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
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.