Sean Dyche said his challenge at Everton remains the same as when he was appointed Blues boss.
The 51-year-old took the job in late January and arrived with the club in a relegation spiral. Wins over Arsenal, Leeds United and Brentford followed and those results, coupled with draws against Chelsea, Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur, gave Everton an opportunity to pull clear from trouble.
But consecutive defeats, compounded by disappointing performances, have left the club in peril once again.
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Asked whether he remained confident he could keep Everton in the Premier League following the 3-1 home defeat to Fulham, Dyche said: “It is no different to the challenge when I got here. Everyone was telling me they were gone. So we have corrected that idea. Now it is about taking the rest of the season on.
"There is a saying I have: You have got to make things happen, don’t wait for them to happen. In the second half we kind of dropped back into that waiting for something to happen and generally we haven’t done that since I have been here, there has been an energy and an edge to our performances to go and make it happen for ourselves.
“I just felt after their goal we dropped into that waiting for something to happen. Now and then you get a lucky one but generally you have got to make things happen and we stopped trying to make things happen after their second goal went in. Then it was a really poor third goal but at the end of the day the change in the performance was there before their third goal.”
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