Dyche on Everton's fitness issues and long term injury report pre Ipswich

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Everton boss Sean Dyche updated on their long injury list and said there were some positive signs ahead of their Premier League clash with Ipswich Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK

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00:00With those players that have been missing, so where are we at with Brantwaite, Mikalenko, Coleman and Paterson first of all?

00:06Well, first of all, Mikalenko is looking good, so that's a good step in the right direction.

00:12Shames is back in the group and he's had more or less the week.

00:15Jared's a bit behind them, but he's been on the grass with us, but a little bit behind them.

00:21Who's the one I'm missing, you mentioned? Oh, Pato, yeah.

00:23Well, he's just on his longer-term plan to get him back, but he's looking fitter and sharper all the time.

00:28Not quite there yet, but he's training all the time and so far he's coming through it clean, which is really important.

00:33That's it, clear of injuries. And Schimitty and Brogier as well?

00:36Yeah, a bit longer-term. Youssef's been incredibly unlucky, probably the most unlucky out of all of them with the oddest injury,

00:44and he's making good progress now. He's on the grass with the sports scientists and so is Brogier,

00:48so he's in front of Youssef with his comeback, if one had a better way of putting it.

00:53He will need a games programme, but he's certainly working actively now with the sports science group

00:57and hopefully he'll be crossing over with us soon.

01:00And obviously we saw Limon and Di come off with seemingly an injury in the first game against Malawi,

01:05then he came on as a substitute for Senegal in the second game.

01:07So how is he? Has he come through unscathed?

01:09Yeah, yeah, it's settled down really quickly.

01:11I think it was one of them that had to be cautious at first, but it's settled down and he was clear-minded.

01:16We spoke to him, he said, no, no, I'm clear to be involved in that second game.

01:20And he's come back and he's trained today, so we're hopeful on that one.

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