Howard still looking for European spot

Tim Howard has sent out a warning to Everton's rivals that the Toffees' desire for a European spot has not waivered, despite recent results. After draws with West Ham and Wolves in the Premier League in recent weeks, Everton now find themselves in eighth place, four points and one position behind Aston Villa.The 31-year-old American goalkeeper still feels the Toffees can put the pressure on the controlling pack, meaning their game at Villa Park next Wednesday takes on particular importance.Howard told the Liverpool Echo: "If we could have gotten a better result against West Ham and at Wolves, the Villa game would have had even more meaning in terms of allowing to have possibly gone above them on points."But still, we need to beat them and continue to put pressure on them and if we win, we will go one point below them."If we keep putting pressure on them, there's still four or five games to go for them to slip up."We're knocking on the door for Europe in eighth place and we know what it's going to take and the points total to get ourselves into Europe - and we're trying our best."Because of our last two results, we going to need other results to go our way now - we don't control our own destiny in that respect. It'll be difficult, but we still have our eyes on that."

Source: Team_Talk