Scoring goals isn’t just a player problem, it’s a Sean Dyche problem and has plagued his tenure wherever he’s been for his entire managerial career, regardless of the players at his disposal. This is a fact.
Playing for set pieces, fortune and individual magic after he has tied his creative players shoelaces together in a defensive knot. It’s 2024, that’s still his masterplan and has never changed, ever.
It’s ok to say he did well last season, he did. This season, with a much improved squad in attacking areas and favourable fixtures has been absolutely unforgivable and shown him up for the negative, defend-at-all-costs (even in the number 10 position…) coward he is.
Football has evolved past him and his 2 besties while they just pretend to write something down and then chuck someone else up front (even an centre back when you’ve substituted other attackers) and hope for the best. Watching us labour in the second half against 10 men showed that the players work on absolutely nothing on trying to score goals, no quick passing to drag Brentford out of shape, no trying to go past players to take them out of the game, no doubling up to allow our extra man to gain advantage, no pushing up (until the last few minutes) to pin Brentford in. Today also showed for the second time this season that Beto and DCL have never been coached to play with each other. These issues are easily solved by a coach who has more than 1 way of playing football, apparently £5m a year and a magnificent new stadium won’t be enough to lure anyone other than this arrogant, gaslighting, snot rubbing helmet.