Everton manager Frank Lampard has confirmed that goalkeeper Jordan Pickford will miss their FA Cup quarter-final at Crystal Palace on Sunday. Both Pickford and on-loan Donny van de Beek were absent from the Blues’ 1-0 win over Newcastle United on Thursday through illness and Lampard revealed neither has yet recovered.
He said: “Donny’s still not well but he’s cup-tied anyway. Jordan won’t be fit for the game. In terms of injuries it’s a bit more of an assessment of how the players were because it’s a really quick turnaround.
“We haven’t been helped by the timing of the game, 12:30pm, I think the broadcasters picked the big boys, as they see it, to play with the big numbers later in the afternoon when it would have been better for us but we have to dig in and deal with that. We’ll assess the players over the next 24 hours but other than that it’s as is.”
