Bournemouth v Everton - Sat 12th Nov 2022

Frank Lampard insists his Everton side will look different for Saturday's Premier League clash with Bournemouth after he "learned a lot" about his squad on Tuesday.

The Blues boss handed opportunities to a number of players in the disappointing Carabao Cup defeat to the Cherries in midweek, making 11 changes to the side that started the previous league match.

Looking ahead, Lampard says he and his side are well aware of the importance of the weekend's clash ahead of a six-week break from domestic action for the World Cup in Qatar.

"I'll approach the game how I see fit," Lampard told evertontv. "Whatever team I pick, they'll certainly know the importance of the game on Saturday and what three points means to the Club at the minute going into the break. It's a huge thing.

"Will [the team] look different? Of course. I'm not going to lie and say it won't look different in terms of personnel.

"I learned a lot tonight, so it makes some of the decisions easier."

After conceding a freak early opener to Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium, Everton hit back and created a flurry of opportunities in a hectic 10-minute spell that followed.

Ultimately, the Toffees failed in their quest for an immediate response and had to wait until the 67th-minute to hit the back of the net, when Demarai Gray - who stepped of the bench after Bournemouth's second of the evening just after the half-time interval - struck with an exquisite curling effort.

And Lampard says work to convert pressure and chances will continue on the training ground.

"Train, repeat what we do all the time and then the rest is up to the players to deliver in those moments" continued Lampard. "You can miss [those chances], but we want to be creating the chances to get in there.

"You can't win games at this level if you don't take chances.

"It was good from Demarai - we hope he takes confidence from that because he had a good impact into the game, Alex [Iwobi] and Dwight [McNeil] did, too.

"I had to make those changes at that point. I gave people chances to players, but when I say this I want to be clear to Evertonians as well in that there is a lot of experience in terms of appearances in that starting line-up throughout the team.

"The players who came in really have to take that one on the chin in terms of how they performed on the day.

"Some things just were not good enough and that's the reality of it.

"Those players have to take it on the chin and move forward."

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What if we lose again?

Is Lampard able to turn fortunes around? I like him a lot as a person, but results are terrible; it has to be said.