CAPTAIN Phil Neville says the embarrassment of hitting rock bottom drove Everton to victory at Birmingham City.

The Goodison Park side struck twice in the second half on Saturday to become the first side to win at St Andrews in a year but more importantly, they picked up a first win of the season. Follow our EFC Twitter stream, for the latest updates.

Neville admitted their first three point haul of the campaign came as a huge relief after the side fell to the foot of the Premier League table last week but has insisted nobody is getting carried away after victory in the Midlands.

Understandably talk at Everton’s Finch Farm training ground this week could not escape the Goodison Park side’s predicament heading into the weekend’s fixture.

But Neville believes some intense training sessions helped focus the players’ minds into getting the win the captain was delighted to produce for the supporters.

“There’s no real celebration in there because it’s just one win,” said Neville.

“Yeah, we’ve won a game, but we can still do better.

“The pleasing thing is we’ve persevered, we’ve stuck to our guns because we haven’t been playing that badly.