 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Wofford versus Evans Saturday, 3 o'clock on Vicarage Road. Do you want to buy Steve Kelly? 3 o'clock on a Saturday. Beautiful, beautiful. A tough game Steve, tough game down of Vicarage Road. Wofford six, seven weeks ago looked like they were in real trouble. But brought in Nigel Pearson and since then it's been on a really good run. A tough game, really tough game. I think with them fighting for their lives down at the bottom as well. It always makes it extra hard. And rather than if you're playing a mid-table team, you've got nothing really to play for. But I've watched the last couple of weeks actually and they've impressed me. Like I said, two wide players, Telefair and Saar. And obviously Dini down the middle is always an handful in me. So, it's going to be a really tough game. I think early goal needed. I think to try and settle the crowd. But we never get that early goal so it probably won't happen. Good positive. It's going to be a really tough game. I don't think there'll be much in it. Like I said, I think you'll ever get to the first goal. Probably go on and win the match. Well, yeah, I mean, the Premier League, it's got 71% of the time of the team. Because the first goal wins the game. We've got a poor record there. I mean, the first three years in the Premier League have failed to beat us. We won two and drew one down there. But the last three seasons, they've beaten us down there. And it'll be the luck and the record. The fourth consecutive home victory against the Premier League team for the first time in the history. And it's up to us to stop that, really. I mean, we go there off a disappointing result against Newcastle. I mean, overall, since the Anfield defeat in the league at the start of December, we've lost one game in nine that was a way to Manchester City with the champions. So, in general, we've had a real uptane in form. We've been more difficult to beat, more resolute, scored more goals. Duncan Ferguson started the call on to a lot he's come in and has carried it on and put his spin on it and altered a couple of things. And we've kind of rolled with it really well. Newcastle, last time, I was brilliant for 93 minutes and we know what happened there. And, you know, conceded our 11th and 12th goal of the season, I think, from set pieces, which is more than anyone in the league. Yeah, it's been going on for the last couple of years. It has, so that's something. Now an out strong waft for that off, you know, set plays now big deal. That's something we're really going to have to guard against at the weekend. Yeah, definitely. I've obviously dealt with that two lads at the back, haven't you? They'll probably just stick it up for every corner, Dawson and Casgras. Dawson's very good, isn't he? West Bromday, isn't he? Yes, he's got a couple of times for West Bromday. Yeah, so I think, like you said there, we've just got to concentrate on that bit more at the back. It'll be interesting to see how they defend the set pieces, whether they'll do, I know they've gone back a bit more to man to man than the zone, because with the zone I always find, especially against teams like that, it's always a bit of a worry for me, especially because they've got to run on you sometimes, when you're that bigger player as well. We've gone from full zone to part zone, but they're doing two different areas. I think the Newcastle game for me though, it was disappointing, but I actually took a lot more positives away from it than negatives. It sounds crazy considering you were tuning up with a minute to go, that you can take positives away from the game, but I'd be more worried if we were playing really bad and that was happening. But for 90, you said, I thought for 80 minutes we were in control again. I thought we took off the pedal, the substitutions may or may not have helped them. Obviously he has what he has at the moment, unfortunately on the bench. People might not like it, but that's the way it is unfortunately. I actually thought it was probably the best we've played in a long, long time. I haven't really seen us play control again. Probably West Ham in October was the only other game we've really controlled when we started finishing. There was times in the West Ham game, it was a bit navy when it was 1-0. There was not my dad against Newcastle. Newcastle had nothing going for what it was saying before. I forgot certain players were even on the pitch for them against Newcastle. I think Angiolotti can take a lot into this game, from that game as well, to show the players that it wasn't all negative. Obviously we've got the Charleston back, hopefully for this weekend, the Werby's back. So we've got a few more options, I suppose off the bench where we were saying a couple of weeks ago, you're having to bring the ass on and players probably really shouldn't be at the club on the pitch. I think I'm pretty upbeat about how we're moving forward rather than panicking in January. It looks like we're just going to stay firm on that as well, so it's just good. The Newcastle game, I think you have to look at everything that was good about it because that's kind of the blueprint, I suppose, for Carlo Angiolotti going forward. Something he said after the game, he'd come out and was like, well, it's disappointing, but for 93 minutes we were perfect. It was a comfortable performance, it should have been five or six, we had the woodwork twice, the keepers, my three or four, really good save. We could have been a cricket scorer and we've thrown it away, we snatched the draw from the Jaws of Victory and all that. But you have to look at the overall pitchers if you're on a pathway. Are you doing the right things most of the time, and if you're doing the right things most of the time, more often than not, you'll win the game. You'll have these mad moments in football. I remember us being three on down against United years ago in injury time, we drew three-three on the mwysan. That was a team that was flying, United were top of the league and a great trip on the league, great side and all that. It happens at times, you just have to learn from it and that's the biggest thing I haven't had to learn if you're ever in that situation again, out of manager better than... I think you'll give Angelotti a good idea of who's in his... we'll go forward with him as well as a manager, the players you can maybe trust in those situations. It'll end more in 90 seconds than he probably did in the first 93 minutes about character and about standing up and things, but also it gives you something to work on, doesn't it? Job and Pickford, should he just come and punch that and go through everybody or should he stay on his line and defend the reddit or why is he flapping at it? Why is it all allowed to go so far? So far being dealt, drive that into the corner or turn and pass it back to your keeper. All of these little things in the game, Tom Davies and Luca Dean don't ask about what it's clearly. So little things that you take from that, but going into this, are away forms terrible? Let's have it, right? We've gone two away games this season. Newcastle over Christmas. We won a Southampton in November, I think it was. Other than that, we've been pretty poor on the road and this is something that Angelotti will have to change going forward, isn't it? Everton have got to be looking to win half a dozen, if not more. I think we're averaging around four wins a season away from home. It's terrible. I think our biggest, since it was Martin, was his first season, was it, where we had eight away games? Yeah, one eight and eight. And since then, I think it's been four every season after that. Well, Crystal Palace last season won eight away games. I think they only won five home games, they won eight away games and they were just functional and they had the pieces of hard up front. So it's not like it's a difficult thing to do, it's just that you have to get organised and be able to build it. I think whatever they've got is in the attacking areas, we've got real good options, Moise Keam, Retialis, Dominic Halverlun, Bernard, well-cut to a lesser extent of all, we've come back fit now and we've got Anthony Gordon's there or there about. So attacking wise, I think we're okay. I think the centre of the park is a problem. Especially against these, because he's quite physical and up-and-down team on their decor, you can't copy away, you've got that Will Hughes as a tricky player as well. He's a really impressed with him, actually he's topped them last week. I think for me, you've missed them a field out in this one and people might not like that, because we want to play this kind of football. It's results-focused and it's about, you do want to play football and going forward, you'd like to build a squad that has these players, you can take the ball and travel up the pitch with it and pick teams off and that's what you're aiming for, you have to aim for that. If you look at strengths and weaknesses and Watford, for me, you can get at them, okay, they've tightened up massively since Pearson came in, but they're still the same players who were throwing goals in the neff at the first half of the season. So you've got to get at them, they are very strong through the middle and then they will cause us issues up front with Delphi, Sarr and Dany. I think where we can cause them problems as well is their full-backs. Full-backs aren't the greatest. I know they've got Mari Apar at the moment playing full-back. Playing right back and the other guy is a hollow-back at left-back, he's not great either. He's an accident mate to that. So that's why we've seen him before, maybe with Charles and I think they go to that side and go for it a bit more, especially if we do play the two holding midfield as we can allow the other two just to bomb on a bit more. And the full-backs then to get on the outside of them. To get on the outside of them. Watford have run at 12 Premier League games without a win in the first start of the season. They've now won three of the last four under the national team and the only other ones in El Nildro with Tottenham South. They've impressed me when I've seen them in the last couple of weeks. I think Pearson's gone back to basics a bit really and getting the ball forward quicker. Something big dunked when he's coming in heaven, he got the ball. You've got to play where you're going to cause change problems. If you concede too many goals, keep the ball and it's something that Duncan did. Aunty Lotty even spoke about teams with possession. A lot of teams with less possession of one football matches. You'd have to look at that, less than the league with 26% possession. So you've got to play in there half a time and that's something that... We've just got to be wary of the two wide men for me, that's my biggest one. But we know they'll have fairs your match winner. Sar's a good player in France. He looks good now. I like the Coray. Crippewi does his job. Jalabus, hot and cold but it is a good footballer. Like you say, Wilt Hughes can break from midfields. We've got some good players, we know that. They shouldn't be where they are really. They should be higher up. But it's about the zone. It'll be a good test, I think, for Hallgate and Meane as well. Especially at Mason Hallgate. Meane and Meane needs to take Deane. They follow Deaney everywhere. I don't think Mason's that type of lad. I just think the strength of Deaney though. I think Meane can bully him a little bit and I think that's what he should be. I think it'll be a good test for him. Ever having kept an away clean sheet since day one, Crystal Palace, we've had 11 away games and we've considered at least one in every away game sheet. Which is an absolutely shocking statistic and it's something that needs to correct this weekend. You know, your goalkeeper has been up and down at the moment this season. I've been wanting to get clean sheets the man down. I've given people about these clean sheets the goalie in the centre backs. That should be like goals to them. And they should hate them. It doesn't look like we let a goalie in it. It looked like it had hit them the new cast legaliser. But the first goalie in it was like we do everything. We've seen Brighton come together in the other weekend. We've seen themselves in front of everybody and we've got the breakthrough. Barely we beat them but they were throwing their faces in the way of things. You even see some of the top teams even if they've fallen up and they can see the goal you look at the goal. I always look at the goalie's reaction and I always see the top club. Well the top ones are fuming when a goal goes away. Look at Keilani, Benuti, Buffon and that, you know. How many times did I jump? What I'm hoping for is if they just scored the goal on a clean sheet or if they've stopped the goal that's how you defend. This is a mad stat, only Liverpool have scored more head of goals in the Premier League than Everton this season. But to temper that, what for they've conceded only one goal from the head of all season. Give you that one hand and chuck it away on the other. What for they've failed to score in 11 different Premier League games this season. No keeper has kept more clean sheets this season Ben Foster though. He's had 80 good keeper in the air. 408, but he's still a really good goalie isn't he. He's recorded more shutouts already than he did last season. Which is mad in a given that he was so deep at the bottom and last season he was half way up. Since Nigel Pearson became a Wafford manager, Troy Dini has scored 42% of the Horn of Town sorry, of the Horn of Premier League goals. He scored more goals in 16 games under Pearson than he did in his previous 19. And Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewm has scored five goals in six Premier League appearances under Carlo Ancelotti as many as he had netted in 16 games with Marco Silva and big dunk. He's been really good lately I'll be honest with you up until probably done coming I was one of them people I wasn't sure on. It's good that it looks like he's been doing back to doing some work with him again which is good. I think Well the star contrast is Duncan wasn't working with the four of a players since Balomoti came in and the minute Balomoti went out the door and dunked all of the strikers again they've all scored goals and Dom's gone up three levels. Well he's gone to that level I remember you had said at the start of the season his aim should be to get into double figures this season and let's be honest with you we've got three, four months left of the season. For me now he should be getting at least 16 goals this season. He's got 12 altogether as your 10 Premier League goals so you'd expect another five hybrid half a season. He's improved every year He doubled it all the moment he got eight last year so if he gets 15 he's practically doubled it and what he's doing better for me is to put the ball in the net. A lot of his goals were being in an around the six yard box that was my biggest criticism. That could be dancing. The system changed The system changed his health and we had Kevin Campbell in the studio last week and he was talking about he was great at doing the work and he'd get it wide but he was knackered then to get in the box where now he's got someone to lighten the load The two striker thing anyone who's been a watcher of this channel for a while will know that I've banged on about this for years is that you're taking when you play with one up front you are cutting down a specialist goalscorer out your team to accommodate midfield players so in general, unless you are Liverpool you have three amazing forwards on Man City you're cutting down your hope of scoring goals and the aim of football is to score goals you're flooding the midfield so you might end up with 40 goals a season for your team which is pathetic when Liverpool are scoring 90 or cities going under whatever so you put two strikers on the pitch and then you try to add goals in and around it and that's what Ferguson has done Antio Lottie has done that all through his career really your first aim should be outscored the opposition then it should be obviously outscored the opposition to win games but what I mean is heavily outscored the opposition and then your aim is to tighten up tighten up without losing the goals that I'm sure will be shutting that Antio Lottie will work on but we've got Ratialys and Calvert Lou and 23 goals between them this season Moise Keane scored last time out he's only had five stars, the kid he scored one goal they're the real stats people will throw now he's played 20 games about six of them he had seven minutes or less as a sub so you've got to put everything into context having your day but it's good to see him up and running and that's the area where Everton have got to improve it's a show on that really with the dean he's that there he's scored almost half their goals earlier on in the season when he wasn't scored and they weren't scored now Delifeu will weigh him with the odd one the core I use it normally gets out and that's what you have to do with your team but 23 points they're on the same point as West Ham and Bournemouth they're in the bottom three and that's a climb out of there for Everton if we win we drag ourselves closer to the European places again so there's a lot riding on it we can kind of figure it out if Everton were to be off for the weekend you're then putting nine points well it'll be ten points between us then you start looking and going ten points is a big gap it's basically four wins it's a big thing and you can start to look to Europe rather than to of course the biggest thing for me the biggest thing for me as an absolute bear man don't lose the game don't allow teams below you to claw points back on you get a result we have Crystal Palace around a week later we can build on that but this will be a very difficult game like I said before for me Wofford are a team that should be mid table with the squad they've got or certainly they're all there about they shouldn't be in any danger they're strong players and they're in a good and they've got a couple of match wins to tricky game for Everton and we have to approach it in the right manner we have to work hard try and get that all important first goal and we say it every week but it's so key in the Premier League and more often than not we didn't win the last game when we scored the first goal but more often than not it puts you in command at least of the game it doesn't hang on to and let's hope we can just be a little bit more resilient at the weekend you just said get that early goal and take it from there and like I said let's try and get three points but I'm impressed at the start of the season we weren't getting enough draws away from home we think we've had one or two away from home so like you said don't lose the game saying you're defeating the draws you've done that earlier in the season if Michael Silver had done that we wouldn't be he might still be the one to write on it it's a case of keep it going let's keep this little run going a game we can win without a shadow they're in the bottom three as good as they are and as good as they've been playing lately they're in the bottom three and if Everton are trying to get into Europe if that's the ambition you should be looking at the bottom three going we need to win here let's get out, let's have a right goal going put ourselves in a good position to be Crystal Palace the week after before we go into the winter break and then it gives the manager just finally before we finish he's had 10 days so hopefully on the training ground so hopefully we'll see a little bit more from what he wants and hopefully the clarity will be there this is the longest he's been able to play since he's come in so again it'll give him an idea of who he can trust on the pitch and who he wants going forward but obviously I imagine the players have had a bit of a break as well under that time so it'd be good for some of the players who were looking a bit jaded to actually come back and obviously we said about Fabio and Delf it'd be good for him to rest up because obviously he has the odd injuries and that's how he might come back a bit fresher and like you've got Wobe back you've got Sigurdtson back so we've got more options now which is always good because we haven't had really many options for the last two to three mums really of players who can come off the bench or players who even have it in the squad like I said we've been relying on players who don't even really want to you know more like Nias and Martina and players like that so yeah I think I'd see maybe more of anjoloti team on Saturday and I'll be one to play but like I said get to three points and start looking up there you go let us know what you think in the comments section below tough game what do you think can we do it what for fans you'll be watching that you're confident you can make it four years on the run it's not the 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