom secured sorely needed first league wins against Postecoglou's side.

Everton may have had a new (or old) manager in Moyes, but they took a list of ailments as long as your arm into Sunday's match after the 61-year-old Scot's first game ended in a home defeat by Aston Villa.

That made Spurs - admittedly in desperately reduced circumstances of their own because injuries - the ideal opponents.

Read more here

Leon Osman
MOTD2 pundit & former Everton midfielder

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Some of the hallmarks of the best Everton teams I played in under David Moyes were aggression, energy, intensity and desire.

He would get us so fired up that we believed we could beat anyone, and I could see elements of all of that when I watched Everton beat Tottenham on Sunday.

It was a huge result for Moyes, the players and the fans - everyone at the club - for him to get his first win in his second game back, but the way they got it was even more important, especially for the manager.

The way they started the game was pretty much everything you could ask for from this Everton team. They were on the front foot and took the game to Tottenham, scored two goals from open play when they have been so hard to come by, and could have had even more if things had fallen their way.

Yes, it was a typically nervy finish when Spurs got a couple of late goals back, but the first half was probably the most exciting we have seen at Goodison Park all season, and you could absolutely see this team can do what Moyes asks of them.

Read more from Leon Osman's column here.

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Vitaliy Mykolenko says early in his Everton career, the "pressure" of being in a relegation battle would sometimes stop him from sleeping, and that he still struggles with the club scrapping for survival.

Everton sit in 16th place in the Premier League, only two spots above the relegation zone and talking about it to BBC Radio Merseyside's reporter Giulia Bould, Mykolenko said: "It's very tough and mentally hard - when you play three years and every year you've got a relegation battle, it's not very easy for me.

"I struggle with it, but I'm coming on the pitch every time and trying to be a better player and to help us not be in a relegation battle."

The Ukrainian also said it's difficult for him to switch his focus away from the football, and was asked if he thinks about it when he's at home, stating: "Of course, I'm trying to change my mind but my wife said 1or 2 years ago when we were in the relegation zone for some games - I woke up every morning and was in one area and she said don't worry it's all OK.

"I'm worrying about it especially at the end of the season in the first season. I couldn't sleep some times because of this pressure - but it's OK."

The 25-year-old also spoke about Everton's fans, stating: "I understand them, if they are supporting us every game and we don't get the result. It's so annoying if we're losing or drawing.

"I understand them, but as a player I'm trying to do a better job to get points and win games, especially at Goodison."

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