Dean Saunders believes that Everton will be panicking when they go ahead in games after their results in the Premier League this season.
The Toffees have somehow managed to bottle two-goal leads twice already this season and, as a result of their poor form, have found themselves nineteenth in the league.
Happier days are now likely to be on the horizon, however, as Dan Friedkin is set to complete his takeover of the club over the next six to eight weeks
Speaking about Sean Dyche and Everton on talkSPORT (25 September, 7:39am), Saunders gave an insight into what the manager will be telling his players to do.
“You’ve got to keep lifting them up on Monday morning,” he said. “You’ve got to say look lads, we’ve missed the chances we’ve created, we know we can keep clean sheets, we’ve done it at the end of last season, we just keep slipping leads but it’ll come.
“It’s mentally, you panic. For example, if you bring a ball out of the sky and pass it, you’re just putting your foot through it because you’re panicking trying to get over the winning line.
“When you get confident and you know you’re going to win, you actually feel like every time you go out you’re going to win.
“He’ll be saying to them [Dyche], whatever we do, we don’t beat ourselves by giving goals away, if a team is going to beat us it’s going to have to be a good goal so we’ll stay organised and the goals will come”.
Sean Dyche needs to get Everton back to winning ways
It’s no secret that Everton have had a below-par season thus far and find themselves in yet another Premier League relegation battle.
While their summer window was fairly intriguing, it feels as if the players haven’t managed to live up to the standards expected of them so far.
Dyche’s future has been brought into question on numerous occasions and although he seems safe for now, the fact that managers such as Gareth Southgate are being linked with the Everton hot seat should certainly be a cause for concern for the former Burnley manager [GiveMeSport, 23 September].
Throughout the summer window, players were brought in to bolster key areas within the squad and even though the likes of Jake O’Brien haven’t yet been fully integrated into the first-team fold, those such as Iliman Ndiaye who have, have found themselves pivotal already.
There’s still plenty of time left in the season for things to change but the Merseyside outfit needs to buck their ideas up soon otherwise things could get quite hairy for the club.
