 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is an instant match reaction Manchester City to Everton 1. Everton's first defeat in four weeks as it's into the major side derby, if you do not include the penalty shootout of course. Disappointing result, disappointing performance but not wholly unexpected. Obviously Everton-Deltae problem from the warm-up really with Bernard getting injured. Tom Davis coming into the side and I don't know how much of effect I had on the team in the way they were set up to play. Sianly today we never got going and I think that midfield was a really big part of it. Not brave enough, no one willing to break the lines. Sigarton, Delth and Tom Davis far too rigid, weren't willing to go forward and help give that support to the Charleston and Dominic Harvan Lloon who found themselves quite isolated. The derby playing that right-wing back role really never got forward and I thought that was one of our big issues today. We never really went long enough into areas that could hurt them and when we did City were allowed to come out really easily because our midfield wasn't backing up the forward line. The funny thing was Carlo Ancelotti was screaming at the team to get forward, to play forward passes but it's that inherent negativity or nervousness or just how these players are. They did the safe option and ultimately that's what led us to, it didn't lead us to get people, that's what meant we never had any kind of sustained pressure in the game to put Man City under any pressure. Really the only sustained pressure came when Carlo Ancelotti dictated how we played by putting the subs on, by putting Moise Keen on, by putting Theo Walcott onto the game. That was the first time so he might have to realise or I'm sure he will realise that it's how he actually sets teams up and maybe that's what I'm saying with not having Bernard in the team might have been a big important factor in that. It's how he sets the team up, it's how mentally the team approaches the game. If you have a Tachmore attacking plays on, we're going to attack more and vice versa. So he'll know, the midfiel was just really slow as well, you know, Delth, Sigarton and Tom Davis. I don't know where Tom Davis was playing today, he had a horrendous game but Sigarton wasn't much better and Delth wasn't much better than Sigarton so them three were really poor and I think it's been, listen this is not something that's just suddenly happened. We know we need players, we know we need good players, we know the players we've got aren't good enough, a lot of the players we haven't got aren't good enough, it's just that the players who are good have been putting their shifts in in the last month, the likes of Richard Allison. It wasn't great today but you know, pops up and gets a goal, Dominic Arvalun again, isolated. So it was one of those performances where you could tell that for the last four weeks. It was a game that you don't want after that kind of four weeks or that kind of Christmas period. We never looked on it, we never looked sharp and you know, I'm looking forward to that point after the mini-side derby where we do only have one game a week basically. And we can, Carlo Ancelotti can start trying to get across this message on the training ground day in and day out and hopefully, I don't know if we will but hopefully we can bring in a couple of players or certainly get a couple of players back to likes of Gabbaman maybe. And I have someone in my field who's very tired who can get up and down, who can back up the forwards because as I said I think that was completely missing today. The goals we conceded were soft, I honestly think Jordan Pickford could have done better with both of them. The first one he gets a hand on and I always think if he keeps a hand on a ball he should save it. And the second one was at his, you know, at his near post, not quite chyfted that cold, yeah. And I think he should be doing a little bit better. But they've beaten us without, you know, they didn't really have a lot of the big guns playing although Kevin De Bruyne did dictate the way of the game. They did what they needed to do. They obviously had the goal this allowed first half right in the south through VAR. And then we had the ridiculous situation where one of their players is given offside and yet they check for a penalty and it just makes VAR look like an absolute fast, that kind of thing. But ultimately today I just think it was a case of some bad habits reappearing and some of our better players being knackered and the game plan not going to plan. And don't underestimate how important Bernard, not playing us as well. He was the player who links the midfield and we showed this against Bailey, the midfield with the forward line and Tom Davis simply can't do it. I mean Tom Davis doesn't even look fit. He can barely run. He's got a bleeding thing on his knee. He can barely run and the fact that I'm in field was so slow I think give Man City a massive leg up. But they're a possession-based team, the best in the league, one of the best in Europe, if not the best in Europe. And they wore us down and maybe that took the belief away from us that we could make things happen. Because when they were, as I said, we were sending along balls forward, we were not doing anything with them. But you know, we went two-n-one, two-n-one down, we got a goal fair play, good work from Moise Keane, good balling from Wolcottbyd that was a shot over the cross and with Charleston. It's hardly done anything all game. Let's put it in at the far post. But listen, I'm not going to sit here and criticise them all because I think that's just stupid to do that. I've seen people on social media criticising with Charleston and with Charleston. That's Charleston. Let's work those bollocks off every single game with Charleston and other players. This is not the time to do that. It really isn't. It's not the time to do that. We've had a really good last four weeks, you know, and you fit, you come off that mayside that. If you told me you come off the mayside that you can see the five goals, your next defeat would be against Manchester City. Then I'd be like, you know what, I'll take that. And yes, we could have done better today, but physically we don't know how those players are. We only made two subs. So what does that say about the players who are on the bench as well if we're only making two subs? And the Gordon was about to come on, but he decided not to do that. So the manager's not happy. He'll know what he wants. He'll know the plays he wants to bring in. And hopefully, you know, after Sunday's game against Liverpool, we can maybe start to see more performances built on tactical, lot more tactical stuff and players starting to understand what they need to do. I think some of our players today didn't do what they were told to do by the manager, and that's what will frustrate the manager most. And they're the kind of players you actually have to get rid of because if they don't believe in what the manager wants because they're trying to play it safe, then you get rid of them. Get rid of those players and you're bringing in your own players, better players, more confident players, players with more belief. You get rid of those players and it doesn't matter who those kind of players are, but I think maybe Guilfee Sigurdans is one of those players. And you get rid of those kind of players and you're bringing players who believe in what you're trying to do and believe that your team can go forward and be aggressive. And if you can see the goal, then so be it. You go back out and you try and get the next goal and that's what we need to see from every team. That's what good teams do. They believe in a way of playing and even if you can see it, they keep doing because it's the right way. And I think, listen, the manager's been in the job a week basically. It ain't going to be there. It's going to take time. But listen, we've had a decent December, not the greatest start of the year, but I feel a lot more positive sitting here now on the first of January after the defeat than I did on the first of January in 2019 after the defeat. So onwards and upwards, I may say that I've stuck forward to you on Sunday in the FA Cup. I've got to do better. I've got to believe we can go and win it in front of 8,000 Evertones around the field. And if we will, if we do, then you might. Simple as that. Anyway, let me know your thoughts in the comments. 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