Frank Lampard insists he has no regrets over his midweek team selection after he changed the entire Everton starting 11 for the Carabao Cup tie at Bournemouth and saw his makeshift side dumped out of the competition with an embarrassing 4-1 thrashing.
Opposite number Gary O’Neil made nine changes himself but after losing their four previous matches, the Cherries were able to give themselves a boost ahead of Saturday’s second part of a double header as the sides meet again at the Vitality Stadium for the second time in four days, for a crunch Premier League clash.
Everton go into the game one place and one point above their hosts and asked in his pre-match press conference if he had any regrets, Lampard said: “We lost the game, in terms of selection, no because we have to use the squad and we haven’t got, probably at this point, a squad to compete.