A defiant Sean Dyche praised his Everton staff and players for securing Premier League survival with a side “as stretched as I’ve ever seen it”. Asked how he felt In the moments before the 30-year-old’s stunning strike,
Sean Dyche said: “Strangely I’m all right about that sort of stuff as I can’t do anything about it. I’m worse when I’m at home watching it but when I’m working I can’t do anything about that, you can only react to what you are doing. You’ve seen the squad today and that’s as stretched as I’ve ever seen it. And do you know what, if we didn’t get it done today no-one would have cared. No-one would have said: ‘He’s had nothing to work with’. They would have just said: ‘He didn’t get it done’. That’s the life of a football manager, I understand that, so I’m pleased for that reason we got it done. We have found a way. The work during the week by staff has been terrific, the players’ workload and belief in what we were doing – we had to change shape and personnel – so I’ve been really pleased with the players. We’ve let some big moments in games go against us but the actual mentality has been pretty solid, against all the noise which has been difficult when you have been missing very important players and missing them a lot.”
