LIVERPOOL : Everton have been dealt a blow ahead of Monday's Merseyside derby at Liverpool with striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin a major fitness doubt because of a hamstring injury.
"We're still monitoring him. It will be touch and go at best I think for the Liverpool game so we'll just have to monitor it and hope that it settles down sooner rather than later," Dyche told reporters on Friday. Calvert-Lewin has made only 11 Premier League appearances this season, scoring once, but Dyche knows how important he could be to Everton's hopes of avoiding the drop.
While Everton remain in the bottom three, the appointment of Dyche and the win over Arsenal has lifted the mood at Goodison Park while across the city Liverpool are in a rut after picking up only one point from the last 12 available."They have been on the up for a long time and it is difficult to constantly remodel, reenergise, they have done that well but the way football works it is difficult to constant keep achieving," he said of Liverpool's slump.