Everything changed for Frank Lampard after four brutal Everton days - Sean Dyche should be wary

Not for the first time, an Everton manager finds himself in familiar territory.

The Vitality Stadium is the venue for the Blues’ next Premier League game. A trip to the South Coast awaits Sean Dyche and his side.

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Questions are starting to be asked, and frustrations among supporters are starting to grow. It is almost like November 2022 all over again.

Granted, things are not as bad as the second time Everton visited the Vitality in the space of a week more than a year ago, but Saturday's game is one Dyche and his side cannot afford to lose.

Back on November 12, 2022, the Blues arrived at the Vitality just days after crashing out of the Carabao Cup at the hands of the Cherries. Then boss Frank Lampard made 11 changes from the side beaten by Leicester City for the cup tie.

The hammering made it two defeats on the bounce for the Blues, who, to put it bluntly, never recovered from the embarrassing 4-1 loss. A 3-0 defeat then followed in the league game on an afternoon when ugly scenes followed the full-time whistle.

From that moment on, Everton lost all but one of their fixtures under Lampard. The only point they picked up was away against Manchester City on New Year’s Eve.

As supporters left the Vitality for the second time in a matter of days, doubts all of a sudden emerged over Lampard being the right man for the job, while some supporters were rightly still angry over the