What The Papers Say - 7 October

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Monday's edition of the Liverpool ECHO looks at how the forthcoming international break could help ease Everton's injury list.

The fortnight gap between the Blues' fixtures against Newcastle United and Ipswich Town - at Portman Road on 19 October - could see manager Sean Dyche welcome back a number of faces from the treatment room, after losing Jarrad Branthwaite and Vitalii Mykolenko to groin and calf issues respectively last week.

Speaking about Branthwaite after Everton's eventful 0-0 draw with Newcastle, Dyche said: “We’re hopeful that he will be back for the next one, we’ll just have to wait and see.

On Mykolenko, he added: “We will wait and see, they have jurisdiction, so they might want to see him, I don’t know yet, because when they have jurisdiction we can't keep him here. If they want to see him they can see him.”

Seamus Coleman - who was injured while playing for the Republic of Ireland during the last international break - and Nathan Patterson - who has made three appearances for the Under-21s recently - are also progressing on their rehabilitations. 

Liverpool World takes quotes from Dyche, who praised James Garner's Player of the Match display against the Magpies after deputising at right-back.

“He done terrific," said Dyche about Garner. "I thought he did really well at Leicester, we know he can operate there but I thought today was really good.

“You know, he looked like a player who has played there a lot, but he hasn’t, and his energy looks like it’s coming back. He had a spell where just couldn’t quite find that edge to himself, but he’s looking good and stronger. He’s enjoying his football again and I thought he delivered a very good performance today.”

Finally, Everton Women's manager Brian Sorensen features on thehalfwayline.com, after his side registered a valuable point against high-flying Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.

“I knew the second half was going to be tough, but we had a plan, we executed it, and I think we deserved the point," said Sorensen. "I don’t think they created super big chances. We got them into the areas where we know we can defend the early crosses. It’s more when they were getting in-behind us, we were in trouble, but we defended that also super well.

“I actually am proud of how we, in phase one, went up and pressed them to get them turned over, because the distance in Arsenal is always big. The ball is always faster than the players, of course, but when you get up in that area and the backspace doesn’t become such a big problem, because they can’t just turn it over then, then I think a couple of times we got them on the back foot, and maybe could have capitalised a little more on that.”

“Arsenal’s squad is unreal compared to us, but all the money in the world doesn’t matter, it’s what you do on the pitch. That was the message to the girls. We did everything we can. My staff is working extremely hard to get the girls ready, and the girls are self resilient. So it’s just that togetherness that we speak about that we need to have, especially in the situation we’re in at the minute.”