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Carlo Ancelotti has called for one particular key change from his side as he described the way he wants to see Everton play in detail.

The manager has enjoyed a strong start to life at Goodison Park, taking ten points from a possible 15 in his opening quintet at Premier League matches at the helm.

The latest of those was a 1-1 draw against West Ham United at the London Stadium, after which the Italian admitted he wanted to see quick changes from his side.

And the boss has now opened up more on his system and how he wants Everton to be playing - admitting they are not getting forward quickly enough at the minute.

Ancelotti said: "The shape of the team is clear, 4-4-2 without the ball and I think that is the best way to defend. With the ball it changes a little bit.

"At this moment we are not playing vertical, we are playing a lot of balls back, instead of playing forward, that is how we can improve. We can play more vertically.

"We want to build up but when you have the possibility to play forward you must play forward. Quick. If you are slow at the back you have less possibility to find space in the opponent’s half and that is something we have to improve.

"Sometimes when you say to a player that we want possession, they think possession is the target. The target is not possession. The target is always to score goals.

"Our idea is to do that through possession but we want to score goals. If you see some data more possession sometimes means you have less possibility to score. There are a lot of games where the winning team has less possession."

Seamus Coleman revealed this weekend that Ancelotti let his players know at half time against West Ham that their performance was not good enough.

The manager believes his side were too shy in the first 45 minutes on Saturday and knows they can't play like that if they are to be successful in the future.

"If you wan’t play football at a certain level you have to be brave," Ancelotti added.

"You cannot be shy. You have take responsibility and the players with more quality have to take responsibility.

"Here in general we have a young squad but players with a strong personality and players who are experienced like Delph and Walcott who can help the young to show more bravery and have more courage. I like the players who are going to take responsibility on the pitch.

"It is true in the first half against West Ham we were too shy. I told the players at the end of the first half that if you are shy you cannot play football, you have to do something different. Against West Ham it was like this.

"The work of the manager is to look at the players you have and try to give them the right idea to put in place on the pitch. Technically this team has good qualities, skills and ability."

Everton have another quick turnaround before facing Newcastle United at Goodison Park on Tuesday.

That hasn't given Ancelotti a lot of time to work with his squad at Finch Farm, and he admitted the biggest improvements from his side will come from playing matches instead.

He remarked: "Yesterday [Sunday] and today [Monday] we used the training sessions only to recover the players, to put them in the best condition physically for tomorrow [Tuesday].

"But I think we have to improve by playing games. We have to put some new ideas and you have to try and do it on the pitch and we have to see how it works on the pitch.

"It didn’t work well in the first half against West Ham, we analysed this and we try and improve it for the game tomorrow.

"We haven’t had time to work in training and most of the time you have to use videos to explain to the players how we want them to play."