West Ham<\/a>, Dyche watched in fury as his side trailed their Championship opponents 2-0 at the break.<\/p>\nThey fought back to make it 3-3 and force extra-time at Stok Cae Ras, but were beaten 4-3 in the penalty shootout after Igor Jesus and Omari Hutchinson had their spot-kicks saved by home keeper Arthur Okonkwo.<\/p>\n
“The first half was completely unacceptable,” Dyche told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
“I let the players know and there are certain individuals that certainly know and they have to look in the mirror.<\/p>\n
“But the strangeness of football, some players that came on in the second half were a credit and we went on and looked like a Premier League side.<\/p>\n
“You can’t do that in the first half, it’s completely unacceptable. It’s unacceptable to me, but I said you have to look in the mirror because that’s unacceptable to the badge as well.<\/p>\n
“They all knock on the door and say, ‘why aren’t I playing?’. Well the evidence is quite honestly there for some, not for all.”<\/p>\n
While Dyche praised those who came off the bench – including two-goal Callum Hudson-Odoi – for acting as a “catalyst” for their second-half comeback, he continued to berate his side’s efforts in a poor first 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
“I could have taken all of them off [at half-time],” he added. “The tempo, the mentality to take the game on was lacking so badly in the first half.<\/p>\n
“Slow, methodical, we have done a lot of work on that. There was basically no intent, no real desire to make a difference. Second half, the changes were terrific.<\/p>\n
“The facts of the matter are we’ve got to make changes. They showed their hand and won’t be knocking on my door saying, ‘why aren’t I playing?’ again, that’s for sure, that first-half group.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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