Everton have appointed Sean Dyche as their eighth permanent manager in seven years.
The former Burnley boss has a tough task ahead of him to drag a struggling team out of the Premier League’s bottom three, with the club facing a second-successive relegation battle.
Here, the PA news agency’s Carl Markham looks at what Dyche will have to address in a very short space of time after replacing Frank Lampard.
Stop losing games
Increase the goal output
on repeat ?@22Demarai ? pic.twitter.com/i3jIok9fSJ
— Everton (@Everton) December 31, 2022
Only Wolves have a worse return in front of goal than Everton’s 15 in 20 league matches. They have scored more than once only twice this season and Demarai Gray is the leading scorer with five in all competitions, three of them in the top flight.