Everton boss Sean Dyche speaks on his team's defeat to Fulham.
Everton manager Sean Dyche has revealed that a critical problem he is trying to solve caused his team to lose to Fulham.
The Toffees were soundly beaten 3-1 by Fulham at Goodison Park, sinking them further into murky relegation waters.
Everton winless in four
Since beating Brentford 1-0, Dyche's side have gone on a run of four games without a win, including the defeat to the Cottagers.
Harrison Reed gave the visitors a 22nd-minute lead before Dwight McNeil pulled his side level in the 35th minute of the encounter.
A little after returning from the break, Fulham went ahead again in the game when Harry Wilson got on the end of a Willian delivery.
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Daniel James ended the scoring on the day, doubling his team's advantage in the 68th minute of the match, sealing a 3-1 victory for the West Londoners.
What Sean Dyche said
Dyche thought his team did not start well, but they managed to play themselves into the game, leading a period of dominance after Dwight McNeil's equaliser.
However, the English manager believes his team's mentality betrayed them after conceding the second goal at the start of the second-half.
He believes that the team has a mentality problem, and reveals that he has been making attempts to remedy that since joining the club.
"They started brightly and we didn't. Then 15-20 minutes in we started to grow into the game, we changed the shape and it was effective," he said, per the BBC.
"Dwight McNeil scored a very good goal and the whole atmosphere changed. We were very productive and dominant in that period, we had a great chance to go 2-1 up and stop them.
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"Second half we started brightly but then after the second goal, we reverted back to behind we were here basically. The mentality shifted very quickly, we lost our way very quickly and we've got to change that.
"There have been steps to change that since we've been here but it affected us too much today and we never really got back on top of the game."
"There have been steps to change that since we've been here but it affected us too much today and we never really got back on top of the game."
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