Everton captain Phil Neville has urged teammates to leave everything they have on the field in the remaining games of the season.

The Blues rose to eighth in the Premier League thanks to the victory over Bolton Wanderers at Goodison, but must still win the majority of their remaining fixtures to achieve European qualification.

Neville told the Liverpool Echo: "We can't afford to look back and the table doesn't lie - our form in the first half wasn't good enough to be up there.

"But there was no panic because we knew when everyone was fit we could beat anyone on our day, and we have proved it.

"The challenge now is to finish really strongly and not let it just peter out. The manager's challenged us to finish in a European place, which looks massive, but if we play as well as we can then it's within our reach.

"Back in October, when we were going through such a patch where you couldn't see a win coming and the lads in there were fighting for their lives, the manager said it was a question of survival because we knew with everyone back we'd be a match for most.

"That came around the turn of the year and it's gone really well since. The manager still thinks we can play better and so do I. But we're not looking at next season yet, it's a question of finding the motivation within ourselves to not let the season just drift to an end.

"Those going to the World Cup could concentrate on their fitness and being right for that, but that isn't the case here.

"It was disappointing we didn't go on today and get three or four, we just lacked that bit of composure and ruthlessness and that's what has been missing a bit, like at Birmingham last week."