When Iliman Ndiaye walked off to a standing ovation in the 83rd minute with Everton two goals ahead, Sean Dyche may have expected similar treatment at the full-time whistle. Instead, he was greeted with a chorus of boos after three quickfire Bournemouth goals condemned the hosts to a third straight defeat to start the Premier League season.
On the day Everton remembered their legendary striker Kevin Campbell, Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin had set them on their way to what looked like an almost certain victory. Then Antoine Semenyo, Lewis Cook and Luis Sinisterra, the last two coming in injury time, struck inside the six-yard box as Everton’s flaws were shown up. “I explain it by not doing the hard side of the game,” Dyche said. “I speak to the players all the time and that’s my biggest frustration since the moment I walked in here. I’ve always said to them: ‘Whatever you learn from me, the fact is the game lasts as long as the referee makes it last, so you have to play for every breath of the game.’”
