Everton boss Sean Dyche has explained naming 16 year-old Ishe Samuels-Smith on their bench for defeat to Fulham on the weekend.
It was the first time the teen had been involved in the matchday squad.
Dyche said: That is part of being a Premier League player, you have to deal with stress, pressure, all of the time. Ishe, the young kid on the bench, I said: 'It's a brilliant game for you son because you'll experience what it really is.' The good stuff always looks after itself.
You've got a 16-year-old kid looking at the game, going 'what's this all about.' That's the reality, that's when your growth really comes, in these times. A good day always looks after itself, or virtually always but when the hard days come, what do you learn from that, how can you correct your performance?
So that's the truth of the market we're in and that's the truth for the players here, to grow from this, not to go 'woe is us' that gets parked. What about building on it? What about us taking strides forward like we have been and correcting it, that's the challenge now."