Things are looking good for Alex Iwobi and his club Everton as they came back from a goal down to beat Southampton 2-1 in Saturday’s Premier League game.
Joe Aribo opened scoring for the home side just after the break, but the joy was short-lived as Everton leveled up in the 52nd minute with Conor Coady’s leveller in the 52nd and Iwobi set up the second goal scored by Dwight McNeil in the 54th minute.
The Toffees scored twice in a game for the first time this season to rack up successive wins for only the second time since Frank Lampard took charge in January. Everton, who only clinched survival in the penultimate game of last season, climbed to 11th in the Premier League.
“The minute we rest is our downfall – it’s important we realise there is a long way for us to go,” Lampard told BBC Match of the Day.
“There are glimpses – there were big glimpses against West Ham in our last game – but we haven’t had lots of time to work with the team.
“To work with the players that are in the team who weren’t here last year, on the way we want to play, those relationships throughout the pitch.
“There’s a nice competitive feel to the squad but we can get a lot better and we’ve got hard games coming up so we need to stay on it.”
“It is certainly not the end of the story and we need a lot more progression to get to where we need to get to, but it is a positive that we have a stronger spine about us now,” Lampard added.
Set it up...Alex Iwobi