 Welcome to Toffey TV, it is the match preview. Everton vs Brentford in another must win game. They've all become must wins haven't they? A very tricky, tricky game in prospect. Brentford a now a very, very good side. Really, really good side. Everton have to find a way of not only stopping them but beating them because they are on a 12 match unbeaten run the longest in the Premier League. So hopefully it is unlucky 13 and Everton can get the points because we need them pass. We do need them tricky to interest them where to describe it. It's a very, very dangerous game isn't it? These are a good side. Don't brilliantly since they've been promoted. And they're doing the better this season than they were last season. Obviously in Ivan's home he's got someone who can put the ball in the net. You know he's always just safe better score isn't he? When you look at it we've got to look make sure that we look after him but he's got another trick. Like Whisher and players like that who are in bueno and other players who are in danger. So it's going to be really tough for Everton. But our need is greater than theirs. That's the way it is. They're in the top half doing really well but we're fighting for our lives and we haven't beaten them in the three Premier League games that we've played against them so far. Felt like we've been able to beat them a good this season last season. We started really well and we've won 1-0. We've got Jared Brantwyth sent off on the 9th. They ended up winning the game but we've got to be very careful this season. It's going to be a tough game but it's one Everton really have to win. Yeah well obviously they done a double against us last season didn't they? We were very impressive a good this season. Ericsson that day was just, they were just so good. Even when they were getting beat there was a patience about them in the 7th. Only when it went 10-10. No no but even now that I'm saying there was a patience about them they didn't like you know throw everything at us. They were so good but it's like they haven't seen Ericsson's not there of course but they've brought other people into the position but as you mentioned there the attack and force they've got Ivan Tony is absolutely flying. Odds on he'll be looking to get a goal on Saturday. His penalty record is amazing. He just scores different kinds of goals and the bar of the free kick as well didn't he? The question is though should he even be able to allow to play in this game? Because I just find it really really interesting that he is allowed to play and I'm not bringing this up because it does. I'm bringing it up because obviously this is the first time we've really had a chance to talk about it because it does affect us. This is a guy who was already pleaded guilty to some of the charges that have been put in front of him and you would think that that would be enough to. I know the hearings in April but you would think that would be where it would start because if you've already admitted to guilt for some then you are going to get a pretty lengthy ban straight away. I just find it crazy that he's allowed to play because if it all comes out and he gets charged for all of them then obviously it's going to be even more lengthy ban. And the teams he's played against he clearly don't have a legal challenge because he would have already gone to the Premier League and said this is not acceptable for someone who's pleaded guilty. I understand if you haven't played guilty to someone then you wait to see what the hearing is and no one's going to like to stand on. I do find it fascinating that a guy who's broke the rules in the manner that he has can play Premier League football at the moment. Yeah especially when the hearing is there he's going to get a ban. So how is it he's not allowed to play against some teams then but everybody else who was fair game. There's been nothing come out and it was just an investigation at the moment so he hasn't had the need to plead guilty or not guilty or whatever. Then everyone's innocent until proven guilty but the fact that he has actually turned around and pleaded guilty to some of the charges is not all of them you have to say that. So we will therefore get a ban. We know Joey Barton got an 18 month ban and that was reduced to 13 months. I don't know how long he might get six months he might get three months I don't know but it is a bit mad that once he has said yeah I have done some of that that he can play games. You would have thought that the Premier League are leaving themselves open because they could say now and they go well there's not really in our rules. Okay well if there's not in your rules then why is it an issue. So if you've got rules that say players can't bet that's a rule. So any kind of rule breaking comes with a punishment so if a football club is on the receiving end of Ivan Tony and quite a few of them have been this season. You know on a special side like our club obviously we're discussing it we're playing them so we're going to look at it from our point of view. Yeah of course. If Ivan Tony gets the winner or Evan get a draw and he scores the goal or whatever. My Ivan Evan going to go to the Premier League if he gets banned then go we want this game to be playing because he shouldn't have been playing. You knew you were going to ban him. I'm sure if it works like that clearly it doesn't work like that but it does make you question as a football fan how. If you want to look at it like this some teams will be will benefit from his ban because Brentford will be weakened by the fact he's not there and yet other teams have had to just get on with it. That's the thing. It's very very thin but listen he's a brilliant player. Let's just have a look at his stats. 15 goals in 22 games, 3 assists, 3 shots per game. Absolutely fantastic. He's a player. I think he's got a goal in the EFL cup as well, the league cup as well. So he's having an absolute brilliant season and he's getting better every season as well. That's the other side of him isn't he? He's improving. I think he got 12 Premier League goals last season. He's got 15 already this season. I think he's improving year on year. A player hasn't looked at that. It will be really interesting once that ban comes in to see how long it is and whether it will pull suitors off him. I think he'd be perfect for a few tops. I think he'd be perfect for Chelsea. I think he'd be perfect for Manchester United. If Kane was to leave Spares, I think he'd be perfect for Spares. I think he's a really really... And that's an old disrespect to Brentford by the way. And I'm certainly not trying to sell your players because... There's something like that I'll be honest. No I know but all players have ambition. I think what you're saying is he's good enough to play in teams that are Chelsea champions. Brentford have done. We're both big fans. I'd love him to... You'd love a player like that to stay at Brentford and show... No, I'd love him to come to Everton. He's never coming to Everton. No, I know what I'm saying. I'd love him to come to Everton. That's how you know players are good. You want them in your team. No, but you do, don't you? Brentford has one of the other scents of life for Everton. Any of them? A lot of Brentford's team and the manager. The manager's brilliant isn't he? Goldie's great. The manager's breath of fresh air. We've spoken to Billy Dabine many times. I'm surprised he hasn't been on the phone actually. He probably feels sorry for us. He probably does, yeah. It's funny isn't it? Last season he was talking to us and it was like... We're just having a great time. It's great to come and see you guys. It was all that we were like... You love football team. What's this? What is this? Listen, what's great about Brentford is... Is that the exact opposite of Everton? Literally everything is done correctly. The communication with the fans is brilliant. The manager is brilliant. When the last manager left, the new manager comes in and it just happens like that. There's a continuity when they sell a player. They have another one ready to come in. When Olly Watkins went, that one happened. Tony stepped up and it's like... They've done everything perfectly. They've gone into the Premier League. Even last year, taking the chance on Erickson, the model is just so good. Everyone trusts it and everyone sticks by it. Listen to Chaitan of European Place. Again, it's a breath of fresh air because it shows you in this era of football when it's money, money, money, money, money. That you can do it the correct way. Of course, they have spent money. It's not like we're saying... They've done things the correct way so now that they can afford to go out and buy a few more luxury players on top of the players they've brought in with the way they do things. Again, you look at them, you look at the brightens of the world and you think there is a way to do it without spending those fortunes of money. You can do it correctly if you believe and you find the right way and you bring the correct people in to do it. There's a way and nothing but respect for them. It's good to see teams like doing well, like that I think personally, so it's not all the same people all the time. Will they have enough to get tough or probably not and probably not for a while. But they are living beyond their dreams and these fans. Challenging in the European places, beating teams like Liverpool at home and giving everyone a game and I think that's the most important thing. Do you like it at home? Yes, they are. They've been a breath of fresh air. Matthew Benham took over, I think it was 10 years ago now and introduced this stats-based approach because he'd done that when he'd been working in the betting side of stuff. He'd had this algorithm that predicted certain things and he wondered if he could apply it to footballers and improve them and Brentford have done fantastically well, got a good link up as well with Midland isn't it? He was well. So they are a great example. They are a great example to us as Everton, fourth most successful English club in terms of winning titles and we're looking at a team that's just been up for the second season. We're going to a great example but it is. No stupid egos, no players are a matter of not on crazy money. And if they're on good money, they've been rewarded for good performance. No-one's ever got a problem with it, I don't think. He's got a few things the right way like you said, I haven't seen any fabulous player, they've got some really good players. Done well, even people like taking Ben me from Bernie in the summer and he's gone in and looked like he's played there for ages. He's just got Hickey, Aaron Hickey who I liked a few years ago. Haven't had a little look at him, didn't fancy him. They've got him in there, they've just got really, really good players and when you've got that, you've got a good way of doing it. Players, they've shold and players, they've took some like rock style and turned them into players. You've got a stambiliter pitch, 20 million for Scott Hogan at one scene. Any club that does that, he gives a pat on the back. But there's a trust there from their supporters and losing Ollie Watkins, losing Ben Rahme to Westamon still continuing to produce and still continuing to progress. Absolutely fabulous. So it should give Evan hope that if you actually start doing things correctly and you invest in that side of it, you can be a team that moves in the right direction and they're a win off Europe. So what a season they're having. Fair play today, take me out this afternoon because we sit here and talk about our football club all the time and I've done things wrong and you look at a club like that and you think that's the way to do it and it's not that hard, you just have to put a plan in place and have faith in it and have the right people in charge and have faith in the plan you're doing. So it's going to be a really, really tough game. Let's just have a look at the current Bremford team from the last game. There you go, Ryan Goll, Hickey, Penich, Mi and Henry. Henry really impressed me in that game last season. It's up and down, up and down and Hickey's good on the other side. You've got Dam's guard, Norgard and Jensen in the middle of three good players and then obviously Wisher and Buemo and Tony as the front three and they're a handful. Hard working as well, good players. Good, honest, hard working players who do the job the manager asks and the manager's brilliant. It's not that hard. Let's just have a look at Evan's team. They've obviously got the draw and nothing forest. Are we expecting something similar in this game? Because obviously you've got Michael Keane there now in the back line. You've got Greilfront. So obviously the forward line has changed slightly. Or can we expect, maybe, Dominic Carmel in there some way. Of course Ben Goffrey playing in the left back as well. Michael might come back depending on because it was illness. Are you what are you expecting? I don't know to be honest. I expect Michael and Cole come back into the side just for the balance. Goffrey don't know right last week. Would I keep him? Possibly just because of the pace. Because they are really, really good going forward. Dom, I'd love him to be available to start just because I think he gives you a focal point. He gives you a platform. Excuse me to build from, keeps the ball well. And he's a goal threat. Dom Ari Greil did okay last week. If Dom isn't ready to start, I'd leave Dom Ari Greil. I wouldn't change the front. I don't think Maupai and out his old club. You'd always look for those stories. But I wouldn't put him in there. He's quite clearly doesn't fancy Ellis Sims. Hopefully Nathan Patterson and James Garner. Garner's on the bench anyway on Sunday. He'll have another week under his belt training. So he could be an option from the bench. And then Patterson, hopefully Nathan Patterson is back in the squad as well. And obviously James Garner's obviously was on the bench last week an opportunity maybe for him. I mean, someone like O'Nan obviously was poor last week. We know he's been carrying a bit of a knock. So with him, with someone like that, would you look at James Garner and also with James Comer as well. He's also been carrying a bit of a knock as well. Could you see Patterson coming straight back in as well? Just because of the knocks rather than I wouldn't. Seamus has been doing all right. I guess it just depends how Seamus feels. I think if he's all right, he'll play. The experience. The same with O'nana. I think if O'nana says he's okay, he'll start. I think the same with O'nana. He's just, you know, you look at him. He's big, bramford. He's got athletic plays from O'nana's. It can be dangerous in both boxes. And that's what everything needs right now. If he's not up to speed, you've then got the option of swapping him out for James Garner in the middle. And that's what you'll want. You'll want options. You'll want to be able to look on that bench and go, you know, what a day. I genuinely got three or four options that I think could turn the game in our favour. Or certainly keep us in the game. Well, we're talking about a team that's lost four matches all season. And we're in March. You know, they've lost as many games as Man City, who I think will still just nick the league. So that tells you how well they've done on how difficult they are to be. But... Beat Man City? Did they beat Man City away? But then we got a point at City, so... No, but they are a good try. But then Arsenal come to rev it in the other week. Only lost one league game and we're flying. And no-one gave us a chance and we won that game. And we'll have to adopt a similar approach in this one of battling and scrapping for every single ball. The crowd will be required to be on it. And I'm sure they will. And we'll have to just give it a right go-go because, again, we talked up Brentford and rightly so. We've praised them and rightly so. But this is a home game. And we need to win our home games. We do. We desperately do need to win our home games. This is going to be the foundation, isn't it? Of any chance of staying up. Because the away record is terrible. We'll need an away win somewhere in there. Or maybe two. But we have to win our home games. And this game... Losing the Villa game as well. Well, yeah, because... We should never have that. There aren't too many. There just aren't too many of the games you look at. And there aren't any other because it's funny, isn't it? Brentford, obviously, played full-on Monday night. And, you know, three, two into Brentford. And you're looking at that before and then thinking 12 months ago, if that had been... You'd looked at that game and gone, oh, that's a relegation card of six-pointer. And now they're two teams going for the European places. There's no one that you look at now who we've got to play at home and think. But, obviously, last game of the season is a six-pointer. But there aren't many that you look at and go. This is a game. Because there really aren't any game that's in the Premier League this season at all. There's no stand-out. I mean, there's a few stand-out terrible teams. But, you know what I mean? There's no normal we have that knowledge situation or full-on in the past. There's none of that. And now you've got games against Brentford to the world where you're just like, this looks really, really tough. So it's going to be a difficult game. It's going to be a very, very difficult game and everything just have to give. I mean, no stupid mistakes like last season. You know, obviously going down to 10 men. None of that. And manage the game and hopefully get the three points because that's what's required. Brentford can give us this one and then go back on the run and guarantee Europe. Be great to see them in Europe after Saturday. Not on Saturday. Just come on, end your unbeaten run and then start your next run till the end of the season. That'll be good. We desperately for the points. We are desperately for the points. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this game or the Aaron Tony situation. Any Brentford fans in the comments as well. Tell us, let us know your secret to success. Since you've been back in the Premier League, let us know. Give us your feelings on this one. Don't forget to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos, or live exclusive videos, join us over on Toffy TV Premier. The link is in the description and the QR code will be coming up on the screen in a moment. Just scan it and become a member. See you later.