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'I think you have to reach for the stars': Everton new boy Ben Godfrey wants to go all the way to the top after successful Toffees debut in heated Merseyside derby

Few players have gone from the bottom to top of the Premier League as quickly as Everton’s new £25million defender Ben Godfrey but there will be no letting up under boss Carlo Ancelotti.

Godfrey ended the last campaign with 11 consecutive defeats at Norwich who finished 13 points adrift of everyone else.

Yet here he is, less than three months later, playing for unbeaten Everton who ended last weekend top of the table after Godfrey made his debut in a controversial 2-2 draw against Liverpool.

In the hustle and bustle of the Merseyside derby, Ben Godfrey made his Everton debut

‘I think you have to reach for the stars.