Is Gordon the answer to Chelsea's attacking problems?

The ball dropped out of the late summer sky and Goodison Park collectively held its breath.

It appeared Steve Cook had fatally miscalculated the waspish presence of Anthony Gordon when a failed header back to Dean Henderson landed at the Everton youngster's feet.

Everton, hauled level by Demarai Gray just moments earlier, had the chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat but as the Gwladys Street bayed for Gordon to produce a lobbed finish or even round the Nottingham Forest goalkeeper, his execution would let him down as Henderson came rushing out to make a Schmeichel-like starfish save.

It summed up Gordon's afternoon. He created a number of chances for himself in the 1-1 draw on Saturday - the club's first Premier League point of the season - but was unable to find the net.

Lampard feels there is a lot to work on but is convinced Gordon has the desire to do so.

He said: "Anthony is a great professional, he has a great hunger as a young lad. He wants to work on his finishing.

"Some of it is just pure development - as a young player who gave us so much last year in his output, the goals will just come. But it takes a bit of time sometimes to get that in your game.

"Even for some of the greatest players, to expect them to be plundering goals at 21-22 is not always the norm. There is the occasional exception, No 9s, (Erling) Haaland etc - it is their thing.

"But Anthony has a lot of strings to his bow and the goalscoring one will come."

It ended a week of heavy speculation surrounding Gordon's future, but the rumours haven't gone away. The player has been linked with a move to Lampard's old club Chelsea but the Toffees hope to keep the dynamic 21-year-old.

The curiosity is that on the surface, he would be moving