Everton manager Sean Dyche hoping to see more goals at Goodison Park

The mood music around the club has changed considerably in the last week after back-to-back wins, with the 3-1 success at Brentford on Saturday getting them off the mark in the Premier League before they won 2-1 at Aston Villa to reach the last 16 of the Carabao Cup.

With Luton and Bournemouth due to visit Goodison in the next two fixtures, there is a clear opportunity to build some momentum but only if they can end their home hoodoo.

All three of Everton’s wins so far this season have come on the road, while they have been beaten by Fulham, Wolves and Arsenal in front of their own fans.

Asked if there was an obvious reason for the difference in home and away form, Dyche said: “Yeah, scoring a goal. It’s as simple as that. There were two very dominant performances at the beginning of the season (against Fulham and Wolves) where we didn’t score and we let one in.

“It’s the fine lines. Those games should have been, with the performance levels, dealt with before the end. We shouldn’t be scrambling around towards the end of the game but it wasn’t to be. We’ve got to score goals and we’re beginning to see the team is capable of scoring goals, so that’s a good thing.

“Goodison has been great, the crowd, the noise, the feel. It’s just about those final moments, the clinical side of the performance and we’re beginning to show signs, that cutting edge is coming.”

Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored in back-to-back games and Dyche will be hoping the striker’s desperate run of injury problems is behind him, but he has also been encouraged by the contributions of others.

Beto has made a major impact since his summer arrival but Dyche stressed it was not only down to the strikers, and pointed to James Garner getting his first Everton goal at Villa Park after James Tarkowski scored from a set-piece at Brentford.

“We’ve been trying to work on the attacking options and getting more bodies in the box, more quality chances and I’m pleased with that,” he said.

“If you’ve got more people we think can deliver in those areas that’s important but it’s not down to one or two players, we want the whole team to understand that…It’s really a team mentality and we’ve been constantly reinforcing that to the group.

“I’m pleased for (Calvert-Lewin). We’ve tried to come away from the pressure of just putting him straight back in all the time and hopefully that will pay dividends in the long term for him and for us.

“I think he looked sharp and he’s building back into first-team football. He can only get fitter and sharper.”

While the two wins have helped improve the mood amongst the fans, Dyche insisted not much had changed around the Finch Farm training ground – sticking to his mantra of trying to keep an even keel through the highs and lows of a season.

“It’s been pleasing in the end that the players have put a lot of effort into getting the rewards we’ve already been due this season but we haven’t got,” he said.

“I’m pleased with the relentless attitude of the players to keep performing because if results aren’t coming your way you can’t just wait for it to happen, you have to make it happen.

“I don’t think there were any grimaces (before the wins), I hope not. Certainly we try to work in an environment where there’s a consistency to what we do and a consistency in the feel of what we do.

“I think we’re pretty balanced and it’s just small steps to a bigger picture.”

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