 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is back. The Premier League is back. But not how we know it. Well, there you go. It's back. It's already back, but forever it is back on Sunday. The Maisie side, Darby, is seven o'clock in an empty gutterson park. That will be adorned with flags and sheet coverings, I haven't revealed. I like the idea of sheet coverings. That sounds good. Premier League football is back just after over three months since we were due to play this fixture. We're back at gutterson park and what is effectively a meaningless fixture now. Very much a meaningless, very much a friendly and it should be played in that spirit and the result taken. One less we win. Yeah, listen. It is Thursday that we're recording the day after Manchester City beat Arsenal and this could be a very, very different match preview if Arsenal had managed to win at the Etihad, but he didn't and so it doesn't matter. Liverpool will become champions in the next, probably next week. But they can't do it on Sunday and I think I speak for most of the Italians when I say that is a massive relief. It is a big relief. You don't need. Listen, we know they're going to win it and they did it and all of that, but we didn't deserve to have it won on our ground. And Carlo, we've said this previously, Carlo, he didn't need that as much as there's nothing to do with him. He didn't need that so early into his ever managerial career to do something we don't want. And it's been that thing that has been hanging over us a little bit when the Premier League decided to reschedule the games because we thought we'd got away with it didn't we? Previously, but it's done now and all thoughts moved through the actual just a game now without the extra, you know, antics of Liverpool will be celebrating in the park and car park, which the news some media outlets ran with last week and all of that. I mean, from a serious point of view, though, it is a, I think, a relief for a lot of people because in terms of, you know, the things that we saw before this coming into this game, in terms of this game getting played on a neutral venue and the prospect of fans turning up from both sides and, you know, we had Joe Anderson sort of a little bit worried about that. I think that sort of can't, not can't down anyway, but well, it has because in the last couple of weeks we've seen with different things going on with people retaining and shops retaining back to work on the demonstrations we've seen and, you know, people on beaches and all kinds of things. You couldn't just, I mean, they could have, but you can't just say to football fans, well, you can't do it, but everyone else has. So I think that's been quite relaxed, but now that it's not going to happen, I don't think, you know, I think it is just generally a sigh of relief from everybody because we can just concentrate on a game of football now. I think it'll be a sigh of relief for Liverpool as well, to be honest, for the club. I mean, because obviously this was highlighted earlier on. I'm seeing that you can clap on that saying, you know, just stay at home, what you're at home and celebrate at home or whatever. Because I don't think Liverpool wants that publicity as well when they're just about to end a 30-year wait. So you write it, you know, it is a sigh of relief. We can all move on from it and for us in terms of getting a stick. It's much better. It's much better. We can just take the normal stick now. Listen, it's going to feel really odd, you know, watching a Mirzad Darby home. It's going to be strange enough. I was funny enough, it made me laugh because I was seeing something on Twitter and it was from Hands Tours, one of the, you know, one of the, one of the away supporters. He goes to home and away and I was thinking, imagine being someone who goes home and away to every other game. This is not only like, this is not only not going to be in a game, but this is like going to be the first time in absolutely ages that you'll have had to watch ever on TV. That's like, you know, like you've got to enjoy the commentators. You've got to be like, is this what it's like to watch ever on TV? But for all of us, it's going to be a very strange experience and I suppose it's going to be a strange experience for the players as well. It's, I mean, it's something they're going to have to come to change very quickly and get used to it, isn't it? And it's times when the game maybe isn't going the way you want it to. The real test is can your players dig deep enough to get that momentum going. In the Man City game last night, Gary Neville was talking and it was after about 35 minutes and they were all over. They had all of the ball, but he was like, this is where the crowd had been dictating it, it gets quicker. And funnily enough, just after that, they did start, it was almost like they had them and decided that all peps had, you know, we need to speed it up. And once they got into David, it probably didn't make that much difference to City because that was, I mean, they're a team we talked about before the way they play. But for other teams, but then saying that, you know, we watched, we watched certainly the first half of Villar and Sheffield United in here and that was a competitive Premier League game. And, you know, I mean, even in the City game, I was just sending off and there was two people that stretched it off. But I mean, that's a big worry, isn't it? I mean, but I would say, what I would say about the Villar game is the Villar and Sheffield United game was it did, it still didn't have the intensity because it was the first game back. And this was something we saw in Germany as well. You know, the first few games, there wasn't that intensity there. And it's going to be, that's the thing about, I mean, that's the annoying thing about this game being our first game. You know, you're coming up against the champions elect. You know they're a good football team. You know they've got that little bit of, more than a little bit, but they've got that internal mental toughness. The push is what they've got. And I think, and you wonder whether, you wonder whether, you know, they're playing away so they haven't no crowds and not going to bother them. But for us, you mentioned before about Man City and the tempo, but it's the other way, isn't it? It works the other way and has so many times forever where the crowd's so important and almost just wakes the players up at times to tell them this, you know. You're under the cush here or you're not playing well. You know, it's the old, come on, get out of bed, shout, isn't it? We've all been there. And that'll be the thing because what we have seen lately, you know, in Germany and seeing it in the opening weekend of the league as well and obviously with Man City is the good teams do come out and the level shout because of the fitness, because of the circumstances. And that's where I think on Sunday, Everton are going to have to really be on it. They're going to, I think, first of all, they've got to make the places homiest. They can't, so I'm hoping, you know, we get the side and Zeg cars. Yeah, Everton have confirmed. Only Everton are walking out the tunnel to Zeg cars, live up, people are coming in from the other side. And we need those little things to just, to just to get the players going a little bit and because the players need to be on it. It's as simple as that, isn't it? I can't work out whether it's better to play this game first or whether in three games time when it's hard to say because Liverpool will have probably won the league in three games time. So, therefore, it's whether they would drop off on it or whether they would, but is it better to play it now for the fully back up to speed or do you know what I mean? But we don't know where we are. The big problem for me about Sunday really is just the midfield. I mean, let's talk about football. I was trying to stay away from football and matters, but it's a match preview, so we have to talk about it. You know, when you're looking at how the two teams are lining up, Liverpool are 4-3-3, we know how they play, they've got three, workmen like me feel plays. Who can play, not being disrespectful to them, but they've got three lads who work hard in the middle, but they have the width comes from the full backs and they've got a front three that is good as anything in the world. So you know what they're going to do. It's in some respects can help you because that's what they do and a lot of teams you plan well. I've had some success against them and what I mean by success against them is they've been in the game and then it took something brilliant from Liverpool or maybe a mistake to win a game. And so that's OK for your planning, but then on the offensive side of your game, are you good enough? And that's for Everton because we've got Gomez, it looks like we'll be fit. He's been training, so you know, it's Everton, so I don't want to put more me eggs in one basket, but he looks like he'll be fit. But it's a long side in for me that is the massive worry. I just think you've got to be competitive and you've got to be from the start and I think before the lockdown, we've seen Liverpool have a little bit of a wobble. And obviously they went to Wofford and I think what we've seen in that game was, Wofford were on them and they were, you know, every mistake they made, they made count that night and every chance they had, they basically took, you know, missed a couple of other chances as well. And I think that's where, I think that's where we've got to be. We've got to make sure we're on it and that means no matter what the midfield is, the midfield has to be competitive. So whether that's a, you send a Benninga Miao, or you send Tom Davis out and have Gomez, you know, in there or whatever, you've got to be competitive. You've got to be snapping at the heels. They've got to make it, they've got to put Liverpool players under pressure because if you let them play, you know, they'll get the ball into good areas. And I think that's going to be the big task for us on Sunday to really, can we lift ourselves to that level? You know, it's great seeing games behind closed doors and training games behind closed doors and all the rest of it. Does that get you there? Do you have the internal drive? Because I think these games, what these games will separate is, who's got that little bit extra when there's no crowd there? Have you got it? I think the best teams will. We've seen that already with Manchester City. We've seen that with Bayern Munich in Germany. As I said, we've seen it with Real Madrid and Barcelona in their games. You've got to just be at that level straight away. Factor, isn't it? With those teams. That wins them the games. We've seen them. We both watched Dusseldorf and Dortmund last week and Dusseldorf had a couple of chances to win the game. Dortmund just kept doing what they were doing. He brought Harland on and the 95th minute he gets a chance and he wins them the game and the good sides have done it, Bayern Munich have done it, like you said Manchester City kept doing it last night. It is. Are everything good enough to do that? I don't know. I don't know because we haven't faced this before. You know, we've got a manager in who's only been in tears for 12 games, 11 Premier League games. Now, okay, they've won five of that 11 so it's okay. Doing all right. But he's had three months to really plan for this game and three months to look at what went right and what went wrong, so of the coaching staff. But it's about players at the end of the day. Auntie Lottie can set us up with a great game plan. You know, and we'll do this and we'll do that. And if those players aren't up to it, it'll fall apart anyway. You know, and also you've got to be ready to come off the bench because I guarantee you in this game there'll be at least eight subs. Well, as you mentioned, we've seen it in the Arsenal game straight away, players going down quite early, players holding, you know, getting muscle injuries and stuff like that. That's, you write it. You know, it will be tough for them. You know, especially with the team that doesn't really seem to get any injuries. I don't know why that is, but they don't seem to get any injuries. They always seem to be a full strength and you can imagine they'll be straight out of the traps. But the other thing is the juggling. You know, we've got both teams. We've got games three days later. You're going from one game straight into another game quite quickly. So you're going to want to make changes anyway. You know, that might be in the two games. There might be completely different personnel in some parts of the pitch. So you've got to be clever about that. And obviously that's a big thing for Liverpool because they've got the ability to bring on more quality as well than we have. Both that gives our players opportunities. I used to say this game doesn't throw up some, you know, funny incidents, you know, or chances. You've got the likes of Anthony Gordon there who apparently in training has been very, very good. And the report coming out is, you know, he's won the looking at now. Cos certainly without Theo Walcott. I'm going to say we've got no-one in that right-hand side. Have we? Who will, other than Richard Ellison, who would work up and down that line? You know, Walcott, you know, I'm not going to go overboard about how much of a miss he is for Everton because he's not been very productive in the slightest. But I think when you're looking at that right-hand side, it's either a choice between playing out now natural winger in someone like Anthony Gordon or a Wobby who plays out there. Or going for table seeder being front of Seamus Coleman and going for that little bit extra insurance, if you like, to maybe to try and double up on Andy Robertson. Yeah, but someone like Anthony Gordon, he's an X-factor, isn't he? You know, he is someone that he won't be aware of. He's a local lad. And it's an opportunity for him in the circumstances. And we've mentioned this on, you know, some of these games and, you know, the under-23 players that have been trained. They've got this, you know, they've got the experience, funny enough, of playing at Gouldersham Park in a empty stadium, you know, a near empty stadium. They know what that feels like and you wonder whether that experience will help in these types of games. Knowing, you know, you've got to get up to your level without the crowd where as most players, you know, will be playing on that pitch. They'll have never experienced that unless they've experienced, you know, the under-23s or whatever themselves. So I suppose it's the professionals who comes into it as well. Who can, you know, does it take a crowd to rise you up or are you at that level every day in Stainin when there isn't anybody about. You know, there's all these factors and the mad thing is we're not going to know till we play a game. And like we said, the first game is the most sad thing. That'd be a little bit unfair anyway in terms of getting it. I don't mean unfair, I said, you know, weighted wrongly. I mean, it's unfair to judge really early on. It might take two or three games till they do become accustomed with that and then you'll get a better picture of what's what. But what I would say is we've all played in games with no people in games of football and it's about you wanting to win. It's your will to win, get you through. Yes, you're right, 99% of the games these fellas play, they play in a big stadium with big crowds. But then again, when you take the crowd away, it's still the same game of football. You've still got to be better than your opponent to win. And the crowd are great and it all part of it and it makes it better. But this is where I essentially sometimes I disagree when I see people saying football isn't anything without the crowd. I understand what they're getting at, but the basic premise of football is still exactly the same. It's those 11 players versus 11 players on a pitch with goals trying to win games with football. Yet it's enhanced massively when we're there and we love it better. We're emotionally drawn into it because we're there and we feel that. But for these players, just because the crowd isn't there, the library is still, these are our rivals. I'm playing for my future at this football club because we've got a new manatee who hasn't been here that long. Can we do it? And you're right, and this in some plays, my thrive with no crowd, they might be worried about hitting a straight pass and others might be as good as what they are when the crowd, they might need the crowd like you said, to get them up, to kind of wake them up if they're under pressure. Something like Michael Keane, who visibly can be rocked daily on me if he makes a mistake because he can air grounds and stuff, might actually be fine with this. He can just deal with it himself if he makes a mistake, and that's what it'll be for some players. Instead of dwelling on any kind of area you do, you might be able to get it out the red immediately because it's focused back on the game, you know, your manatee, deal with the coaches voices and stuff like that. So it's going to be an interesting game, it's going to be an interesting game to see how evident an approach is. Like I said, I think Liverpool will be pressing in your face the quicker, the greater pressing, and they've got excellent plays up front. For us it's a little bit of a different thing. Do we try to, you know, we played, we've seen the game against them in the cup, which obviously they had a young team out, which done the same, and we played 4-4-2 and we didn't have a very mobile midfield, and we should have been, the game should have been done at our time, we missed excellent chances, should have been 3-0. The second half, when Liverpool scored, we couldn't get ourselves back into the game. So how are we going to approach that? Are we going to miss the midfield a little bit and maybe try to turn them a bit and get Van Dijk running the other way and get whoever it is, Gomez or Matty for whoever they play centre back running the other way, Lovren, with Retialysen and Dom running after them. That's going to be key for me, and the two wide areas, is it Bernard and a Wobie, is it Anthony Gordon, like you said, is it Sidderby? Will he look at Bernard and go, great technician, good on the ball, create things for us, but is he physically good enough to stop, to occupy Trent Alexander-Arnold? Do we need an Anthony Gordon who's quick, who will give Trent Alexander-Arnold something to worry about? So it'll be then decisions, I think, that'll be key for everything. It will be interesting because, like you say, it'll feel massively, it'll feel weird to sit in their own watching the media Sidderby, and sit in their own watching the media Sidderby with nobody in the ground as well, it'll be absolutely bonkers, but you know, it's a game of footy and it's a chance for Everton to get a feel for these last nine games and if they were to win, it'd be an incredible feat, really, because coming back off it, but it would've boost that would be for the final eight games. I even think, you know, I always want us to win, but I even think if Everton drew the game, I think it'd be a really good, comfortable, of like, right okay, that we've played the best, we've got a decent result. Now can we go and really put some other teams to the sword and pull ourselves back into European recognition? Cos we're only, we've seen Arsenal drop points last night, Sheffield United dropped two points last night. So when Everton win at the weekend, okay, we'll be one of the latest games, one of the last games, but who knows, it could pull us right back into the mix. It'll be tough, but yeah, it will be tough. Well, it will, listen, you have to say, if both teams play at their full level, Liverpool will win, cos they're a better team, of course, but Maisie Side Derby's aren't always like that. Andy. Short of. Andy. If Michael Keane or Richieilerson score, they become the first Everton player since Andrew Eak and Chelsea to score home and away in the Maisie Side Derby. There you go. 24 years records there to be broken. Liverpool I've got. You know what? I've got some. Why not? You're just not real off the negative ones. Well, I'll just real off some facts. Why not? Facts. But I mean, you've already done the Liverpool one, haven't you? Everton a winless in 80 matches. Great. Thanks for that, Bas. Six out of the last seven have ended in the draw record, isn't it? Man is a 99th minute winner, the only one. Liverpool's longest unbeaten 21 games against Everton. Nice one, Bas. It's Everton's first ever competitive match in June in our history. There you go. You know that, don't you? Liverpool have trailed in their last three Premier League games. Haven't gone something like 18 without training. Regas 5 and 7 against Everton. But it's about this. You've really trained me up with those facts. Was it anything you didn't know? I just didn't need to know any of it. I don't think that made the slightest bit of difference to the way you think about this game. No. But if this game throws off the opportunity for someone to give them, you know, Dominic Alder-Loone or something to get the win, I mean, should have had a Derby winner a couple of years ago. I think now he gets that chance he takes it. He's more composed in front of goal. If throws up something, doesn't it for an opportunity for somebody, from somewhere to, you know, to win it? What we need is Jordan Pick for that, the top of his game. In this we do. Cos he's had a lot of stick off Liverpool fans. Maybe the fact that there's no one in the crowd means that he'll stop kicking it to someone in the crowd. He might be able to. See, for someone like him, he might focus more on the game because there's nothing else going on. Who knows? But it's a big off. It's Jamie Carrack walking behind the goal, shouting stuff at him. He can say him last night just sat in the stand. No, they're allowed to. The people at the games. They're allowed to just go where they want. Allowed to literally go where they want on the ground, just around the pitch. So, you know, that's what they want to do. They want to have a little walk around. They want to have a little walk around. As long as I'm nowhere near Gary, that's what I care about. There you go, let us know. That's not what you think. Number one, are you excited for the retainer football? Like, is it your thing? Is this your thing? Let us know. Have you got any confidence that everything can get something out of this game? Do you think the break has helped us or them? And do you just want these next nine games done and dusted so we can come back to it for next season? Well, there'll be no fans either. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. It is the maesyside that I'll be, but it just doesn't really feel like a maesyside that I'll be right now anyway. I honestly don't think it'll feel like a maesyside that I'll be on Sunday. 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