 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the instant match reaction. Eliton have beaten Southampton 2-1 at St Mary's, a good victory, a good victory. Back-to-back wins put us on 10 points into 11th place and yeah, yeah, it wasn't a listen, wasn't a great performance by any means. In fact I thought we played better in the first half, sorry, than we played in the second half. I thought in the first half we were really, really waiting in control of the game. Very, very few issues at all, but it broke down in the final third. We were very, very poor in the final third. Yeah, and I think it's, you know, obviously Anthony Gordon was playing, apparently he was a bit ill, Dwight McNeill played and obviously Sheamus Coleman played starting as well. And we dealt with everything really they had to offer us. I thought we'd be at times, I thought at times we were a little bit loose and that got way in the second half, but for the first half I thought, I thought it was just in that, it was just broke down in that final third. I'm just trying to think if we had any massive clear cut chances. Not really and except pieces were in great again, couple of decent ones from Dwight McNeill though. But we looked, we looked a lot more, we looked a lot more in control of the game. That's what I would say. Second half we came out and straight away they looked a little bit more ony. They got the goal which was poor from us. I think going to give the ball away and they broke and no one really tried hard enough to win the ball back. It was all just getting men round them rather than actually someone throwing a tackle or someone being a little bit physical. It was far too easy a goal to concede. I wonder as well, I think it was Sheamus Coleman slid in front of Jordan Pickford, it might have made him a little bit unsighted. But we scored straight away, we got the set piece, great ball in, Ohnana with a great header and Conor Codey sticking in. That's exactly what we've wanted from Conor Codey. He actually had a chance in the first half, was it the first half he had a chance from? From a corner as well. Yeah, it was first half I think and he nearly had one. It was a cross came in, actually it was a poor corner, cross came in and he nearly got on the end of a great, great cross. But great, great reactions to put it in and we were straight back in the game, no chance for them to build and then obviously we get what was the winning goal, pretty much straight away, ball over the top and I think it was Ohnana who got missed out in the middle basically and it forced Dwight McNiel who smashed it in to make it 2-1 and he hadn't been having a particularly good game until then, let's be honest, he wasn't having a great game by any means but he smashed it in and he's got the winning goal, got us all three points and from then on actually I think we looked really navy. They brought three players on, well they brought two and then they brought another one on before we brought another player on and we just couldn't get old of the game, just couldn't get old of it, they were, they were flooding forward and because, because we were so poor around the final third, because we were given the ball away so cheaply, they started throwing everything at us and it got a little bit nerdy at times, he was the one obviously at Jordan Pickford's, had to push wide, they had a couple of set pieces but it was more momentum, they had some and that is, that is where you ever need now to, to, to look going forward. It's so obvious what we need, we need players that we can bring on the pitch, you know Mopibe is in a bit of a mismatch up front, we need someone who can come on and that's obviously Dominic Carven, we need them back, we keep on saying this, we need them back ASAP but I don't think anyone's particularly holding the breath but listen we've got, we've got a win, we've got the win and we have two wins sorry without having them in the team so the manager is taking calculated gambles and, and they've paid off in the last couple of games so, but we need them back, we need that figure up front, physical figure which means Mopibe can play in the same side or he can come off the bench, we need another winger, let's, you know in January we need to get a winger in who can affect things more in games because Gray, the amount of times and it frustrates me more than anything is, the amount of times the ball goes to Gray and he doesn't just keep hold of it, he just gives it away straight away and that, if you've committed men that puts you on the back foot straight away and that happened a couple of times, it happened in our midfield as well when we lost possession a little bit cheaply so that's got to, that's, there's got to be a change on that, there's got to be you know Dwight MacNeill, it's a great goal, it's a, you know it's a great finish, it's the winning goal but again we said this a million times, he's got to be able to play with his right foot because the amount of times he's trying to change direction to get it on his left foot, it's so frustrating, so that's, that's just got to be done but it does massively frustrate me on Gray, just keep the ball, you're on a counter attack or you're trying to build something just keep the ball and then bring other people into it, he's trying to, there's one on the right hand side and he's trying to do pirouettes and, and you've lost the ball and you, and I think Seamus Coleman had already gone past them so he's got to get better at that, we've got to get better because in games like that when, when you're under the course for, I mean it was like 30, we weren't under the course as such, we were under pressure but I wouldn't say that was under the course, we were under pressure, we didn't, after we scored we had one opportunity which was Gray, which I think probably would have been given offside but still why isn't he, why isn't he just smashing it at the goal and I don't think we had many opportunities actually after that we actually scored but that's what we've got to get better on, that we've got to get better than at that and that's where we know we've got to get better on but the rest of the team you can see it's building and the back four again, the centre-back partnership are absolutely excellent, Jordan Pickford fantastic, piss-taking again with, with the time-wasting, you know it's not time-wasting, there was one in the second half where he put the ball down and he didn't even have time to take a walk back to Kiki and people were already getting on his nerves on his case Sabari which is just mad, absolutely mad but we've got to definitely, definitely get those forward players sorted, I think O'nana, just comment there, O'nana had a great chance with the header, it was a great ball in, a woby kept on putting these like balls into the box and did one of them actually lead to the goal? I can't remember, I need to watch it back Evan but we know what, we've hung in there and we've got the three points, we've hung in there, we've got the three points and that's the most important thing, you know we've gone through an away game, we've struggled in the last 10 years and we've got the three points and again that shows players like Connor Goldie, Ghana who I thought was brilliant in the first half, dropped off a little bit in the second half but he was brilliant in the first half using the red, James Tarkowski, Seamus Coleman, I know he tired towards the end but he had a good game, a woby, it's just that front three, just that front three we need to get sorted and it's not, when I say the front three I don't mean the three as those picking out those three players, I just mean in general the play in the final third needs to get a bit better but we got the three points and it just feels, it feels brilliant doesn't it, it feels brilliant, we win a home game and then we go back to back and win an away game and you know the last time I think we won back to back games was Chelsea Leicester and before that I think you had to go back to the beginning of last season for back to back wins, was it Brighton Burnley, was the last time we got back to back wins before that so it's not easy to get back to back wins, it's not something we've done very, we've done regularly and we've done it twice last season so that's hugely important, you know we've gone from being on four points you know to being on ten points and without a win to have them two wins and getting that dreaded away win which we, which we very, very, you know it's not very often that we can get that win and also Southampton are very good, they're not, they're not, they weren't very good, they had, they made six changes, they huffed and puffed and it would have been really disappointing if we hadn't have beaten them today so the fact that we have beaten some on that you know what we were supposed to beat them, in the first half I was watching that I didn't really know, you know they were on the same points as before the game, I know they'd lost the last two so they'd lost the last three now, I didn't really know what they'd be like, they won't beat Chelsea the last time they played at St Mary's, I wasn't sure, we always you know we struggle, struggle down there normally, it was just nice that we went down there, I'm sitting there faced after thinking we've got to beat these, we are better than these, we are a better side than these and it was just that thing of going behind after a half time going here we go, Everton, Everton, why do we do this but the fact that we got straight back in it and near the teams were supposed to beat and at the end of the day you beat those teams, it takes the pressure off next week's game against Manchester United, you know who we've done well against in the last, few years at Gouldersund but we go into that game now, unbeaten in seven, back to back victories but the pressure isn't on us for that game now because we've won a couple of games and that's why it's so important to beat these teams, the team you know, you can get into the top half of the table and start looking at that seventh place say that your opinion spot, if you're beating these teams, all the other teams, the ones you know, the ones that you go, that's fine, we normally do well against them anyway at home but if we can beat these sides home and away, we're going to give our tells a good opportunity and that's the most important thing so, Listen wasn't a perfect game, wasn't a perfect performance and that's why I wanted to highlight some, it's dead easy to come on here after you've won and gone, everything's amazing sometimes you've got to highlight what we need to get better at and so that's why we do, you know we've finished the game with, they've had six shots on target, we've had five, they've had six shots off target, we've had five, 54 possession, they had seven corners to our six, they'll probably look at that and go, that probably might have been a draw, that probably should have been a draw but I thought we just, I thought we were the best team in the first half and I thought they were the better side but they had to react to us actually taking the lead but that's a, again that's a positive thing, it's not always about playing well and winning, sometimes you can play, I mean I don't think, we didn't play poorly, I just thought in the second half when we went ahead we, we backed off so we've got the kind of defense now with what you feel like you can trust as well, that's hugely important to Al Kossy again and, and Connor Cody, Connor Cody's just boss isn't he, he's just boss, like I wish we'd had him four years ago, he's just boss, he just will die for the club and he's been at the club for like two months, he just looks like he died for the football club, don't even think he's been here two months has he, maybe yeah, maybe just about coming up to two months, we will sign him, don't worry, we will sign Connor Cody, it won't be an issue, we will sign him, but there you go, huge, huge, huge win, huge, huge win and it's yeah, if we could, if we could follow that up with a, with another win next week that'd be brilliant but as we said the final third I think is still the issue and we know we have to go and, in January and try and, and try and get a couple of players if we can, there was talk this morning that Rondon might be on his way out we'll wait, we'll wait and see, we'll wait and see on that score but I'm just made up, it's, it's, Southampton, I've been to Southampton a couple of times where we've won and it's such a good place to win if you're an away fan because that trip is nice and long on the way back, that trip is nice and long and if you've won, I went to the last time we won there when Richardison got the winner Tom Davis scored, it's such a boss feeling all the way home, it's such a good journey on the way home from Southampton and so all the toffees on the way home would be absolutely delighted, they dig the people who've been going for the, for the last few years have seen very, very few wins and you have to just save them, you know, you have to save those away wins when they come so it'd be a good night for all the Blues traveling back from Southampton and, and everyone else, everyone can just chill, can't even watch Strictly Come Dancing now or whatever they're gonna watch, I don't know, there you go, I'll be back with my play ratings in a little while, make sure you check out Baz's videos as well, Astros, I'm sure Astros will get a video over to us at some point as well, so make sure you check out, you'll want to watch Evan tonight because we've won, won't you, so make sure you watch all the videos and enjoy your evening, there you go, thanks for watching, I'll see you in a bit.