Dyche angry after Everton blow two-goal lead to lose 3-2 win injury time
31/08/2024
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
31/08/2024
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
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00:00Well I explain it by not doing the hard side of the game. I speak to the players all the
00:25time and that's my biggest frustration since the moment I walked in here. I've always said
00:30whatever you learn from me, the fact is the game lasts as long as the referee makes it last,
00:33so you have to play for every breath of the game. When you see a side dominate so clearly,
00:40make so many chances, unfortunately that's been a challenge ever since I've been here,
00:43people taking chances, but we've created a load again today. And then not just do the basics,
00:48at the end of the day, it's such a marvellous game, win your headers, win your tackles,
00:51win your races, you win the game. But for whatever reason, they score a goal and we're
00:56just looking at each other, everyone's staring at each other, who's going to do that, who's going
01:00to win a challenge, who's going to win a race, who's going to win a header, and waiting for
01:03someone else to do it, and you can't do that. Everyone's got to make a difference. And they did
01:07for 87 minutes, it's a very, very good performance, I was very pleased with the mixture of the play.
01:12They played quite long actually, just putting it forward, we dealt with that, no problem.
01:16And then for whatever reason, after the first goal I could smell it in the air, I thought,
01:20not necessarily not winning, but I could smell it in the air, I thought this ain't right,
01:24and I'm trying to correct it, I'm screaming at them to get their shape, get the wide men tucked
01:28in and just do the absolute ugly side of the game. Play forwards, win your headers, win your tackles,
01:32win your races, as I said. And we didn't, and they went out of nowhere.
01:42I've had a few down my years as a player, a coach and a manager. It's the most frustrating,
01:47because to dominate a game for that long and play so well and then come out of it without
01:52something at least is incredibly frustrating, I will say that. And as a manager, these are the
02:00ones you scratch your head at, at times you're looking at it going, how do you not feel that
02:05on the pitch? Part of learning as a footballer is when you can smell it on a pitch, while you're
02:10active, not just the manager and the coaches, because we obviously can't, we're trying to
02:15give some information to correct it. But we're still playing one-twos and going for overlaps,
02:21and I'm going, why? You don't need to, you're in control of the game, complete control,
02:24didn't need to do that. So then the pitch gets spread, they keep pushing, knocking it forward
02:29and just crossing into the box. I mean, absolute basics of football, and they did it and we didn't
02:34deal with it. It's always the manager, it's always the manager that takes responsibility.
02:41You are looking for your team while they're out there to take responsibility, but
02:44it takes character and it takes leadership and it takes people who've been around to smell it
02:49almost, and we're trying to get it on, furiously trying to get it on actually,
02:53to just literally go 4-4-1-1, just play forwards, that's it.
03:04Yeah, but that's the hardest thing because they're active, they're out there,
03:08a bit of fatigue, the stadium change quickly because they're going, oh, what's going on here?
03:12They're always the hardest things to change and correct at that moment.
03:16So what have you said to the players after that?
03:19I've just told them exactly what I've told you. If you don't do the hard yards and you don't see
03:22the game through and you're not prepared to commit to the cause and give everything you
03:25can for every second, then at this level of the market, it's the Premier League. Teams work for
03:30the rights to try and score a goal and win a game, and they've kept going, to be fair to them,
03:35out of nowhere because they've not really, I don't think personally, I think it's one of the
03:39more dominant performances we've had and played some very good football and deservedly should
03:44have seen the game through. But we didn't, and that's the Premier League. You've got to do
03:48everything you can to win in the Premier League. How much does that change the tone of the next
03:51quarter? It changes the tone, it doesn't change the tone, it's the reality. I don't deal in all
03:56that sort of stuff, it's the absolute reality of what's just happened. The plan stays the same,
04:01we've got new players coming in, we've got to make sure the players are just on the brink of
04:05full fitness, getting fitter, but they need some downtime because some will be going away,
04:09obviously. So, the plan stays the same from that point of view, but
04:13we've got to learn there's no lack of effort, you've got to learn there's no lack of fitness
04:16and effort. That's a lack of doing the basics, that's a lack of just delivering the final
04:22moments of truth, head it, kick it, turn them, run hard. That's the absolute basics and that's
04:27very, very frustrating for me to not see that in a team that have played so well for 87 minutes.
04:35What's your response to the man, Dianne, who's been a very successful lead in the
04:40Champions League? Was that what you were looking for?
04:42Yeah, I was really impressed. There's a few today you feel for because of their performances,
04:47but at the end of the day, I felt I was monitoring these players when they're ready,
04:51I think he is, and he's delivered that today and he's played very well.
04:54What performance did you want to see from him?
04:58Yeah, he was fatigued. He's run hard by then and he's Premier League fitness, as you know,
05:02he's a very fit boy, but I thought he was fatiguing at that stage.
05:08That's one of them things, but he was definitely fatiguing. We could see his recovery was getting
05:13harder because he carried the ball and when you're carrying the ball, it is fatiguing,
05:17but I thought he did very well overall, without a doubt.
05:18Did it help to see him gain some confidence on the front bench when some things were happening?
05:24Oh no, they're not there yet.
05:26No, no, no, they're not there yet.
05:40Well, the obvious things are mistakes, so the first two are quite obvious,
05:44the way the game has changed on mistakes, you can't make them mistakes.
05:47Today was more of, like I say, it wasn't an individual mistake, it was just the fact that
05:50you're not doing the team things, you're not doing what the team needs to do to see a game off.
05:56Like I say, it's incredibly frustrating, it's the third game we've thrown away,
05:59and you can't do that in the Premier League, I know that and they know that.
06:07No, not the uncertainty, it's a feel, it's not the uncertainty, you can just sense I've been
06:10in the game a long time and you can feel it's not right, you go, hang on a minute,
06:15like I said, people playing one-twos, you don't need to, people overlapping,
06:19you don't need to at that stage, just keep your shape, do the absolute basics.
06:27No, everyone's got to play their part, a big thing for mine is everyone's got to make a
06:37difference in a team performance, you can't just wait for someone else to make a difference,
06:40you've got to make a difference, and that spreads across a group, and I thought the positivity of
06:45the performance was there and it was spreading amongst everyone during the game, and then all
06:49of a sudden it flipped too quickly, how do you go from that extremely or very good performance
06:55to so like lackadaisical, it's very, very, very hard to witness, that's for sure.
07:03Well, today's different to the first two games, the first two games are a big challenge,
07:07it's not been there before, so we've got to make sure we remind the players of
07:11how well we do see games often, all the clean sheets from last year, 13-14, whatever it was,
07:16and the way of defending to see games through, because we've certainly done it many times before.
07:25The noise has changed, and they're human beings, they know the noise has been changing,
07:33you know, so the different feel around it has been changing, and we know the demand
07:38of our group and what we need to do, and we spoke about that, you know, we spoke last season about
07:42this building, you know, the first thing that came up, we started the last eight next season,
07:45obviously with all the changes, had a pretty good finish, certainly a finish,
07:49stronger season, then we talked about building on top of that, so that's the demand from us,
07:53by the way, not questioning any other demand from us, you know, I said demand from us has to be
07:57to move forward again, we've had a few challenges with injuries and stuff like that, but that aside,
08:02you can't legislate for everything that goes on in football, and that today is the hardest
08:06thing as a manager, when you see that change so quickly over nothing really.
08:12No, not worried, it's a reality, I've been here 20 months, I've seen this team,
08:16we've been questioned even before I was here about taking chances, the clinical side of things,
08:20it was there and showed it again today, you know, it could have been outside,
08:23should have been outside before they even get a sniff, but you've got to take them chances,
08:27you've got to make them count, so these are correcting a longer-term theme,
08:30and putting it right, and it's been a challenge, and it still is.
08:34Thanks, everyone.