Everton boss Sean Dyche reacts to 1-0 defeat at Southampton who scored in the 85"
02/11/2024
St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, UK
02/11/2024
St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, UK
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00:00Performance-wise, I thought it was at least good enough to not lose a game.
00:07The chance we created, the quality of chance is more the interesting thing.
00:12You know, it's not easy away from home.
00:15So disappointed that we didn't end up with something from the game.
00:18And obviously, key decision in the game went against us,
00:21you know, which the VR for the offside, I'm all right with that.
00:24You know, people saying about toes, if you're offside, you're offside.
00:27I've got no problem with that.
00:28But the sending off for the chance, I'm very, very surprised by that, because
00:34when you're a defender, an ex-defender, forget about modern
00:37technology and VR, you're thinking you're off, you know, as soon as you do that.
00:41Because Beto's clearly in his stride.
00:43He's breaking across.
00:45The thing that worries me about the game is players who don't go down
00:48and roll around and all that, don't get decisions.
00:50And if you do and you slide on your face and all that, they seem to.
00:52And I've mentioned this many, many times.
00:55Players are trying to stand their feet, trying to get...
00:57You can see clearly, Beto's trying to stand his feet to go and score a goal.
01:01He doesn't do anything and nothing gets given other than the yellow card.
01:05And, you know, I'm amazed.
01:08I don't know whether they still do it.
01:09Referees used to talk about inside the V.
01:10He's clearly inside the V, cutting inside the V.
01:13The defenders are a long way off, in my opinion.
01:15I can't see how he's going to get there.
01:18And they don't give that.
01:19And I think that's a massive decision in a game like this.
01:22Do you have any frustration at either side for those decisions that you've been doing up to this point?
01:26I do, for the chances we created.
01:28You know, to come away from home is not easy.
01:30To create 16 chances next year, 1.5, 1.6, whatever it was.
01:34You know, they're important moments.
01:35And that's showing that you are creating the right level of chance.
01:39You know, it's been a frustration since I've been here, the last moment of truth,
01:42the last pass, the last slide that, you know, Dom...
01:46Sorry, Dwight put a fantastic ball in for Jack Harrison.
01:49And he's done great.
01:49He gets there and he's got time to get there.
01:51And it's maybe the wrong foot.
01:52You know, he goes with his right foot.
01:53He just puts it over the keeper, those sort of things.
01:56Beto misses from short distance and it comes out in fast.
01:58But, you know, you expect that.
02:00Beto, just great to get behind and finish that sometimes marginal call.
02:03You know, the way it goes.
02:04Manga gets one pull back and the keeper ends up making a save.
02:06You know, we allow the keeper to make a save.
02:08They're big chances away from home, you know, in the Premier League or at home.
02:12I'm so happy with that side of things.
02:13Never really looked involved.
02:14I can't, you might tell me wrong, I can't remember Jordan having to make a save, really.
02:19Which means the defensive unit's doing its job.
02:21And finding them key moments in attack has been a frustration since I've been at the club.
02:25Given Southampton's record so far this season, was there a missed opportunity?
02:28Sorry?
02:29Given Southampton's record?
02:30No, no, no.
02:31No game's easy in the Premier League.
02:32No game's easy in the Premier League.
02:33They're just another side that we had to play and we delivered a performance that could win the game,
02:37certainly not lose the game.
02:39So, I'm very frustrated to lose the game.
02:40What was your thought process when you got started?
02:44The fact the team hadn't beaten in five and the centre-halves had done very well.
02:48And I thought they did again today.
02:49How close was it on the delivery?
02:51In what sense?
02:53Obviously, he was injured for that.
02:54Oh, yeah.
02:54No, he was fine.
02:56I think he wasn't quite with it in the first half, got stronger in the second half.
03:00I think he took a knock and he was limping a bit and we had to change it.
03:06Yes, so, and Jesper and Jack is a tight call at the moment.
03:09You know, Jack's worked pretty well, actually, from the ten, I thought.
03:12So, but yeah, there's tight calls at the moment.
03:15Shaun, can you explain a bit on the substitutions that have been done, you say he's got an injury?
03:20Yeah, he's got a dead leg.
03:21Well, it looks like a dead leg, but it was bad enough where he was limping.
03:23So, obviously, that's not helpful when you want a player to play at full tilt and deliver when he can.
03:28Did that change your thinking with regards to how you might potentially change the game?
03:34Well, tactically, it was more with Beto and Dom.
03:36I didn't think Dom was, you know, doing enough in the game.
03:39So, therefore, I wanted Beto to come on and see if he could affect it, which he so nearly did, of course.
03:43With Jack going in the ten, we know he can play there.
03:45Obviously, with Beto in the team, we're thinking of getting as many crosses in as possible as well and playing longer,
03:50which we did, and it so nearly worked, of course.
03:54Lots of focus now on the Treatment December run of fixtures.
03:59I don't think you've not focused on that.
04:01It seems I seem to get asked about it every single week.
04:03We haven't even got there.
04:04We had five games ago, I was getting asked about that.
04:06But does it almost feel as though this is the period you need to cap?
04:10No, no, it feels like the Premier League.
04:12It feels like this is what happens in the Premier League.
04:14I've been in it, it's my tenth season.
04:16There's bits in the season where you go, that one looks tricky.
04:20You've got to go through it.
04:20Every team will have the same sort of thing, you know.
04:23So, I can assure you, the top teams look at it the same.
04:25They're looking at it going, they're tricky fixtures.
04:27That's the way it goes in the Premier League.
04:29What would be the message to the players at the game?
04:32I bet you mentioned high shot counts and HD and all that kind of stuff.
04:35They're just wanting more, just constantly wanting more.
04:37You know, not settling for just, I call it, all rightness.
04:40You know, wanting more.
04:41That drive to come down here and dominate, which we have in the sense of chances.
04:45You don't need to dominate these games at the ball because, with all due respect to Adam,
04:50they have a lot of the ball, but I don't think they really opened us up too much.
04:53I wasn't really worried today about being opened up.
04:55The counter, obviously, eventually, they're going to go off on that.
04:58Really, you think, like you say, you might correct me because it's immediately after the game.
05:02I can't honestly remember Jordan looking in to being stretched at all, hardly.
05:07So, you know, shape was good.
05:10The energy was good to win the ball back.
05:12We won it in so many key places.
05:13My frustration is not making the most of that.
05:16I think there was Dwight driving at the heart of the defence, first half.
05:19That's one too many touches.
05:20Second half, I think Ganna's driving at the defence, plays a good ball.
05:23Second ball from it, you know, I think it was, yes, but just too far.
05:28You know, these kind of margins, but they're really, really important.
05:30You know, that last pass is so...
05:31Manga, Manga goes through at the end, he cuts open, he shoots.
05:34But if you just reverse it, Dwight's probably either way, actually.
05:37You know, he's got the two passes up.
05:39It's that moment of clarity, I think, is the difference today,
05:42because we didn't find that.
05:43It was from our performance, by the way.
05:44But from their performance, in my opinion, I don't, I can't remember Jordan having to do too much.
05:48It seems as though it's a flourish after the substitution, but Jack came inside the number 10 role,
05:54wide man out to the left, what was the thinking behind that?
05:57Just trying to affect the game.
05:58You know, trying to find a way to create more and have more clarity.
06:03Jule, sorry, when the ball went in, Beto, I mean, it was a very tidy finish, actually.
06:09It was ironically, he didn't catalyse the one that would have counted.
06:13I mean, with the naked eye, did you think it looked like a perfectly good equaliser?
06:17I know you're saying...
06:18No, it's too, no, it's too far away for me to call that one.
06:22No, I actually think that's the right thing.
06:24And I think that's the right use of VR.
06:26I'm not one who believes that, you know, I was only a toe offside.
06:28If you're a toe offside, you're offside.
06:30They're the rules.
06:31So, actually, I agree with VR for that.
06:33So, I've got no complaints about that.
06:35Descending off is one, I personally am very, very extremely surprised.
06:39And I thought you could tell in the stadium that everyone was pretty surprised.
06:42I know their side were pretty surprised because I could see it in their faces.
06:45Do you get days where every little thing just seems to be not in your favour?
06:51No, I don't think it was necessarily that.
06:52I don't think the referee was on top of his game,
06:55but I think there was a few weird calls for both sides.
06:58And that one went to VR.
07:00So, I think in the cold light of the VR situation,
07:02this is where I think managers do get frustrated.
07:05People may well agree with me, but I know the players and I think the referee should.
07:09If you're looking at Beto, everyone more or less knows he's quick,
07:12especially when he's in his stride.
07:13He's through in his stride.
07:14He's in a great touch, which allows that stride pattern to continue to go through on goal.
07:18I don't see how the centre half's catching him there.
07:21I don't see that.
07:22I'd be very surprised.
07:23But we'll never know, obviously, but I'd be very, very surprised.
07:26I'm sure you've mentioned that you've said throughout your time as a manager
07:29about players not making the most of when they go down and not making the decisions.
07:33I'm sure you've mentioned that to the officials at different points.
07:36What do they say? What does that mean?
07:39Well, it's the same old thing, isn't it?
07:40That's why people go down, because they don't get it if they try and stand up.
07:43So, therefore, they go down.
07:44It's just logic.
07:46I just don't like it.
07:47I don't like my players to do it.
07:48They don't probably do it enough.
07:50But I don't agree with it.
07:52I can't be completely hypocritical.
07:54We are, to some degree, in this job, but I can't be completely hypocritical.
07:57I go to the powers that be and I say,
07:58players who stand up and stay up get nothing.
08:04Ones who literally go down with hardly any touch get everything.
08:07I say, why are you allowing that?
08:08Why are you not differentiating?
08:10But they just don't want to touch it.
08:11You know, how many bookings do you see people diving still?
08:13There's people diving all over the place, but they don't give them.
08:16Well, they do, but not very often.
08:17And then they'll say, oh, we've increased that.
08:19And you go, all right, from two to five.
08:22OK, it's like 27 a game, you know what I mean?
08:25But it's for the good of the game.
08:26That's all I'm talking about.
08:27It's not about me.
08:27It's not about having a football club.
08:29Millions of kids out there all doing it.
08:31I watch them.
08:32My kid was growing up through the system.
08:33I used to go and watch him play at six.
08:35There'd be kids diving all over the place.
08:36I think it's completely wrong.
08:38And for the morals of the game, I think it's completely wrong.
08:39But no one seems to.
08:41So I'm just out there on my own, just still pedalling this.
08:45But that's not about today.
08:46That's the bigger picture, the good of football, in my opinion.
08:49But would your advice be then to prepare today and really think about making a million?
08:53No, I don't think it was that.
08:55No, I think today was a clear, in my opinion, I've got to make that clear
08:59because some of you may not agree and that's fine.
09:01But I was an ex-centre half.
09:02And the angle, they used to call it inside the V, as I mentioned.
09:05So when you're cutting inside the V towards goal,
09:07it's even if he put a straight touch and he's going towards the touchline.
09:11But his touch is really good and it's inside the V going towards the goal.
09:15The player brings him out.
09:16I just can't see how the angles that the centre half is going to get round.
09:19I just can't see it.
09:20So when he's in full flow, that is.
09:24So therefore, I imagine he doesn't bring him down and I'll be stunned
09:28if the centre half got round and made that tackle.
09:30And I think that's where they've got to know their players.
09:32You know, we know there's quicker players and slower players in the Premier League.
09:36So in that instance, that's what you're actually looking at.
09:38Could that player get there?
09:39I think I'd be amazed if he did, if it ran out.
09:42But of course, we'll never know.
09:45Thanks, everyone.