Dyche on Beto late equaliser against Fulham
Everton 1-1 Fulham
26/10/2024
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
Everton 1-1 Fulham
26/10/2024
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
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00:00It's a Monday and Tuesday, so I'll have to sit here and get down there.
00:05Guys, we'll do a couple of questions for the Mondays separately.
00:09OK, do you want to start us off, Joe?
00:11Yeah, cheers. Sean, before we get to the scenes in the final,
00:13I just want to know what you made of the performance before then.
00:16I thought we weren't at it. I thought they were.
00:19I think they were a good outfit anyway.
00:21They were better than us on the night.
00:23Not by a long shot. We weren't in massive trouble.
00:26We weren't getting rings around us or anything like that.
00:29It changed the feel of the game.
00:31We never committed to either way of playing.
00:33If we were playing long, we never really got after it
00:35and chased the game and forced the game.
00:37If we were playing short, we never really played with any kind of endeavour
00:40to go forwards with a purpose.
00:42So I thought we were short where we have been.
00:45On the other hand, the balance of football is it lasts for 96 minutes
00:49on this occasion.
00:51The mentality that I've asked the players to continue growing
00:53is that relentlessness, and I thought that was on show.
00:56Changing players, changing the feel of the game,
00:59quite obviously just going right,
01:01we're playing forward onto our back line as many times as we can
01:03for the last 10 minutes by putting Keno up there,
01:05and it works.
01:06Sometimes that's what you've got to do to make sure
01:08you look after yourselves in the Premier League.
01:10It's something that I've needed to do many times before
01:12and I was pleased that it worked.
01:14Do you think there was any reason or anything you can put your finger on
01:16for that kind of...
01:18No, it's a funny thing.
01:20I've just been chatting to someone else about it.
01:22The hardest thing as a manager when it's a collective down day
01:25is, trust me, it's been a really positive training week.
01:28You can imagine after a really good performance
01:30and a very controlled performance away,
01:32a really positive training week.
01:34Everyone's ready and yet we come out just with that kind of...
01:38I always call it everyone waiting for someone else to do something.
01:40That kind of atmosphere when it's just
01:43everyone just waiting for one of their teammates
01:45or someone to score a goal or whatever.
01:47And, of course, we so nearly did.
01:49I think Dom's heel was offside for the goal.
01:51A great cross from Mikko and Dwight as a header,
01:54which on another day you're hoping he puts it in.
01:57So, don't get me wrong, that could have changed
01:59the whole feeling of everything,
02:01but we never really got to grips with the game
02:03and slightly better in the second half,
02:05but not a lot, I didn't think.
02:06And then the last ten minutes, ironically,
02:08to what I've just said,
02:10you could sense, you thought,
02:12hang on a minute, we're knocking on the door all of a sudden.
02:14And when we did score, I wasn't that surprised
02:17because I felt that the energy and the feeling of the game had changed,
02:20albeit for a short period.
02:22So, I was pleased in the end
02:24to keep the unbeaten run going and get a point.
02:26And Beto got that moment, you looked so emotional at the end,
02:28you must be really pleased for him.
02:30Yeah, I didn't see the end point,
02:32but, yeah, look, Brian Clough used to have a saying,
02:35sometimes you've got to get hurt to score a goal
02:37and I thought he was willing to.
02:38He's in the mix, he throws his header in,
02:40it's a good header, great play from Young,
02:42really controlled knock back across.
02:45And it just goes to show you,
02:47nothing you don't know about it.
02:49Of course, as teams in this division,
02:51your arsenals, your man-citizens,
02:53they can stick to what they do and they can find goals
02:55and they're relentless to the last breath in a different way.
02:59We've got to operate in different ways,
03:01that's the squad we've got, that's the task in front of us
03:03to make sure we secure ourselves in the Premier League
03:05season after season.
03:07And I'm pleased with that.
03:08You've got to adapt sometimes
03:09and I thought the group adapted.
03:11There was no lack of effort again,
03:13just a lack of detail in the performance,
03:15but when the detail mattered at the end,
03:17we go and score a goal
03:18and that's an important factor over a season.
03:20Do you know anything about McNeil's injury?
03:22Not yet, I'm not sure yet,
03:24but he obviously had to come off,
03:26the delay and people shouting at me,
03:28I'm going, I've got to see if he's going to carry on,
03:30because he was sort of on the edge,
03:32so hopefully it's nothing too serious.
03:36Sean, Beto spoke about how much it means to him
03:40and how hard work pays off.
03:42He must feel good as a manager,
03:44he has a player who's not playing,
03:46but gets on with it.
03:47He has been working hard,
03:49working hard in training,
03:50the staff have been working hard with him,
03:51so they deserve credit as well,
03:52doing extras and bits,
03:54showing him clips and various things,
03:56including myself.
03:57And his development curve has been a delayed one,
04:00he didn't come into the game professionally
04:02not so long ago in relative terms,
04:04and coming into the Premier League,
04:05I've said it all along,
04:06it's different, it's difficult,
04:07especially as a striker.
04:09And I think he continues to work hard
04:11and he's got his rewards tonight.
04:13The thing I keep saying to him,
04:15you don't have to be pure when you're a striker like you,
04:17but you have to be a handful
04:18and you have to be awkward
04:19and you have to grow in that.
04:20It's a real weapon that,
04:21and I thought he was when he came on tonight.
04:23You can find different ways of operating
04:25to affect the opposition,
04:26and he certainly did,
04:27and I thought Keno did as well
04:28when he went up there.
04:29Do you think that can now kick-start a room for him?
04:32Oh no, it's a moment in time,
04:35but it's nice to think that it reinforces
04:37the work he's been doing
04:38and he'll certainly add to his belief,
04:40that's for sure.
04:43Sean, what does Beto need to do
04:45to start games more regularly?
04:46Just continue learning
04:47and get to a point
04:48when we've got a bank of history for him,
04:50when he understands the Premier League.
04:52We've spoken to him a lot
04:53about the defensive side of things,
04:54he's still getting to grips with that,
04:56as is Dom actually.
04:57Working from the front,
04:58defending from the front,
04:59it's one of them sides of the game
05:01that is forever important now
05:02with the modern centre-forward.
05:04It's not just stand up there and try and score.
05:06The game's changed.
05:07Centre-forwards now have to defend
05:08and they have to defend cutely.
05:09I'm not on about big tackles
05:10or anything like that.
05:11Getting passing lanes,
05:12cutting off the pass,
05:13usually to a deep-line midfield player.
05:15They're important factors
05:16and he's got to continue
05:17to learn that side
05:18as well as, of course,
05:19scoring goals.
05:21You mentioned earlier
05:22the task this season
05:24is to ensure Everton
05:26predominantly, first and foremost,
05:27stay as a Premier League outfit.
05:29Was that outlined to you
05:30at the start of the season?
05:32It was outlined to me
05:33when I got the job.
05:34It changed radically.
05:36It was a lot worse
05:37than what I got told
05:38when I came in.
05:39I've shared that with you before.
05:40So, if you look since then,
05:42we've brought money in
05:43and spent less
05:44and we've reduced the wages significantly
05:47and we're developing players
05:48who are now worth
05:49probably a lot more
05:50than they were
05:51when I got in here.
05:52So, they're the things
05:53at the outside
05:54of what I have to do
05:55and that's not a problem to me.
05:56That's just the challenge
05:57but I've never lost sight
05:58as we discussed just recently.
05:59You've got to win games.
06:00That's my job.
06:01I'm the manager.
06:02No-one cares about the rest of it.
06:03I have to care about it
06:04because it's my job
06:05but no-one else cares.
06:06Evertoners just want to win a game
06:07and we're just beginning
06:09to show signs
06:10we can win games
06:11and if we're not going to win,
06:12we don't get beat
06:13and that's growing again
06:14but we're always a work in progress.
06:15That's quite obvious.