Everton 0-2 Nottingham Forest: Match Report

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Will Rooney reportd from Goodison Park.

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00:00Full-time here at Goodison Park, the last game of 2024 ended in defeat for Everton.

00:072-0 loss at the hands of Nottingham Forest and it was a disappointing one for the Blues.

00:12Look, Nottingham Forest are high-flying, they've gone to second in the Premier League table,

00:17they're this season's surprise package, but Everton supporters expect more when they're

00:22not playing at Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool at home.

00:26They expected to win most games at Goodison and unfortunately they came up against the

00:33Forest side who they couldn't break down.

00:36They knew what Forest wanted to do, they wanted to sit and play on the counter-attack and

00:40Everton couldn't break them down, they struggled and it was a deserved defeat for Sean Dyche's side.

00:46They had more possession but he barely laid a glove on Nottingham Forest and Forest hit

00:52them twice, punished them twice.

00:55Yeah, Everton didn't start too badly in a lemon and dye, had an early chance to put

00:59it over the bar but Forest started to threaten and in the 15th minute, poor defender from

01:04Everton's behalf.

01:05James Tarkowski left, Chris Wood, his former Burnley team-mate, go.

01:09He played a 1-2 with Anthony Alanga and then he fires over it, Joe Pickford tears Everton.

01:16He must have somewhat of a response, Armando Brozier who was making his first start since

01:21arriving on loan from Chelsea has a couple of half chances but Everton didn't test the

01:26goalkeeper, they couldn't test.

01:28Matt Sells in the Forest goal and second half started Everton doing okay again but

01:33architects their own downfall, Abdullahi Zakhori plays a loose pass.

01:37James Tarkowski and Vitaly Mikhalenko fail to react to the loose ball and Forest break

01:42a pace and Morgan Gibbs-White finishes it off and that killed Everton, never got back

01:46into it.

01:48This Everton team really struggle at home and against teams who want Everton to have

01:55more of the ball.

01:57Brentford, it happens when they have more of the ball and now this game.

02:02Sean Dyche said when the three can prove for both the club that he'll be judged on wins.

02:09You could argue the Chelsea and the Man City draws, where they set up for Everton, they

02:16are more suited to being defensive.

02:19Two gutsy points you have to say but those opposition were probably more suited than

02:25the Forest.

02:26Everton struggle to break teams down, there were too many poor performances though today,

02:30Abdullahi Zakhori was poor, Jack Harrison's having a real tough run of form, James Tarkowski

02:37was all over the place especially in the first half.

02:40These are the games that Everton have got to be winning, they go to Bournemouth next

02:44and these are the games that Sean Dyche is going to be judged on if he does want to win

02:48a new contract.

02:50As things stand the three can prove, you can't see him giving one.

02:53Sean Dyche said he hasn't put all his work in to walk away at the end of the season.

02:58Everton have got to find a way to win games and it's up to Sean Dyche to do that.

03:04They need to find a little bit more attacking flair, a bit more attacking prowess.

03:13It's a struggle at the minute, last game of 2024, the year has ended somewhat positively,

03:20well very positive off the pitch.

03:22A pretty good group taking over and being handed keys to a new stadium but from now

03:27until May the end of the season Everton need to start picking up results because if they

03:32don't they will be in a relegation battle again.

03:35Finished Everton nil, Nottingham Forest two.

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