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Lampard delighted as Everton thrash Western Sydney Wanderers

Everton boss Frank Lampard was delighted with their 5-1 win against Western Sydney Wanderers in Sydney on Wednesday.

Anthony Gordon scored a hat-trick to leave Lampard pleased with the effort on the night.

He told evertontv: "Yes, it's been great for the tour. Good for the confidence of the team.

"We've had two challenging games in different ways. There was the heat and the jetlag and good opposition, obviously.

"Tonight was probably [going to be] a team that we expected would defend a bit deeper and we had to be better on the ball, control the game and we did that. We were clinical, which was nice.

"When a team give you opportunities to play in their half then you have got to do it well, be sharp, move the ball well.

"The level will go up when we go back to the Premier League, that's the difficult bit. But you can only work and practice. Even the nature of Anthony's last goal, he moves it quickly and gets his shot away. That's what he, Demarai, Dwight and other players have to be doing.

"They have to practice it and they have to apply it. They did it tonight and then they have to carry on doing that when we come back to England."

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