Everton manager Marco Silva says he believes in striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin, telling the youngster to keep working on his game.
The 21-year-old scored in Saturday’s 3-1 defeat to Manchester City at the Etihad, producing a mature performance.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Silva has urged Calvert-Lewin to keep improving all the time, battling to be the Blues’ first-choice striker in the process:
He has to keep working like he is working, keep improving and show to me more desire and the desire to be our first-choice and be ready like he showed on Saturday afternoon.
He’s a striker with big, big conditions in my opinion. He is a young player and we have to show some patience with him as well but he is a player we believe in as a club and I believe in as a player.
In his moments he has his chances like this afternoon and he has to show this.
He scored once and has a fantastic chance to score a second goal as well. We have to support him and, sometimes, the strikers need the team to create for them.
Calvert-Lewin hasn’t always managed to be a regular for Everton this season, making just five Premier League starts.
His potential is there for all to see, however, and he famously scored the winning goal for England in the final of the U20 World Cup in 2017.
