LUTON TOWN 1-1 EVERTON | Sean Dyche's reaction

Well, the goal was achieved last week, but there was no sign of your players taking their foot off the gas. It was very difficult to win points tonight. Yeah, I mean, from my point of view as a coach and staff, I thought we were a little out of control with the ball. I know a pocket in the first one. I thought we played well and controlled that side a little bit. What pleases me is that the resistance on this side has increased. You know, people have often commented that to me in the past. If the games are going against you, they're not going against you now, you know, we're finding a way to make sure we look after it, so some of the defenders at the end were first class, they bombed the ball into the box and played it fair.

I know I'm certainly not against longer football, that's just the way it is, but they asked a lot of diagnostic questions and continually put the ball in the box and I thought we handled it well to make sure we at least came out with a point. It says a lot about the character of your players because no matter what you say, sometimes any team when your goal has achieved maybe subconsciously there is a little bit of danger, but there really isn't, that shows the growing mentality in this team. It is not like this? I agree and I talked to the players about that.

I told them: look, let's finish the season strong and strong. They know how we've been doing and they know we all know the

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to a really horrible night at Chelsea and how we reacted to that and how we responded, so I said, let's do what's right for ourselves, you know, and I think that showed, As I say, some of the quality that we couldn't find, the decisive moments that I have recently, but the resilience, the mentality, the work ethic, I think about the players that I thought were on display against the internal team that is fighting for their lives and for fair play with them, for the way everyone discarded them.

Give them a chance at the start of the season, they're still there with a fighting chance and they were tonight, so like you said, I don't want to question the players too much because they've given a lot this season in different ways, different challenges, so I didn't question them too much, but I already left the core, I said that in the next game we will be good again and we need to train ourselves with the ball and face the game with a mind a little clearer than that. A fourth try and five games for Dom. He's been very complimentary to you and your staff just that moment you gave him when he was going through some injury problems, which was a while ago, but how gratifying it is to see him feel like he constantly wants to come back to the levels we all know.

He's capable of doing it, yeah, and he had a great chance in the second half, he makes a good save over his head, but yeah, I mean, look, there's still work to do for him, he's still adjusting. I think he was fantastic against Liverpool and you know, today he came out a bit. A bit of a nagging injury and a bit of illness, so yeah, but he's doing well, but there are a lot of players. I'm very happy with the young players here, you know, they've come forward, it's not just Jared, other players, Jimmy is staying.

You know he's had a good season. You know he continues to develop. You know, Yousef. I thought Yousef did very well last week. He did well again when he emerged. The bet was to adapt. You know there are a lot of challenges for these players, but they are starting to arrive. together as a group and I think we have seen it and it has rewarded us of course and the fans of course a penalty for us tonight which is not always easy to get for Everton this season but you feel we should have had a second, yes.

I think the Dwight thing for me is that I have to make it clear that lifting your foot when you're touched shouldn't make you fall when you know you're a machine, like these guys tend to be now, but when someone steps on you. your foot I don't know where you can go how can you run like that? So that was mine. I've only seen it once, but that's what it seemed to me. The other. Betto, a fight, maybe, maybe you'll get them. We don't have a brilliant penalty record, I don't want to cry but we haven't so anyway let's hope the next game lasts a couple of games or maybe we play paying it forward, who knows we get to the game before the goals will be clean. our back five obviously conceded one tonight, but the defense still showed up again because the way they placed the stack of crosses in the box they have a definite threat, no, yes, not at all, and the referee made sure they played as much as they could.

Well, in the end, keep in mind that he blew up when he had a quarter, but yeah, I thought it was interesting. The minute continues until you like it. I don't know where that comes from, uh, corners, but no, we went for it, we made sure we were in. At least I got the points, I'm happy with that and ultimately, obviously, it's a really difficult season. You're looking forward to getting into the Cheli United game and marking it with the fans and maintaining that unity that's been clear in this F, you know since then. You become a manager, yes, and I want us to act.

I want us to at least give everything like we did today. It was a guarantee. I said it when I got it. It was a guarantee. You're brilliant, but you can guarantee that you give it your all. And that was it. show again, so the minimum requirement is maximum effort, it hasn't changed, we want to make it happen next week and we hope to play a little better with the ball and hopefully score a few more goals.