Dyche on Everton's 4-0 Utd hammering

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Dyche on Everton's 4-0 Utd hammering  01/12/2024  Old Trafford, Manchester, UK

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00:00It's not difficult from my point of view, I thought it was 32 minutes before their first

00:27goal, I thought we were giving a good performance, I thought we were disrupting their play, I

00:30thought we were trying to be effective, asking questions of them and not too many against

00:35ourselves but then I saw half a mistake, I was trying to block it, that's the way it

00:40goes and fortunately it went in and then a second mistake and all of a sudden the whole

00:44feeling's changed and that's why goals change games, it's not just the physical scoreline,

00:49it's the feel of a performance and they grow a little bit.

00:53The third one's my biggest guy, I don't know where we're going on that one, I can assure

00:57you there's nothing about that at half-time so I think we got too involved in the moment

01:02and then it's hard work from there and 2-0, you never know the way we're playing, we nick

01:06one, it changes the feeling back in our favour but at 3-0 it's very difficult in the Premier

01:11League anywhere, particularly here, new manager, the feel, all the rest of it so by then the

01:16game's gone and then it's damage limitation and looking after our players because we've

01:19got another big game coming up.

01:21You've talked about a shot not called at the end of the first period and then you've

01:26been out of four today, is that disappointing?

01:29Yeah of course and we had a spell of mistakes early in the season and then we changed that

01:35and eradicated that obviously with only conceding four in the last eight and then today the

01:40mistakes crept back in and it's highly improbable that we get that many mistakes in one game

01:44but we did and it had a massive effect on the outcome.

01:52Well there's no collapse, they scored the third in the first 30 seconds but 3-0 down

01:56at any level of football is very difficult but particularly at this level of football.

02:00And is it winning if you see them score so early?

02:02Yeah like I said, you can't legislate for that, I've never seen my team do that or a

02:07team I've worked with just crunch the pitch so far over that it's just literally a hoik

02:11out the other way and they're not necessarily right on goal but they're in a very advantageous

02:16goal-scoring position so yeah it's no collapse, it's just a ridiculous moment for a team to

02:23give away such a soft goal, that was my big squab of the goals, mistakes can happen, these

02:27are good players who rarely have made their mistakes but that as a team, that's something

02:32that you certainly can't legislate for and the team know that of course they do.

02:36After you went behind, do you have anything you might have forgotten?

02:39Certainly in the first half without a doubt and then the second half has gone away too

02:43quickly, I haven't even had time to sit and absorb what's just gone on really or stand

02:47and absorb in my case but no, first half I said to the team at half-time, I said lads

02:51it's still there, you know the sense of what we were getting into key areas, some of the

02:55play to open them up I thought was very good so yeah of course you always believe but it

03:00does wane when you're just giving away a really poor goal within 30 seconds of the second

03:05half, obviously it's very difficult from then and I've been in this league for a long time

03:08and it's very difficult to come back from 3-0 down at Old Trafford.

03:11You said early season, hopefully you tell it the right way this time because I didn't

03:19question our fans, I never have questioned our fans, not you personally but maybe at

03:24large, I've never questioned our fans, never once and I certainly wouldn't.

03:29They're here again today, they're in good voice, they want to support the team and they

03:32want to support a team that can win and we haven't won and they're simple as that so

03:35therefore no question of our fans, the question on me, myself, the staff, the team and how

03:40we can correct things further, how we can go further with this team, they're the questions

03:44but never on the fans.

03:50There's key moments, there's the evidence, we're still finding key moments but we've

03:53got to take them, I mean they took theirs today from mistakes, they still found the

03:57last pass, the last finish, it's been a challenge here, I've spoken about it to you and others

04:01recently, I looked down the last five seasons, not a team that's been scoring loads of goals

04:05for a long time, it's how effective you can be but you've got to keep the backdoor shut

04:09quite obviously and we've been doing that but how can you find other ways of scoring

04:13and today I thought we got in some really good areas, the final finish, the final moment,

04:18slide pass, a shot, you know these sort of things, they're vital in a game and we haven't

04:22got on the right side of that again today.

04:32We'll just continue to work with it, it's not that easy as I said to you recently, you

04:35know most managers fix it with a checkbook, we haven't had that since I've been at the

04:39club so therefore we're trying to progress in different ways, trying to find different

04:42ways, different players, different options, different ways of playing, today we tried

04:46to play more open, we tried to open up options to get into the final third differently if

04:51not better and I thought we did that certainly for 32 minutes, we changed the striker, bit

04:57harsh on Dom, I don't think he's doing a lot wrong but obviously three in a week, we have

05:00to monitor that as well, try in different ways to be effective you know and open up

05:04the opposition and it's a tough ask obviously if it wasn't everyone would do it.

05:10I've turned around many things in my career and certainly here, because it's me, it's

05:14been up, down, up, down, up, down ever since I've been here, since the first day I walked

05:17in so that's the ongoing challenge and I think the consistency of a group here has been hard

05:22to find for me, for the last manager, the one before that, so it's not like a given

05:27that you find that consistency but I think we've got a group of players who are very

05:30honest, I think they're up for the challenge, they've shown that for the last couple of

05:32seasons, that's the challenge right in front of our eyes straight again.

05:39Do you work in the week and like you say, you have a good half an hour in the game and

05:42then once the second half is over, Liverpool are all the way caught in possession and

05:47Pogacic is in the second half, do you kind of know if some people are feeling a bit helpless?

05:54No, not helpless, I mean it's very unlikely for one thing that that happens and occurs,

05:59like I say a couple of mistakes early season but there's not been many of that ilk since

06:03I've been at the club and to have three in a game, more or less individual, two and a

06:10half I would say, I was a bit unfortunate on the first one, is unlikely, we've got to

06:15make sure it stays unlikely but these are the biggest challenges of being a manager,

06:18you know the bit when someone should defend that and the bit when they score at that end,

06:21that's the biggest challenge of being a manager, getting them in the right areas,

06:24getting them in the zones, getting them in a place to score, the final moment when they

06:28put it in there, that's the hardest thing as a manager, equally the final moment of

06:31making a good decision, they're the hardest things to manage.

06:39Yeah, no it certainly wasn't a tactical idea, no, it's just one of them things,

06:45you know trying to be up for, I suppose being overzealous in your actions, trying to get

06:49involved, you know trying to start hard and fast and bright, which I asked them to do and just

06:54get involved in a moment but no, there's no tactical reason for that, I can assure you.

07:00And last season, because of the support, it's much less than the points we're getting this

07:06season, why do you think it's been such a slump last season?

07:10Well it's been tough all along, there's not been a slump, it's the fine lines of

07:14finding consistency to win are there for most in the Premier League, not the superpowers,

07:19getting on the right side of their margins, you know and I think we haven't done that as well.

07:24I wasn't expecting, there seems to be this mythical thing we spoke about this week,

07:27like the last season of the old lady, as if everyone's become better players, they haven't,

07:33you know there's still a reality of Everton Football Club, bring more money in than you're

07:36spending, try and work with the players you've got, try and develop them, sell a few when you

07:40can to bring some money in, that hasn't changed and we don't know whether it will, we've got

07:43possibly new owners coming in, it might well change, we'd have to wait and see but that's

07:48been the task I've been given and it's still there now, so was I expected to do better than this?

07:54Yes, myself and the players that is, as a collective and I think we should have done

07:59better than that with the chances we're creating games to win games but we haven't taken them

08:03chances and when a bad day comes, if you haven't taken chances in the previous games,

08:08then it makes the noise just get bigger, that's football, that's life in football.

08:11Might the nature of today's league prompt a rethink?

08:20Oh, we rethink everything constantly, all managers do, trust me, there's never,

08:24I remember Michael Duff came on staff at Burnley and he had this feeling that,

08:28as you know everyone just said I just played a 4-4-2 and then he came in a meeting when he was

08:32on staff and he went, oh my goodness I didn't realise how many hours you spend talking about

08:36options, possibles, mental side of the game, physical side of the game, who's positive,

08:42who's not, who's ready, who's not, subs, who's subs, why are they subs, reasons,

08:47trust me it's an ongoing thing, all managers, well all that I know, is a constant, we never

08:52just roll anyone out there, we're always looking who's on form, who can do this,

08:55what can we look at, how can they affect us, how can they affect the opposition and deal with that,

09:00over 32 minutes a day I think everyone would go yeah, they've done it well,

09:04you know that's the nature of the game, it doesn't last 32 minutes, it lasts for 96, 97, 98, whatever.

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