David Moyes hopes to take Everton to the point where they can focus on making the club’s final months at Goodison Park special - but has cautioned that cannot be his priority just yet.

The Blues boss has spoken at length for his love for the Grand Old Lady and the privilege he feels it is to have been able to return to the home dugout. He has also overseen an upturn in fortunes - winning back-to-back Premier League home games as part of a three match victory streak after starting with a defeat to Aston Villa in L4.

He is not allowing himself to get carried away with the surge in form, however, and still cites doing whatever it takes to protect Everton’s top flight status as his chief concern. The more strides made towards that goal, the more he will be able to think about making the farewell to Goodison special, he added.

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In an interview with beIN Sports, Moyes said: “There's definitely that stage where we move on next, but at the moment I'm finding it very hard to think further than gaining the points to be a Premier League club. I think that I can't even look to consider it [focusing on the Goodison goodbye] at the moment because I'm saying ‘let's just make sure we’re in this position’.

“But I generally think that our performances in the last couple of games have been better and we have created more chances, more opportunities to score more goals than maybe we have in the past. Ultimately, you know, we need to score and we need to win the games. I'm not putting any more pressure on the players here because the players here have been under great pressure for quite a few years.

“I want them to play with a bit of confidence. I want them to play with a bit of control, a bit of belief as well without feeling that there is a huge pressure they have to deal with. Goodison is enough pressure itself, being inside it as a player. So we want the players to play with a bit of freedom and take the ball and hopefully do all the right things.”

In a wide-ranging interview, Moyes reflected on the turn of events that led to him coming back to Everton 11-and-a-half years after his first stint. The 61-year-old replaced Sean Dyche after he was dismissed in early January, following a defeat at Bournemouth and with Everton hovering just above the bottom three.

Moyes said: “It was a shock decision, I have to say, because I didn’t expect Sean to go and I don’t think anyone did at the time, it came out of the blue in some ways. I’m happy to be back - it’s been chaotic in the first week or two but thankfully we were able to pick up a couple of wins in that period as well.”

Moyes has repeatedly said that he and Everton are in different places to when he left for Manchester United in 2013 and said he has changed and adapted as the game has progressed in the years since.

He has had an immediate impact on Merseyside, the three consecutive wins moving Everton nine points clear of trouble and lifting spirits around the club.

Asked how he had inspired that, he said: “I think we've tried to give the players a little bit more confidence and maybe a little bit more belief to go and have a go, a little bit more of a situation where we’ve said we're going to have to make more chances and create more chances, how we're going to do it, how are we going to score? Because scoring goals and making goals has been our biggest problem.

“Dychey’s left a really good team that is well drilled, well organised, and hopefully I can retain that and see if we can add on a little bit, a layer or two more… I don't really care how we win the games at the moment, but I do believe that the players are doing a really good job. The last couple of games have been terrific. We’ve played well, passed the ball well and created a few more chances than we had done early in the season.”