Jonny Evans hails West Brom's spirit as key to success this season

The Baggies head to Goodison Park eager for a victory which would see them pull to within a point of the seventh-placed Toffees and keep alive hopes of bringing European football to The Hawthorns next season. Tony Pulis’s men are at minimum targeting a top-half finish and breaking the club’s previous best Premier League points haul to round off an impressive campaign, which Evans believes has in part been fuelled by a winning mentality in the dressing room.

“Everyone always speaks about the fact the manager likes to have a good dressing room around him and likes the players to deal with that themselves – we’ve created that,” said the centre-back.

“The players he’s signed and the players that are still at the club have created that good atmosphere.

“I don’t think it’s experience, it’s just when you get a good bunch of hard-working lads together.

“You look around and think ‘he’s got my back, he’ll cover me, I’ll cover him’ and you get that mentality. “You want winners in your team and I think that’s what the manager is. He demands his players are like that also.”

Evans believes the willingness of several players to play out of position sums up the selfless attitude of the team.

“There’s been spells where I’ve played out of position at left-back. You do the job for the team,” he said. “I can’t say I particularly enjoyed it but you dig in there.

“Look at Chris Brunt. He’s probably never called himself a left-back but he’s done a very good job there.

“He fancies himself a midfielder, but he comes in and works hard. Allan Nyom has played left back this season, he probably doesn’t fancy himself a left-back, but he’s a cult hero now at West Brom.

“Already everyone loves him and you get that when the team is winning and doing well. “There’s momentum, but it takes everyone to buy into it for that to happen. Everyone wants to be a part of it as well.”