Ronald Koeman given ‘total support’ of Everton owner Farhad Moshiri

“That’s football – it’s hard to take for the players because they gave everything and it’s hard to take for the fans”. You need to be lucky in second balls, maybe everything. “We have to keep working hard to turn it around”.

“They won the their first game (Arsenal beat Cologne 3-1 in their Europa League group opener, while Everton lost 3-0 to Atalanta), and are in not such a hard group”.

But the club’s majority shareholder says he will stand by the Dutchman and is confident the season can still prove to be positive. “It’s down to us at the end of the day”.

Sean Dyche’s side have been unfairly labelled as a “long ball” team for much of their stay in the Premier League and the Republic of Ireland worldwide is hoping to prove those that have pointed the finger and cast such assertions wrong.

Keane points to the “final moment in the final third” as a prime reason for their struggles and the stats appear to back that up.

“If you play European football, you don’t have time”. How much longer do you believe he deserves, to get the Blues back on track?

“He’s an experienced manager, we have some experienced players and they know we will come out of this stage”.

Everton will feel a bit lucky with their comeback win from last week, but it should also boost their confidence going forward.

“The four pre-qualifying UEFA [Europa League] and two group games on Thursday’s haven’t helped”.

“Away from home to have a start like that I don’t think that anyone could see that”, Dyche said after Sunday’s win. In the Premier League, particularly, one game can change perceptions very quickly.

Koeman was saying the same thing not a week ago, yet his expected confidence boost against the side that finished third in the Cypriot league last season failed to materialise.

It is Burnley’s best ever start to a Premier League season as they move to sixth in the table and have eight away points, more than they accumulated in the whole of last season.

“It’s another tough test, because they have some good players even if they haven’t been getting the results they would like”. “They keep their shape really well”. The 24-year-old scored 68 in 141 Premier League appearances in his four years at Goodison, so filling that void should have been the priority.