I walked out of Molineux feeling completely deflated after Everton's 3-0 loss to Wolves on Saturday afternoon.
We know there is always the danger of tripping up results-wise over the winter period and we often see surprise results, but it was the nature of this defeat that has bothered me.
Straight from the get-go at Wolves, it was all off. Everything from tactics to the players’ attitude and energy was just a millions miles away from what it needed to be. Sean Dyche’s style, while it works for this team, is mentally and physically draining and it is very hard to maintain that. My bigger concern was why Dyche failed to spot what we were doing was clearly not working.
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Wolves were on top of us and you were thinking 'he needs to change this’ and didn’t. He then had the opportunity to at half-time and refused to do so. Even though Wolves were all over us, in Dyche's mind he may have thought ‘we’re still in this’. We know Dyche is quite stubborn, and that's fine as managers often are, but you have to get results when things aren’t going your way.
By the end of the game, Wolves were just toying with us and caused us major problems. If two or three players have a bad game, it’s difficult. When you’re all below-par, it is almost impossible to get a result regardless of the system. Our players only began to ask for the ball when we were 3-0 down, when there was no pressure. The real pressure is when the whistle sounds at the start of the game. It’s your job to dictate, create opportunities and win your own battles and nobody really did that in an Everton shirt. We let Wolves run
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