Sean Dyche says that James Tarkowski was left out of the squad that was dumped out of the Carabao Cup by Southampton this evening because he is nursing a back injury.
The defender, who has started every Premier League fixture since joining Everton on a free transfer from Burnley in 2022, played through the end of last season with a back complaint and this is likely a continuatiom of that issue.
The manager says that he is hopeful that the veteran will be fit enough to face Leicester on Saturday in a match that has assumed outsized significance following the Blues' atrocious start to the season.
Similarly, he hopes that the three players who also missed the cup defeat because of illness, Vitalii Mykolenko, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, and James Garner, will all recover in time to boost the numbers available to him.
However, Seamus Coleman, Nathan Patterson and Jarrad Branthwaite will all still be missing.
Everton toiled through a dire evening of football under the Goodison lights against Southampton but took the lead after 20 minutes, only to concede and not have enough to find a winner.
Ashley Young's saved penalty in the sudden-death phase of the shootout ensured that the Toffees again exited the League Cup following spot-kicks.
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2 Posted 18/09/2024 at 07:54:16
Nearly October and he's still out, something not right, a massive loss.
3 Posted 18/09/2024 at 08:03:27
Albert Steptoe will be rubbing his hands together!
4 Posted 18/09/2024 at 08:07:09
Does this account for why he couldn't have rallied the troops vs Bournemouth?
Dunno. It's all a sea of crap.
5 Posted 18/09/2024 at 08:13:13
It took me a while though…
6 Posted 18/09/2024 at 08:15:55
7 Posted 18/09/2024 at 09:05:23
Sorry to go old school, but time for deep heat and ibuprofen. Needs must!!
As for the others, lemsip and paracetamol. My mother used to see that as the cure for everything!!
I'm sure the medical staff have more sophisticated methods than Doctor Danny.
8 Posted 18/09/2024 at 09:15:31
9 Posted 18/09/2024 at 10:44:08
Hopefully both Branthwaite and Tarkowski will be back fully fit for the rest of the campaign but do not rush them back!
Something what irritates me are the goal celebrations that see players jumping on other players. I would ban it in fear of needless injury risk.
Small percentages and all that.
10 Posted 18/09/2024 at 18:06:37
Vardy will be thinking to himself, "I could bag a 'trick' against this lot!!!"
11 Posted 19/09/2024 at 12:53:47
And our best right-back, except for a fully fit Seamus, over the last few years was JonJoe Kenny. He became a poor player in some people's eyes when not actually playing in the team. We offered him a poor new deal and he left and we paid £20M for an injury-prone player.
That is just one of the many ridiculous bits of business this club has done, which has helped create the precarious position we are in. JonJoe's heroics against Leeds at left-back a couple of years ago would be invaluable for us now. He should have been offered a contract that didn't indicate he was surplus to requirements.
13 Posted 19/09/2024 at 13:48:49
I thought Ben was a very good signing when we bought him but he looked like he never recovered from his broken leg and then the coronavirus so it looked like good business when we got a few million for him in the summer and he could have walked away at the end of this season and we would have got nothing.
I was always a fan of Jonjoe Kenny and sorry that he left but he is doing well in Germany and he will always be an Everton fan because he was born one and will stay one.
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1 Posted 18/09/2024 at 07:09:22
Sure we lost (after managing a draw at full time) and we were utter crap, but it only goes to show how crap So'ton are that they could not muster a win after 70something %age possession against this Everton. They should have been the ones "dumped" out of the cup if Lindstrom could have taken one or both his one-on-one chances (no-one else from either team came close) and it only goes to show how utterly crap we are that we couldn't beat a team that are as utterly crap as So'ton are.
Confused? I am!....I think there is a fair chance we will be playing each other again twice next season but not in the prem. God forbid.
Pissed off? You bet I am.
Hope Tarks can be fit for Leics just to bring it back on topic. Ha bloody ha.