Everton boss Sean Dyche is happy with what he's seeing from Dwight McNeil after defeat to Aston Villa.
Dyche, who confirmed striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin is unlikely to feature against Arsenal at the Emirates on Wednesday night, praised the performance of McNeil, with the forward who Dyche previously worked with at Burnley putting in an impressive shift with his relentless work-rate and numerous crosses into the penalty area.
I thought Dwight McNeil was excellent today," Dyche said. He kept working and he probably deserves something for his performance. We have to keep knocking on the door and eradicate the soft moments.
No disrespect to Burnley, but Dwight's come to a bigger club, it's a different environment. He's still relatively young and he's played a lot of football for a young player. It's probably been a bit of a fresh start with me coming in, and some familiarity. The crowd can see what he's doing and they get behind him, and you can see he's becoming the player that I always believed he was. We want him to keep up that level of performance."