Sean Dyche could get stung by vicious Everton claim – but huge issue is 32 years in the making.

Everton’s 2-0 loss to Manchester United served as a harsh reminder of their declining fortunes.

Are the remarks Sean Dyche made about Everton starting to bite him in the rear?

When Burnley fell behind 2-1 at home against Frank Lampard’s Blues team in April 2022, the manager at the time rallied his troops after halftime by saying Everton “don’t know how to win a game.” He was correct; it did the trick, and the Clarets won 3-2.

But that season, Lampard prevailed over Dyche in the conflict. After losing 2-0 to bottom-of-the-table team Norwich City in their next match, he was fired on Good Friday. Despite a brief “new manager bounce” under Scouse interim manager Mike Jackson, Burnley dropped and Everton remained in the top division. This proved to be his final victory as manager of Turf Moor for nearly ten years.

Easter is, of course, a moving feast, but Dyche’s Everton will now enter Good Friday 2024 without a Premier League victory since before Christmas. Ironically, the Blues’ most recent triumph in the league occurred on his return to Turf Moor, where they easily won 2-0 to cap a run of four straight wins. Regardless any perspective, their subsequent performance has been appalling.

At this point, Everton has lost 11 games in a Premier League season, or nearly 29 percent of it. They are currently just one win away from matching the record for the longest Premier League winless streak ever, which was achieved by Mike Walker nearly thirty years ago, from August 20 to October 29, 1994.

While they haven’t gone back to their previous soft touch during those “end of days” slumps that saw Lampard and Rafael Benitez leave Goodison Park for good in their second seasons, they haven’t won in five games and only one three-goal thrashing. But as Dyche himself suggests, teams must somehow find a way to cross the finish line, and recently Everton—whose only triumphs have come from James Tarkowski’s cunning ability to win the pre-match toss on the road and force the teams to switch ends—have not been able to do that.

However, the latest defeat for the Blues was not entirely the result of Dyche and his present crop. Manchester United defeated Everton for the 41st time in the Premier League, moving ahead of the Red Devils’ 40 victories over Aston Villa (they also have 39 over Tottenham Hotspur, while Arsenal’s 37 victories against Everton comes in fourth). This was the most frequent 2-0 victory in the history of the competition.

A number of Blues teams have been the obedient fall guy in this matchup for quite some time. While watching the match, Greater Manchester Mayor and longtime Everton Andy Burnham spoke extensively about the latest plans to renovate the property that came about as a result of Jim Ratcliffe purchasing a 25% share in United.

Like Goodison Park, which hosted a World Cup semifinal alongside the former Wembley Stadium, Old Trafford has fallen from being the nation’s premier club ground to being surpassed by its rivals. If you stand still at the pinnacle of the English game, you will inevitably regress. A renovated walkway with a United honors board between the press box and media room is one new renovation since Everton’s last visit.

The Blues still had more League Championships than their rivals from over the East Lancs Road when the Premier League was formed in 1992. Even so, Everton has spent the last thirty years falling down the food chain because they are ill-prepared to compete at the top in the modern era, even though their former chairman Philip Carter was a major force behind the revolutionary rebranding of top flight football in this country.

Under Alex Ferguson, United dominated this era’s first many years, but ever since the renowned Scottish manager retired, they have regressed to a shell of their former glory. Erik ten Hag’s struggling team did, however, as expected, manage the Blues’ problem in a timely manner despite the relative deterioration.

Under former Everton manager Marco Silva, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth (3-0), and Fulham just two weeks ago have all experienced success at Old Trafford this season. However, like so many of their predecessors, Dyche’s team has been unable to add to the Blues’ lone, Bryan Oviedo-inspired victory at the stadium since the first week of the Premier League’s inaugural season, which was approximately 31 and a half years ago. Reporters questioned Dyche about whether his team’s goal-scoring ineptitude was “the same again,” but while United supporters were worried about an opponent controlling the shot total once more, Ten Hag struck the right note when he dismissed Everton’s chances as being only “low quality chances.”

The Dutchman was right. His team’s ability to contain the visitors with their lackluster finishing made the match feel very different from the one they suffered a week earlier when they missed opportunities to overcome David Moyes’ West Ham United.

Everton has a ton of winnable games left on their schedule after their impending vacation, but it will undoubtedly get harder for everyone involved the longer they go without a win. When they do play next, they have back-to-back visits to the opposite end of the nation to play Newcastle United and Bournemouth. As a result, their next meeting at Goodison Park on April 6 against Burnley appears to have the same significance as their meeting at Turf Moor precisely two years prior. because everyone recalls what Dyche stated at the time.

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