Sean Dyche makes belief admission after Everton win at Nottingham Forest

Everton’s impressive 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest will ‘blow belief’ back into the club, Sean Dyche believes.

The Blues boss has been keen to stress the importance of his players and staff keeping cool heads as his team was plunged into the relegation zone by a record Premier League points deduction.

But even he left the City Ground convinced they had secured a result that will boost morale heading into a tough December.

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Even with 10 fewer points, Everton are now just one win from safety.

Dyche has made clear to his players that little should change about their approach to the campaign after the setback handed to the club in the corridors of power and not on the pitch. The dynamic remained the same, he has insisted - this is a club that needs to win more matches than it has in recent seasons.

After the deflation of the home defeat to Manchester United last week, it was clear that the sooner the Blues started to claw back those lost points, the better it would be for the confidence of the players.

That process has now started. After the 1-0 win, secured by Dwight McNeil’s stunning half-volley, Dyche said: “It [the deduction] is like another restart. What do you do until there is more news?

“We spoke to the players and said look, we can’t do anything about this it is out of our control, we can control the controllables and one of them is us with the mentality to perform and that has been very pleasing for me as a manager because we spoke with the players and were very open about it.

“They all agreed they