 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the Player Ratings Everton 1, Tottenham Hotspade 1, but it felt like a massive point, didn't it? Getting the goal so late on, like we did against Chelsea and almost feel it. It feels like you've won a point. That's what it feels like. It feels like you've won a point. Huge moment, let's be honest. We just needed something tonight and obviously going down a man and then conceding a penalty and everything seemed like it was conspiring against us, but we played well after we went down to 10 men. I thought we were excellent and I thought the changes were good. It got us on the front foot. Sean Baish did the right thing and we got the goal and it was an absolutely amazing goal by Michael Gean and at that point we were much the better side. I think if the game had gone on for maybe another five or six minutes, maybe we would have won the game, but who knows? We've still got a lot to do in front of the goal. Let's get it right. If we had the goal scorer, if we had the goal scorer, I think we'd be miles clear, wouldn't we? But that's where everyone's desperate for a goal scorer, but maybe we found one. Maybe Michael Gean was the answer all along and maybe we should have put him up front and it was very fitting that Mike Lyons was at the game and came out before the game because it felt like a very Mike Lyons kind of thing. Anyone who doesn't know who Mike Lyons was, he was Everton's captain during the late 70s and was a centre back when he played everywhere actually but would always pop up with a big goal. When he talked about bleeding, blue, he really did and Michael Gean's done it again for us. A big, big goal obviously he scored in the Palace game and this season he scored in the game tonight. After that obviously he conceded in the penalty, which was a big moment. But yeah, as I said, it feels like we've won a point tonight. It always feels good. When you can see the last minute goal, you always feel like it's the worst thing in the world and it feels like you've lost the game. But tonight we got the point. Let's get into it then. Jordan Pickford didn't have much to do, to be honest. Didn't have to make a save all night. Didn't have to make a punch. Didn't have to make a claim. Yeah, his kick wasn't great. Only 34% accuracy. Long balls only 7 out of 26. But I don't know what can you say. He didn't have to do anything. I think that shows you what kind of night it was. They had one shot in the first half early on and obviously the penalty. So I don't know, it's difficult. I'll give him 6.5 just because his kicking wasn't great but apart from that he didn't really have anything to do. Which shows how well evident he did in the game, to be honest. Sheamus Coleman again did okay. Nothing massive. 2 out of 3 ground duels won. Didn't win any of his aerial duels and just a one tackle. Yeah, again it was an interesting tactical. We were quite narrow and they tried to pull us out wide quite often and to get the space to run at us in the wide areas. It didn't really work as such. But again, Sheamus has been steady and he's not going to rip down the right wing in these games. It was quite interesting actually that Patterson wasn't even on the bench tonight. So obviously the manager's putting all his faith in. In Sheamus Coleman and obviously towards the end of the game Ben Godfrey playing on that side. So that's quite interesting that the manager isn't looking to rush Patterson back into the side. Fine, fine. So yeah, Sheamus was alright. I'll give him 6.5 as well. Ben Godfrey as I said started on the left. Did okay. Won 4 of his 9 ground duels. Won 1 of his 2 aerial duels. Positionally still. Positionally still he's still got quite a lot to learn. But obviously the manager I think likes the fact that he's got the pace. I mean 3 tackles, 1 aerial. He just smashed into one of their players. 1 interception. Clearances 4. He's just does the job. He's not as I've said many a time. He's not an amazing football. He's not an amazing defender. But his power and his pace get him out of a lot of trouble. So the manager obviously prefers into Michelin Co. at the moment. Which to be honest is fine behind me. Everybody knows why. Michael Keane. Oh sorry, Ben Godfrey I'll give 6.5 as well. Michael Keane was having a decent game. 4 aerial duels spoke about this after the Chelsea game. That's what he's in the team for. He's in the team to win headers. He won 4 of his 5 headers today. Winning 2 of his ground duels. He's in the team to win headers. Let's get it right. Tarkowski does a lot more of the defending on the floor and he does the defending in the air. And that's why he's in the team. He was having a steady, steady game and then he gives away a stupid penalty. Listen, it was a penalty. The lads got the wrong side of him. Knew exactly what he was doing. Waited for the contact and brought him down. But listen, he kept his head and smashed in. I mean just an incredible, incredible shot. Incredible effort. And he has got that. He has got that in his locket. Funny enough. You know, we've seen that before. I mean the way the goal he took against Crystal Palace was fantastic. But he has got that sort of ability. We've seen him in the video. He has got that ability. He had one, I think, in the first half off a corner where I think he took it on his chest and then just he volleyed it over but not by much. So, excuse me. Excuse me, bit of a cold. But it was a fabulous finish. Fabulous finish. I've given him an 8 because that finish alone was just absolutely fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. But as I said, it's over on game. It's over on game. It was pretty good, apart from the penalty, which he's just managed to get, as I said, the lads just got granted to get the wrong side of him. So, brilliant performance. Brilliant goal. Just a brilliant goal. James Tarkowski, as I said, next to him. I don't know right as well. Arial Jules 4 out of 6. One of the two ground Jules 1. Two cleansers. One block shot. Three interceptions. No tackles. Wasn't dribble past. Solid. Some tremendous blocks and tackles and just little making sure they knew he was there whether it was on the ball or off the ball. I've given him 7.5. I think him and Keane, I think what I've said this before, Keane is better because he's with someone who's a bit of a leader next to him. So, I thought he had a good game as well, James Tarkowski. I've given him 7.5. Into midfield. Just a guy and a guy. I've given him 7. Again, consistent. 6 out of 5 ground Jules 1. 5 out of 6, sorry. That's massive. Winning the ball back. Winning his battles. I thought, especially first half, I thought he was really good first half. Obviously, we're not 4 or 5 minutes to go. To help, obviously, go forward. But he had a great, yeah, his shooting was abysmal. He had one, that one, where he robbed it. Oh, come on. Pass it to the gore. Pass it to the gore, please. But again, shows is important to the team. Shows is important. Nothing stupid. Nothing stupid at all. I think that's been noticeable recently, certainly after the Arsenal game. Not taking stupid chances. It's been a lot safer, I think, in the last few games. And once again, I don't know, maybe it's just backed up to speed with the Premier League. Maybe that's what it is. I don't know. But it's been a lot more consistent under Dice, playing in a lot more familiar role. And I think that showed. I think it showed again tonight. People have got this thing sort of like, oh, don't play him and play this fellow, play that fellow instead. No, honestly, he is exactly what you need in there. Abdelhaid the gore. What can we say? Yeah. Stupid. I'm giving him a big fat zero. I don't care. I'm giving him a zero because that's a stupid. That was a moment. Stupid, stupid moment. Which could have cost Evan. I mean, he's banned for three games now, so it still could cost Evan. But we need all our players on the pitch sensible. We haven't got a massive squad. That three in midfield have been doing reasonably well. You know, he's been scoring goals. He's been helping, you know, helping us get forward being being the target man of times. And that was just stupid, is he? Kane Kane is just pathetic going down the way he did. Absolutely pathetic to see that from the like from the England captain. That's pathetic. You know, but he's done it. Hasn't he? He's done it. He's put his hand on someone's face and nowadays it doesn't matter whether it's a punch or it's a red card and it's just absolutely stupidity. Absolutely stupidity from and you can't say it. You can't say it any other way, isn't it? It's just stupid whether we like it or not. He's played them, Kane's. He's done it to the wrong person. Kane knows exactly what he's doing because that's what Harry Kane's been doing for years. Whether it's getting other people sent off or winning files that way and he's filed the other fella. Put your hand on someone's face. You're going to get sent off for it and the way obviously the way he reacts just adds to it, but you can't put your hand on someone's face. You just can't. And yeah. Yeah, poor, poor. And obviously he's going to miss the next three games, which is going to give someone else a chance. We'll have to wait and see who that is, but it's going to give someone else a chance. So I've given them zero because I can't give him anything else really. I'm going to do on it. Again, I come out the game wanting more from him. I want more from the lad, if I'm honest. Play 83 minutes. Pass accuracy of 89%. One three of his five jewels, just one of three aerial jewels, one. He's all right, but I just want more out of him. I don't know. I just think there's so much more in there and I think we've seen more. I wanted to take the game but I discovered the next and I just don't think he does it for us enough. Not to say he was bad by any means. I just want him to grab the game by the skull for the neck. I really do and take his forward because I think he's got it in it. A lot more touches tonight. 61. That's double some of the touches he was having. And that might be because when he had 10 men for 25 minutes while he was on the pitch, but you know, a few weeks ago he was only having like 30 touches in the game but I just want him to, I just want him to great take a game by the skull for the neck. I think it's in there. I think it's, I think it's in there but he's doing, maybe he's just doing the job the manager's asking him to do, but I'd love to see him pick the ball up and drive with it more. I really would. I'd love to see more of that but just not doing it at the moment. I've given him six and a half. As I said, I'd like to see more from him because I just, yeah, I just, I think it's there. Alex Awobi, again more of a, a workman, a workman kind of performance. A few nice little dribbles now and again. He had three successful dribbles out of eight. Some nice touches. Listen, he's working, he works hard for the team. But I'd like to see a little bit more from him. No, no shots on, no shots. You know, no shots on target. One shot off target. I think he's just got, again, he's another one who has to be more effective in the final third. He is a wide player. He is, he is someone who is supposed to create goals, score goals. He doesn't score goals. We know that. But he's certainly obviously got the most assists in this team. Again, I think he's doing, he's sacrificing a lot of his natural game to work hard and that's fine. That's no problem with that at all. He's obviously doing what the manager's asking him. Hey man, the Marey Gray are doing as the manager is asking them to do, which is work hard for the team. Again, no, I think I'd just like a little bit more from him. So, but I've given Awobi a seven, a seven. Dwight McNeill on the other side. Excuse me. A bit more, a bit more work, man. Like tonight, there wasn't as much quality, but he did put one really good crossing in the first half, really dug it out and put it in there. But just not, just wasn't, I don't know, there wasn't and there wasn't enough, again, hard work. But that's the minimum, isn't it? We say, we talk about hard work, like it's, like it's, I don't know, like it's the bare minimum. We should never even talk about hard work if we're being honest. It's the bare minimum, but I suppose it's working hard for the team. It's not working hard as such. It's working hard for the team. It's getting back. It's doubling up with the full back. It's, I just thought tonight he ran into a few blind alleys. He had, sometimes he had Ben Godfrey on the outside of him and never given me and just sort of run into blind alleys. I'd like to see a bit more, a bit more creativity because you can put a ball in the box, you can shoot with his left foot. We've seen that. I just don't think we saw it tonight, if I'm honest. I just thought we saw a hard work and display rather than anything, anything more. But obviously the manager likes him, the manager, the manager feels like, well, who else is going to play, be playing up there, let's be honest. He won three of his eight grand duels and one out of two aerial duels. But dribble attempts, one out of two, only attempted two dribbles, which sort of speaks for itself. Yeah, he was all right. He wasn't he wasn't amazing, but he kept working to the end of giving six and a half. The Mardi Gras wasn't really, wasn't really a game for the Mardi Gras. Space, space didn't leave much space behind. That's probably because I was there, but they didn't leave much space behind. They didn't really give him any way to go. I think I think he tried to hold the ball up and did that a couple of times successfully. But listen, he won seven of his 11 grand duels, which is which is good. It's what you want from a centre forward, playing up there on his own. But it just wasn't his night. What was in his night foot? He had one early on, didn't he, one shot early on, which he bent over. And we've seen that loads of times, that shot, sometimes it goes, sometimes it. Sometimes it doesn't. But again, that just wasn't. I think it was a night where you needed a proper number nine, a dominant car. But Lou playing up front for you, holding the ball up and then getting it wide. The Mardi Gras just didn't have that tonight in his 77 minutes. I've given him a six again. Worked hard, but you just want to see him again. He's playing up front. He's playing up front. He's had one shot on target, one shot off target. Wanderer Blarrow three, successful. So I'd like to see more out of him. The subs. Yeah, the subs quite it, quite, quite interesting. The subs from from the manager tonight. Ella Simpson and James Garner came on at this at the same time. Well, Tom David, the all came on around the same time, didn't he? The manager made a raft of changes. Michel Encoe, what was he wearing on his feet? What was he wearing? Do you know the players not? The players not check the studs before they come on the pitch. They did not check what the pitch is like. You know, the pitch was wet. He slipped around like anything when he when he was in like attacking areas. Listen, he came on. He won five out of five ground drills. So that's the way to weigh shant. But actually he got a couple of decent opportunities in the final third, but couldn't keep his foot in. But he did all right. He defended defensively, done well, won the ball back, offensively. Not great. But you know, fire was on the pitch for 13 minutes. He said fire tackles. You know, so he was straight into it. That's obviously the kind of player he is. Three three clearances. So he was he was he done his job when he came on. Actually, so I've given I've given was seven. Tom Davis came on last 14 minutes. Again, run round like an absolute lunatic. One one ground, one ground, one again, kept the shape, did all right. Six out of six passes, so didn't lose the ball. And again, I know the part, you know, another key part of what hit the subs all way, the sub all great, the old way, brilliantly. We suddenly had this new midfield, obviously we'd lost one. And then suddenly the manager, the manager didn't just do any didn't go. He didn't do anything stupid. What he didn't do is there's a temptation, I imagine, to just throw everybody up, you know, throw play loads of forward players on. But he didn't do that. He reshaped the midfield. And said, keep the ball, keep the ball, stay in there and keep the ball. Those ground them down and an opportunity would come. And I think by reshaping the. The midfield and key and obviously Ghana was was a part of that. But again, people why did Tom Davis was good when he came on? So why fit and feel the need to give him stick? It's absolute nonsense, absolute nonsense. But yeah, Thomas, Thomas family came on, kept, kept us going. We're dad, I've given, I've given a seven and James Ghana. Thirteen minutes on the pitch, seven out of seven passes, 100%. Again, kept the ball for us. That was the most important thing. Ground jewels, two out of two. You know, that was the most important thing, keeping the ball, keeping them in their hearth, keeping them under the cosh, you know, that that was, that was massively important. And don't forget, you know, while while we had 10 men and they had 11, we were still, we were still, you know, we were still a better team. They didn't have a man sent off to the 88th minute. And yet we still ground them down. I know we scored a minute later or two minutes later. But while we had 10, we were still much a much better player, but much better, the much better team. So and I think that's because the manager, you know, took shame us off, Michael Lincoln left back, because three midfield was it was Tom Davis and James Garner. He put Ella Sims up front. And it worked, it worked to a tee. And as I said, James Garner gave him a seven as well. Those three subs worked an absolute treat. And we just kept the ball when we kept on winning the ball. And to take to have one of your midfielders sent off and then to take the other two off. Now, the other two might have been feeling it a little bit because, obviously, it's it's Ramadan and, you know, players are. Those obviously, we've seen the break in the first half when when the when the fast was over. But who knows what kind of effect that that has on players physically. So so it was a it was a bold move to to reshape the whole of that midfield. And I'll have to see which one he goes for, whether it be James. I told James Garner, look, look, look, obviously, he keeps the ball really well and that's something that he might want to because, obviously, you've got you've got you've got a guy in there who plays the six like Tom plays the six. But we're going to Old Stafford, so it's horses for courses. We'll have to wait and see. Ella Sims, again, he did all right when he came on. I thought his hold up play was it looked like they'd been working on. You know, when you see someone's working on something, so they're doing it all the time and he looked back to goal. There was a noticeable difference. He was getting the ball and then he was just giving it the way he was facing. I thought that was no, it was like he'd been working on it loads. So but it didn't it didn't it didn't it didn't get any opportunities on goal and he just but he kept the ball alive when it was coming up to him. Again, really important and five out of seven. He only had nine touches. But he, you know, it's been noted that his hold up play isn't that good. And I thought I thought it was noticeable tonight, how well he did when he held it up. So I still don't think he should be starting games because I just don't think he can play up front on his own for 90 minutes. But I think there's more opportunities for him now. I think the man the manager should I think the manager was the manager might have might have been looking and thinking and I can maybe just before the court, he got sent off. Maybe there's an opportunity to bring on them. But once once he got sent off, you've got to look at the whole thing. And I've given him six and a half. Yeah, listen, we've got a point. So last minute equaliser. Fantastic. That's that's without the bottom three, four games unbeaten. And hopefully we go to we can get something or all tough and then come into the full game. That could be massive. That could be massive, but it's a it's a it's a good habit. It's a good habit to get into. Not losing games. It is definitely is definitely a good habit to be in, not losing games. So happy with that. Yeah, make sure to check out my glad to see reaction where you'll see loads of clips of the glad to see it going mental. Make sure to check out Baz's videos as well. And we'll be doing the final way tomorrow over on toffee TV premiere. So make sure you come and join us for that. If you're not on toffee TV premiere, the link is in the description and the QR code will be coming up in a moment. See you in a bit.