Jordan Pickford is certain the club will soon be moving away from the Premier League relegation zone.
“It’s not been ideal but we are not far away from winning games,” Pickford said.
“We’re not a club that is going to be in the bottom three for long I’d say. It’s just that the luck hasn’t come our way yet.
“It’s a totally different scenario for myself from last season.
“I think one win will get us to 13th or something in the league [Everton are four points behind 13th-placed Huddersfield and three behind 14th-placed Stoke].
“Then that one win can become back-to-back wins, and that is where the confidence grows, and it starts Sunday.”
The 23-year-old says there is no sense of panic in the dressing room.
“No — it’s too early,” he said.
“We have had a bad lot of games. I love playing games week in week out, but it has been a change with the Europa League. That may have affected us.
“But we can’t be making excuses. We have to just move forward, dig in and get the win.”
Questioned if he had seen the right characters in the camp required for Everton to get out of their current predicament, Pickford said: “Yes, definitely.
“You have [fellow summer signing Wayne] Rooney, you have a lot of people who have been successful.
“The senior pros have all been successful in their careers, and that is where they help us. And then that is when the young lads become big characters, when they wear their hearts on their sleeves in the games.
“We won’t be struggling — it will only make us go forward and get the wins that we need.”
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