Sean Dyche myth debunked as Everton did something against Spurs that no one other has done.
Tactical snobbery is a concept that has become increasingly common in modern football, particularly in Everton’s style of play.
Under Sean Dyche, it is believed that they will always look to play long, mindlessly putting the ball into the box and flourishing off set pieces.
While much of this is accurate, there are also additional aspects to their approach that distinguish them from the antiquated sides to which they are likened.
After all, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to winning a football match, as they demonstrated yesterday when they faced fifth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and arguably should have won all three points.
One data has subsequently emerged to dispel this long-standing fallacy, which continues to tarnish Dyche’s great managerial record.
What did Everton do against Tottenham that no other Premier League team has this season?
It’s frequently pretty amusing how quickly data can demolish sloppy judgments.
And, while they may not always reveal the whole tale, this time it is undeniably true. Everton pressed Spurs mercilessly, and they should have had considerably more to show for it than just two goals.
Journalist Paddy Boyland would detail this in his article for The Athletic, simply stating: “Led by the indefatigable Idrissa Gueye (16 recoveries in total) and James Garner (11 recoveries), they regained possession 18 times in the final third against Tottenham: the most of any side in a Premier League game this season.”
“You have to go back to Liverpool’s 1-0 win at Norwich in February 2020 for the last time a top-flight team managed as many.”
Why is Sean Dyche always stereotyped?
‘People place you into boxes. That’s life,” Dyche told the High Performance Podcast during his time away from the game after leaving Burnley.
It’s an easy stereotype to form about this 52-year-old bald strategist from Kettering, who spent his playing career as a tough central defense, yet it’s completely wrong.
His teams are far from the one-dimensional hoofball side that many believe they are, and it appears that this facile concept primarily originates from Premier League teams that are disappointed that they were unable to dismiss his tenacious Everton group.
Spurs were lucky to even get a point yesterday, considering they had 0.98 anticipated goals against the hosts’ 2.62. The final score was a 2-2 draw.
While a last-minute winner may suggest that the Toffees’scraped a result’, the game was anything but.
But nobody complains that Ange Postecoglou’s team, which had 57% possession, went nowhere with their passes and generated little outside of the goals.
Football is a game of opinions, and nobody is ever genuinely correct.
The one undisputed fact is that, as previously stated, there are multiple ways to win a football game. Dyche is not a villain just because he does not fit in with the status quo of these young upstarts looking to revolutionize the game.
