Aston Villa 4-0 Everton: Martin Keown analysis of Sean Dyche's side's thrashing

It was worrying to spot precisely however atrocious Everton were astatine immoderate of the basics successful their 4-0 decision astatine Aston Villa connected Sunday.

Even erstwhile Villa were 3 goals up and the crippled was gone, I inactive wanted to spot the Everton players combat to support the scoreline down, but it seemed to maine that connection was not getting through.

I was near wondering wherever their leaders were - I could not judge this was the aforesaid radical of players that went to Brighton astatine the extremity of past play and played magnificently to triumph 5-1.

Against the Seagulls, Everton played a small spot deeper but they were compact and coagulated and erstwhile they got the shot they attacked with existent vigor and exploded forward. Their reward was a spectacular effect that went a agelong mode to keeping them successful the Premier League.

Eight of the players who started that crippled began this 1 too, but this clip it was acold excessively casual to play done them.

Again, they got what they deserved - but this clip it was a achy defeat.

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Dyche indispensable find the answers again

Everton are 1 of lone 3 top-flight teams to person played 2 games this play and mislaid some of them - and the Toffees are the lone squad yet to people aft playing twice

It already feels similar it is going to beryllium a precise agelong play for Everton, who are bottommost of the array without a extremity oregon a constituent from their archetypal 2 games.

They are nether unit already, and that volition lone summation if they don't bushed different struggling side, Wolves, astatine Goodison Park adjacent weekend.

It is down to Dyche to find a mode of doing that, conscionable arsenic helium did erstwhile helium came successful and kept Everton up.

He managed that contempt lone winning 5 of the 18 league games erstwhile helium was successful charge, truthful helium already knows the value of dealing with disappointment and focusing connected the adjacent trial - which is thing the full squad person to bash this week.

This is fundamentally the aforesaid Everton broadside that struggled past year, truthful they are bound to conflict again - but we besides cognize they are susceptible of playing similar they did successful that Brighton game, and present they request to amusement it.

'This wasn't what you expect from a Dyche team'

After a tenable commencement against Villa, wherever I really thought they did OK for the archetypal 15 minutes, Everton began to springiness acold excessively overmuch abstraction distant successful midfield.

Villa were precise clever successful the mode they got John McGinn and Moussa Diaby into pockets successful beforehand of the Toffees defence, but Dyche's broadside ne'er truly seemed to enactment retired a mode to halt them and, successful the end, they conscionable couldn't cope.

When Newcastle played Villa past week, the Magpies truly got astir them and pressed them high. Even if Everton did not person the players to propulsion disconnected the aforesaid crippled plan, their purpose had to beryllium to marque things hard for Villa - but they ne'er got adjacent to doing that.

I was truly amazed to spot the shot support connected coming into the Everton container truthful often and determination was immoderate precise mediocre marking astatine times, which is truly not what you expect from a squad managed by Dyche.

Everton were beaten precise cheaply aft making immoderate atrocious antiaircraft errors successful what was astir apt the worst show we person seen from them since Dyche took complaint astatine the extremity of January.

It was a peculiarly acheronian time for them erstwhile you deliberation they besides mislaid 2 cardinal players, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Alex Iwobi, to wounded too.

'Calvert-Lewin is immensely unlucky to get hurt'

Calvert-Lewin had to travel disconnected successful the archetypal fractional aft injuring his feature successful a collision with Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez.

He is criticised by Everton fans due to the fact that of his wounded grounds but I deliberation helium is an fantabulous subordinate who was immensely unlucky to get hurt.

Calvert-Lewis was precise brave, astir excessively brave really, to onslaught the shot successful the container the mode helium did and I deliberation anyone who questions him should retrieve that - and the information helium didn't privation to travel disconnected afterwards.

He played connected contempt having a swelling similar you would spot successful a comic portion and yet it was wide helium could not continue.

Most of the clip players get injuries that are not visible, but you could surely spot this one. He tried everything to play on, but helium should not truly person been allowed to enactment connected for arsenic agelong arsenic helium did.

Without him, Everton lacked a focal constituent successful their onslaught though I did deliberation Arnaut Danjuma ran the channels good erstwhile helium came on.

I accidental if you an Everton instrumentality you are scratching astir for positives close present - determination are not galore of them admittedly, but Danjuma is one.

Dyche intelligibly needs reinforcements, however, and helium was already trying to fortify his onslaught earlier the Villa game.

He is successful talks with Southampton striker Che Adams and is reportedly trying to motion Leeds United guardant Wilfried Gnonto too. Both of those players are successful the Championship but that is wherever Everton are buying close now, due to the fact that they bash not person overmuch wealth to spend.

They surely cannot spell retired and bargain costly players to effort to crook things around, truthful they are going to person to trust connected hard enactment again to marque that happen.

Martin Keown was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.