Furious Dyche blasts Everton after collapse – “We’re still playing one-twos!”

Everton, who remain bottom of the table without a point this season, had been coasting after goals from Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin had them 2-0 up before the hour mark,

Sean Dyche blasted his winless Everton flops after they surrendered a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 to Bournemouth in an astonishing collapse at Goodison Park, a result the manager labelled the most frustrating in his career.

Everton, who remain bottom of the table without a point this season, had been coasting after goals from Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin had them 2-0 up before the hour mark, but a drop-off in the hosts’ intensity plus clever changes from Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola turned the game on its head.

Antoine Semenyo, Lewis Cook and Luis Sinisterra all scored headers from crosses deep into the Everton box, with Sinisterra’s close range effort coming in the sixth minute of added time as Everton floundered.

Dyche, whose first Everton change came in the 83rd minute after Bournemouth had made all five of theirs, said: “You have to play for every breath of the game. When you see a side dominate so clearly, and have so many chances. Just do the basics and win the game.

“I said to them after the game. Win your tackles, win your headers, win your races and you win the game.

But for whatever reason they score a goal and we’re just staring at each other and asking ‘Who’s going to do that? Who’s going to win those tackles, headers and races?’ and we’re waiting for someone else to do that. You can’t do that.

“For 87 minutes its a very, very good performance, I was very pleased. But after the first goal I could smell it in the air, I thought this ain’t right. I was trying to correct it, screaming that them to correct their shape and just do the absolute ugly side of the game. Play forwards, win your headers, win your tackles, win your races. We didn’t, and they get a winner out of nowhere.”

When asked where this ranked among the worst defeats he has ever suffered, Dyche added: “I’ve had a few as a player, coach and manager. It’s the most frustrating, I will say that.

“Part of learning as a footballer is when you can smell it on a pitch. We’re still playing one-twos and going for overlaps, you don’t need to.

“We’re in control of the game. Complete control, we didn’t need to do that. So then they push forward, cross it into the box. Absolute basics of football. They did it and we didn’t deal with it.”