LIVERPOOL, England :New West Ham United manager Nuno Espirito Santo saw signs in their 1-1 draw with Everton on Monday that his side can turn things around after a dreadful start to the Premier League season, but there is still plenty of work to do.

His predecessor Graham Potter was sacked on Saturday morning and the Portuguese coach was ushered in to quickly take over. He had little time to instil his usual defensively-sound counter-attacking style, but whatever he did manage to do paid dividends in the draw on Merseyside.

"Our message today was very clearly about competing as a team, being close to each other, and the boys did well. I think overall it is a good first, first game for us," the 51-year-old Portuguese coach said.

"This game is going to be the tool, the main tool, for us t

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