Dyche on Everton's injury and illness crisis ahead of Leicester clash

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Everton boss Sean Dyche on the injury crisis and illness hitting the club ahead of their Premier League clash with Leicester Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK

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00:00Can I just start maybe by dividing your missing players up into maybe the sick and the injured, can we go through those?

00:06Yeah, I've got a list just so I don't forget anyone.

00:08Jared's making progress, hopefully gets involved in a game this weekend, it's looking like he will do with the under-21s.

00:15Tarkowski, sorry, we're hopeful, trained today so there's no reaction.

00:21Nathan Paterson, same as Jared.

00:24Dominic Cavalluon, looks okay today, he was back in on the grass so we're hopeful that his illness is gone.

00:31Jimmy Garner is still not in with illness.

00:34Idrissa unfortunately is at a family bereavement so he won't be here.

00:41Mikko is through the illness, he was in today so we're hopeful that's him done.

00:46Shames is still injured, unfortunately going to be longer than we hoped.

00:50So that's not going to be a quick situation, we're not sure on the timescales yet.

00:54Yousef's making good progress but obviously quite a long-term injury.

00:59Armando, he's making progress but obviously a longer-term injury.

01:03Keno is getting checked out today, just having a precautionary scan to make sure he's okay.

01:09That is some list, have you known a list like that in your management years?

01:13We carry in such a small squad anyway so it's not been that helpful.

01:18On and off from pre-season it's been an awkward run.

01:21And obviously this week we've been as stretched as we've been, particularly for the Cup game.

01:27The other night people were questioning why I didn't change the team.

01:32This is what it is unfortunately, this is the reality and that was the reality of the players we had fit for that game.

01:36So we're hopeful on a couple of these coming through tomorrow and training so we'll have to wait and see.

01:41What if you prepare for a game when you're juggling so many players, maybe, maybe not?

01:46It's difficult because the other day we had the morning because three players came in ill.

01:53So we just had an hour in the morning to get the ideas out into the players the best we could,

02:00the set pieces etc. and put them out there.

02:03We're hopeful that tomorrow we get a few bodies back so at least we've got a day's prep before we go to Leicester.

02:09It's a rare reality but it's still a reality.

02:12I've not experienced this many injured and ill in such a short space of time.

02:16It's just one of them things at the moment. A lot of things seem to be big challenges for us.

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