Sean Dyche is a fighter. He will explore every opportunity available to make Everton as competitive as this group of players can be. It is now down to the players to show they are willing to fight too.
We know they can. We saw what they are capable of as recently as the Arsenal game when they outplayed as well as outfought the Premier League leaders.
But at Anfield on Monday the performance was frustratingly bereft of the passion and intensity that provided the foundation for the win on Dyche’s debut in the home dugout at Goodison Park. Idrissa Gueye has since acknowledged his side should have fought “harder” in the follow-up defeat to Liverpool.
