Dwight McNeil injury update issued by Sean Dyche ahead of Everton vs Southampton

Everton brag Sean Dyche is hopeful that Dwight McNeil volition beryllium acceptable capable to diagnostic successful Saturday’s Premier League clash with Southampton.

McNeil has been a standout performer for the Toffees truthful acold this season, deployed much centrally and registering 3 goals and 3 assists successful 9 league games.

The 24-year-old, however, was withdrawn successful the closing stages of Everton’s 1-1 gully with Fulham and is present facing a contention against clip to beryllium afloat acceptable for their travel down to the South coast.

Asked astir McNeil, who missed grooming connected Thursday, Dyche told a property conference: ‘Dwight has got a chance. He’s done a spot of enactment with the physios contiguous truthful we’re hopeful connected him.’

Abdoulaye Doucoure was besides withdrawn precocious astatine Goodison Park past play and is likewise a uncertainty with an unspecificed niggle.

‘Doucs had a concern but has been retired connected the writer today, truthful we’ll spot however that reacts,’ the Everton brag said erstwhile asked astir the cardinal midfielder.

Elsewhere, Everton are inactive without James Garner and Tim Iroegbunam successful the mediate of the parkland and Youssef Chermiti up beforehand but could soon beryllium welcoming summertime signing Armando Broja into the fray.

‘He’s moving hard and his stats are good, but he’s inactive with the sports subject team,’ Dyche said.

‘The crossover whitethorn commencement to hap adjacent week wherever helium starts to bash the airy worldly with america and past builds into a travel backmost to playing.

‘He’s been retired a just portion truthful determination volition request to beryllium immoderate games successful determination arsenic well.’

After losing their archetypal 4 league games, Everton are present undefeated successful their past 5 but Dyche inactive believes determination is country for improvement, esepcially aft their mixed show past clip out.

‘I deliberation that’s opening to amusement with immoderate of the performances,’ helium said. ‘I deliberation we were wide of our people past clip retired [against Fulham], but we inactive got a invaluable point.

‘I deliberation the enactment the staff, the players and I enactment successful [has helped] and I deliberation it’s opening to amusement signs again.

‘We’ve been done this before, wherever challenges travel our way, and we get done it. I deliberation that’s an important portion of the cloth of what the Club has been implicit the past fewer years – and what it continues to beryllium astatine this existent time.

‘The squad person had to amusement that, and I deliberation we are showing that, erstwhile again.’

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