Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been discussing dealing with doubt and expectation when he neatly sums up the life of a striker and the unrelenting scrutiny that comes as an accompaniment.

Talk has turned from the extra aggression that he has injected into his displays for Everton and on to the improvement in his performances after time spent with Marco Silva, his manager, on the training pitch — yet the clamour for more has not been quelled by his obvious development.

“At the moment, a lot of people are saying, ‘He doesn’t score enough goals’ or ‘Can he add goals to his game?’ but, for me, I have come a long way from when I first came into the side,” he says. “Back then people were saying,