Carlo Ancelotti hopes Everton will be judged for his ability to maintain a higher point of functionality in a season.
Everton to Southampton on Sunday to make his undefeated Premier League bigger and start a sixth game.
Ancelotti’s team maintained their unbeathed streak by going back two times to tie liverpool last Saturday.
And the technician insists that Everton will have to mix the positives of his performance in the Merseyside derby with an intelligent and sophisticated technique to succeed at St Mary’s Stadium this weekend.
“The start of the season has been good, but we have to be consistent in each and every game,” Ancelotti said.
“We show a smart spirit, a smart football, opposite one of Liverpool’s teams.
“We’d like to show the same thing on Sunday.
“This is how you can judge the consistency of the team.
“Game to match, you have to show the same quality, the same spirit and the same football.
“Sometimes it’s imaginable to show improvement.
“That’s what we asked for on Sunday.
“It will be a game.
“Southampton is a team with a very transparent identity.
“They try to play with maximum intensity without the ball.
“They are compact and it is difficult to locate an area to play.
“We have to be and with the ball.
“If we’re with the ball, we have a chance to win the game.
“To win them, you must be 100%
“I’d like to be 100 percent because our purpose is to win. “
Everton has won their two Premier League away matches this season, at Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace, and finished fourth as a away with a win over Sheffield United.
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With good fortune in the Carabao Cup also at Fleetwood Town last month, Everton has a chance this weekend to win five consecutive games away from Goodison Park for the first time since 1970.
If they want to fit into the race compiled through Harry Catterick’s team 50 years ago, they will have done so by suspended striker Richarlison.
There are still doubts about James Rodriguez’s involvement in opposition to Southampton, while Ancelotti has shown that Ben Godfrey will make his first everton game as a right-back after he got him on the bench against Liverpool last week.
“Players who haven’t played much so far this season know they have a chance to be on this team and in this game,” Ancelotti said.
“There’s a lot of festival to update absent players.
“I have to make a complicated resolution and this [reason why variety is complicated] is because everyone has been very good this week.
“Ben played a smart game last week, it wasn’t his same position as always [right-back].
We have to play against one of the most productive extremes in the world, Sadio Mane.
It’s not a simple game for him and, in my opinion, he’s smart.
“We tried this week at some workouts on the right side.
“He has all the qualities to play there, of that I have no doubt. “
Another Everton defender, Michael Keane, is on the verge of his 100th Premier League appearance with the club on the South Coast.
The central part is the one that has been at the festival this season and has added 3 objectives, adding one opposite Liverpool last week, to a succession of consecutive authorized and controlled exhibitions.
“He’s doing great and he’s scored some goals, which is important,” Ancelotti said.
“I have to say, honestly, that he played very well.
“There wasn’t much festival [for the central semi-finals] because we lacked some players . . . but, hat, because he’s done performances so far.
Dissecting the form outside Everton, Ancelotti has attributed his team’s impeccable return this season to a mix of ambitious football and empty stadiums.
“Overall, I don’t know if away matches are, in my opinion, less difficult because you don’t have the Array crowd . . . winning is a little less difficult than in the past,” Ancelotti added.
“But this team now has more ambition and motivation.
“He gave us a chance to win in the few matches. “