Frank Lampard has hinted that he will make changes to his line-up on Sunday when Everton travel to Arsenal in the final game of the season.
The Blues will make the trip to north London in the knowledge that their Premier League status is safe thanks to a dramatic victory over Crystal Palace on Thursday night. The hosts came back from 2-0 down at half time at Goodison Park thanks to strikes from Michael Keane, Richarlison and a late Dominic Calvert-Lewin header.
While Sunday's match doesn't have pressure on it for the Blues, however, Arsenal still have the chance of finishing in the Champions League places with a win. But, the Gunners would need Tottenham Hotspur to lose against Norwich City for that to be the case.
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Lampard is looking forward to a more relaxing game and confirmed that he will give opportunities to some players on Sunday. However, he still has the intention to win at the Emirates Stadium..
He told his pre-match press conference: "I will, for sure! I'll relax more!
"I don't mean that in a light-hearted way because I understand Arsenal and Tottenham are in a battle, we'll go and do our absolute best to approach that game in the right way. I will.
"But at the same time yeah we haven't had that luxury [of relaxing] others have. We saw against Brentford, we were winning the game with 11 men, we saw against Palace in the first half - there's something nice about relaxing.
"Since my first day here we haven't had a game to relax. We absolutely haven't. Maybe that's the Premier League a little bit but our situation certainly enhanced that.
"It will be nice for the players, they deserve that. A couple of players who maybe haven't had opportunities will get opportunities, but we'll be at full pelt to try and get the right result."
Players and fans have come together in recent weeks to create a raucous atmosphere both home and away to drag Everton away from their relegation troubles. Having joined the club mid-season, there were some questions as to what Lampard made of the attitude of his squad.
However, he wasn't surprised by what they were able to produce, and he believes they deserve praise for the way they fought themselves out of danger.
The Everton boss added: "I don't think 'surprised' is the word. You come in mid-season, you're working with players, we had a nice lift and then we had a run of games where we didn't get results and that's testing for everybody.
"I wouldn't say it surprised me but it just needed work. What they've done is really pleased me with their attitude and togetherness as a group, and there's things we can improve.
"I want the squad to be far more robust, we've had too many injuries and those continued and ramped up. We lost two centre-backs in my first week here - one for ten weeks, one for five weeks.
"There's things we have to look around the whole situation that can help that stuff. But I've been really pleased with the players, the deserve their moment.
"We want to improve but I don't want to take away from the plaudits the players deserve."
