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Gareth Barry has urged Everton to put the disappointment of losing to West Brom to one side and focus on keeping their Wembley dream alive.

The Blues fell to a sixth home league defeat of the season on Saturday against the Baggies despite clocking up 34 attempts and having three quarters of the possession at Goodison.

Barry admits that if Everton are to qualify for Europe this season then they have to show themselves good enough to break through stubborn defences like West Brom’s.

But the 34-year-old says Roberto Martinez’s side cannot afford to dwell on the defeat, which left them 11th in the table after Sunday's matches, and must pick themselves up for this weekend’s FA Cup fifth round tie with Bournemouth.

Barry believes this Saturday’s game against the Cherries will be far more open than it was against West Brom and says the prospect of edging closer to a Wembley semi-final will be motivation enough.

“We saw from the league game that Bournemouth play similar football to us,” Barry said.

“We’ve got to forget about West Brom now and move on. Lessons are to be learnt but we go into Saturday knowing that we are two games from Wembley and we want to take the fans down there.”

Everton only managed six shots on target against West Brom and Barry says the Blues were fully prepared for how the visitors would set up.

“We’ve been here before, since I’ve been at Everton and especially playing Tony Pulis’ teams at Goodison,” he added.

“They come and set up the same way and we are struggling to get across the line against them

“We are disappointed, you need to be winning these games.”

So how do you get over the line in such situations?

“It’s a tough question,” Barry said.

“You do need a tiny bit of luck, you need one of those chances to go in. If we score it lifts everyone and we probably go on and score two or three.

“But like on Saturday, and against teams like West Brom who come here and sit back, we have found it extra hard to win the game.

“We were on a great run and if we had come into this game and played badly it’s probably easier to take.

“But to play quite well and still come away with nothing is tough to take.

“We’re still in a reasonable position in the league and it’s still so tight and we know that if we go on another run we will find ourselves back in amongst it again.”