Sean Dyche being let down at Everton after what happened vs Aston Villa
Matthew Upson has claimed that the Everton players let Sean Dyche down in the 3-2 loss to Aston Villa.
For the second consecutive Premier League match the Blues lost a football match wherein they held a two-goal lead via Dwight McNeil and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Dyche is under immense pressure at Goodison Park following four losses from four at the start of the season but Upson, when discussing the match on the Monday Breakfast Club for BBC Radio 5 Live [16 September], feels sympathy for the Blues boss and revealed how the side failed him on Saturday [14 September].
He said: “I feel for Sean Dyche to be honest, he’s doing a pretty good job there. He’s had some pretty good performances, but he’s just been let down with certain moments.
“Defensively, they will be disappointed with a couple and then Calvert-Lewin, I thought he looked back to his best.
“Late in the game, just moments where you think he’s got to make that count and it’s just not happening for Everton and it’s not because they’re not playing that well, it’s just moments that are not being taken care of that well to be honest.”
Everton are losing matches due to fine margins
The Blues are an imbalanced side and it makes matters worse when the manager has no idea who his best players are and more importantly, where to play them.
Dyche experimented with McNeil operating in a central role, and the decision initially paid in dividends with the 24-year-old dispossessing former teammate Amadou Onana, albeit controversially, to open the scoring for his side.
Everton proved they could withstand the onslaught from the hosts in the opening exchanges and all the players had to do was absorb the Aston Villa pressure, frustrate them, and they would have been celebrating three points on the trip back to Merseyside.
The 11-minute period between McNeil’s opener and Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s goal was superb from the Toffees and, in all fairness, it took a sensational long-range strike from Jhon Duran for Champions League Aston Villa to beat bottom-of-the-table Everton.
With another away trip up next to newly-promoted Leicester City, if Dyche can find a way to reproduce the 87-minute display against Bournemouth with the 11 minutes against Villa, the Blues will be more than capable of recording their first win of the season at the King Power Stadium.
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