 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, Everton vs Manchester City. Half-Five Saturday, go to some park, what is sure to be a tough game. The toughest game Frank Llanpard has had, certainly, a home. Yeah, and a very, very difficult game where Everton could do with picking up some points. Couldn't ask for a bigger ask, really could you? It's weird isn't it, this fixie, cos this used to be a game that you just think they'll beat them. We'd always beat Manchester City, even at the start of the successful period, we were still having good results against them. Won a lot of weight at their place and all that, but I've just seen ever one of the last 17 fixes against Manchester City. And it was the four-nil, which is embarrassing isn't it. And we've lost eight consecutive games against them. Only Portsmouth and United have lost ever more consecutively in their history against the one opposition that we have. So, poor. But they are, I mean they're an amazing football team which is the reason why the record is that bad. But other teams have, other teams have bloodied cities now over the years, even poor teams have beat them. You know, you think of, in order to couple of years ago we got relegated to beat City at home and teams like that. We've seen Spairs who've been in awful form last week. Spairs are their bogey team? Well yeah, sort of me, but Spairs haven't been in good form, just lost two home games on the run and went to City in one of the weekends. They're not totally unbeatable, but they're as close to it as teams are in the Premier League. Yeah, it's certainly for us. It is a difficult one this, it's in one thing you're thinking, let's just get it over and done with and get through it and move on to the next game at home and just get on with things. And then another thing, where you think about it was Man City got beat last week, they drew with Southampton. The feeling, the pressure now of Liverpool, can ever capitalise on them feeling a bit of pressure. Do they come to Gullison feeling the pressure just as much as we are? Can we turn that to our advantage? Well of course we can if we play well and everyone does their job and everyone does what they're asked and they may be not on it fully. And snatch it chances or we can get enough men behind the ball to frustrate them. So I think it's like every game, it's how we approach it, it's how we look at it. For us it's a pressurised game, because Franck Llanpard obviously won his first home game against Leeds, but the two Premier League away games have been awful. So that means where the pressure is on us, we're relying on home form. You can't just dismiss a game because it's against Manchester City because we've got to play Chelsea. We've got to play Manchester United at home. You can't just dismiss these games because we haven't got enough of the games. We've got tough games, tough games against Wolves and Newcastle coming up. So we can't just dismiss anything. For me obviously we have to be perfect, but Spares have just shown how to beat them I suppose. We've got to score three times against them, so we've got to just do our side of the thing. Because loads of those games, what I would say is loads of those games against City haven't just rolled over and the belly's tickled. That's the problem. When you play good sides and you have a real go and you can walk off with your head high and go, they're better side on us, but far too many times against Manchester City we have just rolled over and just said, there you go mate. So it's got to be a little bit more to what we do in this game. In general, we have had a bit of a go, I mean certainly. I can think of the Michael Silver, Michael Silver was in charge, he beat us 2-0. And it was a tight game and we were in terrible form. We got a goal in injury time of both halves. The year later he beat us 3-1 with Michael Silver, but Don missed the great chance of 2-1 to make it 2-2. With Carlo Ancelotti. He had gone the cup last year didn't he? He beat us 3-1 last year in the league and it was 2-1 and we were in the game in a mares. And in the cup it was 0-0 till the 83 minute and my dad 2-1 off the line had me off a set piece. You know, on this score, to make it Gundo van Schors doesn't even know if he put it to bed. So we were in the games without being in. The only thing I would say was the cup game. We had those 2 set pieces but we nearly didn't do anything else. And we were just keeping it tight with the league game. I thought we were the charlots and scored, we were the first goalie to let in for a while. We were in that game and I think that's the big thing is that we've got to make sure that you've just said we're perfect. We've got to do what we did against Leeds, which is Harry put pressure on, just don't let them get shots away. I hope the crowd can influence it because there's going to be long periods when we don't have the ball. They dominate the ball every week. They have 75 plus per cent possession and Saturday will be no different. I imagine. So what we've got to do is make sure we do all the ugly side of the game. You're hoping for evidence to get the results of the weekend. We've got to be perfect and they've got to have a bit of an off day, which happens every now and again. And we've got to be clinical if we get chances. When the chances come our way, if we make chances, we've got to take them. And that'll be the only way we'll get a result because they are a fantastic side. Yes, they've had a couple of results that are not typical for them. So you have to capitalise while they're on that little bit of a run. There's a little bit of doubt in the mind, just let three goals in. In fact, space score four, you have one dish left by VAR. So they had the ball in the four-time show. You can play on that a little bit and hope that there's a nervousness, a little bit of a nervousness about them. And obviously Liverpool aren't playing at the weekend in the Premier League. So city for them, the pressure is we need to win, keep the gap, you know, whether we're to win. Then Liverpool, I think, could go level with them if they won the two games or whatever it is. So it is tight at the top and it's up to evidence to try to feed into that. But you're absolutely right, we can't just write it off and go well. It's man's city show, we're expected to get beat. Even if we've got a point, any point right now, adding on to your total, is huge. And also I think the other side of that though is that, Evan have got to get themselves into a level of performance, home and away. And if you play Manchester City and you play really well and you get beat, but you keep that level you have against Leeds and then you take it into the next game. You know, board on board and then you go to space and you've got that level. That will eventually turn into more points of course, it will. And then that's the problem so far, is the jackal and hard nature of the four games. Two home games being good, two away games being pretty poor. We've got to get to a level where we're going to every game, know what we're going to get from the players and they understand. And that will come with more coaching and obviously hopefully, I think the manager mentioned it last week, he says, you know, when we conceded the goal, we went back to, they went back to the default setting. He's got to implant the new default setting, which is that never gets left, what they do. And that means consistent performances. So listen, if we go up against City on Saturday and we do well and we have a good goal and it doesn't necessarily go our way. But then again, it's that's the performance we're seeing, like the performance against Leeds, like the performance against Brenford, Spears, Newcastle, Wolves before that. If every game we're seeing that performance, we will start picking up the points and hopefully, you know, the wins. And that's all I'm looking for out of this game. You know, I can't honestly say to you, you say, we're going to win, we've got a great chance, blah, blah, blah. I just want to see a level of performance. I want to see Godderson like it was against Leeds as well. So we're keeping that going. So Man City players feel our pressure and the Everton fans know that we're behind them. Cos that's what's going to get us out of trouble. Because going from one week to another, it's going having this jackal and hide, you know, good performance, bad performance, good performance. It's not good for us in our mental state. One week you're on the floor and it's very easy to say, don't go too high when you win and don't get too low. But it's, you know, it's nearly... How can you? We're going into a match very soon. We're starting to all feel that little bit of pressure. But for the players, the players have got to get that level. Cos they'll feel like if they take those performances into those other games, they'll start picking up more wins. It's the demands for each other as well though. If you start getting the level of performance, you're looking at each other for that level of performance, where if one week you're all great and the next week you're all terrible, that's not going to get you enough points. So they do have to get it because it needs to be an acceptable level of performance. And then if two or three, you drop below that, you're out of team. That's how it is if 11 if you do it. It's hard for the manager, isn't it? It's hard to get anything going through. It's a huge game. It's a hugely difficult game. And it's but it's a game that they're going to have to battle and fight in Scraff 4 and hopefully they'll come on the other side with. A positive result. But like you said, they've not at least put in a positive display where you've got something to build on them for the next game. But it's a home game. I'm not sure if I'm able to take a point off them in a week. So like you said, we will have to rely on them, maybe having a bit of an off day missing chances or whatever. But just don't give them chances. Make sure we didn't give leads any chance. No, but now it's difficult because they're amazing. We know that. But all you can do is do your job. One by one. Each player win your battle and hope that they snatch your things. You know, you get in front and then the hostility and the crowd can unsettle them a little bit and you can take advantage of it. That's all that happened when we beat them 4-0. You know, I think we had about six shots that day. We beat them 4-0. They had all the ball. They missed chances. The crowd were off for it. And when we got the chances we were ruthless. And we ended up with a great result in that. That's what you have to do sometimes. Heaven haven't done enough of that. So, you know, let's just battle and scrap and see where we end up. Yeah, I mean, we're going to have a little look at Stalen's numbers. We could have picked anyone, to be fair. But Stalen's 22 performances, appearances, 16 starts, 10 goals, one assist, two shots per game. You picked them up recently, hasn't he? It's funny the way the city players, it's like they take turns. It's scary. You know, and recently you sort of took that up. I think you got a hell of a knowledge then recently and scored a great goal away in Portugal, yes, in the Champions League. And it's just weird, like at the beginning of the season, it was like Bernardo Silver and then someone else and Maras would take over and then Foden. And it's just, it is scary. It is very scary. You could pick anyone. No, Bernardo Silver's performance against Sporting was just unbelievable. So it is, it is very, very hard because you can't really double up on anyone. You can't really, you just have to, if you get chances, you have to take them. That's the difference. You have to take them. Don't take chances as well. No. Don't mess with them. Don't play out from the back. Don't do it. You love it. What you would do when it's salt answering. Don't do it when you've got time to do it. And it doesn't have to be always, but other times, 10 people get them 10 days. Dom's great in here. You know, Cain's got a good edit the other day, but Carl Walker wasn't even interested. He stood there while Cain went above them. Dom's three times as high as Cain's. So, you know, you use them to that, you know, learn and test themselves against people. Get them 10. When you can play, play. But don't be getting caught like we did by salt answering because shitty, shitty are three times, four times, five times as good as that. Let's just have a look at the line-up on the city game as well. From the Spades game. Yes, Spades game, yes. So, obviously, the four, three, three days. But that front three can be, they can just rotate it however they want. You know, you've got silver, the folding in there at times, mares in there, I believe Gabriel Casus is back in training. I could be in the squad, he loves to go against ever. You know, there's too many of them really to be able to go. We need to just mark it at the game or we mark him out the game. Because they've got such a wonderful array of talent in them. What you've seen at this last game, people changed five of them for another five-well class plays, Raheem Staling, you know, like you just said, that's the score again. They really have got so much to track on talent, Jack Greelish. You know, they're all there, and that's why they're the best team in the country. You just, the way to beat the best team in the country is you need everything to go your way on the day, generally. Especially for a team like us. You know, when you need to try fighting it, it's a different thing, but for us, we need everything to go our way. We need to be sleish of luck, maybe get a bad decision for once on our favour. But every player must do their job and do it better than cities. Players on the day. If that happens in the crowd, help anything. Do we change formation? Do we go to more of a three in midfield and start looking at, you know, maybe changing things around a little bit? Yr ac, ac 4-4-2, we'll be destroyed by the end. I think we'll be destroyed by them. They don't play a natural formation anyway, so they pop up all over the gap. So you've got to have people who can run around in there. Obviously Adelaide, the corey looks like he's going to be available. That's huge for us. Alan in Donnie van der Beechde, he'll be my three for the weekend. Obviously van der Beechde will want the ball and likes to take it. But if you've got the corey, you can cut things off, because he has loads of ball recoveries and stuff like that. He gets it on a pitch. And then Adelaide and Damari Greys fit again, it looks like, or got a good chance of being available at the weekend, apparently. So whether he's fit enough to start or whatever, but if he isn't, you know, Anthony Gordon on one side, Adelaide on the other, and Donthru in the middle, you know, a time drop into a five in midfield and make it difficult. Then a fullback, that's the other one. I imagine he'll play Coleman this weekend, but does he keep Kenny in or does he play Michael Engong? We need that balance with the left foot. Just if we do get over the halfway line, someone to put the ball in or whatever. Or does he say, well, Kenny might be a little bit more defensive in the crowd. It did a big decision for him, but without a shadow it's got to be three in midfield for me. Got to be. 4-4-2 won't work against these. It has to be three in midfield. And I think that way you can, like I said, you can make it a five in there and make it nearly difficult for them to pass through you. With 4-4-2, I think they just cut, they just run round us. They just picked up all of them past us because they liked it, especially if Gomez was in the side or whatever, but they don't think he will. So for me, yeah, it's got to be a 4-3-3 and try to just say to the corey, try to break forward if you can and get up and support them and make sure we do have the double pivot left in place with van de Beek and the corey can each swap and say to Alan, you do have to sit and be disciplined and you can't go charging out of the players because they drag you out of position, they just go bum, bum, bum and it's true. And we saw it at the end, he had earlier in the season, you know, under beneath us, it was all right for a little bit. We were, we had a bit of shape at the end of the minute, they cut us out and went one and up, it was good. You know, they just won it out of the canter, didn't they? And even then, we made a couple of the mistakes for the other goals, but they won it out of the canter. Was it hard work, was it really? No, that's it, that's it. That happened far too many times. It's been far too easy for them. We just give them mistakes, stand off and just allow them to score easy goals, you know. That has to change and I'm sure, I'm sure the players will be up for it and I'm sure the fans will be up for it. And as I said, just try and get a performance that is equal to the Leeds game. Well, if the crowd can be the way they were against Leeds, and that was huge, you know, if the fans, and I think they will, if the crowd can be like that, then at least you get that adrenaline into the players that they know, they have to wait. We know we're better at home than we are away. So, therefore, we have to take advantage of it. And us as fans, that's our only thing we can do. We haven't got the shape and we can't do the extra run on all's we can do is do exactly what we did against Leeds and make noisy and boo them and they've got the ball and support your team. And who knows what comes of it. We'll see what happens. This is like probably, to me, this is the most difficult. Certainly for the home games. Every other home game, like the Derbyns, at times you think, well, the Derbyns, this can happen, but City is so robotic, there's such a machine. It's always a different one. No motion involved for them, for them anyway. Yeah, there you go. A very difficult game, very difficult game. I mean, there are so incredible facts like Everton of... Sorry, Man City have won each of the last four away games. Like Everton, which was as many as they had in the previous 20 visits, which shows you how much they've turned. Everton have lost 13 of their 23 Premier League games this season, which is as many as they've suffered in the whole of the 2021 season. 12 of those defeats have come in the last 16 games. City are unbeaten in the last 12 Premier League away games. No, beautiful. On the opening day. So they haven't lost since the first game of the season away. So they're doing away defeats. And then they can win every other game, eight-nil, till the end of the season. No side has scored fewer first-half goals in the Premier League than Everton, with eight. Manchester City have scored more first-half goals. More first-half goals, 30. And second-half goals, 33, than Everton have been total. That's good, so their first-half goals are more than our total score. Peps won 24 of his last 25 games against English managers. Thomas has not scored since August. Rheir Marr has not scored and assisted a million goals, apparently this season. Thanks for that, Bas. I feel all warm and fluffy inside now. It's a double bluff to City, because we know Peps will play this to their players. And they'll be like, yeah, we always win. They'll be off in the wheel. There you go. Let's see what happens. If you're going, just be loud. Dead simple, just be loud. Make sure you give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you have more great videos, join us over on Patreon. And make sure you check out the ultimate fan app as well. The link is in the description. Thanks for watching. See you later.