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Sean Dyche might keep Everton in the Premier League but what then? There's nothing to suggest he has a Plan B, says John Nicholson.

The pro-Sean brigade point to his success at keeping Burnley in the top flight and there is no denying that achievement. Doing all the right gestures, striking alpha male poses, casting cynical looks at officials and shouting loudly at players. Pitchside at the City Ground, Dyche was doing his best building site manager impression. He’s got the middle-management patter down to a tee. When the Everton players tried to do anything skilful, they looked like an elephant in tights trying to do ballet. A hard shell, yes, but a shell all the same. If they can’t bully their opponents, if putting 10 behind the ball doesn’t work, is there a plan B? Certainly not in the mainstream football media where he appears untouchable. Ex-players nodded sagely and declared it a good choice, as they usually do when the appointment is a British man. In Brennan Johnson they certainly had the best player on the pitch. On Sunday, they played a brutal lower-league mid-90s style game, tried to disrupt Forest with fouls, aggression, pushing, throwing the ball away, provoking fights, squaring up to the opposition and play-acting. He’s got the Tony Pulis habit of picking all the biggest boys in the class available to him.

Goals and points have been at an incredible premium for both Nottingham Forest and Everton this season.

Brennan Johnson scores twice for Nottingham Forest to salvage a Premier League point against Everton, who miss the chance to move out of the relegation ...

- Away3 - Shots - 5Keane - 23Coleman - 1Pickford - 25Dennis - 22Yates The lads are a bit disappointed they didn't win but they gave everything and showed courage." It's a pity things like that ended up having an impact on the game. But their inability to win away from Goodison Park is costing them dear. "There was a lot of plusses about the performance. "We are doing the right things and there's been real commitment to the cause since I joined.

Brennan Johnson twice levelled the scores for Nottingham Forest to earn a vital point against relegation rivals Everton.

[Everton](https://www.theguardian.com/football/everton) enjoy all the possession in the first minute of so to keep the City Ground quiet. They are both a threat but if Forest win the first header, it leaves a big gap in midfield. 42 mins: Godfrey, who has had a tough time, goes into the book for taking down Johnson on the right touchline. Gibbs-White is their most dangerous player but Shelvey seems to be playing in the space he often occupies and he is more keen to play in behind sooner. 57 mins: Now Tarkowski is booked for an elite-level lunge on the touchline on Lodi in an attempt to stop a counter. 49 mins: Wood is very much a man aiming to come deep to flick the ball on. With Godfrey on a booking, the referee would have had a decision to make. “This is the sort of game you have to feel sorry for the ref,” says Samuel Campbell. 63 mins: Coleman bundles over Freuler in the corner and there is another split second of pushing. 80 mins: Forest break but Johnson pulls back McNeil to take him out of the game. He fires his shot across Pickford who gets a strong wrist to the ball and he sees it go away from red shirts. Another yellow is shown on a busy day for the referee.

Forward Brennan Johnson scored two goals as Nottingham Forest twice came from behind to secure a 2-2 draw against struggling Everton in a feisty Premier ...

The lads are a bit disappointed they didn't win but they gave everything and showed courage." "There was a lot of plusses about the performance. "We got in so many good positions today.

Forest are unbeaten in their last nine league home games and sit four points clear of the relegation zone. Read more at straitstimes.com.

It was Forest who emerged from the maelstrom with their composure intact and they salvaged a point in the 77th minute. Dyche’s men regained the lead in the 29th minute when Doucoure headed past Forest keeper Keylor Navas from close-range after Everton won a series of aerial duels from Pickford’s free-kick. NOTTINGHAM - Brennan Johnson struck twice to earn Nottingham Forest a vital 2-2 draw against fellow strugglers Everton in the battle for Premier League survival.

Demarai Gray is set to lead the Blues' attack, with the forward named ahead of Neal Maupay, while Ben Godfrey replaces Vitalii Mykolenko, unavailable due to ...

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