Toffees boss David Moyes echoed his belief that Tim Cahill's ejection from the Merseyside derby against Liverpool was harsh.

With Everton 2-0 down already thanks to a Fernando Torres double, the Australian was given his marching orders in the 80^th minute after launching himself straight into the path of Xabi Alonso,

Moyes told evertonfc.com: "I have had a chance to look at and I don't see a red card tackle, I really don't."

"I see a yellow card and I don't think it was the worst tackle in the game today. I think we were all really surprised it was a sending off."

With the match deadlocked at 0-0 a piece, Everton seemed to be handling their derby assignment rather well but the Scotsman felt that their display did not match his own standards.

"I wanted to give ourselves a chance after recent performances and get a foothold in the game and I thought we did that," he continued.

"In fact, I thought we defended very well especially up to half time. We limited them to very few opportunities so it was disappointing to lose by two goals in the early part of the second half.

"The two things that dropped to Torres he finished clinically."

"Tim gets a chance and it doesn't quite go that way," added Moyes. "It didn't happen but it is no excuses for us when we went a goal down."

"At one goal down you are always in it and we were about to make a change when it goes to 2-0. "

"We had possession of the ball in our own half and we gave it away."

" It found us that one or two players were out of position and they didn't get back to concentrate and defend. It was disappointing and giving the ball away was the first mistake."