 Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the match preview, Everton versus Brentford, a huge, huge game at Goulderson Park. But it always was going to be a huge game, wasn't it? It was always, it was always built, it was built as our last game of the season and for a long time I think we looked at this fiction and thought, yeah, this is going to be important. And listen, it is important, very, very important of course on Sunday, Burnley play space, Leeds play home at Brighton before us. So, when we get to this game, we're going to know exactly what we need to do to either try and, fingers crossed, maybe confirm our safety that day or what we need to do to get there. We know right now, no matter what happens, we need four points as it stands right now, so it's a huge, important game at the bottom. Massive game, like you said, it was the way the season's panned out, it was always going to be the case. We've, you know, we've caused a lot of issues to ourselves this season but we've managed to pick it up with Leighton, one defeating six now going into this one. There's a, you know, lot of optimism, albeit the Wafford result was a bit frustrating the way the game was, but this is the opportunity that we've asked for. We asked for two home games and we asked to be in control of our own destiny and if Everton, like you said, Everton take four points from the next three matches, the sheath. So let's get that, let's try and get that done in the quickest time possible and, you know, if Burnley lose a Tottenham and then Brighton win at Leeds, Everton will only need a point to stay up and obviously a victory would be lovely. But it'll be a tough game because these are on a great note. Yeah, it's, in a way, it's a little bit. Maybe you'd rather have had all the games kick off at the same time just to give that. So you're not really worried or thinking about those games or even knowing what you need after those games. But obviously we've come off the back of seven points from our last three games, which is, you know, you'd asked us before that those three games were a bit of, you know, their hands off. Obviously the wafer game was frustrating, but ultimately we got a point out of it. We, you know, and we know what we need to do. We know we're at Gullison Park, we've got two games. It'd be great to be able to put it to bed in this one. But regardless, the way I'm looking anyway, I'd love us to get 40 points. That's what the game should be, 40 points from these two home games. There is, you know, a buff Southampton, you know, never mind those other two teams. And that's got to be the aim, you know. I know, listen, we are, of course you can't. You can tell yourself all you want, you know, what other teams are going to do or how you think it's going to end. But we all still have that little bit of fear, of course we do. It wouldn't be human if we did. It wouldn't be Edisonians if we didn't have that fear. And it would just, you know, we've got to go into this game. Obviously the fans are going to welcome the coaching again, make it a great atmosphere. And just, you know, make it like the Chelsea game, make it hostile. Hopefully then the players can follow on and do their part. And for me, I think Renford are going to come and they're going to have, they're going to be right up for it. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I think, you know, they've been good in the last few weeks. Obviously a lot of those victories have come at home, but they've picked up points away. But they'll come into it and they'll be buoyed by the way they're playing. And, you know, they're going to be staying up, you know, Chris and Ericsson's being in great form. That's led to Tony being in good form. They're going to want to come and play football. And I think that could help everything on Sunday. Because against Wofford, you could tell Wofford, you could see in the game, they were happy to sit back and say, break us down. I don't think Renford will be like that. They don't have to be like that. They're going to be expansive. And I think that will help us because obviously what we showed against Wofford is, you know, this is the same evidence team that we've had all season. In the last few weeks we've had, we've been a lot more tougher, grittier. We've dug wins out. We've been a bit better at the back. We've been a lot better at the back. But we still struggle in front of goal. Let's get it right. So then being a little bit expansive could be the perfect thing for us. So it's week 37. Only one more week left of Ultimate Fan. After this one, let's see who I've got in my packs this week. Here we go. This is the free base pack. This is the one you get when you download Ultimate Fan. This is the free pack you get every single week. Three cards that's who I've got. I've got Armstrong from Southampton. They've got Liverpool on Tuesday. I don't think he's going to do much. I don't think they've got a game this week. So there's no point having that, is there? Ross Barclay, who's got a little diamond on him? Why's he got a little diamond on his card? What are you doing Ultimate Fan? Cos he's a song. Doesn't play. Chelsea have got Leicester. I don't think I'd be putting Ross Barclay in considering he never plays. Let's see. Gold pack. This is the one you get when you pay £4.99 a month. I've got Fulfane. Leicester have got two games. Chelsea and Wafford. Points on offer there. Points on offer. Have they got two games? I don't know. Cavani Manchester United. They haven't got a game. And have it. Leicester next week for Chelsea. There you go. Also I've got a winners pack. I won my little mini group last week. Let's see. I've got John Joe Shelby looking very, very Voldemort. He's not going. They've got Arsenal on Monday night. He's not going into my team. OK, so it's time to pick my team. £1,000 prize pot. Harry Kane is in there. Mo Salah's in there. I've took Salah out. I'm going to put Sunning. He's in a good vein of form. He's in there as well. They've got Burnley on Sunday. Kevin De Bruins has been doing fantastic. He scored four against Wolves. I'm going to leave him in. Sacher, do you leave Sacher in? Or do I look for someone else? I'm going to take Sacher out. And I'm going to put Mason Mountain in. Trent Alexander-Arnold. I'm going to leave in. They've got Southampton. And Cancelo in there. Cancelo in there. I'm going to pick my team. So that is my team for this week's Ultimate Fan. Don't forget £1,000 prize pot. Download the app if you haven't got it. For a chance to win some money. Nice one. Absolutely, because we've proved that when teams sit in. We don't always know how to break them down. We've proved it. You know, even in the ball and mud gaming, they come and do defensively. So disciplined. We struggled to move the ball around. We struggled to create anything from it. And Wofford kind of done the same after half an hour the other night. They just made sure they were compact. And we, you know, we had a lot of the ball. Didn't really know what to do with it. So we think where we've been better of late is springing teams who are trying to have the ball. Like Leicester especially, you know, we've created good opportunities. Even Liverpool and Amphill, we had a couple of really good opportunities and did well against Chelsea on the break. So I expect, you know, Brentford, will come and play Christian Eriksons in fantastic form for them. Tony's a threat obviously up front. But even in the FA Cup game, they came and were open and tried to play and we were very good that day and batted them. So that's what we have to do and we have to make sure that for them, this safe of 43 points, they've got a fantastic season. Come up, you know, hasn't spent loads of money and they're comfortable, you know, and to worry about relegatio with a few games to go. They've been brilliant. And therefore, for them, it's just a game of 40, you know. We've got a couple of games left. This is the second to the last one. They'll be focused now on the lead game where they'll be going round, getting the applause and, you know, believe there's a little bit of beef between them and Leeds. Little niggles going on there and Brentford, apparently, won't have their say and the lead to go down on them. So their focus will be on that and I'm not saying they're coming to go, there's not interested. When there's more on the game for you than them, you have to put that home. While there was a little bit of fatigue and a little bit of sluggishness of Wafford the other night and a bit of cautiousness, I think the crowd of gooders are going to go meet the coach you're after again and we'll see all the blue smoke bombs and they'll be greeted. The noise will then carry into the stadium and it's up to Everton to feed off the crowd and I'm sure the fans will make it a bit. We have done recently and the team will get the energy from that and we'll go and try and get this victory. You mentioned there, obviously, a little bit of fatigue in the last game. What do you think or where do you think the changes might be in this game? Obviously, we're not going to have yet, Ben Goffy's not going to be back, I imagine. And Delth obviously, he came off with such a small gap between the game. Do you think it'll just be that change, just that or not? Do you think he'll look because Gordon and Grey have looked tired and mentally fatigued and that leads to the wrong choices? Do you think he could look to have because, of course, he's got a game some, he's got a game Thursday as well. Do you think he might look to have changes ready to go? Yeah, I think the only issue is what Dominic Calvert-Lewins level is because I think what you could do is, with Charleson's better wide, I think he enjoys that freedom a little bit more in the wide area. I think he's in the game more. And therefore, in normal circumstances, you'd be saying, of course, we'll play down through the middle of Ritty wide and drop out of Gordon and rest Gordon and Grey and one will play an hour and rest half an hour for that freshness. And he might well do that. Frank Llanparth, he may well do that. Maybe Rondon who started, who knows, but just with Dominic Calvert-Lewins, just right now, just not sure, but this might be a game that he starts a minute or hour. I think for me, though, I think the way for that, they have like big, solid sense of action. And I think that way, for me, I think he might look at Dominic Calvert-Lewins. I don't get 15 minutes until I get more offered because I'm going to start here. Because there's no way. I just don't think Rondon's a starter. I just don't think he's got a... He capitalises on other players being tired and then using that. I don't think he's a starter. Dominic has not pulled up any trees, but I think getting them back out there in a game like that might be an indication that he could start them. Allow Rich Arlison to drop a little bit deeper and then maybe he's got the option of leaving a Gordon or a great to come off the bench and give us that later on where I've got someone who can come on and change the game. Because that was the other side, I suppose, when you look at the subs at Wathford. The manager didn't really have anyone who could bring on to change the game. Yes, he brought Dom on, but then he takes time to get into it. I just think maybe holding someone back and changing the way we're playing a little bit could really benefit right now just because I think we do need to just turn the team around a little bit with two big games just gone away away this game and then going into the Crystal Pass game and then going on to obviously the game against Arlison next Sunday. Yes, because I think sometimes when you just keep doing the same thing, although the team though is the structure and you know how to play, you do need that freshness in the final third, that's something that will get you over the line. The ideal thing I guess is that you're not going to have a full-on glampard, would be that evidence sorted all on Sunday. And then Crystal Palace, he can start like a deli and someone else where it's a case of you can freshen it up then because you're not having to, you're not worried about the consequences as such. You're giving people a chance to have a rest and you're giving people a chance to get some minutes in the legs and things like that and you almost got one eye on next season, but at the moment he can gamble like that, he doesn't want to gamble, so he might just leave it as it is and leave it while we right wing back and make a left wing back and so then Alan and Decory become your midfield too. I know we used Alan and Gomez, play three to back last time we played Brentford and it worked, it was Alan and Gomez who were the two in midfield after that, but I imagine it will be Decory and Alan in there. So it will be good to have that option off the bench, whether it's Grey or Gordon for the last half of an hour maybe, give Dom 65 minutes, 70 minutes see how he is and then you could go life a life and put Rom down for the last 20 or something. It is that, but you've also got to keep an eye on Thursday as well because you're thinking well we might need something out of right now, we need something out of both games. So you have to be wary of that as well and while we probably well it's looking possible that we'll have Ben Goffrey back against Crystal Palace and for us we don't know because the manager was unsure. So you know we have to keep everyone as fresh as they can. Sometimes it is those final third positions that are the ones that are the key. If those players are fresh and sharp you know if you're saying to Anthony Gordon and no one would sit around and say Gordon he's able to be left out because he's 100% but you're wanting to have that little bit of sharpness to get away. If you were to start Damari Grey on Sunday and have Gordon on the bench and then for that last half an hour go and put your 90 minutes into that half an hour he's somebody can stretch them. If it's grey, if he starts with Gordon then you bring Grey on, right? Go on make a difference. It's actually where I'm a little I was surprised the water game that we didn't have El-Ghazi on the bench and I was not really seeing anything on it. It's just that there isn't that replacement and I wonder whether knowing that they are a little bit the way they look at the moment on Sunday could be just a little a little bit a like for like substitution for one of them as well could be you know I don't... To me that makes sense when those players do look tired. Again, it does but we haven't used El-Ghazi have we? So we've had 11 minutes I think since the middle of January so again and I know it wouldn't make any difference and people might argue then if we were safe against Palace it should be someone like Lewis Dobbin who's getting the minutes but you know just thinking ahead to that if we could have got safe he could have played El-Ghazi as well to give him but then again I wouldn't understand anyone then he turned out and went well what's the point he's going back in two games we might as well have a look at this lad but in that waffer game maybe it would have well if Delph's out then that's a sub-spot but you know he's out against Palace sorry that Lester he wasn't on the bench was so maybe Frank Llanparts looking ahead and going well it's rather as a price on the bench or it's rather a reach well so it just doesn't when you're looking for like for like place oh yeah listen but then I suppose the way he could look at it is he could pour a wall be in that space and put John Joe Kenny at right wing back if he wanted to you know what I mean he could that's the options he's got they're not great options but El-Ghazi is like Premier League listen I'm not banging the drum for him he's got a bench spot here just looking at the bench just to give you something to give you the options to look and go this might but then every time we hear Frank Llanparts speak every time he's talking about why players have got in he's been questioning the times why have you played him how come he's come back into the team he's banged on about training and yet El-Ghazi we've got absolutely no indication I'm just somehow like for like positions we've got two players there who play similar position who we're looking for the creativity out of yes a challenge can drop into that one so why not have someone on the bench who can play in the other one it's not a massive thing because we are relying on those two plays for activity a lot of the time it just makes for me I just think it would make a little bit of sense but you know what I'm saying it's interesting to see what he does let's have a little look at Brentford's side from the last time out was it 3-0 in oversawth? he beat Shalthamts in 3-0 he's played the 4-3-3 he's used the 3 centre backs a lot this year at Thomas Frank but he went for the 4-3-3 and you know very well he's like no guard to sitting there he's very well he does really well with Jensen and Ericsson and obviously they've got a wish there on one side and one on the other I haven't shown he's being the focal point through the middle obviously things have just changed massively since Ericsson coming out he's something like he's struck 19 out of the last 24 points obviously he got beat back in Man United a couple of weeks ago he drew with spares this is going to be a tough game this is going to be a tough game and I've got to Ericsson is that little bit of class in midfield you can not only you know just unlock and defences but the amount of set pieces they seem to have scored with him in the side you know he's been an absolutely amazing signing for them they've took the risk on them and they've got the reward whether he sticks around that's another thing but they'll have known for half a season he's basically he's helped them massively staying in the Premier League and it gives them that platform now to to prolong you know apparently there's 8 Premier Leagues and he's got that choice to me now whether he wants to repay them or he wants to get back to the level that he knows he should be at he should be at he might feel he might feel like where he's happy is at I'm not the offerist and obviously the big strong Danish connects in the Brentford as well so maybe you will stay but let's hope he has an off game on him just this week in fact I wouldn't even start him just be shut and another player I wouldn't start is Ivan Solny give him a rest as well he's at 31 up here he's got 12 goals and 5 assists average is 2.5 shots per game did score a penalty down at Brentford and did score a penalty I'd leave him out I would rest him for the next week he's got a 17 year old 118 strikeer just give him a go off no I wouldn't do that either they always score past this you've got to think I just played Thomas Franklin just in this game but I do wonder to myself how the top Brentford plays can they play without a full night sleep I'm just thinking off the top of my head coming from London the last London club they didn't have a full night sleep we beat them who knows I just wonder how good are they on the sleep I'm sure there's numbers out there to tell us how well people can play with only 2 or 3 hours sleep so it's one to know isn't it but there you go do we want some facts? a deposit of facts eh we've beaten them this season that's a positive fact let's do that again I'm not even going to say that so I'm going down it no I'm not saying anything because all of them have got a chip we beat them this season we played them twice before 2 up on our gigas so let's make it 9-2 just for this week Brentford and you can win 17-0 next Sunday big game fans need to bring it which I know they will the coach is arriving at half 2 half 2 it's gone on it's on social media let's make the whole of Gooderton Road and City Road let's just make it full of Evertonians welcoming in the bus and letting them know that we want it done if possible there you go it will be the last week of the season on it so second to last on game cwm on it cwm on it and there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already don't forget to check out the ultimate fan app you can still win money there's still games left you still win money on that the link to that is in the description and if you want to join us on page your daily live shows the link is in the description and it will be on the screen in 4 seconds thanks for watching see you later