 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, it is the Merseyside Derby at Anfield Liverpool vs Everton on Monday night. Yeah, this is always probably the hardest game to talk about during the season. Let's make sure we've got one to talk about next season. It will be the main thing, but this is just like if we'd been sat here last week on this, you know, the buzz had just been nothing but like negativity and obviously after the month with that in January, but we're sitting here now, we've got a win under our belt against the team top of the league, Liverpool have just been battered again away from home and yeah, it's set it up to be a very interesting game. Are you going into that sense of false security? No, never, never, never, never will I feel like... You've done enough of these? No, never will I feel like Everton, I've got an opportunity to win. Liverpool have lost one of the last 22 home derbies, that was in lockdown, so that tells you the size of the task. However, the flip side of that is they've shown lately that they're not in great form, you know, they've lost the last three away games, something like that, or certainly the last three they've lost to the unil and got beat by Brighton in the cover as well, but it's out on the field, not away, so there's the first issue, but they're just not playing well and speaking to the lads in here, the red men lads, they are worried about the game, they're worried about the midfield. And for Everton, from an Everton perspective is obviously the, you know, we've had a situation where we were just going through the motions almost, it was just right one game off, right another game off, and by the time, you know, the next week came, you were thinking, can we change it? We've changed the manager, which has obviously given us that lift last week showing Dites coming in and got a tactic spot on, big, big win against Arsenal, and now we go to Anfield and we've got to try and exploit them. I think the problem is, they forward aren't flying at the minute, and that's a worry because you do think at some stage it will click, but other teams have had the ability to hit them in the final third, and we haven't scored enough goals, we haven't got enough goals in us, and that's where you do look and think can't have it and hit them, but you know, set pieces and stuff, you never know. That's the thing, isn't it? You know, I did a whole preview with the red men and just talking about the game, and you know, they were talking like we'd been sensational for months, like we've had one good game really in months, and it was like, oh, we can't cope with your midfields, like what the midfield we invented at the weekend, you know, it was quite funny here, you know, they were obviously talking about their front three and trying to get like hate, like Seamus Coleman, utilised that, and it was just funny to hear them talk because they haven't been used to going through a season like this probably since lockdown, or that's the only season, you know, I think they didn't lose like six hungings on the bounce, which, I mean, again, lockdown was another T, the whole thing was another T, it threw up lots of very strange results, but I think for us, I think what we do is we go there with a week of clear planning, clear instruction on the training pitch, no slacking off, you know, getting fitter, hopefully taking in the instructions like they did for the Arsenal game, and being prepared, and I think our job is quite easy in terms of what we need to do, you know, I don't think Liverpool are flying, I don't think they're midfields flying, I think defensively they look strained, so it is all going to be about their front three or four, whichever way you look at it, it's going to be the same, doing what we did to Arsenal, stopping the passing lanes, making sure we're not defending on the six yard line, you know, we went there last year and we frustrated them for the large part of the game, but we were getting deeper and deeper as the game went on, and obviously we had a couple of half chances and penalty shouting, things like that, but we contested the game at least for a good portion of it, but we never really looked like a major threat in the game. I think this time we've got to go there and obviously do what we did on Saturday, which frustrate the opposition, obviously it's a way so it's different, but frustrate the opposition and if those chances do come up, you've got to take them, and that, again, you're absolutely spot on what you've seen before, that's been the tough part of the season. Loads of people, you can turn around the season and look at everyone and say, well, they've made this chance and made that chance and it's just about finishing them, yeah, that's the problem, we don't finish them, we don't have enough plays to put the ball in the back of the net, natural finishes, we've snatched chances, we've done it on Saturday against Arsenal, we don't have enough finishes in the team to put games to bed and that's where this game, I think we will get chances, but if we don't take them, set pieces, again, that will be a big part of it and I'm sure we'll be coming up with the plans to get at whatever Liverpool's weaknesses are, but if we get chances, we have to take them, because I know, listen, if Liverpool make chances their own, they're always likely to take the one or two and that's been the issue, forget about Saturday's game with Arsenal, that's been the issue, isn't it? Teams have been getting a couple of chances, taking them and the game is being over and that's the big hurdle that Sean Dice has to get over it or ask to get through to this event team and if you go one behind, what have you got, how are you going to react? And I'm sure that's going to be part of the plan because you can't bury it in the sand and say that's not going to happen, so it's a big game and it'll be to see where, forget about being amazed at that, it's going to be a game to see where we are going into a couple of games coming up which are huge, absolutely huge. In some respects it's another good game for Sean Dice, he had Arsenal at home, they were always going to be expected to win, they were always going to be on the front foot. We can do the job we do and make sure we're organised like you just said, it'll be the same at Amfield, we'll have to do the job we do, we'll have to make sure we're compact and make sure that Liverpool are frustrated, 4-5-1, but when we break we have to break correctly, we have to try to win the midfield, I think our midfield can overpower the midfield, you know I've spoken to the Latin, we've got an 18-year-old who's holding the midfield together because the others aren't 5th per papers, they're words not mine, so you would think that they've got an opportunity to get older, but if they play on the counter attack they've got pace, noonness, there's lightning, gach pose really quick, sallers quick, you know there's such a fast front 3, other teams have got away with it, other teams have frustrated them, other teams have dug in and got results against them, we're going to have to do the same, we're going to have to make sure that we don't allow dense spacing behind otherwise we're in trouble, but you know Sean Dice, he was the man that ended the 68 game on beat none at Amfield, so he does know how to go and get a result at Amfield, it will be difficult, I don't care what form Liverpool are in, they're still atop side, and we have to go and worry about ourselves, one thing that hasn't been proved of late is the set pieces, we've got three of our last five Premier League goals we've been from set pieces and we've scored three in 30 before then, which shows you the up turn in that you know, and at the weekend against Arsenal we were doing the back post corner and Arsenal couldn't cope with it, you know Liverpool have seen Alisson coming for something the other day against Wolves and getting nowhere near it and things like that, so everything do have to try to use them at the advantage, but it will be a good test to see where, and for Sean Dice he'll learn a lot I think, he'll learn a lot from mentality, what's it like going to Amfield, the local derby, you know, you're in the bottom three, it's a big game, and can you follow the plan away from home, it's okay being at home and you cry the real thing, can you do it away, but a lot of other teams, and the message should be, well you know what, these are in great form, there's an opportunity here, you go to Amfield a lot of other times and they're brilliant, the top of the league, they're up there, they're battering the teams, and in some of them games we've actually gone there and done alright, when we thought this could be a piece, we've actually gone and done okay, so it would be amazing to go there and just get another win and imagine that, but we've got to go and put a performance, and more interested now, not more interested in the win, but I'm more interested now in getting a level of performance that I know that's going to stick to the game plan every week, cos I think under Flank Lampard it was just like that. That's it isn't it? Oddly, I think this alone is Liverpool's third home game in the Premier League, I don't know whether that's the same as everyone else, but it just feels like they haven't played that many home games since they come back from the World Cup, so this is the third one, they beat Leicester and they drew with Chester, Chelsea with the way they're formed, they might have. We've had three haven't we? They played the Cup game against Wolves as well, so it doesn't feel like they've had that many home games, they've had a massive amount of body of evidence to see where they are. We know way from home they've been really, really struggling, but they took four points in the two Premier League games anyway, so their fans are hate, and as I said, but it's up to us isn't it? It's up to us too, like you just said, to put a level of performance in, cos this was the thing last year when Flank Lampard came in, the home performances were all right and then the away performance would just be a massive drop-off, but that's where I think, again, it's getting that level of consistency that we've not seen in an evidence scene for a while, in this season you might have a good game, and then you have a terrible game, then you might have an even game, it's been up and down far too much, we have to get that level of consistency. Are you expecting Flank Lampard to go? I'll be not expecting Flank Lampard to be anywhere near it. Are you expecting Sean Dice to look for a similar kind of shape in this game, or do you think he'll change it from the victory against Arsenal? Cos that shape can move round, can it? I think the shape will be the same. I think the shape will be the same, and whoever it is, the core of O'n Ana, will be tasked with breaking and trying to get along, so I don't want to call it losing. The only one area where you think would be bringing Ben Goffrey at right back, instead of Sheamus, to try and deal with Nunes or Gapol, the pace of that. But that's a risk, cos obviously Goffrey's basically a centre back, and then what you'd be doing is, I know he's played left back, and he done it really well on the call-up, and he is a tough tackleer, and he's quick, and breaking himself when he gets it off on the run, he can't keep up with it. Sheamus hasn't got that, and he does it quite well, but in a foot race, is he exposing it? It'll be how far up Everton go up the pitch, without, I'm sure, and I don't want to leave Gaps in behind. So that's just an interest, and one is whether he tinkers with the Goffrey thing. The Marey greys another option, pace on the break, but then you'll be weakening in the midfield three. So I wouldn't expect it, maybe Colman or Michael and Coffrey Ben Goffrey might be one. Let's just look at the Everton team from the game against Arsenal. Colman, Coffrey, Tarkovsky, Michael and Coffrey, and that five across the middle, and Woby the Coffrey, Garnet, O'n Arnet, Lychnil and Calvert-Lewin. When you looked at the average positions, actually from the game, even though we set up in a 4-5-1, a lot of time it was a 4-1-4-1, and Garnet actually played the six perfectly. He sat where exactly where you want him to do, and that's what Everton have to do that at the weekend. They have to make sure that, and they will, because you'd expect them to, because that's what they'd be working on. Get the structure right. Again, we were in the bottom three, we weren't in good form at all. And we went in, Liverpool were obviously flying, going for the league. And we frustrated them for whatever it was, 70 minutes. Let's have a little look at Liverpool's team from the game against Wolves. So obviously Matt and Gomez at the back there, they can be good. I think they've done on it, I think you can get it both of them. The midfield three again, there's a different amount of experience in there. Thiago hasn't been pulling up any trees of late. The young lad there holding the midfield and Naby Cather has been in and out for the whole time he's been at Liverpool. Liverpool's front three is still extremely strong, obviously Salaruz who's been in and out of form this year. Nunez who's still a massive conundrum. It seems to have all the talent in the world. He'll get it right this summer. And Gachpo is obviously new to the league and obviously you haven't been willing to him in the various times in the last few months. So, we know you can be moan Liverpool fans can be moan and then you look at the team and go that front three is still really, really good. If you look at the midfield and you go, it's not what has been in Liverpool's strength for so many years but the front three is a threat. Let's look at Nunez's numbers for the year so far. 15 games, still got five goals to assist. Shots again 4.1. That's one of the highest we've seen this season isn't it? At some point you think he's going to get it right at some point and if it does click for him then he'll have that many shots in a game. That's just hope it doesn't click. He will. He'll come because of the power and the pace. Are you just climbing it in? I'm talking about overall. I'm not necessarily talking about Monday. What I'm saying is he'll come good for Liverpool. If you're getting that many shots away he's got one in three. Not terrible. He'd be evidence softscorer for five goals. I'm not saying he's bad. Whether he becomes like Mo Salah, Marnau, Femino levels that Liverpool have been able to do I on, it'll always be a threat because that pace and the power of him is a threat. Whether he ends up with the right composure that Liverpool need long term. But he's quick. I try after battle if you're fast isn't it? We'll have to be on our met. We'll have to make sure we look after him pretty well at Godderson. We know we had that once and it's a tremendous volley which Pickford made a brilliant shave from on to the bar. But it ain't yet know we looked after him quite well. But we will probably after shitty. I think for us as our centre backs I don't think anything changes I mean I know it's a completely different kind of style than what Arsenal showed up against us but you know it's another test isn't it? It's a learning cave for us as much as it is for them because we're seeing whether the team has got the components to it. I think when Shaun Dice came in we looked at both of the games and thought get a couple of draws out of that would be great but we really won one. So if we could get points out of this then in our minds we're ahead of schedule aren't we? Then you've got to start looking to pick up the wins against the teams who were in and around or certainly in the bottom half of the table. And they're the ones where you start adding them and you feel more confident so listen it doesn't matter if I'm at the top of the league I hate this game I hate this game to be honest we all do it's horrible I think Liverpool fans are the same because they're always terrified that we'll beat them and obviously because we don't beat them that often it becomes worse doesn't it you're waiting for that thing to happen so very very tough game strong fixture in the Premier League and if that continues I've no problem I have no problem with that I don't think anyone's like it I don't think anyone likes it and they are woe me aren't they at the moment so the world's falling down isn't it well I'd be dancing on Monday night if it ends if we're unbeaten Dancing in the streets of player mass Americas if it we come out of it unbeaten however that plays out I might have three points but if we're unbeaten when it finishes then we don't tremendously well out of these two let me just tell you this the one and only time I went to Tenerife the Kevin Campbell derby was the night before just saying I'm just saying it's a very tedious link and it happened and it happened years and years ago there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments on the amazing side baby are you looking forward to it listen reds because I know you're watching I know you're watching how are you feeling ahead of this game let us know your thoughts in the comments as well make sure and reds subscribe because I know you just love the content I know you just love it so you might as well just subscribe just subscribe get it done if all the reds watching subscribe you'd get us over to the issue because you just all watch be bought your aftermatch stuff play it right to let us know your thoughts and make it subscribe and if you want more great videos exclusive daily live videos join us over on Toffy TV Premier link is in the description and let me on the screen in a moment see you later