Pundit issues Goodison Park admission ahead of Everton v Luton Town Premier League clash
Michael Ball believes that Everton need to make Goodison Pak a horrible place to visit ahead of the arrival of Luton Town in the Premier League.
The newly-promoted side, still looking for their first point will be travelling to Merseyside this week to face Sean Dyche’s side on Saturday, 30 September.
The Toffees sit in 15th place currently – three points shy of the dreaded relegation zone.
Ball told the Liverpool Echo on 25 September, “Everyone has been looking at this Luton game as our first win, thankfully it’s not!
“Hopefully, it’s confidence we can bring back to Goodison Park with back-to-back wins in the Premier League. I’ve watched Luton pretty closely, they have been half unlucky, they’ve come to the Premier League, the standards higher but they’ve been unlucky.
“When Goodison Park is bouncing, opposition players just want to go home. They will want the referee to blow the whistle because they know they’ll be against it, we’ve got to use that to our advantage, Sean Dyche has to set his team up correctly and that’s what we need to learn from the Arsenal game.
“Luton are enjoying these Premier League grounds, we’ve got to make it horrible for them and not a nice afternoon.”
Spot on
Goodison Park used to be a place sides feared coming to because of the hostile atmosphere the fans generated.
The players were also up for a physical battle and that immediately put opposition players on the backfoot as they knew that they have come in for a fight.
Sean Dyche embodied that philosophy at Turf Moor and he’s got to instil it at Everton as well.
The style of football is never going to be pretty, as everyone expected once he joined, but if he gets getting the results, there won’t be too many dissenting voices.
Points on the table and not beautiful football are what will get Everton away from the drop zone and there are no excuses for not picking up three points at Goodison Park.
Luton are the teams against whom it needs to be written in stone and anything other than a win is a failure.
In other Everton news, a condition has now emerged on Sean Dyche being sacked amid trouble behind the scenes at Goodison Park.