![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/neal-maupays-new-look-cant-mask-simple-everton-failure-to-leave-sean-dyche-downbeat/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Everton-FC-v-Fulham-FC-Premier-League-Liverpool-United-Kingdom-12-Aug-2023.jpg&description=EVERTON 0-1 FULHAM: Sean Dyche felt the Toffees were the better side at Goodison Park but old boss Marco Silva came back to haunt his former side as the Cottagers left with all three points New hair colour, new number – but the same lack of finesse in front of goal for Neal Maupay. And that sadly for the frustrated home fans spread to his team-mates on an afternoon when Everton should have scored a shed load. Goodison boss Sean Dyche said: "We created four or five golden chances in the first half and were very good on the break as well. I thought we were the better side overall, but sometimes you don't get what you deserve.' Bobby De Cordova-Reid supplied the ultimate sucker punch with a 73rd minute winner which indicates another long hard winter ahead unless they can unlock the door to goal. Fulham boss Marco Silva admitted: 'It was not a good performance by ourselves. We gave away many chances and Everton should have punished us on the counter attack. Bernd Leno kept us in the game.' How Maupay hadn't helped himself to a hat-trick by half-time was a complete mystery. With just a single goal in 29 appearances since joining the Toffees from Brighton the summer has seen the misfiring striker opt for bleached hair and the number 13. But time after time the goal jinx which seems to have blighted his stay on Merseyside struck after the home side had begun with energy and passion leaving Fulham gasping for air. After just 34 seconds Maupay found himself free inside the box only for a well struck effort to glide just past the far post. When the speedy Alex Iwobi's cross hit Abdoulaye Doucoure and landed in Maupay's path just six yards out the home fans sensed the hoodoo was about to end. But to their horror Leno was able to deflect the low shot around the post. And in another one on one between striker and keeper it was Leno who once again came out on top. The overrun Cottagers were fortunate to see a Michael Keane side footed finish ruled out for an illegal James Tarkows){kind=link}
EVERTON 0-1 FULHAM: Sean Dyche felt the Toffees were the better side at Goodison Park but old boss Marco Silva came back to haunt his former side as the Cottagers left with all three points
New hair colour, new number â but the same lack of finesse in front of goal for Neal Maupay.
And that sadly for the frustrated home fans spread to his team-mates on an afternoon when Everton should have scored a shed load.
Goodison boss Sean Dyche said: “We created four or five golden chances in the first half and were very good on the break as well. I thought we were the better side overall, but sometimes you don’t get what you deserve.”
Bobby De Cordova-Reid supplied the ultimate sucker punch with a 73rd minute winner which indicates another long hard winter ahead unless they can unlock the door to goal. Fulham boss Marco Silva admitted: “It was not a good performance by ourselves. We gave away many chances and Everton should have punished us on the counter attack. Bernd Leno kept us in the game.”