Everton have been up and down so far since Sean Dyche took over, and fixing their chronic goalscoring issues might be the biggest job of his career so far. twoht
The full-time whistle at Goodison Park on Saturday brought a familiar ringing to the ears of Everton’s players. Aston Villa had arrived there off the back of three consecutive defeats during which they’d shipped 11 goals.
The lift that comes with the former can be audibly enervating, and the reaction of Everton’s players to those vast swells of noise against Arsenal was telling. They played as though visibly lifted by that reaction and by the end of that game the result felt like something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, even against the Premier League leaders.
Winning every other game they play for the rest of the season would keep them in the Premier League , but when those defeats come, they seem to have a greater negative effect than the positive effects of winning. To put it another way, Everton seem considerably more likely to go on a losing run than a winning one.
None of this is intended as criticism of the player. He has had phenomenally bad luck with injuries, and the stop-start nature of his season has prevented the build-up of any head of steam that he might have been able to turn to his advantage.
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