Everton boss Sean Dyche makes ‘strange’ claim after Lewis Dobbin scores v Chelsea

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Under their current management, Everton are a team completely transformed.

The stats all back it up, and the players’ testimonies aimed at their 52-year-old manager only help to affirm such a notion.

Sean Dyche has worked veritable miracles at Goodison Park, and he is far from finished too.

The sky truly is the limit for this Toffees side slowly building towards something truly special, with that progress outlined by the fact that they would be just three points off seventh place were it not for their ten-point deduction.

Yesterday’s win over Chelsea only helped solidify their forward movements, which hopefully will steer them well clear of the relegation zone which they have flirted with in recent Premier League seasons.

With Lewis Dobbin capping off a fine defensive performance with his first senior goal for Everton, sending the home fans and players into pandemonium, it was a perfect end to a stunning afternoon for Evertonians.

And yet, of all the things which pleased Dyche most, it was actually the celebration which left him smiling. He told Sky Sports: ‘Oh absolutely delighted, it’s a strange kind of game for him as a young player and for him to score his goal, the authenticity, the reaction to scoring a goal was so pleasing.

‘No silly dances, a lot of nonsense that everyone gets up to in my opinion now, a group of people working very hard for the result. He runs up to the corner, you watch the team, everyone runs over in a very authentic manner just to enjoy the moment and I’m absolutely delighted for that and the team to get involved with that.’

Did Everton deserve to beat Chelsea?

Although the bulk of the match facts do lean towards Chelsea, it would be disingenuous to just assume that therefore they deserved to claim victory.

After all, for all the 72% possession Mauricio Pochettino’s men enjoyed, firing off 16 shots to Everton’s nine, they still only amassed a 0.95 expected goals tally, whilst the Toffees finished with 1.22, via Sofascore.

At last Goodison Park witnessed a proficient showing, in which the Toffees were far more clinical than they have been earlier in this campaign.

The visitors did force the agenda at times, and naturally enjoyed spells. But, for the wealth of talent they boasted, and the vast fortune unloaded on their starting lineup alone, they sorely lacked the cutting edge to break down Dyche’s staunch system.

Although Pochettino felt his side were ‘much better’ than Everton on the day, in the end, they were the ones who left empty-handed, purely down to the fact that they could not translate their possession into proper opportunities to score.