Everton defender Kurt Zouma believes that boss Marco Silva deserves a lot of credit for their current performances.

Zouma, who is on loan from Chelsea for the season, has been impressive at the heart of a defence that has kept five clean sheets in a row.

In fact, Everton have shut out the opposition in eight of the past ten games. And Zouma believes the credit goes to their manager.

"He is a very good manager," Zouma told evertontv.

"He has given me a lot of help and advice. He is very focussed in training sessions and he's next to the players all the time, speaking to us.

"We watch lots of videos. And the way we're playing now – the manager deserves this because he's been working very hard with us all season and now, eight clean sheets in 10 games, you can see that everything is going well.

"We are working hard in training and everybody knows his position.

"You can see we talk to each other a lot, we try to motivate each other, we give each other the right attitude and we leave everything on the pitch.

"We always go out there to give 100 per cent and if we keep playing like this, not only defensively, but also the guys up front, pressing very well like they always do, we can win any game."