The 28-year-old Guinea-Bissau striker scored in Sunday's 2-2 draw at Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park — his tenth Premier League goal of the campaign and his fifth in his last five matches. He enters the final 12 months of his current contract this summer, and Everton face a decision about whether to extend, cash in or let circumstances run their course.
Beto is unambiguous about where his form is coming from.
"This is the best period of form because I'm better than I was last season. Last season, I was confident and everything but now, even if I'm not 100% fit, I can read the game more and I can analyse the game more. I'm cleverer in my play, I understand my body more and I understand the Premier League better and how it works. This isn't just physically, because mentally I have improved from last season."
The work, he says, has been constant — even when the goals were not coming.
"It's not just the last few months. I've been working since the beginning of the off season. I analyse games, I have a small team of two or three people, we analyse the games, we see the games and I come back to the club and do the work as well as working at home. I'm trying to get better in every aspect. In the first half of the season, I was still working but I wasn't scoring. You're not going to score every time so this is why I asked God to give me the strength to handle the pressure and the difficulties, and I will do the rest."
On Moyes, Beto describes a relationship built on bluntness rather than encouragement — and he has come to value exactly that.
"It's tough love. Gana and my friends they all say: 'It's tough love,' because with me there are no nice words, it's: 'Keep going, do it better, you need to score, you need to receive, tighten it up'. It's like this with him and me but I understand he wants me to get better, and better and better in these type of moments to celebrate with the team. I know he was happy when I scored."
Linked with a winter exit and having spent time behind Thierno Barry in the pecking order earlier in the season, Beto has seen this kind of speculation before and takes it in his stride.
"Every January, it's the story of my life. I'm not even bothered about that, I don't get angry or anything because I have big faith in God and I know he is going to protect me and give me strength to handle every type of pressure. If people think that I am not able to be here, it's okay, it's life. I'm just blessed to be here and play for Everton, I have the number nine and what more can I ask for?"
On his future, he keeps it brief.
"I just want to win against Sunderland. I don't think too far. When it's finished, it's finished. I don't know the future, I still have a contract, so that's it."
Moyes is understood to want a new striker this summer, with Everton's 46 Premier League goals the lowest total of any team currently in the top ten. Beto's revival complicates that picture rather than resolving it.