Your Everton morning headlines for Monday, February 27.
Sean Dyche could finally make Everton changes in several positions
In four matches in charge of Everton so far, manager Sean Dyche has made just one enforced change to his starting line-ups but with back-to-back away games at Arsenal and Nottingham Forest over the space of five days, could the Blues boss be tempted to shuffle his pack at the Emirates?
Captain Seamus Coleman has been in fine form under the new gaffer – netting a spectacular winning goal from a tight angle against Leeds United – but with Nathan Patterson working his way back to fitness, the Irish international, who turns 35 in October, might make way at some point in what is a busy week.
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Patterson hasn’t featured in the first team since the 4-1 home defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion back on January 3 but started the Under-21s 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur in Southport a week last Friday.
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'Everyone is wondering' - Sean Dyche sends clever message to goal-shy Everton players
Sean Dyche has challenged his goal shy Everton team to increase their scoring output through the ‘freedom’ produced by others thinking they can’t do it.
The Blues have netted just 17 goals in 24 Premier League games so far this season, the lowest tally in the top flight. They have struck twice in a match on just two occasions, in the 2-1 comeback win at Southampton and 3-0 home victory over Crystal Palace – both in October – and Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa at Goodison Park was 10th time they’ve drawn a blank this term.
Dyche said: “I think to be fair and I don’t know all of the stats, it has been a worry for a while so if they have been disheartened then eventually they say, ‘sod it we are not disheartened anymore because guess what, we have seen all that before, we have heard all the rhetoric, heard all the noise.’
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