 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Player Ratings for Everton 1. Chelsea, Neil, I've just got back from Gooderson Park and what an amazing feeling it was to be back at Gooderson Park. It felt so surreal. I've videoed a few little bits of in and around the ground so I'm hoping to stitch that together and just a very short little blog just to give people a little understanding of what it was like to be at Gooderson Park or what it's going to be like when they go to Gooderson Park. All pretty much straightforward, a little bit weird, not your normal match day routine, but I think once the fans settled in and once we started seeing a few decisions by the referee and all that kind of thing, it just felt like home. It felt like home without 35,000 Evertonians not being with us, but it felt like home. It was just great to get the three points. It was a well-deserved win even though our percentage of the ball was just utterly nonsense, but it shows you it's the menino style of football. You don't need to have the ball to win the game, you just need to do the right things and I think that's what we did tonight. My organisation took about it in me starting on the 11 side, which was only one player short of the team that we had on tonight in a different formation about being organised. Having four centre backs really helped us tonight, which we'll talk about in a minute, and even though you can call them centre backs, but Holgate has played it a lot of times at right back and Ben Goffrey can play full back and did it really well tonight at left back. I think no matter what people feel, who knows whether we would have got that performance if Gulliser was empty tonight, but I really felt that with people there and not only the crowd, the noise of the crowd, but also, I don't know, just placing to run a little bit harder tonight and again, I don't know whether that's got anything to do with fans, but you feel like that when you're in the crowd, when you're in the crowd, don't you? You feel like players are putting in a little bit more. I certainly felt like that tonight. I certainly felt like we really contributed, even though there's only a couple of thousands of us in the game. I felt like we really contributed and the players fed off that and when they needed that little bit of extra, they got it off the fans. The fans were encouraging them and it just makes me, it just made me show me how much I miss going on the match. But also, though, how much I think we do forget that fans are a big part of the game and don't let anyone ever tell you that they're not because it becomes a very sanitised sport where maybe when players are playing, they don't always feel or understand how important it is and how important that game is to the crowd and the people who are watching and there's always that disconnect, but when you're at the match, you get that connection and I know a lot of people don't like the idea of fans booing or getting on the backs of people or just... but sometimes that's what's needed in a game. Sometimes that is needed to get that little bit of a level a bit more out of a team. I just thoroughly enjoyed it and I hope when people get their opportunity to go, they enjoy it as well. It is a bit weird, you've got to keep your mask on and all that kind of thing and the players can hear everything you're saying to them, basically. But you can hear them as well. Funny off, start with Jordan Pickford. You could hear Jordan Pickford talking low tonight when he was at Gladys Street End. You could hear him really, really talking to the players and trying to organise them and keep them on their toes and stuff. I thought Jordan played well. I thought he made one big save from a free kick. I don't think he had to face a shot on target though from about halfway in the first half or about 30 minutes. But I thought he... I don't think he did anything erratic. His kick was pretty okay and I think in the last few games we've seen him settle down a lot which is really good. Really settling down and not really helping the back four by just being settled. So that's fair play to him. So I've given him eight tonight cos I just thought he was a really... just seeing the vocal side of him and I think he came for things as well and he stayed at home for things when he didn't need to get involved. I think he made the right choices tonight on his... you know, back from that side of things. So sorry, lots of people are asking for this video in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish, I apologise. None en español. Apologies. Let's move on. Mason Hallgate playing right back. Very, very solid. But also very calm. Didn't just hacker up the field. Made the right choices. Didn't go galloping up the pitch when he didn't need to. And I thought really stuck to his task really well. So I've given him an eight. Cos I just thought he'd be... again, him, you know, Ben Galdrwy on the other side of giving him an eight as well. I thought his performance has not two games. I've been absolutely fantastic. And they really both smothered the people that were up against him. And didn't give them a kick. And that little bit of pace they've got, both got, especially Ben Galdrwy, that bit of pace. It's difficult for Ben Galdrwy. You could see that tonight. He had to keep on coming onto his right foot. Even tackling with his right foot, tackling from the other side, wasn't easy for him. But there's a hell of a defender in Ben Galdrwy. A hell of a defender. You can see it. He wants to defend something I mentioned last week. He really wants to defend. So both of them played excellently tonight. And I think with them, Michael Keane and Jeremy. And I've given Michael Keane and Jeremy an eight as well, by the way. Because I think that we really relied on them to create that wall. And this isn't your dude starter. Your dude normally always scores against us. He's great in the air. We know that. Even if it's just knocking it down to people. He scored four a couple. He scored in the Champions League. He's brilliant in the air. He's brilliant on the floor. But I think we didn't give him a sniff tonight. And I just thought we know what last week I bemoan the fact that I'd watched Spades. And how they were throwing players in front of everything and defending for their lives. That's what we did tonight. We defended magnificently. We threw everything in front of them. And they were brilliant. They were brilliant at the back all four of them were brilliant. You just can't fault them at all, any of them. Any time that they maybe got it wrong they were someone there to not bail them out, but just get themselves in the way. I've seen a lot of players just getting their bodies in the way of the opposition. Not making it easy for them. Chelsea found it really, really difficult to break us down. And that was mainly down to obviously down to the back four. So yeah, so all four defenders got eight. Moving into the midfield. Allen, I've given Allen an eight as well. It was fantastic to watch Allen in real life. The way, real life. The way he does is honestly incredible. The way he manipulates the ball is incredible, honestly. He's brilliant at it, brilliant at it. Sometimes he does run up dark alleys, but when he's got that ball, and the way he gets his body in the way of players, I thought he was brilliant tonight as well. So I gave him an eight and it was just a pleasure to see him. He's a lot more than just a player. He's going to sit in front of the back four. He's a player who's going to run that midfield if you've got someone behind him, I think you can sit there. I think him and Decore have given Decore a seven. I think they both did well tonight, but Allen was just, he really did want to run that midfield. It was difficult because you could see what Cante, Cante was doing something similar to them for them. But I thought he was brilliant Allen and just showed what a manager wanted him so much. So I gave him eight and I gave Decore a seven. Gilfe Sigarton, I gave him a seven as well. I thought it was his best performance in the never-ending chair for a while. Obviously he scored the winning goal. His penalty was really, really good. Do you know what? He worked hard. He worked hard and he didn't do anything fancy. He wasn't getting caught on the ball. His passing was good and he kept us ticking over in midfield. He was almost at times playing off-dome and then going into midfield. He was trying to get on top of Cante, not allowing him to have the ball. But I just thought he played well and obviously the situation with the penalties as well was a bit of a nuisance as well because Richarlison obviously wanted the first penalty and then when we got the opportunity for the second penalty, which obviously we didn't get, but the fact that he took the ball off Richarlison and made it very well known that he was going to take it. I think it's important doing things like that. I'm moving on to Richarlison. I've given Richarlison a six. I don't know what. Again, he wasn't on it tonight. He played well in spells, but he just wasn't on it. But the stuff with the penalty, you could see he wanted the first penalty and he got moody about that, but the second one, which never happened, he's, you know, Don was going to take it and then he won today and then he's shouting over to Carlo and then Guilfee Shiggson comes over and goes, now I'm taking it. And then after we didn't get it, he's still moaning a Carlo Ancelotti or someone on the bench, but moaning the fact that he didn't get the penalty, he didn't get to get a penalty and I know he's desperate to score, but that really seemed to affect his game from the last like 15 minutes. He was just like walking round and I was thinking he was going to take him off then I thought well no, those plays you don't take off if you don't have to, but he's got to get his head back into the game. The last couple of games I don't think feel like his head's been in the game. I really don't. We know how good a player he is, but he's got to stay away from that kind of thing. It's not worthy. It really isn't worthy getting involved in that kind of thing. It's not what the fans want to see. And I don't know if you could see this at home and obviously, but afterwards he's still having a go at it, but he's got to follow. I don't know. Guilfee Sigarton, whether you like it or not, is on the penalties. He's the penalty taker. I couldn't understand that and it really annoys me when you see that kind of thing. It takes you away from what the play is supposed to be doing. I thought that was pretty... just amateurish from with Charleston and stupid. So I've given him a six. A Wobie, I've given him a seven. Strong started the game. Went quiet and obviously got sub. I think it was tough for him tonight. I think he started the game well, but as they started pushing back and listening their full backs were rapid. He had to start digging in and doing more defensive work and to be fair to him, he did do it. He stuck to his task and he kept doing it. You knew when he threw that crossing in the second half that went out and that was his night over basically. But his work rate has improved. His work rate has improved massively. Again, he's not just running to blind allies. Now he's thinking about more about what he's going to do because he's got a chance to stay in and around this team. Today was a team performance and we needed... That was the difference between a Wobie. I'm not saying that Charleston didn't work hard but a Wobie was prepared to just keep going with Charleston. There was just too much of being about with Charleston. It's not normally like that with Charleston. I don't get on with Charleston's back even when he does have off games but the penalty thing annoyed me tonight. Dominic Avalon, I've given him an 8 because he ran his bollocks off tonight. He won the penalty. He nearly won the second penalty. He was just offside but he ran his bollocks off. We were watching him in the warm-up and it was noticeable the difference in him in little things like when they're doing the shooting practice he's bending things top corner without an issue, bending things top corner trying the difficult thing now. The confidence and the attitude and the belief it's just gone up a million times since I last seen him. He was scoring goals then but honestly the belief that that lad is showing is just and he was pulling things down from the air and holding them and then moving the ball and keeping it alive all the time winning his cheap files. Just honestly he was so, so good tonight. So, so good tonight. Someone's just asked in the comments that I talk about Meena and Keen and now I'm... I give them eight but I don't know if I talk about... Meena and Keen were brilliant. They were brilliant. They won everything in the air. They didn't make any mistakes. They played the way they wanted to play which is in the low block and they were excellent both of them. I give both of them eight. Both excellent. Stuck to the job, kept Jiru quiet and all four of our defenders were brilliant but Keen and Meena were fantastic tonight. But as I was saying, Dom has just gone up a level for me. Dom has gone up a level as a footballer. He just wants to work hard for the team all the time or he just wants to work hard for the team. As a footballer I still think there's plenty to come but I thought again tonight in the last couple of games he's getting the ball through to him and some of the things he was doing was just trying to get a shot off where he thought tonight he was trying to be a little bit better and trying to... The penalty I thought the penalty obviously it wasn't a penalty he was offside. When he went to VAR I knew it was going to be offside I had that feeling. I think a few people had that feeling but it's just honestly I just felt like I feel like the lads going up a level. I really do. I'm going to give him eight. I've given him a seven which is fine. He came on and did his job. Kept it ticking over kept doing what it was doing. Set pieces and stuff so I've given him a seven. Tom Davis and John Joe Kenny I've given a six. Tom actually a couple of times actually no Tom Davis and John Joe so I'm thinking on giving them both sevens because actually Tom Davis a few times was like the last man on the right hand side and he did really, really well. John Joe John Joe did all right when he came on the left as well so I'll give them both sevens. You get a seven, you get a seven, you get a seven. So they both did their jobs. They both did the jobs that's the important thing. You bring subs on come on and do what you're asked to do and do your job and they both did that and so did Onze Gomez you know someone's just asked me the atmosphere was great it started off a bit weird because don't forget you're in your little clumps of your family and friends and there's like maybe five years in a section or sixties in a section in a row and then there's a in that one section and then there's the row and fronties empty and then the next row and the next row it's not like there's the areas where we're all singing so people have to get it going and it was a bit quiet to first but once it got going it was fine and once we had something to cling on to and once we got into the second half and you can see the players fighting for it and the fans are giving it back and we're all having to go with John Moss because he's a dope and it was good, it was all good it was all good tonight, everything tonight was good everything tonight was good it was bad about tonight we got three points fans were allowed to be back in the ground and it was all good, honestly everything about tonight was good Barry Dwyer says he set us a line for 7am here in Australia, great to see Antelott he finally got back four yeah back four is what we're going to stick to I think and it shows you're important on performances like that is to have defenders who can defend ok it's not pretty you're giving the opposition the ball but it was tactically good, it's why I'm at the top of the league doing exactly the same thing doing exactly the same thing except the difference is maybe not the difference but they've got Kane and Son and that's why at the top of the league but that's what they've decided they're going to play that's what they've decided we're going to play we're sort of in between it's been forced on us Henry I don't know where Charleston would be more clinical playing he probably would but he's been given a role to do he does it fine obviously he's not scoring goals and he's desperate to score goals but he needs to be he needs to be a little bit more well he just needs to stop being a sulk which he has been recently so there you go what have I done? I've done like 20 minutes haven't I? have I done 20 minutes? yeah 20 minutes then 20 minutes there you go fantastic to be back fantastic to get the three points need to do the same obviously we've got Leicester and we've got Arsenal this week and it will be very very interesting what we do team wise if Charleston if Hammersons he gives us back and if Seamus Coleman's back and you know how but tonight was a good win it's what we needed we're up to 20 points now so good stuff good stuff let me know your thoughts in the comments and yeah make sure you give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon we'll be live on Monday to amount this game in the live extended final way that we do on Patreon if you're stuck for a Christmas present that you need say to someone get me toffeeTVpagin for a year that's an excellent Christmas present or gift it to somebody else buy it for someone there's never a tone in your family brother sister son mother father whoever and you don't know what to get them ever related to the Patreon for a year it's well worth it thanks for watching see you later