Match Thread Everton 3-0 Notts Forest. Sat 6th December

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And lastly from Sean Dyche, the Nottingham Forest boss discussed his time as Everton manager before facing his former club next.

Dyche led Everton to safety after taking charge in January 2023, and achieved a 15th-placed finish in 2024 despite the club being deducted eight points for two separate breaches of Premier League financial rules, before being dismissed at the start of this year.

"It was hard. I said openly it was a very hard situation to manage and I was very proud of what we all did, not just me as manager but there was so many people involved in making sure that club came through a really messy period on and off the pitch," said Dyche.

"The time had probably come [when he got sacked], that's the way it goes. Players were dwindling a little bit, the heat was coming on and I thought a change of face would work and it has done.

"Moysey [David Moyes], with his history with the club and his know-how of the Premier League, is doing a good job as I thought he would do."

Beginning with the team news, Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche has offered injury updates on several players: "Woody [striker Chris Wood] is making a bit of progress but he is still early days yet.

"Taiwo Awoniyi is on the grass and doing well, Douglas Luiz is close to getting back to training with us, Angus Gunn a bit delayed on that but getting better.

"Dilane Bakwa has 60 minutes so that's good and he came through that unscathed but that is gently, gently as he gets fitter, Oleksandr Zinchenko is on the grass and doing fine so that's good he is on his way back.

"Ola Aina still a bit of time yet and Murillo unfortunately he was touch and go with the hamstring and then he has been ill since so we are just monitoring him daily. A lot of bugs about at the minute so we are just hoping he recovers quickly."

And on Morgan Gibbs-White: "Yeah I think he is alright. There are a few knocks at the minute, we are playing a lot of games at the minute and a few of the guys are playing a lot of football. I don't think it is anything serious, it hasn't been reported as serious. Recovery day today."
 
Eggs said:
And lastly from Sean Dyche, the Nottingham Forest boss discussed his time as Everton manager before facing his former club next.

Dyche led Everton to safety after taking charge in January 2023, and achieved a 15th-placed finish in 2024 despite the club being deducted eight points for two separate breaches of Premier League financial rules, before being dismissed at the start of this year.

"It was hard. I said openly it was a very hard situation to manage and I was very proud of what we all did, not just me as manager but there was so many people involved in making sure that club came through a really messy period on and off the pitch," said Dyche.

"The time had probably come [when he got sacked], that's the way it goes. Players were dwindling a little bit, the heat was coming on and I thought a change of face would work and it has done.

"Moysey [David Moyes], with his history with the club and his know-how of the Premier League, is doing a good job as I thought he would do."

Beginning with the team news, Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche has offered injury updates on several players: "Woody [striker Chris Wood] is making a bit of progress but he is still early days yet.

"Taiwo Awoniyi is on the grass and doing well, Douglas Luiz is close to getting back to training with us, Angus Gunn a bit delayed on that but getting better.

"Dilane Bakwa has 60 minutes so that's good and he came through that unscathed but that is gently, gently as he gets fitter, Oleksandr Zinchenko is on the grass and doing fine so that's good he is on his way back.

"Ola Aina still a bit of time yet and Murillo unfortunately he was touch and go with the hamstring and then he has been ill since so we are just monitoring him daily. A lot of bugs about at the minute so we are just hoping he recovers quickly."

And on Morgan Gibbs-White: "Yeah I think he is alright. There are a few knocks at the minute, we are playing a lot of games at the minute and a few of the guys are playing a lot of football. I don't think it is anything serious, it hasn't been reported as serious. Recovery day today."
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Good job you’ve got a 40 man squad that cost £400m to assemble isn’t it Sean. We’ve got two keepers and Eli Campbell on the bench as it stands. Woe is him though, as always. A familiar tale of gasdyching.
 


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brieverton said:
I have nothing against Dyche. He was moved on when it was needed and has landed quite a plum job in the circumstances. With us, he worked under extraordinarily difficult and unprecedented circumstances, arguably the most difficult in our history. He steered us through that pretty well but it seemed to break him at the end and would have broken us had action not been taken.
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A sensible post.
 

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