{"id":336096,"date":"2025-12-08T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:45:08","slug":"sean-dyche-makes-double-everton-complaint-and-shares-view-on-hill-dickinson-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336096\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Dyche makes double Everton complaint and shares view on Hill Dickinson Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche spoke to the media following his side’s 3-0 defeat to Everton at Hill Dickinson Stadium<\/p>\n

11:22, 07 Dec 2025Updated 21:01, 07 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

Sean Dyche has hailed Everton\u2019s new Hill Dickinson Stadium home as \u201cmagnificent\u201d as he insists there are no hard feelings that he wasn\u2019t the man to lead the Blues to the Mersey waterfront, even though the actions of home captain James Tarkowski left him unimpressed.<\/p>\n

Dyche<\/a> was appointed Everton<\/a> manager when the team were second bottom of the Premier League<\/a> in January 2023 and he steered them to safety as they avoided a first relegation in 72 years by a single Abdoulaye Doucoure<\/a> goal on the final day despite posting the lowest equivalent points total in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

In the following season, the Blues overcame an unprecedented brace of points deductions for PSR rule breaches, and despite not winning between Christmas and Easter would have finished level on points with 11th place Brighton & Hove Albion had it not been for their off-the-field punishments.<\/p>\n

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OPINION<\/p>\n

\"AuthorChris Beesley<\/p>\n

However, Dyche only won two home games in Goodison Park\u2019s historic final season and was sacked by new owners The Friedkin Group following the 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth on January 4 this year, a result that left the team with 17 points at the halfway stage of the Premier League campaign, a tally that was less than 50% of their 2022\/23 total.<\/p>\n

Asked about his return following Everton\u2019s 3-0 win over his Nottingham Forest side, the 54-year-old said: \u201cThere\u2019s no satisfaction today for obvious reasons, but of course it\u2019s fantastic to see the club come out, hopefully well out, of that dark period for many different reasons. I said about the score today, it\u2019s not relevant to me, I\u2019ve moved on, but somewhere in the future I think people will recognise the job I did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said in the build-up to this game, we all did, there were loads of people involved in that period, including the players, and a lot of them are still here. Now they\u2019re in this magnificent stadium, so fair play, that\u2019s one of those things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no axe to grind from me. I did my job, worked really hard, so did a lot of people. I saw Keano<\/a>. I\u2019ll pop in and see Moyesy<\/a>, I\u2019ll see the staff as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what it\u2019s like though, everyone\u2019s prepping for a game, I\u2019m not bowling around, trying to say hello to everyone. But Keano and Tarky<\/a>, I had them at Burnley as well \u2013 they\u2019re great fellas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dyche had complaints over a couple of moments in the first half though which he brought up. He said: \u201cI said to big Tarky just to be clear, and I respect him and like him as a bloke, I said to him, how he got away with that (an off the ball bump in the back on Dan Ndoye) in the first half, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on there. The referee is honest, I went to see him, and he said he didn\u2019t see it and none of the officials saw it, but I said: \u2018VAR saw it and they did nothing about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very, very surprised at that and I\u2019ve told him (Tarkowski) that I\u2019m going to tell you this by the way. Equally, and really crying it in, for the second goal, it hits the referee on the way through, diverts it right into his path.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re on a breakaway, three v one or two, but those things, on a day that you\u2019re not playing well, you don\u2019t need those to go against you, that\u2019s for sure. As I suggest, I\u2019m going to credit Everton because they looked more up for it \u2013 and I\u2019m not talking about the quality of either side\u2019s football, I\u2019m talking about the edge and desire to really take the game on and we were lacking on that today \u2013 so it\u2019s a real reminder to our group that has to be in place as a basic and then your good play can take care of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of the overall result though, Dyche conceded that his Forest side were very much second best to Everton. He said: \u201cObviously, we never got off to a good start, and that\u2019s not helpful. To be honest, I never thought we got close to the performance level I expect from the group \u2013 not on tactics or anything, just the competitive nature, the desire, the will, the collective to take the game on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought we got to grips with it. They did \u2013 credit to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey started bright, they started with an edge. They were fighting, they were competing, getting the ball forward, asking questions, running hard, all the basics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to over-egg it because I think the players here have done a big shift from that, from when we got here to where they are now. It\u2019s only the second time that we\u2019ve stepped away from it because I think they\u2019ve put in a real shift physically and the mentality to go and take games on.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we can\u2019t start like that in games against a team who looked real hungry with a chance to jump up the league. We\u2019ve done that well so far, but we didn\u2019t today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a challenge at the minute because I\u2019m learning about the players. The way that we train, the way that we\u2019re working with them, the rest and recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made the decision to keep the same side because I thought it was a nice balance to it with the previous couple of performances and a few just looked like they were flagging early doors. So, we had to make changes, it was nothing against them or anything like that, we were just trying to freshen it and give the game a different feel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche spoke to the media following his side’s 3-0 defeat to Everton at Hill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[62317,25470,169665,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-336096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-everton-fc","9":"tag-hill-dickinson-stadium","10":"tag-sean-dyche","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}