Everton boss Frank Lampard insists he has belief in his players.
Lampard is standing by the comments he made after Everton's FA Cup capitulation at Crystal Palace and insists there is no issue with his squad.
He said: "To clarify it — and I don't need to clarify it to the players because it is normal that I drive them in terms of character — the question I was asked was about confidence. I have pushed the players and I have done it since the first day I got here.
"Against Palace and Tottenham, it looked very different to how it was against Manchester City and Newcastle. Some of those parts I saw against Palace were not tactical things. We did them against City and Newcastle, we didn't do them against Palace and Tottenham.
"I said it quite clearly. Players have to be mature enough to take it and this group are. I have come into a good group. Teams and lads now take a lot of expectation. They have the microscope on them. They are good and they want to be better."
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