{"id":4855,"date":"2025-04-08T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4855\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:42:24","slug":"yerry-mina-sends-message-to-everton-defender-nathan-patterson-after-making-tough-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4855\/","title":{"rendered":"Yerry Mina sends message to Everton defender Nathan Patterson after making &#8216;tough&#8217; admission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nathan Patterson made only his eighth league appearance of the season in Everton\u2019s 1-1 draw against Arsenal on the weekend. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everton.news\/tag\/nathan-patterson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathan Patterson\u2019s<\/a> first start of the campaign, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everton.news\/club\/manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Moyes<\/a> putting his trust in the young full-back.<\/p>\n<p>Since his \u00a316m switch from Rangers at the start of 2022, the 15-cap Scotland international has barely had a look in.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries haven\u2019t helped, of course, but Patterson was perhaps a little unfairly treated during Sean Dyche\u2019s reign, with opportunities few and far between. <\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everton.news\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> fans were pleased to see him given a proper chance on Saturday and Yerry Mina has now sent him a message. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" loading=\"lazy\"  data-id=\"67646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2208153248-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Copa\/Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-67646\" \/>Photo by Copa\/Getty ImagesYerry Mina happy to see Nathan Patterson back for Everton<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everton.news\/david-moyes-sends-warning-to-11m-everton-star-as-he-demands-him-to-step-u\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moyes urged Nathan Patterson to step up last month<\/a>, and it would seem he\u2019s responded well in training, given he was awarded a start against the Gunners. <\/p>\n<p>Patterson took to Instagram this morning to post an action shot of his first Everton start of the campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old admitted it had been a \u2018tough\u2019 year but was pleased to be back out on the hallowed Goodison Park turf. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUTFT!! What a feeling to be out there again at Goodison with the fans. Been a tough year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former teammate Yerry Mina sent Patterson three fire emojis in a show of support, whilst Asmir Begovic and Lewis Dobbin also left supportive comments.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Patterson is a well-liked member of the dressing room and hopefully this will kickstart his career on Merseyside. <\/p>\n<p>Patterson has chance to grab starting spot at Everton<\/p>\n<p>Seamus Coleman and Ashley Young have been terrific servants for Everton but their time at the club is coming to an end. <\/p>\n<p>The veteran right-backs are out of contract in the summer, so Moyes will be on the lookout for suitable replacements. <\/p>\n<p>That said, Patterson now has the chance to claim their starting spot between now and the end of the season. <\/p>\n<p>If he impresses, perhaps Moyes will think twice about dipping into the transfer market for a big-money fullback.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson has seven games to stake his claim. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Patterson made only his eighth league appearance of the season in Everton\u2019s 1-1 draw against Arsenal on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2734,79,16,15,2735],"class_list":{"0":"post-4855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-nathan-patterson","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-yerry-mina"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114301694387926439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}