Sean Dyche must drop £26m Everton player vs Nottingham Forest who completed just two passes vs Chelsea

Sean Dyche must drop £26m Everton player vs Nottingham Forest who completed just two passes vs Chelsea

Sean Dyche must drop £26m Everton player vs Nottingham Forest who completed just two passes vs Chelsea

With Everton preparing hard as they face Nottingham Forest this weekend, the nerves are understandably building.

After all, this is no ordinary Premier League game.

The two sides who meet sit 17th and 16th in the division respectively, and a win for either team could see them either swap positions or extend a gap between the two.

It promises to be truly pivotal in the relegation battle, and Sean Dyche will know that better than most.

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Unfortunately, his is a squad recently ravaged by injuries, and decidedly downbeat after their 6-0 thrashing on Monday.

Such a torrid display will certainly play on his thinking, with one particular position in desperate need of a fresh face.

Everton must drop Beto against Nottingham Forest
Having scored two in two earlier this month, after enduring a goal drought that stretched back into October, Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s absence from the trip to Chelsea was a big blow.

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After all, not only does he lead the line with power and finesse, but in the past he has proved himself capable of bagging crucial goals with regularity.

This season, though, we just hadn’t seen it.

The hope is that he will be back for this weekend’s match against Forest, set to provide a huge upgrade on Beto, who really let his side down at Stamford Bridge.

How did Beto play vs Chelsea?
Well, in short, the £26m summer signing was desperately disappointing on Monday night.

The marksman failed to make his mark big offensively or in his work rate, and at times it felt like the Toffees were playing with ten men as his first touch escaped him and he failed to threaten or link play.

His terrible night was compounded when he blazed a close-range effort over the bar from close range with the scores still level, although admittedly Seamus Coleman had fired it at him.

He would later score a fine header, but was some distance offside.

However, that aside, and the hulking striker only managed 21 touches all night. Of his disappointing match stats, the worst figure states that he completed a meagre two passes.

ailed to make a single defensive interaction, suggesting that whilst also squandering an expected goals of 1.31, he was barely defending either, via Sofascore.

Now whether it be Calvert-Lewin or Youssef Chermiti, he simply cannot be allowed to start again against Forest. This match is too important to have such an unreliable livewire alone up top.