Everton boss Frank Lampard admits their poor away form has surprised him.
Bur he's not concerned about the results that the club have secured away from home in past years.
Lampard remarked: "I suppose I didn't absolutely study Everton's away form over the years in a long-term way.
"But I never thought that Everton were a soft touch, it's one of the things I always actually would have leant the other way on.
"I suppose maybe a lot of that would have been coming to Goodison and feeling a team that were generally aggressive by nature. Fast closing down, closing spaces. Of course the landscape changes a bit when you travel, with that.
"I'm not too concerned about historically, I definitely don't want to be a soft touch as a team. I answered it in one of the previous questions about the away form, it's also something that won't necessarily be changed overnight.
"There are reasons why we're not getting results, I think some of those are confidence or mentality issues, and when I say mentality it's not a negative thing, it's just about how we handle games as a group away from home.
"Some of them it's the structure of the team and how we set up, and that's certainly my responsibility to get that right. But that's one that we do work on a bit.
"Having said that if we can get some traction and can get a result, whatever that may be in a positive sense, I think that really helps the change. Because at the minute there's a feeling throughout the club of going away from home, we may lose this game.
"That's the first thing we have to broach, if we can broach that with the result then I think we can maybe really start taking that step forward.
"But we don't want to be a soft touch, for sure."
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