 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. West Ham United versus Everton at the London Stadium Sunday 2 o'clock. I've been trying to put this day off for ages, having to do a match preview, but here we are. We're back. The football has returned. Everton have got 11 games to save themselves. Essentially, that's it, isn't it? I keep on hearing people talk about what this team might do and what that team might do and where they might win and where they might win. Doesn't matter. It's what we do. It's what we do. We can't rely on anybody else. It starts with this game. West Ham, very, very tough opponents. David Moyes has made them very Everton-like in the David Moyes era. Stronger home. Doing really well in the Europa League and it's going to be a very tough game. It is. He's done a great job, Moyes. He went back there. People blaze their eyebrows when he went back there because he'd only had a small amount of time. He went back and he's done a brilliant job since he's gone back. Strong glassies and got into the Europa League. Strong again this season. Quarter-finals of the Europa League. Got Lyon after Lyon Thursday. Haven't beat Sevilla in the last one. So really, really tough game for Everton. But like you've just said, it's in Everton's hands. Survivors in their own hands. They win all the games. They stay up. No-one can do anything about it. If you get better results than Bernie and Wofford and Norwich, they stay up. So it's in our hands. We have games in hand on teams around us. This is a hugely difficult game. But you've got to stand up and be content. Westam are a really good example of what can happen as well if you get your house in order. They were like us in terms of their owners were probably trying to be grander than what they were. They were trying to run before they could walk. They were going after managers left right and centre. A couple of seasons ago, they were in a bit of a mess. David Moyes came in. Sorted them out. Got control. Last season they finished in the European places. This season they are very much in the European places as well. Doing really well in Europe as well. It is an example of how quickly you can all-time round if you get your ducks in a row. Their fans are absolutely loving it and fair play to them. You don't really hear too much from their owners anymore where they used to love talking all the time. They have shown what can be done. Fair play to them. I know the fans were a big part of that. They wanted to see changes at Westam. I think they have got them. We can team round really quickly. Listen, it is a tough game. We know it is a tough game. I haven't had a couple of weeks to prepare for this. They haven't had lots of plays away. They will have had a couple of weeks hopefully. I just hope that what we see in this game is a reflection of what we are going to see going forward. We have been terrible away from home and decent at home with the crowd behind us. What I want to see is a little bit of resilience. I want to see a formation and a team that are working hard for the whole game. They don't fall to bits if a goal goes in. We see something that we can think of. We have got something now. We have tough games. We have Westam away. We have got Burnley away. We must not lose. We have got Wafford coming up away from home. We have got tough away games. Really important away games. We can't just rely on the home form. We have to have a little bit of room to play in. That starts this week. That starts going there. Put a performance in there. We have gone somewhere. Put a performance in. Hopefully we get something out of the game. Hopefully. A point would be huge this weekend taking us into that Burnley game. We need a performance we can get behind. That is the gold standard. That is what we want to achieve every time we play away. We have just been simply too easy to beat on our travels. We started the season really well away from home. One of the drivetleads and one of Brighton. Four points in the opening six. Went to United and got a point there. It was okay. It was decent. We were solid. We looked at threats on the counter attack. Since Manchester United back in early October. We have only got one point away from home since then. That was Chelsea. Even have got to start being resilient. I have seen people putting this all on Frank Llanfawrd. Doste. And blaming him. The truth is we were rubbish under Benitez away from home as well. The last seven games under Benitez. The first seven games under Llanfawrd. Llanfawrd has got more points. This is a problem that I haven't had all season. It is a case of throwing a towel in when things start going against them. We saw West Ham. West Ham cwnt y gwrdwch yn bach in October. I haven't gone second that day if we don't won. It was a tight game and West Ham won it off a set piece. We lost the game 1-0. Probably deserved something out of the game. They could have made it 2 and they laughed at me made it 1-0. But it was up until they scored the goal. It was quite tight. Both defenders on top. And since then. That's really the starter where things started going wrong. They haven't won that thing on second. Since then we started going the other way. West Ham have gone from strength to strength and we haven't. So we've got to go there this weekend. Dig in. Prove that they're capable of digging in. Prove that they carry a threat on the break. And try to get something out of the game. We won there a year ago. Just under a year ago wasn't it. I'm going to call the loon score when West Ham are flying. And we've got to put in the same kind of performance. Which is go there, be tough. Take that chance if when it comes along. But stay in the game. And you're right if we do can see the goals. Stay in the game. Keep your head. Don't give up cheap goals. And that's the biggest thing I've ever been given up. Too many cheap goals. It's too easy to score against us at times. Because people stop doing what was working in the open. Certainly the pattern of the last few games. Even have come out the blocks really quickly. And being on top. And they've got the goal. They've done better in the game. But they haven't. And then the kind of score to go. We've been all over these and it's 0-0. And they start feeling sorry for themselves. And in the next minute they're won down. And they just go like that with the white flag straight away. And it can end up being 5-0, 4-0. As we've seen in the last two way games. Even like the game against like Southampton. 0-0 at halftime. Still in that game. 1-0. Still in that game. But people said to go down and stop doing what was working. So how do we approach it then? Do we approach it where we go? Do we look at the game and think Westam done well? Done well at home? Do we go ultra defensive? Do we go 5 at the back? Do we put 3 in midfield? Do we look to maybe not be massively aggressive like we have at the start of other games? And then capitulate? Or do we start by going no, no? We're just going to soak it up, feel it in. The keeper's going to go long. He's not going to play in short earlier on in the game. Make sure that we are tight in the first 20 minutes. Don't give the opponent any encouragement. Because almost like it felt like to me, like the palace game. It was like we punched ourselves out. It was the old rope without. It was like, you know, the other team, like, well, if we just let these sit off, you know, if we sit off, sorry, and let these just play, they won't do anything. And then we'll get ourselves into the game. You know, space is the same. It was all, there was a frenzied start. But then the gaps were there. And soon as they realized they were in the back of us. And I think I just think that maybe we have to feel, not start slowly by the way. That's a different thing like knowledge. I mean, it's feel our way into a game and go using knocking anything through us. And we're not going to ask about and give you many chances either. We're going to make sure that for the first 20 minutes or so, we go long. Dominic Cavallun or whatever. And we try and play in the final third. So it's week 31 of Ultimate Fan. And there is a £1,000 prize pot to be won this week. It's time to pick my team. Let's see what I'm going to go for. Well, the team last time out was, well, as you can see, it was a bit all over the place. There was only a few games in the Premier League. I got 40 points, which wasn't great. But now it's time to change that team. Starting with my team. I've currently got West Ham. I'm going to change them for Manchester City who are away to Burnley. Hopefully three points for Manchester City. Defenders. I've got for Farnett and Gabrielle. I'm going to swap them for Trent Alexander-Arnold. Liverpool are playing Wofford. And I'm going to go for Joe Cancelo. As I might defend it. Midfield. I'm going to go for Kevin De Bruyne. He's going to go in there instead of Tealmans. Sacre. I'm going to leave Sacre in. I'm going to leave Sacre in. I scored last time out there. I don't think it's the pass. I'm going to leave him in. Harry Kane. I'm going to leave in. They're playing Newcastle at home. And I'm going to go for Mo Salah. We'll have to wait and see whether he's over his laser pen incident. That's seen a miss a penalty for Egypt. They are not going to work up because of that. I'm going to make him my captain. And I'm going to give Harry Kane the golden boot. And that is my team this week for Ultimate Fan. Make sure you download the app right now for a chance to win a prize pot of £1,000. Join the Toffey TV League as well. See if you can win the bragging rights for this week. The link is in the description. So make sure you go and get it now. There's a free subscription. There's a Silver 2.99 subscription. And there's a 4.99 subscription. That is the gold subscription. Lots of other perks included in that as well. Download the app now. The link is in the description. You've got to make yourself resolute for the start. You've got to dig in. You've got to not take chances when the ball drops. Put your foot through it. Get it away from your goal that you haven't done. I've tended not to do lately. It's not the blueprint for the long term future. But we've got 11 games. You've got to battle and scraffle points. Whatever you have to do in this game is staying the game. You've got to stay in the game. And whether that means 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 at times. And not a fan of the 5 at the back. I'll be honest. No. If you went with 3 at the back and he had Patterson and Michelin co on both sides. Then maybe, yeah. And you had Colman, Godfrey and Keane size. The 3 centre backs. Just because he's available at the moment. I could go okay. But then you're midfield. You're still having sure. But if you've got runners up and down the line. Like Patterson and that. And you've got people ahead. Then, yeah. Maybe you can do that. Maybe you can almost play what West Ham played at Spades, I guess. Which is 3-4-2-1. I'm just trying to be compact. It didn't work that day for them. But it has been on other occasions. I think we've just got to plug the holes. We've done very well against Man City. By being disciplined. And then we've broken our chances. Why can't we do that at West Ham? We're very good against Leeds. By doing very similar. But what we did against Leeds was every man just made sure he won the battle. And then he took the chances when he came along. In other games, we have got bored. Because we haven't scored. It's that kind of thing. And it's almost been that any plan that they had. Went out the door the minute they can see the goal. And I can't continue. It does feel like that. I mean, apart from the Southampton game, we've conceded in the first half. I know we went to Newcastle. We went in at one-one and a-half time. But we conceded goals in the first half too much. And that led to what we've seen creeping in. It hasn't been the same. Necessarily home Leeds. We scored. Aileen got the second Aileen. I know Newcastle was late on. But it was the fact that we weren't conceding. The confidence comes from not conceding. And the minute we conced it just all falls to bits. And that's what I'm saying about. We have to have something. That means for as long as we can in the game that we don't concede. Because if it's nil-nil, obviously you feel like you're still in the game. But the minute it goes one-nil, there is this universal feeling which starts on the pitch, by the way. It doesn't start with fans. It doesn't start in the crowd. It doesn't start on Twitter. It starts with the players. The players go one-nil down and it goes. The heads drop. There's a sense of that's the game gone. So for me, we have to come up with a way. That's on the manager. What I worry about five at the back is, or three with wingbacks is that because you're only playing two midfield and because we're not really strong there with the players we've got, you are allowing the opponents to get into the final third. It's almost like once they're in the final third, it's all over. It's all over. Whereas we need to get that protection in front of them and I don't know whether this weekend that could possibly involve Fabian Delf coming into the side. We know he's back fit. Obviously Alan's not available. That would seem the sensible thing, wouldn't it, to bring him back in. He's got two games in him before he gets another injury. But that would seem the logical sensible thing to do. For me, you've got to put three in my field because they've got Declan Lais is brilliant in there and Suwtchech is really good in there as well. So they're very strong in central areas West Ham. Lais runs the game, doesn't he? And so you've got to put three people in there with them. I don't think we can match up with the Cora in van de Beek or the Cora in Gomez. They can't match up Declan Lais and Suwtchech. They just can't. If you've got to put an extra body in there, someone who can do the way. Now, whether it's Donnie van de Beek, whether it's him, the Cora, and Deli as a three, or whether it's Fabian Delphi who's going to sit in front of the back four and have the other two, the Cora trying to break, joining in and van de Beek taking the ball and trying to areas and keeping it. Maybe that's the most sensible way to go in this game. You know, and then you look to play off Gordon and you look to play off Ratialysen with Don through the middle. Maybe that's how you line up. And you kind of go right you two, tuck in as well and make it busy in there, work hard. Like, Domari Gray's been brilliant for us. But I think Anthony Gordon's work right for me would get him in over Gray for this one. Ratialysen, I think you want to get him in and you want to keep him in anyway because I think the goals away with Brazil will be the trappings over everything. There's confidence. There's got three goals last two games. You need someone who's going to keep hold of the ball for you. So it has to be them and then obviously, you know, there's been a lot of talk about Deli. You know, does Deli come into this game? Does he come in? If he comes in, he has to come probably instead of van de Beek then. Really, and you have to have him breaking with the Cora. You say to the Cora and Delph, you two just sit and let Deli be the one who breaks him. You're almost playing a four, two, three, one then. Maybe this is the game to throw him. Deli would benefit from having a natural sitter like Delph who does want to sit in front of the back four. He does want to take the ball. Because the games, listen, we know what the situation with Delph is and it's... He doesn't... You can't really warm to the fellow, let's be honest, because of his attitude while he's being at Evan. But the moment he has played in games, a lot of the time, he's done all right. He gets the ball, he's good on the half-tane, and he'll get it, and he'll get it moving. And he will sit because he's not energetic. He's not all over the pitch. He is someone who likes to sit and be that screener in front of the defence. And I just wonder about having him and knowing you've got the security of having him does then allow you to have Deli on the other side of it, being a little bit more, you know, attacking the space a little bit more, looking to push, looking to break the lines to join in with the centre forward. That leaves, of course, D'Corey, who then is a box-a-box, and we've not really seen the best of him recently. Well, frankly, he's been very disappointing. Yeah, but he's still got it, hasn't he? D'Corey, on his day, is still our best midfielder, and he's proved that at times. I think if you've got that insurance of Delph just sitting there, then maybe he can get about the pitch. You want him to move there midfielder's about. That's what you want him to do. But you also have Deli breaking. Deli can cause a problem for them. Breaking into the box, then, of course, on the cover. So the cup, there's a couple of ways that he could play. You know, he could go with, try and be solid at the back and have Coleman, Keane. Oh, okay. Goffrey. But he could go with Coleman, Goffrey, Keane, and Michel Enco, with the balance at left back. So the one thing I don't want him to play is trade the back and wing back to Keane and Coleman. Cos he's just asking for trouble. He's tried it now. It hasn't worked. It worked in one game, which is Leeds at home. It's not worked in any other game. So Bini, Bini, get out of Paterson's energy on that right hand side, or get Michel Enco's balance with the left foot on the other side and start to do it that way. West Ham, the Norrity, that scores millions of goals, but the strong, and the strong off set pieces as well. So you've got to stay tight and compact. We know, we had David Moise for 11 years, we know how good he gets, you're out well drilled, you're out the way you're in every game. We know that. Us as fans, there's no shocks there. He's done a great job there. Yeah. Again, it's... Well, he's done that good a job. A lot of Evertonians are saying, why, why didn't why? We had two goals, we could have gone on back and we didn't. Let's just have a little look at the West Ham team. Yeah, this is what they played last time out. They went with three at the back, so you were doing Creswell as the... almost like they're talking about Coleman playing Creswell, played the left side of the centre backs. My suker. But my suker, rather left wing back, Johnson at right wing back, he's done really well this season and then the two-check rice and then obviously Lanzini, Ben Rame and Michel Enco. But there was no Bowen. Bowen was out injured, wasn't he? And Antonio has been struggling with the injured. I think he went off after 57 minutes against Spice. And obviously they'll have had a couple of weeks now. Antonio was that kind of player. He's always going to pick up injuries and he's always going to get them. We know he's had problems throughout his career. But Bowen would have been a big loss to them. But he's back in the squad. But as I'm saying, we've had a couple of weeks now, unfortunately, so he's got to get over those injuries. So it'll be interesting to see whether he comes back in the side. But your suker and rice, the soap, rice is such a good player now. What he's developed into, he allows them to play three because of the way he plays, the way he sits in front of them. They've got a decent side. Michel Enco started scoring the odd goal as well, because of the emotional side of things with everything that's going on. So it's going to be such a difficult game. But let's just have a little look at Antonio's numbers. There you go. 29 appearances, 28 starts, 8 goals, 7 assists, and the average is 3.4 shots per game. He's a handful, isn't he? He is a handful. Strong, very strong, direct. Good finishing as well. For someone who's watching the centre forward, he's a good finisher. He's a good player, but the injury situation has always raised his head, and we'll have to wait. You'd be more... You'd be more hopeful, obviously, if you had him either playing. But Ben Godfrey, I think, stent and pace-wise, that's what they are. You've just got to make sure that you have the opportunities, and they do play with a couple of number 10s. Yeah. You've got a good shot on them. Again, which is why it's important, I think, maybe to have Delft's shitting as opposed to having a third centre back. Yeah. So, yeah, that listen. Ever none in any kind of form where you could shitting go, oh no, you know what, we've had two weeks to formulate a plan, and we've got to go and put it into practice now, and like you said, we've got to get up. We said this the other weekend that hasn't happened. It's happened their own, but it's not happened the way. And that is, we've got to get up to a level of performance where if you perform at that level most weeks, you'll get something. And we haven't seen this away from home. You know, Frank Lamp has lost every away game so far, but we were losing the away games before he came in anyway. It's not, he's not being able to, he's not being able to affect it. Braffa Benitez couldn't affect it. There must be something going on there. You know, characterless, aren't we? Characterless, and that's the problem. And yet, sometimes teams dig in and get results from nowhere when it looks like they're in trouble and that's whatever and have to do now. They've had the little, almost like the factory rechef for these last two weeks. The game stopped. They've had training. Some players have gone away and done okay and it's almost like we've got a mini season to play those 11 games and we're starting a fresh one. That's it, and hopefully, we catch Westammer a good time with it. It's just not quite back up. You've got one eye on a huge game on Thursday against Leon in the Europa League. And they're just not quite back up to speed yet and that's all we can hope for. Just rest a few, Dave. Like where your face love, come on, Dave. Put the cardigan on. Put the cardigan on and just cheer out, mate. And say, let's take it easy on these. These are good satellites. These are like this club. We like playing games against you. You know, Westammer and Everton. We let them beat us a few times. So, there you go. Unfortunately, yeah. Following a 1-0 win at Godderson in October, Westammer looking to complete their first league double over Everton for 50 years. Dave, you don't want that on your CV? No. Everton have lost just once of their last 13 Premier League games against Westammer. Away games against Westammer. Winning 18, drawing 4. The only one we lost was some of these. Three more, end of the season. Yeah, that's good. Everton have won fewer away points than any other side in the league this season. Six. The trophies are currently without a win in 11 away games. The longest run since the longest without a win since the run was 16 between February and December 2017. Everton are winless in nine Premier League games played on Sunday. There you go. Great, innit? Westammer have won a high league, a league high 13 points from losing positions in the Premier League this season. And no side has got a lower total of goals in the first half. Everton haven't scored in 11 of the 13 Premier League games in the first half. All the fields. All the fields. So would you a win and would you a goal in the first half? That's what all those stats tell me. We are due to win a game of football. Westammer playing great in a good side. So they could lose this week and then go beat Leon. We'll all be with you on Thursday. We'll all be giving it back on Thursday. Fully ironed up. So just let us have results on Sunday please. That's all we can ask for. Us and Mich from EastEnders will all be there together. Danny Dyer of course. Of course. There you go. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Don't forget to make sure if you haven't already to download the ultimate fan app there is money to be earned. Get over there. The link is in the description. Give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more videos join us over on Patreon. The link is in the description. 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