Your evening Everton headlines on Monday, February 20.
Jordan Pickford reveals what Sean Dyche has done in training to transform Everton
Jordan Pickford believes Everton are reaping the benefits of a back to basics approach under Sean Dyche and has spoken about the importance of keeping clean sheets.
Dyche made it two wins from two at Goodison Park on Saturday as Seamus Coleman’s second-half strike handed the Blues a huge 1-0 win over Leeds United. The win moved Everton out of the relegation zone.
Pickford also recorded a second successive clean sheet on home soil, after the Blues beat Arsenal in Dyche’s first game in charge earlier this month. The former Burnley boss replaced the sacked Frank Lampard at the end of January.
And when asked about life under Dyche, Pickford, speaking to evertontv, said: “It’s been a refresh. Back to basics, in some respects, and it’s important we're defending our goal well and being hard to beat.
“We need to keep building our form now. We’ve been working extremely hard on the training pitch and that will continue because we want more. Aston Villa are a good side, but we'll put the work in and we'll be ready for the challenge.”
Connor O'Neill has more, here.
Double boost for Everton Stadium in week of dramatic progress
Another hectic week of activity at Everton Stadium produced a double installation of roof trusses to ensure two thirds of the sections have now been put into place.
The steel roofing structure at Everton's 52,888 capacity future home at Bramley-Moore Dock took two big steps closer to completion following a double installation in the past seven days. The penultimate 100-tonne section has been hoisted into place in the centre of the north stand, leaving just one section to complete the second and final full-span truss.
Similarly, the south stand saw the central section of the second full-span truss lifted into position. This larger stand, which will eventually house 13,000 Evertonians, supports three trusses in total.
Each full-span truss consists of three sections with five of the six sections in the north stand now completed and five of the nine sections in the south stand done to ensure 10 of the eventual 15 have now been erected. That leaves five sections still to be installed, one in the north stand and four in the south stand.
Chris Beesley has the full story.
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