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Round states case for the defence
Everton assistant boss Steve Round praised the response of the defence after they kept a clean sheet in the pre-season friendly win at Preston.
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Phil Jagielka, who netted the only goal at Deepdale, Joleon Lescott, Nuno Valente and Phil Neville were part of the side which lost 4-2 at non-league Cambridge last week.
Round told evertonTV: "The effort was fantastic from a very young team. The back four, who were all senior, were excellent, especially after the Cambridge game where they weren't really at the races after a tough opening two weeks of pre-season.
"They didn't live up to their reputations in that game and the manager was quite tough with them afterwards but in this game they were outstanding."
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JustinL (Everton fan)
"So selling Johnson we are down to a squad of 21 players of which a couple are youngsters and have no appearances thus far for Everton. Who genuinely believes are squad is going to be big enough for a season or will we limp through till Christmas and then add a few more?"
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