2022/23 Sean Dyche

[Walken]

It's not 'near impossible'

He'll have had 18 games - the same as Lampard did - to keep us up.

He's a better manager than Lampard, so by that logic that should make up for the 4-point advantage Lampard had when he came in.

He's done okay so far but he's a month in and we're seeing the same issues as we saw under Lampard, which was getting caught on the break and isolated defending.

If we go down he won't be blameless and personally any manager that takes Everton down, for me they shouldn't be safe in their job.

However, all things considered he'd probably be the right pick to get us straight back up.

But he needs to start getting us organised. In no way do we look defensively solid.

The problem with defensive solidarity comes from having no presence up front. One of doucoure or onana has to get forward to be a physical presence which leaves us vulnerable in transition. You can remove that and make us more solid but then a team that struggles to score will create even less chances. Its a tough one to balance.

Probably hyperbole on my part and dyche will like all managers have to bear responsibility for the results as that's the job he took. That being if he's there from day one he absolutely keeps us up, there is no question the clown lampard wasted our most winnable fixtures. Lots of other blame to quite rightly go around, how much of it goes to dyche is a tricky question, depends on the nature of the relegation.

Comparing this season to last season is ridiculous though. Its a different job, different squad, different league, different opposition.

 

[Nymzee]

It's not 'near impossible'

He'll have had 18 games - the same as Lampard did - to keep us up.

He's a better manager than Lampard, so by that logic that should make up for the 4-point advantage Lampard had when he came in.

He's done okay so far but he's a month in and we're seeing the same issues as we saw under Lampard, which was getting caught on the break and isolated defending.

If we go down he won't be blameless and personally any manager that takes Everton down, for me they shouldn't be safe in their job.

However, all things considered he'd probably be the right pick to get us straight back up.

But he needs to start getting us organised. In no way do we look defensively solid.

Lampard had forwards, Dyche doesn't. The line in bold doesn't really account for that.

 

[Billy Dean]

I feel that he isn't playing his strongest side, if Mina is fit, he should start, by allowing Keane game time over him, isn't picking his best XI for me.

Mina is a liability for me. If you start him you have to waste a substition after he pulls up injured

 

[Nymzee]

Mina is a liability for me. If you start him you have to waste a substition after he pulls up injured

We have 5, not as a big of a deal now

 

[bcblue1878]

Between his awful management and Brands blowing all that dosh the pair have killed us.

With every day that passes it becomes more and more apparent that Brands was possibly the least of the problems at this football club!

 

[d0rk]

He'll have had 18 games - the same as Lampard did - to keep us up.

He's a better manager than Lampard, so by that logic that should make up for the 4-point advantage Lampard had when he came in.

Except Lampard actually had some reasonable forward line. Dyche is playing with an even bigger handicap.

 

[Clarky cat]

1-2 up all forest he needing to change something and he didn’t that’s on him

Yet they created nothing until Doucoure gave away the ball with our other midfielders all running past him leaving us exposed. There was no need to change anything, we were doing ok.

 

[DualityNSNO]

We have 5, not as a big of a deal now

And we use 1 per match anyway lol

 

[maccavennie]

We have 5, not as a big of a deal now

I can't even remember if we've ever used 4 let alone 5. Have we even used 3 subs this season (maybe Chelsea at home due to injuries?)

 

[andy4efc]

Yet they created nothing until Doucoure gave away the ball with our other midfielders all running past him leaving us exposed. There was no need to change anything, we were doing ok.

Tactically maybe.

Physically it needed changing as that goal was coming, everybody could see it. Im the first to criticise Doucoure as a footballer becuase I dont think he's very good with the ball. However once i'd calmed down from yesterday, he was absolutely goosed. It needed changing.

They brought on 3 fresh legs and we didn't change a thing.
Poor management from me. Doesn't excuse the poor mistake from Doucoure. We'd been lumping it in behind loads blindly, all he needed to do then. I can see how someone is knackered can make that mistake though.

 

[LucBesson]

Yet they created nothing until Doucoure gave away the ball with our other midfielders all running past him leaving us exposed. There was no need to change anything, we were doing ok.

Exactly. It was absolute madness that both Onana and Gueye decided to start flying up the field simultaneously given the circumstances.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I can't even remember if we've ever used 4 let alone 5. Have we even used 3 subs this season (maybe Chelsea at home due to injuries?)

I think we emptied the bench at 4 nil down against Brighton lol

 

[gedefc]

Yet they created nothing until Doucoure gave away the ball with our other midfielders all running past him leaving us exposed. There was no need to change anything, we were doing ok.

This.

plus the fact the bench had nobody of any note to bring on to change the game. Davies & Maupay proved that

 

[davek]

That’s with playing the league leaders twice and Liverpool away too.

We have better form since Dyche took over than Chelsea and Newcastle...and Chelsea and Newcastle in that period have both had three games against relegation threatened teams.

With a half decent forward we'd be out of this mess by now.

It's about 50-50 whether we stay up or go down, but there's no question we are now more competitive than under Lampard. If he gets what he's got so far until the end of the season I believe we'll just stay up.

 

[Marius57]

This.

plus the fact the bench had nobody of any note to bring on to change the game. Davies & Maupay proved that

Yeah, they had a real chance of changing the game coming on at 89 minutes

It’s not always about changing the game, sometimes just adding some fresh legs to provide a bit of stability and more structure is just as important. 70mins in when it was obvious that players were flagging and they may have provided that stability.