As first games go, this was about as good as it was going to get for Frank Lampard.
Was it perfection? No. Is there still plenty of things to work on? Absolutely.
But for Lampard it was a winning start, and when your new side hasn’t managed too many of them in recent months, they are not to be sniffed at.
A bright opening was rewarded when Yerry Mina headed Everton ahead before the interval, after the Colombian came on for Ben Godfrey with less than 15 minutes on the clock.
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