Moyes said: 'm really pleased with the performance certainly in the first 40 or 50 minutes I thought we did very well.
"I thought we played great in the first half, actually. I thought there was some really good stuff, but we only had one goal to show for it, though.
"When we got what we thought was the second goal disallowed just after half-time, it sort of changed and I thought Villa showed why they are such a good team and they made a couple of changes at half-time which improved them.
"We found it more difficult, but we hung in, stuck at it and in the end we came really close to winning the game."
On Antonio, he continued: "Mick has played 70 minutes in midweek and another 60-odd today, so we're trying to manage it.
"We've also got other people with fresh legs who we want to get on the pitch and give them minutes as well, but I thought it was just the right time to see if we could freshen it up.
"They were the better team at the time and we couldn't keep the ball and weren't getting up the pitch too quickly, so trying to find other ways of doing it was what we tried to do, but he did a good job for us, Mick, and scored a really good goal.
"I think Villa had a lot of the ball and we sat deep, but not by design. We wanted to try and press as high as we did.
"A couple of changes they made changed it and a couple of quick players that they brought on in Zaniolo and Diaby gave us a bit of a problem in the positions they played.
"We tried to solve it and the game was tight and obviously if we could have had another half-dozen chances to break away and score, we might have done so because we had a couple, but we just couldn't get the three points."