West Ham 0-0 Everton: Sean Dyche disagrees with Julen Lopetegui over who deserved victory at the London Stadium

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West Ham drew 0-0 with Everton at the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon

Everton boss Sean Dyche has disagreed with Julen Lopetegui’s assessment of West Ham’s 0-0 draw with the Toffees as he insisted the hosts did not deserve all three points on Saturday afternoon.

Crysencio Summerville struck the post while Jordan Pickford - who Lopetegui named as the away side’s best player - made a handful of fine saves to keep the game scoreless. The England international made the best of his stops late in the game as he denied substitute Danny Ings from snatching victory for the home side. Lopetegui felt his side had done enough to warrant all three points - although Dyche did not feel the same way.

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The Everton boss said: “I mean, it would have been really frustrating if they scored right at the end, when Jordan makes a fine save, because I didn't think they deserved that,” concluded Dyche. “[It was a] tight game. I thought we delivered a very solid performance. We wanted to get that solid feel back. I don't think it was miles away at Southampton – we just didn't score a goal and got caught up at a counter-attack. 

“[Coming] down here is a tricky game with what's going on and the noise here. We’ve got a clean sheet and a point on the road – and that's an important factor. One loss in seven just consolidates that mentality. We know we've got to win more games but it's good from the side and that we're still stretched with injuries. This [international break] hopefully now will give them a chance to get fit again and good getting bodies back fit.”

Everton arrived at the London Stadium with a handful of injury concerns, which saw Dyche name two goalkeepers on the bench along with 17-year-old Harrison Armstrong and Under-21s midfielder Callum Bates. The former Burnley boss continued: “The challenge you have is we try to fill the bench with the kids when we can but they've got to get games programmes as well, so we can't just keep pulling them out just to be there and if they're not ready, they're unlikely to get on the pitch.

“It's great for the feel of what they do but we haven't got that strength of depth where we're looking around at the bench going, ‘Right, let's just make four changes here, three changes there’. You don’t want to lose it, you want to win it, so it’s a tricky situation looking at who we’ve got and who we’re putting on where and for what reasons. Overall today, forgetting about that, it's another point on the road, another clean sheet and another brilliant turn-out from our fans. The numbers, yet again, were amazing.”

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