Neal Maupay: Everton condemn social media abuse of striker

Neal Maupay joined Everton from Brighton past summer

Everton person condemned the societal media maltreatment suffered by striker Neal Maupay pursuing Saturday's Premier League decision by Fulham astatine Goodison Park.

"This is what I get for not scoring. No 1 should ever woody with this," helium wrote.

"We basal firmly against specified behaviour and are investigating the accounts that person targeted Neal," said Everton.

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Asked astir Maupay's show aft the game, Dyche told BBC Sport: "I privation each players to get successful the close areas and Neal did. You person to support getting determination to people goals.

"Eventually, if you make that galore chances and support doing it relentlessly, you volition people goals and triumph games. That is what I person learned successful my beingness successful football."

Maupay added successful his societal media post: "Gutted astir the effect today, we tried our champion it wasn't enough."

And team-mate Idrissa Gueye posted a connection of enactment for Maupay, saying: "We triumph unneurotic and suffer together. We each cognize the hard idiosyncratic that you are."

Everton added: "Everton Football Club condemns each forms of idiosyncratic maltreatment directed towards our players and their families oregon immoderate nine unit connected societal media.

"We promote anyone utilizing these platforms to report, condemn and item immoderate specified maltreatment to the societal media platforms connected which it appears.

"Discrimination and hatred has nary spot successful our game."

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