Everton skipper Phil Neville is excited about their start to the season.

Neville says there is a settled feeling at Goodison Park.

"I think you can see there's all the ingredients for us to have a good season," he said. "There's a real tightness about the place. 'We maybe lack the depth in quality of the top four but that's about it."

Everton are often slow starters but a few well-chosen words appear to have sparked a difference.

"The manager told us that if the league had started in January, we would have finished third. We have taken off from where we left off last season."