Everton manager Frank Lampard insists goalkeeper Ben Foster’s comments about his Watford team-mates are an “in-house situation” ahead of his side’s trip to Vicarage Road on Wednesday night. Watford’s relegation from the Premier League was confirmed with a 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday and Foster accused some of his colleagues of slacking off.
The 39-year-old said: “You just don’t really know what you’re going to get from us, to be perfectly honest. We’ve got too many players who are happy to put it in for an hour, 70 minutes, but then probably fall off and happily let it go in the last 20 minutes.
“You can’t have that. When you’re a team like us, the minimum is giving it everything you’ve got. The ability you can forego a little bit and you can accept that you might not have the quality of some players, but you’ve got to put the effort in.”
