Pardew praises ´angry´ Ba

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew believes Demba Ba’s two-goal performance at Goodison Park could have been inspired by being angry.

Ba, whose two second-half strikes earned the visitors a point against Everton, was left on the substitutes’ bench on Monday with Frenchman Sylvain Marveux taking his place.

But Marveux was hauled off at half-time for the former West Ham striker, who made an immediate impact scoring four minutes later and also notching another late goal to earn Newcastle a priceless point.

“Well he got two goals and could have had a hat-trick. I mean, sometimes players play well when they’re angry,” Pardew told Sky Sports.

Despite being forced to watch from the stands after pushing a linesman in the match against Tottenham, Pardew said he changed the mentality of the team at half-time after his side were second best for the majority of the opening period.

“Half-time gave me the perfect chance to put some belief in the team. Forget about shape or systems or anything else, sometimes it’s just about belief,” he added.

“And I knew I needed to change that attitude, as the first half was as bad as we’ve been while I’ve been manager of this team. But we’ve got great spirit and we showed that at the end tonight, and that could be a massive, massive result for us”.

Everton dominated proceedings in the early stages at Goodison Park and were unfortunate not to go into half-time more than 1-0 ahead, but Pardew was always confident his players could turn it around.

He continued: “I was a little bit shocked at how we played in that first half.

“Fortunately we’ve got good spirit in the dressing room and good players, and Demba definitely changed the face of the game in terms of mentality where we can think we can win the game.

“Second half we gave a good account of ourselves. Not many teams with the players we had missing would come back from that, so great privilege to the players.”

Meanwhile, David Moyes said that Everton only had themselves to blame after twice losing a lead, despite controlling the match for long stages.

Everton will undoubtedly feel hard done by after referee Mike Jones disallowed two goals from Marouane Fellaini and Phil Jagielka which should have been given.

Moyes told Sky Sports: “Yes we do (feel aggrieved).

“But we’ve got ourselves to blame for that and for different reasons, not just us conceding a late goal but we thought we had other goals in the game which should have counted and didn’t on the night.”

Moyes accepted it was a difficult decision to make to disallow the goal after Jagielka’s header looked to have crossed the line, but was frustrated that the linesman was unable to see from a good position.

He added: “It’s a difficult call but if you are the linesman, then you are on the line and you would hope they would see the ball go over the line.

“That is their job. He’s looking right along [the goal line] so you would hope he would see it.”

Nevertheless, the former Preston boss was satisfied with the way his team played, and conceded that Newcastle were the better team in the second half.

He continued: “The team played great all night. We got a goal then gave the ball away badly to give them a goal back to make it 1-1.

“Newcastle were the better side in the second half, but we scored a couple of goals which should have counted and didn’t. Sometimes you need decisions to go your way but they didn’t tonight.

“They weren’t good [defensively] and we know we can do better. But I think there was an awful lot of positives in our play tonight.

“The defending at times could have been better but you have also got to give Newcastle credit. They put us under pressure and forced us into mistakes.”