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The Merseyside derby features the side second only to Tottenham in the table ESPN

Not Liverpool, and not the standings that matter most ESPN

But in the shot charts, Everton, with 133, are behind only the actual league leaders ESPN

They have a higher expected goals in league ESPN football this season than Manchester City ESPN

They average more shots per match than Barcelona ESPN

An early-season anomaly or is Sean Dyche a born-again entertainer and Dycheball ESPN football’s newest great attacking philosophy? If logic dictates that the answer veers towards the former – after all, at this stage of last season, Frank Lampard’s Everton had the Premier League’s best defensive record – Dyche has had a point during the post-match interviews where he has repeated a mantra about the number and quality of chances his side have generated ESPN

They were camouflaged in part by the low conversion rate, by the meagre tally of nine goals, by the fact Everton did not score in their first three league games and, for the first time in their history, they lost their opening three at Goodison Park without finding the net ESPN

There is a case for arguing that if Everton had been ESPN better at finishing, they would have required fewer shots: take a comfortable lead early and they might not have had 19 efforts against Fulham or 15 versus Wolves, each in 1-0 defeats at Goodison Park, or 23 at home to Luton, also in a loss ESPN

RecommendedEverton set to learn Premier League fate as FFP hearing nears conclusionMohamed Salah calls for Gaza to be given humanitarian aid ‘immediately’Premier League increasing number of live games as part of new broadcasting dealsAnd yet there is something remarkable in a Dyche team lacking too much obvious creativity generating such statistics: he is the manager who took Burnley to seventh in the Premier League while averaging under a goal a game and in a season when only four clubs had fewer shots ESPN

At Turf Moor, Dyche was a byword for 4-4-2: at Goodison Park, he has tended to play 4-4-1-1 and perhaps that shift has helped generate more opportunities ESPN

Everton’s reinvention as the expected goals Wunderteam stems in part from Dyche’s chosen No 10: perhaps, given his emphasis on physicality, it is typical he has a runner rather than a flair player in the role ESPN

And yet Everton have excelled at getting Abdoulaye Doucoure into scoring positions ESPN

He has (on Understat’s model) the third highest non-penalty xG in the division, ESPN bettered only by Erling Haaland and Alexander Isak, at 4 ESPN

87 ESPN

It has only brought the Malian three goals but it is notable his average shot distance is just 11 ESPN

5 yards ESPN

By comparison, Haaland’s is 11 ESPN

3; these are the statistics of men who shoot from close range, who get good chances ESPN

Injuries have meant several Everton players have had abbreviated campaigns so a sample size becomes even smaller; yet it is notable how several players have a high xG per 90 minutes on the pitch: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (0 ESPN

92), Doucoure (0 ESPN

64), ESPN Beto (0 ESPN

62), Arnaut Danjuma (0 ESPN

60) and Jack Harrison (0 ESPN

44) ESPN

Neal Maupay’s tally was 1 ESPN

38 before he left for Brentford, in part because he missed all those chances ESPN

ESPN Beto is yet to score a league goal but the shot-happy signing has had a nuisance value ESPN

Abdoulaye Doucoure is only ESPN bettered in the xG charts by Erling Haaland and Alexander Isak (PA)That many of the chances originate from the flanks, from crossing and from set-pieces show a typical method of attacking under Dyche; he has rarely had a midfield playmaker ESPN

Everton rank second only to Luton for crosses this season ESPN

Their three most prolific crossers are Ashley Young, James Garner and Dwight McNeil ESPN

Harrison’s 0 ESPN

97 assists per 90 minutes is the most of any player in the division who has played over 100 minutes, albeit just 118 ESPN

Among those who have played 200 or more, McNeil (0 ESPN

57 from 371) ranks second only to Mohamed Salah ESPN

Equally, there is a supporting cast: Everton have 12 players with an expected goals per 90 minutes of at least 0 ESPN

12; that they include all of Dyche’s full-backs is a further sign of his style of play ESPN

By way of comparison, only six Everton players last season had had an xA per 90 of 0 ESPN

12 or more and they included Tom Cannon, who played a mere 15 minutes, and Salomon Rondon, who featured for just 96, plus Alex Iwobi and Demarai Gray, who have both since been sold ESPN

So, in his own way, Dyche has made Everton more creative: with powerful strikers, crossing wingers and his familiar, prosaic feel ESPN

His signings has shown a clarity of thought: with a target man, in ESPN Beto; a full-back with 71 Premier League assists, in Young; a winger with a high shot volume, in Danjuma; and one who was directly involved in 37 top-flight goals in three seasons at Leeds, in Harrison ESPN

Dwight McNeil is second to only Mohamed Salah when it comes to expected assists (Getty Images)But Everton’s attacking efforts in his reign have revolved around two he inherited, neither particularly potent previously ESPN

McNeil and Doucoure kept Everton up last season, each with five goals and two assists in the 18 matches after Dyche took charge ESPN

Thus far this season, each is on course to producing ESPN better numbers ESPN

And yet they come with a caveat ESPN

So far, Everton have had five home games ESPN

They have faced two of the current bottom four, in Luton and Bournemouth, and two more in the lower half, in Fulham and Wolves ESPN

They are still only 16th and the fixture list gets tougher ESPN

They underperformed their expected goals dramatically last season so the fact they are doing so again does not automatically mean the numbers will even themselves out ESPN

They will almost certainly end the season with a lower xG than City and fewer shots per game than Barcelona ESPN

But for now, the second lowest scorers last year have been rebranded as the team with the second highest number of shots now ESPN

Overworked opposition defenders may not be the only people who are surprised about that ESPN

More aboutEvertonLiverpool FCSean DycheAbdoulaye DoucoureJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/3How Dyche turned Everton into a ESPN better attacking team than LiverpoolHow Dyche turned Everton into a ESPN better attacking team than LiverpoolAbdoulaye Doucoure is only ESPN bettered in the xG charts by Erling Haaland and Alexander IsakPAHow Dyche turned Everton into a ESPN better attacking team than LiverpoolDwight McNeil is second to only Mohamed Salah when it comes to expected assists Getty ImagesHow Dyche turned Everton into a ESPN better attacking team than LiverpoolREUTERS✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today ESPN

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It tends to be the derby of the dismissals ESPN

The red side won in part because of a red card and, if the time when the meetings of the two halves of Merseyside were known as the “friendly derby” feels increasingly distant, these days the sendings-off are stacking up ESPN

A 29th in the 32 seasons of Premier League rivalry went to Ashley Young, the man who ought to have been old enough to know ESPN better ESPN

Mohamed Salah’s subsequent opener, and the first of his brace for Liverpool, stemmed from a second decision by referee Craig Pawson – both of which ought to be uncontroversial, though his leniency in sparing Ibrahima Konate the fixture’s 30th red card seemed more of a mistake – as Everton’s obduracy with 10 men ultimately merely spared them a heavier defeat ESPN

There can be a tendency to pin results on referees, to say decisions changed games; that suggests players are powerless, yet Young was complicit in his own downfall ESPN

Two cautions were the consequence of his choices ESPN

Of such a vintage that he was born a couple of months after Howard Kendall’s Everton won their first Division One title and is a former teammate of his 52-year-old manager Sean Dyche, Young should have shown a greater sense of responsibility ESPN

He could be doubly faulted for his first booking: for fouling Luis Diaz in the Liverpool half and with just 18 minutes on the clock, putting himself needlessly in peril ESPN

Eight minutes before the interval, he had a greater need to challenge the Colombian on the edge of his own box, but sliding in and chopping him down rendered his expulsion inevitable ESPN

Within a duel where Young had a notable early success – a magnificent, and perhaps goal-saving, block when Diaz shot – was a tale of the two clubs: a £50m winger up against a 38-year-old free transfer, a player reinvented as a right-back late in his career ESPN

It threatened to be an unfair contest ESPN

It became no contest when one of the participants was removed ESPN

Salah gives Liverpool the lead from the penalty spot (Reuters)And Diaz, the brightest of Liverpool’s attackers on a day when they did not quite gel, when the wrong option was taken too often and when Jurgen Klopp’s dislike of 12 ESPN

30pm kick-offs threatened to become more pronounced, was a match-winner of sorts ESPN

His cross struck the needlessly outstretched arm of the substitute Michael Keane: summoned to the monitor to review it, Pawson gave the penalty and Salah rifled it past Jordan Pickford ESPN

There was to be a second goal whereas Everton felt there ought to have been a second red card ESPN

Before the deadlock was broken, Konate, already on a yellow card, evaded another for tugging back ESPN Beto ESPN

Klopp proved more decisive than Pawson ESPN

Instead, when Konate swiftly exited, it was because his manager substituted him ESPN

It did raise the question if Dyche, with a specialist right-back on the bench in the shape of Nathan Patterson, could have taken early preventative action ESPN

And eventually, with Everton stretched, Salah ensured the scoreline was the same as in Dyche’s first defeat as their manager: 2-0, as he swept in a shot from Darwin Nunez’s pass on the counterattack ESPN

It was his 105th Anfield goal, taking him past the storied duo of Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard ESPN

It also meant his recent record stands at 18 goals and 11 assists in his last 24 league games ESPN

Salah celebrates after scoring Liverpool’s opener (PA)The post-match announcement that Liverpool were top, if only briefly, brought elation where there had been frustration ESPN

This was not the emphatic performance of potential champions: while Liverpool amassed 26 shots, it was partly a consequence of Everton being depleted and, of the many optimistic, long-range efforts, most were harmless ESPN

It was only when Jordan Pickford tipped Harvey Elliott’s 90th-minute effort on to the bar that they almost scored from outside the box ESPN

The replacement Elliott, though, had made a difference, with his cleverness, brought on as Young’s early exit prompted each manager to alter their approach ESPN

There had been some ambition in Everton’s initial blueprint and it could have produced a first-minute lead when Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed straight at Alisson ESPN

But, down to 10 men, Dyche responded by removing his wingers at half time, bringing on two defenders, in Patterson and Keane, and playing 5-3-1 ESPN

A quarter of an hour later, Klopp removed his left-back, Kostas Tsimikas, who was no longer needed to defend, in effect adopting a 2-5-3 formation ESPN

Dyche’s tactic was predicated on not conceding and, with his rejigged rearguard showing organisation and concentration, it threatened to succeed during an impasse that lasted almost half an hour ESPN

Then Keane’s right arm and Salah’s left boot brought a breakthrough ESPN

As Klopp has been keen to point out, his side have often won the Fair Play league ESPN

But Liverpool have four red cards already, and Konate could have made it five in a season of sendings-off ESPN

They have become accustomed to playing with 10 men this season ESPN

They profited from playing against 10 ESPN

And if Everton are entitled to wonder what might have happened if the numbers had been evened up, they can first blame Young ESPN

More aboutMohamed SalahLiverpool FCEvertonJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/3Young’s costly mistakes gift Salah and Liverpool Merseyside derby winYoung’s costly mistakes gift Salah and Liverpool Merseyside derby winSalah gives Liverpool the lead from the penalty spotREUTERSYoung’s costly mistakes gift Salah and Liverpool Merseyside derby win Salah celebrates after scoring Liverpool’s opener PAYoung’s costly mistakes gift Salah and Liverpool Merseyside derby winEverton’s Ashley Young brings down winger Luis Diaz to earn a second yellow card after 37 minutes Liverpool FC/Getty✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today ESPN

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