Leicester City boss Ruud van Nistelrooy has been speaking to BBC Sport about the heavy defeat at Goodison Park: "If you look at the scoreboard after 10 seconds and after five minutes, if you look at the goals, of course you don't do yourself any favours to come here and get a result starting like that.

"You look at the first goal - it was a long ball, a duel, and Doucoure is in. The second goal - it was one ball down the channel. They are good finishes. They were very effective. We know that at the start of the game you have to stay in the game. You know it will be intense and hard at Goodison Park. We gave ourselves a big problem to get a result.

"You always think about changes, but at 2-0 you have some options and at 3-0 you have very limited options. We carried on for 15 minutes and then made substitutes.

"We worked hard for that [Tottenham] result and turning good performances into points. It took a lot of work to get ourselves out of the relegation zone. It is a hard one to take, credit to Everton. They have been great against Spurs, Brighton and in this one. We have to take it on the chin and improve.

"It's the little things. The first duel and sharpness to act accordingly. It can happen, it is football. We know the situation we are in. We are together and we want to push forward and get out of this situation."