Sean Dyche insists that Everton have not reached the stage in which they’re considering left field options up front to solve their goalscoring crisis.
The Blues have netted just 17 goals in 25 Premier League games so far this season – the lowest tally in the six highest divisions of the English football pyramid that their goals per game ratio is lower than Huddersfield Town who scored 28 times in 38 matches in the 2017/18 campaign to become the least-prolific side to stay up in 30 previous seasons of Premier League football. That same year, Dyche guided a Burnley side that registered on just 36 occasions to seventh place and European qualification, the highest-ever position in Premier League history from a team averaging less than a goal a game.
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The Everton manager said: “I’m not going to play! Woany (assistant manager Ian Woan, 55, a former Nottingham Forest player) will probably have a go, Dick Turpin stand and deliver won’t he.
“There’s got to be a method, whatever that method is. I don’t know how radical you’re thinking but I don’t put a left-back at centre-forward and expect it to work.
“There’s a fine line between madness and genius they say and you’ll be here next week saying ‘why did you do that?’ And you’ve just asked me why I ain’t doing it, there you go, therein lies the conundrum.”
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