Will Rooney reportd from Goodison Park.
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00:00Full-time here at Goodison Park, the last game of 2024 ended in defeat for Everton.
00:072-0 loss at the hands of Nottingham Forest and it was a disappointing one for the Blues.
00:12Look, Nottingham Forest are high-flying, they've gone to second in the Premier League table,
00:17they're this season's surprise package, but Everton supporters expect more when they're
00:22not playing at Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool at home.
00:26They expected to win most games at Goodison and unfortunately they came up against the
00:33Forest side who they couldn't break down.
00:36They knew what Forest wanted to do, they wanted to sit and play on the counter-attack and
00:40Everton couldn't break them down, they struggled and it was a deserved defeat for Sean Dyche's side.
00:46They had more possession but he barely laid a glove on Nottingham Forest and Forest hit
00:52them twice, punished them twice.
00:55Yeah, Everton didn't start too badly in a lemon and dye, had an early chance to put
00:59it over the bar but Forest started to threaten and in the 15th minute, poor defender from
01:04Everton's behalf.
01:05James Tarkowski left, Chris Wood, his former Burnley team-mate, go.
01:09He played a 1-2 with Anthony Alanga and then he fires over it, Joe Pickford tears Everton.
01:16He must have somewhat of a response, Armando Brozier who was making his first start since
01:21arriving on loan from Chelsea has a couple of half chances but Everton didn't test the
01:26goalkeeper, they couldn't test.
01:28Matt Sells in the Forest goal and second half started Everton doing okay again but
01:33architects their own downfall, Abdullahi Zakhori plays a loose pass.
01:37James Tarkowski and Vitaly Mikhalenko fail to react to the loose ball and Forest break
01:42a pace and Morgan Gibbs-White finishes it off and that killed Everton, never got back
01:46into it.
01:48This Everton team really struggle at home and against teams who want Everton to have
01:55more of the ball.
01:57Brentford, it happens when they have more of the ball and now this game.
02:02Sean Dyche said when the three can prove for both the club that he'll be judged on wins.
02:09You could argue the Chelsea and the Man City draws, where they set up for Everton, they
02:16are more suited to being defensive.
02:19Two gutsy points you have to say but those opposition were probably more suited than
02:25the Forest.
02:26Everton struggle to break teams down, there were too many poor performances though today,
02:30Abdullahi Zakhori was poor, Jack Harrison's having a real tough run of form, James Tarkowski
02:37was all over the place especially in the first half.
02:40These are the games that Everton have got to be winning, they go to Bournemouth next
02:44and these are the games that Sean Dyche is going to be judged on if he does want to win
02:48a new contract.
02:50As things stand the three can prove, you can't see him giving one.
02:53Sean Dyche said he hasn't put all his work in to walk away at the end of the season.
02:58Everton have got to find a way to win games and it's up to Sean Dyche to do that.
03:04They need to find a little bit more attacking flair, a bit more attacking prowess.
03:13It's a struggle at the minute, last game of 2024, the year has ended somewhat positively,
03:20well very positive off the pitch.
03:22A pretty good group taking over and being handed keys to a new stadium but from now
03:27until May the end of the season Everton need to start picking up results because if they
03:32don't they will be in a relegation battle again.
03:35Finished Everton nil, Nottingham Forest two.