"I like my players fighting each other, if someone didn't do the right action. If you want that toughness and resilience to get a result, you want someone to act on it. If nothing happened [no red card], I don't think anyone in the stadium would have been surprised. I thought the referee could have taken a bit longer to think about it."
"David Moyes said he likes his players fighting each other after Idrissa Gueye was sent off in the 13th minute for slapping his teammate Michael Keane in Everton's 1-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford . The victory was a first at Old Trafford in the Premier League for the visitors since 2013. After Gueye's red card, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's 29th-minute strike proved the winner as United lost for a first time in the competition at home after an opponent was reduced to 10 men."
"Ruben Amorim echoed Moyes's sentiment. The head coach said: Fighting is not a bad thing. Fighting doesn't mean that they don't like each other. Fighting is that you lose the ball [so] I will fight you because we will suffer a goal. That was how I felt when I watched. And I don't agree with the sending off."
Everton secured a 1-0 victory at Old Trafford with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's 29th-minute strike after Idrissa Gueye received a 13th-minute red card for slapping teammate Michael Keane. The win marked Everton's first Premier League victory at Old Trafford since 2013 and handed Manchester United their first home loss in the competition after reducing an opponent to ten men. Gueye apologised to his teammates for the incident. David Moyes defended intra-team confrontations as signs of toughness, while Ruben Amorim described fighting as a competitive response to losing the ball and disagreed with the sending off. United's unbeaten run ended and they remain on 18 points.
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