Everton manager David Moyes speaking to BBC Sport: "Not only this season but I think one of the better results we've had since I've come into the job because of how depleted we are.

"We didn't have enough senior players on the bench to make too many changes. I thought Nottingham Forest played well, but we defended well and took our moments when we got them.

"We didn't play particularly well against Burnley, but today we did. I always saw tonight being a really difficult game. Forest played really well against Manchester City at the weekend, and they were unlucky not to take some points."

On the performance of James Garner: "He was fantastic tonight, he really was. Coming back to his old club, I thought he played really well - but he has for a while. He's playing so well for us, and he's taken on a bit more responsibility, a bit more of the leadership, so he's really matured."

On striker Thierno Barry's goal: "You should see my relief when he scored as well! He's getting better, doing a lot of things we like. We hope he can keep getting the goals."

And on looking up the table: "We'd like to get ourselves in there [near the European places], maybe later in the season. We need to try and keep pushing on but we need to get some key players back because that will be too difficult to do without them."

Midfielder James Garner speaking to Sky Sports: "We knew it was going to be tough here, we have a lot of injuries, a couple of the lads have gone to Afcon, so we were a bit short.

"To keep a clean sheet [was the key] and we defended very well as a team. We've not been great this season at keeping the ball out of our net. We were on the back foot for the majority of the game so the message was as soon as we get the ball back let's be clean. We were very clinical.

"Some of the lads were making their first starts of the season, players are coming back from injury, that's massively important now for the second half of the season.

"It was three games without a goal, so to get two away from home is massive and we can hopefully take that into our home game at the weekend and score a few more."

Did you know?

  • David Moyes has now won nine of his 19 Premier League away matches in charge of Everton since returning to the club, which is already as many away victories as Everton's two most recent permanent managers combined (9 in 57 matches - Sean Dyche 7 wins, Frank Lampard 2 wins).
  • James Garner has now been involved in five goals in the Premier League this season (2 goals, 3 assists), his most in a single campaign in the competition, surpassing his three in 2023-24, while 60% of his goal involvements this season have come against teams he used to play for, providing an assist against Manchester United in November and netting the opener tonight against Forest, before setting up Thierno Barry for the second goal.