We would have liked to have another game this Saturday, which would have been our chance to overcome the Everton defeat and get another victory. But with Hull City progressing in the FA Cup we have to be patient.
The players are all very disappointed that we lost our undefeated run but Everton are a good side and we just got slaughtered when we played there last season and were fortunate to come away with a 2-0 defeat. On Saturday we were very close to getting a point and the only disappointment was our final third play wasn’t good enough to cause Everton the problems that we should have done.
The lads are in a good frame of mind at the moment. We’re disappointed now but we’ve got to get over that and make sure that we’ve got the confidence and the energy and the belief to play Stoke City in two weeks’ time. Everybody’s going to get fitter and they’ll be able to get ready and excited for the game at Stoke.
It was good to see Andy Carroll back out on the pitch. If anybody needed a game next week it would be Andy but we’ve got to wait a couple of weeks before we can get him fit again. We may fit in a behind-closed-doors game for him and some of the other squad players that might not have been playing so much recently.
You saw on Saturday what Andy can do inside and outside the box. If he stays fit he’s got his place in the World Cup squad in his own hands. If he does as well as he did last season, Roy can’t ignore him.
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