Frustrating and Embarrassing:The Everton manager shared his candid thoughts about the officiating ruling this season that haven’t favored his team .

The Everton manager shared his candid thoughts about the officiating rulings this season that haven’t favored his team.

Following the Amadou Onana penalty call against Manchester City, Everton manager Sean Dyche delivered an

impassioned speech about his team’s bad luck with refereeing calls thus far this season.

With the score tied at one goal, Onana was called for handling the ball in the box as he slid in to block Nathan Ake’s

shot, and the Toffees were awarded a penalty in the second half. The fact that the defender made shoddy contact with

the strike and scuffed the ball upward into the approaching defender was what frustrated Everton supporters the most.

In the end, Dyche disputed the decision in his post-match interview, but it helped City take the lead and win 3-1. The 10-

point deduction has already caused a great deal of frustration, especially considering that it happened so soon

after Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s confusingly disallowed goal against Tottenham

Because of this, Dyche’s press conference before his team’s trip to Wolves was a

hotbed of discussion about refereeing decisions. He discussed the decisions that

have gone against his team this season, saying it is difficult to bring them up in light of the incidents this season.

It’s difficult to keep quiet about it, even though you don’t want to cry it out—I

don’t think any manager does, either. Remember the Michael Keane goal from the very beginning of the season? The

keeper drops it at the end of the game and it is not recovered. The dismissal from Liverpool did not change. When I

rewatched the Spurs game, Ange [Postecoglou], bless him, stated that it was unquestionably a foul; he didn’t

even say anything, just said, “Yeah, they’ve scored, end of.” In light of this, he is actually responsible for it.

I believe that last night’s handball incident confused everyone, and managers made it very clear to everyone

in authority—including myself—earlier in the season that that was a really bad play on my part. As I stated afterward,

Onana ought to be a goalkeeper if that was a penalty because he has the reflexes to stop it if it was intentional.

And I am aware that deliberate is meaningless these days and that things ought to return to their former glory.

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