“It was quite a difficult start to the season for the whole team, even though we had a good pre-season, but we then picked up some great results,” he added.
“I’m confident we will keep on picking up good results as the season wears on.”
Phil Neville, one of Everton’s many long-term injured, has reiterated his desire for a return in time for the clash at former club Manchester United on November 21.
The club captain has been sidelined since suffering a knee problem at Fulham early last month.
And Neville said: “It is six weeks since I met the surgeon and he said I would have peaks and troughs and plateaus with the injury.
“The first three or four weeks I thought I would be back playing inside six weeks, but I have reached a plateau now and it is frustrating! I really want to be back training and helping the guys out.
“I am hoping to be back for the Man United game. But you never know.
“That would be eight weeks after the injury and the surgeon said it was a 12-week injury. It just depends on how it is healing and how it is progressing.
“I am back running now which is good so we’ll take each day as it comes. In an ideal world I would love to be fit for the Man United game which is after the next international break.”
