Everton supporters have endured a difficult season but imagine how it has felt to be Dominic Calvert-Lewin. The man best placed to do something about the team's struggles watching on from a distance, unable to influence things as he had been doing.
Thirty-two Premier League goals inside two years put him among the top bracket of strikers, a club talisman at 24. The first major muscle injury of his career came after he had scored in Everton's first three games of the season and with the team joint-top of the table.
By the time that he returned in January, all optimism was gone.
"There was such a big emphasis on me coming back," Calvert-Lewin tells Sky Sports. "The results not being great just made me want to return and help the team but I think I set unrealistic expectations of myself and that was difficult to deal with mentally."
The striker has worked hard to become so important to Everton. "Once upon a time I was not in that position so I see it as a privilege to have that expectation on my shoulders. Nobody expects more of me than myself. I believe I am capable of making a difference.
