Everton boss David Moyes has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium (kick-off 17:30 GMT).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
Moyes confirmed there is "nothing new" on team news and expects Jarrad Branthwaite "will be OK" for Saturday's game.
More on managing Branthwaite's fitness: "There is times where you have to look after the players. I think the time of Jarrad's injury, the length of his injury, meant that we were always going to have to be mindful of it. But, he plays a big part, he's a really good player. We want him fit for every game, but we've also just got to take some advice at different times."
On the importance of their back-to-back wins with a run of tough fixtures coming up: "Really important because it keeps us in around the position we've been for a long part of the season. We've been bobbing around the middle of the table, sometimes we've moved up a bit, sometimes we've dropped down. The league's been really tight, whether it be a point or a goal or whatever it could make a big difference."
The Toffees boss "would have liked to have done much better in the cups", however, they've "got something still to go for" in chasing Europe in the Premier League. Moyes added Everton are "probably not a club which is ready to be competitive in all these different competitions" yet.
Asked if their improvements this season – having previously been seen as a "problematic club" – will help them in the summer, he responded: "I was probably more surprised the amount of players who didn't want to come to Everton as the ones who we did get. Unbelievable amount of players who I spoke to and tried to get here [in the summer] and I couldn't get them to come. But that's because of the things you talked about, because of the problematic situation that had been around."
He added: "I think if we want to try and get the level of players that we'd like to get in the next window, in the windows coming up, I think Europe is really important."
On if Arsenal will be fearing Everton with the Toffees' record on the road: "No, I don't think they'll be fearing us because of the level of the player, but I hope that they will give us the respect which we deserve because we have been performing well enough."
Moyes does not "see any problem" with the Gunners' strengths with set pieces: "It's part of the game. And if there's this thing out there where everybody has to play the beautiful game and everything has to be perfect, well, if we all done that it would be boring. Football would be boring."
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