Katia Kouyate’s sharp rise in form in recent matches may have come at the perfect time for Sean Dyche as Everton prepare to face Liverpool on Wednesday (24 April).
Despite netting just one goal in his first 13 Premier League 2 appearances of the season, the 20-year-old striker has hit a slight purple patch with a goal in each of his last two Under-21s matches.
Like the first team, Paul Tate’s youth side are struggling to move away from the bottom of the table, currently sitting four points above 26th-place Derby County.
Kouyate can certainly take confidence from his contributions recently, though, scoring in a five-goal thriller against Blackburn Rovers and the 1-1 draw with Leeds United.
Though the youngster has yet to make his professional debut, Dyche may have no choice but to turn to him ahead of the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on Wednesday night.
on Tuesday (23 April), he said: “Hopefully [Dominic Calvert-Lewin] will be back for tomorrow. We will wait and see on that one.
“[Beto] definitely won’t feature for these next couple of games but he will be back after that – following the protocols, and rightly so. Good news so far. He has had all the checks needed and he’s fine.”
