Everton boss Frank Lampard is confident the players are with him after their FA Cup defeat at Manchester United.

Everton lost this third round tie 3-1 on Friday night.

Lampard said, "I think we deserved better. The players were very, very good in a sense of organisation, the game plan, the work ethic. Things which should be basics in football but people question them when you have a performance like we did the other night.

"We were really good. We had the better chances I think. Good chances for us and a goal disallowed. Marcus Rashford was probably the difference between the teams. A top individual talent can do that to you."

On his future, he continued: "That's not under my control. It's not for me to focus on that. It's for me to focus on what I saw tonight and that was a performance that every manager wants with the attitude of the team, and the focus. The focus now is Southampton.

"This league can change very quickly and when you're in a difficult run you have to work really hard to get out of it but it can change.

"I don't want to talk about my future, I only want to talk about the players and how well they played. My focus is on this team and getting a result against Southampton.

"When the players perform with the spirit of an Everton player, the fans will react to that. Even in defeat and that says a lot. We can't harp on too much about the fans, I don't want to hear that talk about the fans too much in a football sense.

"The game next week is at Goodison and we need to make the fans feel about the team like they did tonight - and then go out and try to win the game."