“We know we haven’t given you guys enough to shout about recently, so it was nice to see you all celebrating a big and important victory in the sunshine. Your support, as ever, means the world to each and every one of us, and we always want to repay it with what we do on the pitch.
“I hope you may see how a lot we’re combating, and the way a lot we would like to flip issues round. We have suffered numerous setbacks and disappointments this season, however one factor we should all the time do is stick collectively it doesn’t matter what. If we do this, we are going to come out the opposite aspect stronger.
“I have said many times previously that every single player has to be ready to deliver, every single day, and I want to give a special mention here to Freddie Woodman, who epitomised that mentality at Everton.
“Freddie is a very fashionable member of the squad, a prime skilled who works laborious day-after-day. He in all probability did not anticipate his alternative to arrive when it did, and within the method it did with Giorgi Mamardashvili going off injured, however he stepped up and confirmed he was prepared, and that’s what we’d like from all people.
