James Garner's form should, in theory, make him one of the first names on the Everton team sheet. But the return to fitness of the club's wingers and Sean Dyche's long-term faith in his central midfield three leaves the Blues boss with a dilemma
Sean Dyche views James Garner as a work in progress but the midfielder has now given the Everton manager a welcome headache over the international break.
After a series of encouraging performances - out wide and in the centre - whether or not to disrupt his favoured midfield three to suit Garner is now one of the biggest questions for Dyche to grapple with heading into the next phase of the campaign. Fast forward four months and it took another visit of Bournemouth to Goodison Park for Garner to take another big step forward. Playing with confidence after a run of performances in which he had been pivotal to wins at Brentford and Aston Villa, Garner found himself interrupting Dyche’s preferred three man-midfield of Idrissa Gueye, Amadou Onana and Abdoulaye Doucoure.
A week later, Garner found himself in the middle at the expense of Onana. Dyche later dismissed rumours the Belgian international had been dropped for being late to a training session and Onana ended up starting when an injury to Gueye’s heel flared just before kick-off. However Garner got his break, he seized the opportunity - hunting down Illia Zabarnyi, stealing the ball when the defender slipped and placing a confident finish past Neto from the edge of the box.
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