Everton boss Sean Dyche on their struggle to score goals ahead of their Premier League clash with Manchester United
Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK
Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK
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00:00I know we've got this positive and negative sort of aspect of the moment with one defeat in eight matches
00:05but only five of those being drawn etc.
00:09The truth of the matter is you've got to score goals to win matches.
00:12Are you working even harder on that at the moment, doing anything different?
00:16You know, you work with them constantly about, you know, goal threats, not just strikers.
00:20You know, how can you operate to be a threat for them?
00:23You know, a lot was made of our set pieces and that's still absolutely valid.
00:28You know, we want to be a threat from that, from open play.
00:31How many different ways can you affect the opposition?
00:32We found it tough against a compact defence against Brentford.
00:36When they went down to ten, we couldn't find them key moments.
00:38In other games we have and we haven't finished it, the XG and all the rest of it.
00:42But at the end of the day, it's the scoreline.
00:44You're looking forward to get that right.
00:45You know, and we've obviously made a considerable difference to the defending stats
00:50from the early part of the season, from the first four games.
00:53In the last eight, we've only conceded four, I think it is.
00:56So, you know, there's obvious signs there.
00:57And then finding that balance.
00:58You know, me and most other managers talk about it endlessly.
01:01You know, the balance between defending well as a team and attacking well as a team.
01:04And the final moment, the final moment of the truce is obviously the hardest as a manager.
01:08You know, you can't kick it in for them.
01:10It must play on players' confidence, though, isn't it?
01:13I mean, you've talked in the past about strikers thriving on scoring goals.
01:16And Dominic Calvert-Lewin has gone eight games without a goal.
01:19Do you see an effect on him out on the training pitch at all?
01:23No, I think strikers want to score goals.
01:25They're hungry, they should be anyway, hungry to score goals.
01:28But also how they can affect the team in other ways.
01:30You know, Dom's been working hard.
01:32Beto's been working hard to adapt and get stronger.
01:34And his knowledge of what it is over here.
01:37AB's yet to be seen.
01:39And Youssef's been very unlucky this season with his injury.
01:42But, you know, a mixture of good strikers, I feel.
01:45But we've got to get them operating.
01:46And that's, you know, mine, the staff and the players' responsibility
01:49to get to a point when we are scoring more goals.