Jarrad Branthwaite injury: Sean Dyche issues update ahead of Everton vs Nottingham Forest | Football

Branthwaite was forced off early in the second half of Everton’s 6-0 defeat away to Chelsea on Monday evening.

But Dyche has confirmed that the 21-year-old has resumed light training ahead of Forest’s visit to Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon.

When asked about injuries to Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Dyche said on Friday: ‘Both trained, we were light today but both trained light and came through it, so we hope there is no reaction to that.

‘Patto will be out for the season, he will need surgery. Very unfortunate injury. We’re disappointed on that one for him as much as us.

Dyche also insists his Everton players have used the last few days to ‘make sense’ of their 6-0 defeat to Chelsea at the start of the week.

‘We can’t just park it, that’s for sure. I certainly haven’t,’ said Dyche.

‘The players were affected by it, very disappointed, as was I and my part, of course, as a manager.

‘I take responsibility inevitably. We spoke to the players about it, they’ve fed back their disappointment as well as mine.

‘But equally, by now we’ve made sense of it, of course, the day after we certainly didn’t, it was a challenge. But now you do have to park it, we had a chat about it this morning to finish it off, go, ‘right, that’s gone, we move forwards’.

‘You’ve got to do the basics, you’ve got to work, you’ve got to harry, you’ve got to press, you’ve got to fight, you’ve got to tackle, you’ve got to play, of course, we were nowhere near either.’

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