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Post by rugbytoffee on May 16, 2022 19:41:36 GMT
As shared by medical expert Ben Dinnery on Twitter, Lampard has revealed that both Yerry Mina and Ben Godfrey ‘probably won’t be available’ for Everton’s upcoming clash against the Eagles, while the Toffees manager is hoping that Michael Keane will be okay after a recent illness.
The 43-year-old said: “Michael was sick overnight so we’re hoping it’s a short-term one and he’ll be fit for Thursday. Our other centre-backs [Mina and Godfrey, who were missing today] probably won’t be available.”
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Post by evertonfan1968 on May 17, 2022 12:55:59 GMT
As shared by medical expert Ben Dinnery on Twitter, Lampard has revealed that both Yerry Mina and Ben Godfrey ‘probably won’t be available’ for Everton’s upcoming clash against the Eagles, while the Toffees manager is hoping that Michael Keane will be okay after a recent illness. The 43-year-old said: “Michael was sick overnight so we’re hoping it’s a short-term one and he’ll be fit for Thursday. Our other centre-backs [Mina and Godfrey, who were missing today] probably won’t be available.” Michael Keane is a shit house. What's he doing crying ill when his team needs him? It isn't like he has to sprint up and down the pitch. All he has to do is defend.
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Post by Everton News. on May 18, 2022 11:54:42 GMT
Lampard buoyed by key player return
Frank Lampard is adamant Everton boast the strength of character to respond to their weekend setback at the first time of asking when Crystal Palace visit Goodison Park on Thursday.
The manager began plotting a strong reaction in the immediate aftermath of a defeat by Brentford on Sunday, when Everton appeared poised to confirm Premier League survival after securing a quickfire lead, courtesy of Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first goal since August.
Lampard’s team were made to wait for safety, however, after Brentford capitalised on an early red card for Jarrad Branthwaite to claim a 3-2 victory.
The return to action and improving form of “a massive player” in Calvert-Lewin, who started only his seventh game of the ex-Chelsea boss’s three-and-a-half month Goodison reign, was a significant takeaway for Lampard, who has consistently been deprived of key performers.
And in advance of what is essentially a second match-point in Everton’s survival bid – beat Palace and they feature on 16 June when the top-flight fixtures for 2022/23 are released – Lampard insisted neither his players, nor the supporters creating feverish atmospheres for every game, required any kind of call to arms for the season’s closing home match.
“They [players] are a strong group and they gave everything against Brentford,” Lampard told evertontv.
“On another day, we’d have won comfortably. But they'll go again, we'll all go again.
“Dominic came in and was a force, which was good to see.
“He has been striving for fitness, and there is a lot of comment on him – no wonder, because he is and has been a massive player for us.
“That brings a different pressure but all he’s done is try to get fit – consistently fit – and that’s been tough.
“But I think [against Brentford] you saw a player who is the type of Dominic we all love.
“We’ll tell the players what we see [from analysing Brentford match], then they have to implement the things from the period of the game before the red card.
“It was not an issue of effort – a mistake changed the game. After that, everyone's intentions were great, the crowd were great, and now we have to recharge and go again.
“We will be ready.”
Lampard is hopeful of a return for Michael Keane against Patrick Vieira’s team after an overnight illness ruled out the centre-half of the Brentford meeting.
Keane’s availability would count as a boon, with Branthwaite suspended and Yerry Mina nursing a calf problem. It is not anticipated, at this stage, that Ben Godfrey will be ready for Palace.
Lampard remains without a player at the other end of the experience spectrum in midfielder Fabian Delph and rates Donny van der Beek, on loan from Manchester United, as only a “possibility” to feature, two months after the Dutchman’s most recent appearance.
“Michael was sick the other night, we hope that was only a 24-hour thing, as it would be great to get him back,” said Lampard.
“Other than that, the players you see are the players we have.
“We’ve had a lot of injuries, you can’t overestimate how much it can affect you to have three frontline centre-halves out.
"We’ve seen clubs miss their centre-halves and results change dramatically.
“They’re not for us because we’re fighting away and we’ll keep fighting.
“The players were spot on with the things we asked from them [against Brentford] and now they have to repeat that effort.”
It is very likely Evertonians will complete a hat-trick of animated coach welcomes after the team was greeted by a wall of noise and plumes of blue smoke prior to the past two home matches.
Lampard maintains he’ll never take such staunch support for granted and he was visibly moved by Sunday’s reception.
But after growing familiar with an ardent fanbase, he is anticipating something special before his side's next game.
“They will be ready to go again and they were incredible before the game [on Sunday],” added Lampard.
“You’re always disappointed when you don’t give something back after the way they turned up before, the way they were in the game and the way they supported the team.
“I’m sure they’ll be back.
“It’s our job [to work hard] first and foremost. The beauty of working as a manager or as a player is that you can affect things.
“So, let’s all affect it on Thursday.”
Paul McNamara / Everton FC
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Post by Everton News. on May 18, 2022 11:55:11 GMT
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Post by Everton News. on May 18, 2022 11:56:45 GMT
LAMPARD EXCLUSIVE IN EVERTON MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
An exclusive interview with manager Frank Lampard headlines a bumper matchday programme for Everton’s final Premier League home game of 2021/22, against Crystal Palace on Thursday.
Everton can secure their top-flight status with victory over Palace on a night when it is anticipated Goodison Park will throb to the sound of the Club’s partisan supporters.
Lampard inevitably touches on the inspirational backing Evertonians are providing their side – a subject he underscores in programme notes written directly to fans – and outlines his desire for Everton "to be a club that stands up for itself”.
There is a whole lot more from Lampard, who reveals the “most exciting” part of his job and notes the “passion and honesty” of the senior figures who attracted him to Everton.
Lampard explains the principles that guide him every day, emphasises the imperative of flexible thinking and compromise in management, and discusses the lessons absorbed from multiple elite bosses during a playing career studded with success.
“People who know me well understand my competitive nature,” says Lampard.
“I wouldn’t hold back if I thought there was something affecting the Club that I felt wasn’t quite right.
“I try to be as straight as I can but to not offend people.
“But I have felt, in my short time here, we’ve had decisions not go our way that have been really clear and they have affected us – and I do not want us to be seen as a team that is in any way a soft touch.
“I want Everton to be a club that stands up for itself.
“If anyone has to do that, it is me.
"I think it is very important that when the opportunity comes to show we are a strong club, who will defend ourselves, absolutely I should be the first to do that and everyone should follow.”
Lampard’s manager notes, meanwhile, relate the steadily climbing “belief and resilience” in Everton’s dressing room – and reiterate the importance of retaining the “spirit and effort and togetherness” demonstrated on and off the field against Brentford on Sunday, while banishing the disappointment over an outcome heavily influenced by an unfortunate sequence of events early in the match.
Seamus Coleman is characteristically forthright in his captain’s notes, the full-back preparing for the 383rd and “biggest” match of his Goodison career.
Chief Executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale writes about the “compelling combination” of Evertonians and Goodison Park.
"This historic old stadium has rocked and reverberated so many times in recent weeks as you have roared the players on to some memorable victories," adds Professor Barrett-Baxendale.
“We must do that one more time tonight."
Andy van der Meyde is the subject of an in-depth former player interview.
The Dutchman candidly reflects on four years with Everton plagued by off-field indiscretions and difficulties.
Van der Meyde discloses his deep regret over “throwing away” his Everton opportunity and subsequent comments aimed at the Club.
In the course on an unsparing interview, Van der Meyde, living clean today in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn with wife Melisa and the couple’s two children, says: “Everton is a great club. The supporters were always behind me and I messed it up for them. I really want to say I am sorry for that.”
Everton FC
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