Seamus Coleman has issued a rallying call for Everton to bounce back from their Merseyside derby heartache.
Liverpool edged out a close 227th showdown with the Blues during eight minutes of added time as the hosts failed to arrest their poor form.
Ronald Koeman’s side are languishing ninth in the Premier League table and have now won just two of their previous 12 games on the back of this latest defeat.
But Coleman is calling on his Everton team mates to banish the gloom from Monday’s Goodison Park showdown ahead of a hectic Christmas period.
“It would have been great to have gone in at half time with the lead, but it wasn’t to be,” he told Everton TV.
“We had to go back out in the second half and fight and I thought we did well in terms of battling hard, but we didn’t produce enough in the final third.
“I thought we did enough to keep them out, but, unfortunately, it wasn’t to be our night.
“We’ve got a busy Christmas period coming up and the Premier League waits for nobody. We’ve got to dust ourselves down and go again.”