 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview legion lighted versus Everton at Elland Road, somewhere that we haven't been for a while and not somewhere we've travelled well to in years gone by, to make memories, but yeah I mean I've got the winning memory, the winning goal but it's going to be a tough game, we're not following on from the next round. This is a new castle performance, this is not going to be an easy game, it might be easy because we're playing away and we seem to be doing, this would be fourth, would it be fourth away game in a row if we won it? If they won it yeah, which is if. Normally we don't get four in a season, so that's a bonus. It is, we won one of the last 37 games of Elland Road, so make it that what you will. Didn't have to throw that at me so early. But there won't be any fans in there which will make a big difference, but I did watch Leeds against Leicester the weekend and they do run around very fast. Which means that. They've run around? They've run around, they're already one up on us and they've run around really fast which makes it true. No listen, they've done really well this season and because there's problems it goes and beat us it goes and so. If they beat us it'll be the first time they've done a double over us since they were first promoted, it'll be in the season which they've come up. So we're going to have to be at our best and we're going to have to play the low block. We are low blocking it aren't we? We've got it but there's no other way to play it sadly, there's no other way to play it because at the moment. We haven't got Alan yet but we're just not playing well either so that's the issue. The issue is we're going to have to sit on the edge of our box trying not to give them any room to break on us and try to counter attack them. Like we played at Leicester and how we did at Wolves let them have more of the ball than us and hopefully hit them on the break but everyone's going to have to play really well because they were all shocking at the weekend. Obviously Leith have won their last two games as well and there's a lot of this in the Premier League teams seem to go in waves don't they? And they're obviously just hitting a good spell now and yeah we do have an issue with certainly teams putting pressure on us, teams playing high up the press because we pass so slow. That's the problem, we don't go through the gears and that's our biggest problem. We've seen that at the weekend, we've seen that a lot of games, we've seen that when you said when Leith played us like Southampton away when teams were up against us and Leith are a very fit team. Obviously that's the trademark, that was the thing saying when I watched that Leith documentary what caused them to get so many injuries and I know it's been thrown at them, they got up last season because they had that little break but we'll never know whether that's two or not. They've added to it this season and they've brought those players in and now they might be without some of the better players for this game but it is a tough game. Especially when Everton have come off the back of Leicester, Newcastle, playing this game, Manchester United then we've got space. And you're asking them from the same players, we keep on reiterating this, the squad is, it's just so thin and you're asking the same players certainly in the attacking areas of the pitch to go out and put performances every game to the level that we need it to be. To beat teams like this you just seem to have so much energy that we don't. The thing in the home game when these beat us, we did that chances, we had a lot of chances, they did as well, don't get me wrong, they should have scored a few goals themselves but we did that chances because they do leave the door open. The game against Leicester at the weekend, the chances Leicester missed was incredible but then they had a threat on the break. The third goal, they just fly forward and Everton haven't got done like that with the second goal of the weekend so that's something we've got to be wary of to why Godfrey's got to play, no question about it. So we will have to be wary of it but we can cause them issues off set plays, there's no question about it. I don't know whether Everton might be better suited by putting maybe going 4-4-2 or something. Because I think if you went with a low block with 4-4-2, again the midfield would probably be a little bit overrun but you've got to have someone helping them out. We don't like you just said, we don't move the ball quickly enough through the areas of the pitch to really drag them out of position so we might have to go from back to front, go long to them but to do that you've got to have someone round them, you can't jump and pull it down and hold it for everyone to get there. So you might have to go a little bit more direct in this to try to miss the midfield out a little bit and get into the back line. The mobility's an issue in our midfield. The core, we've got it but it's other areas and we'll play so it's not exactly the most mobile. I imagine Everton will just play what they normally play but just 4-3-3. That's the case, we're going to have to have golffry like I said in it right back and then I'll have obviously the two centre box. You've got them, Luca D might provide a little bit of width for us, Leeds. Rodd Regal looks like he's out, he's done his groin, he's got late tests on Bamford and Rhaffene and if they don't make it then that would be a huge boost for Everton. Because there Bamford's been great for him, he's got a cracking goal here with down Rhaffene, he's got to win it against those lovely left foot on him. He's a real threat as well but from our perspective we're going to have to be solid, we're going to have to work. I imagine Tom Davis will come back into the team alongside the core and maybe it might be wise to throw someone else who's mobile in there but if not, if it's Davis and the Core, maybe it'd be wise to put Gomez in there or Saita Shigat and try and join in and if it's going to be him. I still feel like either of them don't give us the legs we need, especially against a team like this. That's why I would put Holgate in Adam if he had all right back in the other one whether he's golffry, whether he's there just too well with their mobility because then it might allow us to play a little bit higher up the pitch and cause them problems because otherwise we're going to be just chasing our tails and hoping that we get the first goal and then it gives us something to cling on to. To game you can win, don't get me wrong, they're not Manchester City in the pump or whatever but they are a good side and they're a very, very energetic side. It's about going back to the water from the middle. We've only lost three games. We've lost two since we last played Leeds, haven't we in the Premier League? Both of them. That's the way to look at it. It's not like we're shipping goals, it's not like we're losing loads of games. We've lost two games since then in the months of December in January, obviously both game in January. I think what happened on Saturday was obviously, we mentioned this when we did the final where, too much respect paid but some are like Leeds, not enough respect paid, some are like Leeds, you've got to pay them the respect of you know how hard work and you know they're going to create chances, you know they're going to give you opportunities. But for me the way we've looked at it, the way from home, Leicester and Wolves, you know, Sheffield United, be tight at the back which means you've got to have that foreing. Maybe Dean plays, I don't know but he still looks mad away from me. I know he's back and he's fit and stuff but he still looks like he leaves the door open but without providing enough going the other way. I think you've got to get that balance. So what would you do with Dean? I put him on the bench. For a game like this I think where you want to be solid, manager might feel starting them and maybe Ben Godfrey on the other side and starting someone in like Tom might give us enough. Maybe you can't take Leiford Dean out of the team but there's got to be just little changes that he's got to be prepared to make. Does he go back to like what he did against Leicester and Wolves with Dean on the left side? Possibly so and then you might say well I'll put the charlatan on the other side and leave a woe be out then, at least you've got someone coming off the bench. Cos I think that's always got to be in the forefront of, don't put all your eggs in one basket as well, don't always put all the players on the pitch at once, leave some on the bench for that and I know people look at like being on the benches like well you're not good enough but it's not sometimes, sometimes it's like no no I'll get 25 minutes out of you for the most important part of the game. I think that's where we don't always look after our players, it's not always the worst thing having a good player coming off the bench. If you do have a couple of options and maybe Dean playing left midfield and maybe the charlatan playing right midfield or the right side could help us, I just think that they're really the only options we've got and we've got to look after knocking seeding first and then build on that and that's what we've done at Wolves, that's what we did when we played Leicester away as well, who have seen us good sides or teams that we certainly feared a little bit when we were going into those matches so yeah let's not forget that we can be a good team and especially when we're not conceding goals and then build on that and hopefully that will get us through, you hope. I've just got a battle having me in the scraffer everything, you know, and if we do that and we keep it tight we can win the game, you know, I've only got three at the weekend and they don't score loads and loads of goals leads but they have the opportunity to because they do fly forward and like you say we've got to stay in the game. But what we've got to be doing is that we've got to be better on the counter attack, we've got to be better on the counter attack. I don't expect us to move the ball as fast as they do, but with someone like Hamilton Rodriguez though he can move the ball, he doesn't move but he moves the ball and if you've got wheel and runners, if you've got Richard Allison or whatever, you've got to have those wheel and runners to push on and I think that's where we've got to start being better, we've got to start being so much better when we counter attack because we just look really limp. Well, it's hard to come, even when we break and we look like we might get it, but at the time we've got the ball under control, it's just the chance goes, it's like you look at, like I said, the most late at the weekend and the bamfits gole don't want to put them to one of the balls. It's sharp if you're in the first time and it's out of his feet in before Leicester have even had a chance to set and then the third goal, the break on them and the running with the red, it's ridiculous though. It's like that was like 90th minute or something, the running like it's a bloody 100m sprint, wherever we break out, it's like we'll switch it, is anyone here? I know what you're doing, that's how I'm having the fitness to back it up. No it is, it is of course. I know what you're doing, we don't know what we're doing, we don't know what we are, we don't, at the moment, there's no style as such, there's getting into the good plays and see what happens, which is weird. That's fine Leitha, built the same way, that's fine, I'm not suggesting evidence should be built the same way because there's lots of different styles in the Premier League, it's just that, our players, we haven't got fast enough players and that's the problem in the squad. The front too are quite athletic, but even Dom doesn't get knocked upon, get his head down and go on a foot race, where he's quicker than most defenders, everything's like stop and wait. It's frustrating because there's been times this season when you've seen how good Everton can be and you look and go, we actually look like a real threat here, but it almost seems like we get knocked out of our strife very quickly, whereas people stop doing this stuff, whereas a team like Leith, what you've got to respect with like Bobby Else has done and what their players have done is they still keep the values all the time, they might lose. You know, they've lost lots of games, they've lost nine games this season, but they're still having the right good going every game with we. Everton can lose games, it happens in football, especially now, everyone's beaten everyone, but I still get. The games we lose by, as we lose by with a wimper. It's like there's nothing though, it's almost like we just don't give everything out for it and that's what annoys me more than anything. Yeah, we lose games with a wimper, all the home games maybe by, well even Man United, even after a good first 20 minutes, we just died the death in the game and never showed anything. And I said the three games that Leith's, Westam and the Newcastle game, the minute we conceded the goal and knew the game was over, that shows what we've got. We don't really have the kind of plays you can lift themselves once something bad happens. So that's why scoring the first goal is hugely important for us, it's hugely important for us that we get that first because I just think that when we go behind Leith on in games, we just don't seem to have. And that comes from the bench as well, if you look at the bench and you've got nothing that can change the game, we're only one of two teams that have failed, a substitute have failed to score this season. That's shocking, that's shocking, your bench is a huge part of your tactical situation having someone who can come off the bench who can change the game. And Leith's eyes have been looked and gone, oh god this fellow come on he could change the game, whether it's coming back from injury or he's been left there on paper. We've got to be very careful in the next few games because they're very, very tough and we've got to be careful that we don't just start sliding away from where we want to be. And I know as I said before the season will come in waves and we'll have good runs and bad runs but we can't fall into a pattern, that's the thing, we can't fall into a pattern where people simply don't believe. This is an important game, it's important to have a really good performance and response because the manager has come out and he said things after Newcastle game which should have players more than anything, which will be lazy, not trying. These don't attitude, these are words that should have players more than anything else because if someone questions you that you're not working or you haven't got the attitude. That to me is like ringing the bell there mate. The lazy shout especially. Lazy is a strong word in football. He's right to do it because we didn't have the attitude. Players, we see this sometimes with everyone and it looks like the players don't respect the other team like they expect it to be easy, be easy today. And I think that was what we were guilty of when we played Leeds at home last time. I think we thought we'd been promoted, we'll beat them, we're too good for them. We certainly, it was certainly the case when Westam beat us 100%. We turned up on that go Friday, sorry on that New Year's Day, easy this 3.3 and then we'll get back into the top and they beat us on Saturday was the same. One thing they won't be complacent going in now, not after last time, not at the results Leeds have had. You can't be complacent. Leeds looking to complete their first double over us since 1991 should that. Over the 45 sides Everton have faced at least 10 times away from home in soft flight history. The lowest win rate on the road is against Leeds. We've won just 6% of our games there. Leeds have won all of the midweek games. Everton have lost three of the four Premier League games this season when they've had 60% or more possession. Stop having possession. The only one we won was West Brom. The opposition have more possession. Patrick Bamford has been directly involved, 15 goals in his last 20 games for Leeds, scored 11 and got 4 assists. Only your Tony, your Bowie had a hand in more goals in his first 20 games so there you go. Fils you with loads of hope. I'm filled with bags of confidence going into this game. Everton have surprised us before and hopefully they'll surprise us again. Let's hope. You know what, we've got two games in the hand and if we won them, I know they're both tough but if we won them, we'd be in the top four. That just shows how mad the season is even when we're all feeling a little bit down. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. What are you expecting from the games? You hope we go back to the low block four centre back. What do you think we should be having a good right goal at Leeds? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. 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