Everton manager Frank Lampard claims his side should have beaten Nottingham Forest at Goodison Park, despite Steve Cooper's suggestions that the Reds deserved all three points.
Demarai Gray scored a late equaliser for Everton after Brennan Johnson put the visitors ahead in the 81st minute, but seven minutes later, the Toffees winger restored parity. The result means that Everton remain winless after the first three games, but boss Lampard claimed after full-time that his side should have won the match.
"It’s a point and it's a first on the board," he said after full-time. "We deserved points in our first two games in my opinion and we deserved to win today.
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"It's not that Forest didn't compete, they did but when you create 19 chances at home and the quality of chance we had... it’s very difficult to gain control if you don’t take them. That affects the game.
"We’re not doing that at the moment so we’ll take the point. There were elements I was happy with and other elements not so much but that's normal early in the season. We’ve lost some big players at the top of the pitch. We’re looking to correct that quickly but that’s not easy. On another day, we score more goals. We know that's an area of the pitch to improve on."
But Forest boss Cooper claims that his side would have been full value for the win. He said: "We should have won, we were the better team. It was a poor goal to concede and we shouldn’t be conceding it at this level, but let’s not lose sight of all the good things we did today."
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