Eddie Howe underlines key requirement for Newcastle United against Frank Lampard's Everton

Eddie Howe has warned his Newcastle United stars they will have to produce their "best fitness markers" to overcome Frank Lampard's Everton.

Howe watched Everton's 4-1 victory over Brentford in the FA Cup and admired the way Lampard went about his business on his managerial bow at Goodison Park.

Whether that new manager bounce continues at St James' Park remains to be seen, but Howe said: "Every new manager naturally changes the dynamic slightly and asks his players to do slightly different things.

"I think Frank will have his philosophy and his way of playing, and I think that was quite evident against Brentford – I think we saw a team that was playing out from the back, comfortable in possession and certainly attacked very well on the day."

When asked about Lampard's capabilities as a top-flight boss, he said of the former Chelsea gaffer: "I fully respect Frank, I know him well.

"I think he's an outstanding manager and he's got a great backroom team with him – really astute people, clever people that have gone in behind him to work with him and the players.

"I think they have a strong management team, a strong team on the pitch so – as always in every Premier League game – we're going to have to be at our very best to win.

"If you look back at the Leeds game for us, you saw the performance, the physical effort we gave – some of our best fitness markers of the season we gave in that match to win, and we're going to have to repeat that here."