David Moyes has brought an increase in the level of performance from virtually every Everton player. There have also been squad members who we’d hardly seen anything of like Jake O’Brien, whose performances have been fantastic since the new manager brought him in as a right-back.

Despite playing in a position that isn’t natural to him, he’s held his own and brings a calmness in possession. We were very hectic under Sean Dyche and often looked nervy on the ball, but Jake has got that presence like Jarrad Branthwaite and composure that sets up our play.

I’ve played as both a full-back and a centre-back and they are two completely different positions. I used to find it a lot easier at centre-half because your marker is close to you whereas at full-back, you do a lot more running, closing down and you’ve got to help your centre-half next to you, so you’re doing two or three jobs.

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Jake is in an unfamiliar position, but he still knows the basics of what a full-back needs to do and his goal was a prime example. We won the ball back and he was in his own 18-yard box but crept up the pitch to get into that back post area.

He wasn’t in the team under Dyche but if he had been, would he have still been on the halfway line? There’s now a mindset that you need to get yourself up the pitch and he produced a fantastic header.

Jake has shown his football intelligence of knowing what to do. It’s not natural for him but he knows what a full-back is supposed to be doing and he’s doing it well.

As Moyes said, he’s deployed this kind of tactic before in the past with Joleon Lescott. Jake has done well against some very tricky wingers and since he came into the side, several of the opponents’ best player has been their left winger.

He’s won a lot of his battles really well and even when he was on a yellow card against Manchester United, he remained very controlled and picked his moments. It’s great to see him playing with a smile on his face and showing the supporters why he came to the football club in the first place.

I was disappointed with the goal that Everton conceded at Brentford but I think Moyes’ comments about it after the game were pretty spot-on. Like Manchester United, it was another fixture we came away from thinking that we could have won it.

Just imagine how the league table would have looked if we’d have emerged with an extra four points from those two matches? What’s pleasing is that Evertonians are now talking positively about our performances and how we’re approaching football games by actually trying to win them, no matter who the opposition is, home or away.

Now we’re coming away from matches disappointed that we haven’t won because we played well whereas before, we weren’t turning up and letting games pass us by. Since Moyes came to the club though, it’s been a total turnaround.

I’ve got to apologise about Beto because in my last column, I gave him a lot of praise and said how when he’s one-on-one, you’re very confident that he’ll find the back of the net. Unfortunately, I think I jinxed him for Brentford!

If you look at all three opportunities, he should have done better. For the first one, if he’d had stayed down then he might have got his opponent sent off, but he was confident enough to get back up and try and score a goal.

People say he’s not very good at holding the ball up, but he won a header in the build-up for his second chance, played a one-two and spun, so again he deserves credit. He puts his heart and soul into every game and look, Erling Haaland misses big chances and so does Mohamed Salah, it happens in football.

Like Moyes said, you’ve got to give him credit for keeping going and had another opportunity late on that the keeper did well to save. Beto will be disappointed because scoring goals is what he gets paid to do and has been in fine form, but you don’t get everything going your own way in football.

Moyes won't allow Everton players to put the flipflops on too early

Everton are away in Abu Dhabi and it’s always a big talking point among fans when teams go away on trips during the season. I’ve been there as a player when you’ve gone away when the team has been in a poor situation.

I remember Howard Kendall saying that Everton were going to go away for a long weekend and a bit of team building and it can help reset everything. On the flip side, you can go away when you’ve been doing well and then come back and not perform like you should have been, putting the flipflops on too early.

David Moyes won’t allow that. He’s got the players away from Goodison Park and from Finch Farm and in that different environment, he’ll learn a lot more about the players’ characters and it’s great to get to see your team-mates away from just football where you can see another side to them and be more personal with them.

They’ll have a great time over there but will be training hard. It’s nice that a lot of fans are now wishing them well and wanting them to go and enjoy it because we’ve been in these situations so many times before when we’ve been questioning why the team are going away and seemingly being ‘rewarded.’

Back in my day, they could end up more like a stag do than a training camp but that won’t be happening under Moyes. They’ll be allowed to let their hair down and relax but they will also be working hard on the training field.

When Everton come back, they should be refreshed and ready to get back to work on Saturday night against a Wolverhampton Wanderers team who are fighting for their lives in the Premier League and have got dangerous players. There’s a lot of work to do, but this is yet another potential ‘six-pointer’ for us.

After having a little break away, the Everton players now need to reward the fans, starting at Molineux. Moyes has said that he wants to see improvement, week on week, and we have done.

That’s got to be kept up in all areas, from set-pieces to how we’re creating opportunities and getting better in all departments. That’s got to be the challenge between now and the end of the season, it’s so far, so good, but can they keep that up?