2022/23 Sean Dyche

[Goodisongang]

You cant criticise a manager who sees his team rack up 23 shots on goal, dominates a game and the team he started out with apart from Coleman pushes back the opposition on their own pitch and nearly nicks it at the end with that Doucoure shot.

That's just ridiculous.

You can though, because we done enough to win that game from chances created but we didn't because he yet again picked his pal Keane meaning we were always going to concede goals.

If coady or mina started that game we'd have probably won.

As others have stated, Keane is the hill dyche will die on

 

[ToffeeTim]

They had a GK who kept them in it. Right till the end.

That tells me our manager knows what he's doing.

He played well, but we could still have done more. It's a results game, and 1 in 11 at the business end of the season is not good enough, not even close.

We will need 2 from 4 to get out of trouble

 

[nsno-chris]

They had a GK who kept them in it. Right till the end.

That tells me our manager knows what he's doing.

Let’s not beat around the bush Dave, you didn’t watch it did you

 

[Eggs]

You cant criticise a manager who sees his team rack up 23 shots on goal, dominates a game and the team he started out with apart from Coleman pushes back the opposition on their own pitch and nearly nicks it at the end with that Doucoure shot.

That's just ridiculous.

…exactly. I think those stats confirm the team tried to win the game. As Dyche said afterwards, they’ve been working on the mentality of players, encouraging them to get forward and create. I actually thought they were quite brave in possession, something we’re going to have to be if we beat the drop.

I feel better about our situation than I did yesterday morning. I have no idea how this will play out, i don’t believe in forecasting our results and those of others but I think we have a chance. I‘d be chuffed if we are outside the bottom 3 going into the Bournemouth game knowing a win would see us safe.

 

[davek]

Let’s not beat around the bush Dave, you didn’t watch it did you

I watched it and I clearly understand football more than you.

 

[nsno-chris]

I watched it and I clearly understand football more than you.

There are 2 lies in that statement, can you guess what they are?

 

[davek]

…exactly. I think those stats confirm the team tried to win the game. As Dyche said afterwards, they’ve been working on the mentality of players, encouraging them to get forward and create. I actually thought they were quite brave in possession, something we’re going to have to be if we beat the drop.

I feel better about our situation than I did yesterday morning. I have no idea how this will play out, i don’t believe in forecasting our results and those of others but I think we have a chance. I‘d be chuffed if we are outside the bottom 3 going into the Bournemouth game knowing a win would see us safe.

Well, unlike others I firmly believe the B'mouth game will be a live one.

There's a point in the next 2 games for us and I think Wolves on the basis of last night looks winnable...certainly a draw there. I think 31 points gets us a shot final day. But maybe we can get a point or two more...which would give us a real shot of determining our own fate.

 

[Nymzee]

You cant criticise a manager who sees his team rack up 23 shots on goal, dominates a game and the team he started out with apart from Coleman pushes back the opposition on their own pitch and nearly nicks it at the end with that Doucoure shot.

That's just ridiculous.

This number isn't really impressive when only 8 were on target.

 

[Carlito]

At least he can stop talking about the Arsenal game now that he's got 15 shots off target to hang his hat on.

 

[jceverton]

A lot of us, myself included, wanted Iwobi off at half time. All of us wanted to not lose. Would you have preferred a couple more subs on, gone gung-ho and lost 4-3?

Straw man argument.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

Lots to be pleased and disappointed about last night. Main positives being chances created, and we look to have cut out the bottling when going behind.

We’ve had a lot of good first 20mins in games of late. Teams are always in games with us due to our propensity to soil our own sheets completely unprovoked. Would love one of our strong starts to see us 2 nil up, whoever the opposition. We will always have an out ball if Dom stays fit.

No idea what’s happened to those dangerous back post corners we mastered when Dyche arrived. Set pieces atrocious at the moment.

 

[Rodebaard]

I know we don't have much on the bench, but he needed to make some changes around the 75 min mark (if not before). Doucoure was totally spent and the midfield was overrun.

 

[Roger Milla]

How are we in the mess we are in and someone manage to appoint the only person on the planet that thinks Keane should start ahead of Mina. It's absolutely mental

 

[Little Ralphy]

…exactly. I think those stats confirm the team tried to win the game. As Dyche said afterwards, they’ve been working on the mentality of players, encouraging them to get forward and create. I actually thought they were quite brave in possession, something we’re going to have to be if we beat the drop.

I feel better about our situation than I did yesterday morning. I have no idea how this will play out, i don’t believe in forecasting our results and those of others but I think we have a chance. I‘d be chuffed if we are outside the bottom 3 going into the Bournemouth game knowing a win would see us safe.

Do you think he could have improved on that though by making changes in the second half? Iwobi, Dacoure even McNeil and DCL all looked goosed towards the end and because we didn't really retain possession well, it was a very open game. I personally felt that if he had introduced Gray and Onana for Iwobi and Dacoure at the very least, then we would have had two players capable of driving with the ball at pace, rather than two whose influence on the game had waned.
I'd also like to have seen Keane hooked, as he looked a liability all game (well every game, he should be nowhere near the side). He mentions in his interviews about transition and Everton have always been a team that gets caught out by it, because we have very little pace about us, but I think they could sort this out better by having the holding midfielder actually sit in the holding role. Gueye constantly moves away from this area, and Maddison kept dropping in to it to pick up the ball last night. Each game, most of the break aways could be solved by having the holder behind the play, rather than constantly in front of it. It puts a lot of pressure on two centre backs who have no pace themselves.

 

[Dixie1sixty]

I want him to do everything possible at his disposal to win games. He’s not doing that. Two points from last 2 games is a poor return, given our desperate situation.

It's an appropriate return for the talent at his disposal.