A remarkable Premier League weekend has Sean Dyche and Harry Kane in their rightful places, with Nathan Jones and Jurgen Klopp damned by their own words.
Winners
A wonderful pair of Tetes
A man-of-the-match performance from Fulham right-back Kenny, who inhibited almost £170m worth of Chelsea winger in Mykhaylo Mudryk, Noni Madueke and Raheem Sterling during a commendable goalless draw on Friday, was the precursor to not-actual relative Leicester winger Tete inspiring a glorious win over Aston Villa with an electric display. A proud weekend for the family.
Sean Dyche
There has always been an element of obfuscation and simplification to Sean Dyche. The complaints about a lack of opportunities for and the perception of British managers; the eye-rolling scepticism with which he treats praise for foreign bosses implementing something he and his grizzled colleagues ‘have been doing for years’; the snood-banning and imaginary grudge-holding; the shirt-wearing snow-gazing. It all adds to the caricature, playing up to and thigh-slapping with a certain crowd.
“Our plan? Stop it going in our net, put it in their net,” was Dyche’s own condensed version of his debut win as Everton manager, but no amount of deliberate downplaying could disguise how impressive it was to turn around a ship which had sunk to a 10-game winless run, not least with four full days’ preparation to welcome the runaway league leaders.
Dyche has always been a phenomenal coach who has mastered his particular art: 28 of his 73 Premier League wins (38.4%) have finished 1-0, with only Tony Pulis (41.8%) having a higher percentage of total victories by the same scoreline; James Tarkowski’s header – from a Dwight McNeil delivery – was the 40th goal from a corner scored by a Dyche team since 2016/17, with only Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp presiding over more in that time.
The sight of him patrolling the Goodison Park touchline, bellowing tactical orders to orchestrate a world-leading low block which transitioned seamlessly into dangerous, incisive counter-attacks, must have been refreshing to those of a nervous Everton disposition. There remains a great deal of work to do but at least in Dyche they have someone proper to sift and sort through it, even if the man himself wishes to trivialise his impact.
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— Jon Mackenzie (@Jon_Mackenzie) February 4, 2023
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