Leicester City vs Everton: What Sean Dyche wants from his side ahead of pulsating relegation contest?

Everton manager Sean Dyche wants his side to take the positives from the first half display during the 4-1 defeat to Newcastle United in their last match.

Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin attending a training session in a file photo; Credit: Twitter/@Everton
By Karthik Raman | May 1, 2023 | 3 Min Read follow icon Follow Us

Leicester City welcome Everton to King Power Stadium for a crunch relegation contest, which will see two sides that are sitting in the bottom three places going against each other. With the season nearing its end, every result counts for a team. It is even more important when the clubs are battling relegation threat. Leicester are placed 18th in the Premier League table with 29 points from 33 games, while Everton are a point and a place below them in the standings having played the same number of matches.

Everton manager Sean Dyche wants his side to take the positives from the first half display during the 4-1 defeat to Newcastle United in their last match. However, he wants his team to maintain that standard for the entire game. “It’s going to take playing like we did for the first half and keeping that consistency throughout the whole 95 minutes because that’s what you have to do,” Dyche, quoted by their club’s website, said in his press conference. “You make sure every detail is covered, everything counts in a game of football. That’s what we’re not doing as well as when I first got here.

“Until the second goal [against Newcastle] it was a very good performance but after the second goal that’s the big challenge for me. Where did the mentality go? How quickly did that change? Who re-grips it? Who in our team goes, ‘Right, okay, let’s re-grip what we’re doing here’? Because we weren’t a million miles away.  You can’t wait for it to happen. I always believe there has to be a future in your performances and if we were to lose [against Newcastle] but play like we did in the first half, there is a future in that because you know on another day that isn’t going to happen with that style and level of performance.”

The stakes should be high: Sean Dyche

The upcoming game is a crucial battle between two sides fighting for relegation. It gives massive advantage to the team that wins the game to climb out of the bottom three places in the Premier League. “The stakes have been high since I got here. The stakes should be high, by the way. A club like Everton… the stakes should be high. That’s what the players need to remember. They need to be high at this football club. [A win at Leicester] creates a different atmosphere. If we go down there, take on the game and win, then it creates a different atmosphere and the belief floods back in very quickly,” he explained.

Sean Dyche also insisted that it is up to the players now to “make things happen,” as he believes it will turn their fortunes around. “It’s strange how quickly it can turn around. The key point is you making it happen, I can’t emphasise that enough. I say it to the players constantly – you make things happen in football. Now and again you get a lucky one but even that doesn’t really build belief. The ones that build belief are when you take it on, then deliver and get a result,” he elaborated.

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