 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the player ratings Everton 3 Crystal Palace Nail, a very very comfortable afternoon, if I must say so, but we made it very comfortable by probably playing our best performance of the season, started off very very brightly, put them under lots of pressure, didn't really give them any room, got the goal, first goal at the right time, got the second goal, absolutely perfect timing for the second goal, just after the hour, when when Crystal Palace had shown a couple of little moments where we had to be, we had to be in the, you know, have the right defend and then just putting our bodies in the way, Michelin goal put more than is than just his body in the way as the Conoco, and then went on to get the third through a absolutely superb goal from Dwight MacNeill with Alex Oboby, obviously with the fantastic back heel, so fantastic all-round performance that, you know, the team just looked a little bit more galvanised today, looked a little bit more, looked like it knew what it was doing, I think there was a slight change in the way we played with Audana and Guy, sitting as the double, the double six, and having the three in front and giving Oboby a little bit more time and space in the better, more dangerous areas, and obviously Dominic Arvent Living was excellent as well, and Michelin goal was higher up the pitch as well, I noticed that was a little adjustment, not from the start of the game, just a little bit into it, where he started getting a lot higher up the pitch and his starting position was a lot higher, I don't know whether it was due to something they'd seen from Crystal Palace, the way Crystal Palace was setting up, but I thought we bullied Palace all over the park, I think they were set up all wrong, and we bullied them, and I think that's just that little change of formation really helped, and I think probably having Dominic Arvent Living back helped, means that Audana doesn't have to go in and join up as much, because you've got the physicality of Dominic Arvent Living, so it was more like today, felt more like a four, two, three, one, and I think it worked a lot more because I thought it got more plays into the game, it got Anthony Gordon a lot more into the game, it got the full backs, certainly Michelin co a lot more into the game, and it got a Wobie in the right places at the right time, yeah, and as I said, it was the goal to score perfect time, the second one was nuts, because obviously we just see the flag from where I'm sitting, from the gladus three, but when I've looked at the pitches it is embarrassing, it is embarrassing, how onside, Anthony Gordon is, and it's one of the main reasons why we need the offside that we have in the Champions League, because that's him, for the referee, for the lines on to put his flag up there, that's just, that's embarrassing, that's embarrassing, I don't even know why he put the flag up when the ball's in the back of the net, VAR will check it anyway, why take that away from fans, why take that enjoyment away from fans, I understand putting your flag up during the game, when, you know, but yeah, awful, they were awful, and that's when I'm not one, I know Baz does like to rant and rave about the officials, I'm not one who rant and raves about too much, but he was terrible today, there was one, there was a clothesline on Dominic Arvallun in the second half, and nobody could believe that, I mean you let the game play on so it wasn't going to be a red card, but the fact that he never really even, he didn't even speak to him, never mind giving him a yellow card, he was bafflingly bad, because they had some absolute, that Anderson is just a donkey, and that might be Arshawn donkey, he's an absolute donkey, that fella, and all he did all day was just saying kick, kick them, but they set up really weird, I don't know how you can play a Premier League match with one midfielder, because that's essentially what they played with today, one midfielder, they had five forwards on the pitch, they went full Tottenham in the 90s, I don't know how you can play it like that and think you're going to go away from home and win games, but yeah that was mad, but the referee was terrible, I still can't get over that clothesline, I just can't get over it, he properly, it was like properly come off, he bounced off the ropes, and he took them out, it was awful. Absolutely mad, absolutely mad, yeah really good, really good three points, it was mad because we had a shot on target and then we scored nearly straight away afterwards, I was amazed that we'd got a shot on target, but we scored not longer, but we had six shots on target today, one shot off target, two block shots, there you go, we scored half of the goals that we hit on target, and one of them that was on target obviously led to the second goal as well, so really good performance, something we should be doing a lot more of with the players we've got, just shooting it on the target, we still didn't win the possession, but I don't care, but it was built on the backbone of the defence I'd say as well, let's get into it now, Jordan Pickford seven in terms of shots and stuff, quite a quiet day, didn't have to deal with too much in terms of shots, he helped set up the second goal with the way we played out from the back, breaking the press that led to scoring the second goal, so and his kicking was good today, and his thrown was good as well, there was a couple of times one, he was a wobby in the first half, he got a wobby down the right hand side with a great throw, he was always a later target behind him today because as I said playing with one midfielder you know was going to be susceptible, that is mad, how can you play with one midfielder by the way, that is mental, but yeah so seven, Seamus Coleman in my stand 11 I thought he might have been a little bit tired but I should have known, I should have known that as always he would pocket Wilfred Sahar, Wilfred Sahar never plays well against Evan, Stanley Gooderson, or Stanley I can't remember too many times because Seamus Coleman has him in his ars pocket and has done for about 10 years or wherever it is, he Seamus was great today, defendant not all I did know he's not dead to get up and down but he totally stopped the threat of Sahar and just give it, a couple of times he did that thing where he loves coming back on himself where you always have to hold your breath a little bit, but he did really really control Sahar to the point where Sahar started getting angry and doing what he always does when he gets angry which is throwing his toys at the pram, I mean he was tackling the first half, completely forgot about this one, there was a tackle in the first half, Sahar got down the left hand side and he put a tackle in, won the ball so cleanly, great tackle and then Sahar jumps up climbing for a penalty, it was an absolute brilliant tackle, brilliant tackle, so give Seamus seven and a half, excellent as always against Crystal Palace, Michalyn Co on the other side played well today, got forward, puck crosses in, wow puck crosses in, had a shot that went on target and we scored from, that's what we've been asking for, now whether that's by design or whether the manager told him to start getting further forward or the slight changing in the formation because when he went further forward the Marey Grey started playing more inside and when the Marey Grey started playing more inside Alex Roboby started playing higher so there was a knock on effect straight away, there was a knock on effect straight away from him playing 10 yards higher up the pitch and that's that's that's all you ask isn't it, that's all that's what you ask from your full backs, it's why Nathan Patterson has been such an important player for us and has been such a loss is that the ability to play higher up the pitch and get more players further forward and that starts at your full backs now, in modern day football that's where it starts, your full backs and I think obviously having the two sitting really helped that as well and again that might because now I can get round the pitch and that's where you need your full backs taking the chance and for as much as they they attacked and oh sorry they've got wings and stuff they never troubled them at all so I thought he had a good game I've given seven a half as well and that's because at the end of the day I think it's Onana isn't it, Onana gives him the pass and if he's not there to take the pass on or if he hasn't bombed up the left hand side there's nobody there so by bombing up the left hand side doing what awful backs you'll be doing you get to shot off which is the most important thing and he's set up the second goal and that's that's all it that's all it is sometimes it's just taking being 10 yards up the pitch so that when you're breaking you can be in the position to to get a shot off or a cross off and I thought Mikolenko was so much better today on that so much better um it's very critical of him on Wednesday night but that's because he was he hasn't been going forward he hasn't been getting high up the pitch and today that was so much noticeable I thought straight away in those little tweaks because when I think a lot of people have seen the team and gone why hasn't he changed it but when you see the little technical tweaks and you know tactical little things you can see why he didn't so fair play fair play to him. Conacody just doing what Conacody does which is defend really well um knows how to play the game and I thought his little I thought when he got when he got took out with about 10 minutes to go he was just brilliant like he won the ball and he just made sure that I let it him and he just rolls around a little bit and and I love all that I love all that that's what you want from your centre back so switched on to the game properly properly loves it properly loves it you can tell he loves it um he's a he is proper 11 centre back um and yeah I love him to bit because he's just a proper proper wind up mate and as well proper defender and just loves it as well so I've given him I've given him a seven and a half and James Tarkovsky I just thought was a little bit better give James Tarkovsky an eight um again is another one another one who just loves it doesn't he just loves it but the little extra's for me today where the tackle on on Matete Tarkovsky just made sure he wasn't going anywhere and also went to hard elbow golden he was straight over there and he made sure that he was winding them up winding them up making it worse making it worse for for their players getting people's faces and they think they're just a I just love them to bits they're proper the proper heaven no like for me you're going up that's proper heaven that's there your players that you want you know whether it be your jaggyelchor in your leskot or or or be your you know your wracliff in your mouth field or or your watch in your unswath or or or whoever to me that that too they understand the culture of playing forever and and we we absolutely love it don't we we absolutely love it and they've been so good as a partnership so good as a partnership um yeah just can't get enough of those two honestly just can't get enough of them yeah Stubsy and Weir as well yeah just honestly I just I just they're just they're just so funny like Chris like they are like a they're like a wrestling tag team they just they just cover each other's arses so well they just know they just know um how to take turns and to winding each other up winding other people so do it really good so we'll give James Tarkoskin a just a go on again uh yeah don't play really really well again well play well again um done his job just made sure he got the little tackles in one little moment again beginning second half gives the ball away cheaply and they nearly get something from me just little there's little moments like that but super like just done his job give it winzy and gives it I yeah I thought he played well today as well um uh yeah I've given him seven and a half just just done his job done his done his job so easily him and O'nana just controlled the midfield you know he was just nicking the ball and giving it I've given him seven and a half and then O'nana O'nana was um trying the passes from lovely long balls trying to get Gordon into the game the tackles what I love about O'nana is the players just like wander around the pitch and no one ever tackles them when you think they should and he just comes in bam round the side takes the ball win the ball back nice and clean players don't expect that anymore I criticised them on Wednesday night because he was a little bit he was a little bit slow in the game he would he didn't the pace of the game was quicker than what he was playing it in I think today he almost dictated the play the pace of the game um I think he he he helped us with the pace of the game and obviously he got up high the high up the pitch for the second goal to knock it on to Michelenko so I think he there are times when he's a little bit offy um but his tackles are just so nice they're so nice how clean he wins the ball with those long legs which you could sometimes think oh he's going to miss timing or you know he's going to be clumsy he's not clumsy he's a really talented player he just there's just times when he's not quite up to the pace of the game and I think that showed on Wednesday night but him and him and Garner today as the as the the two playing two sixes um did he call it the double pivot uh I thought he was excellent today so uh I've given him 7.75 um and then Alex Awobi two assists lovely touch couple of touches for the first goal to help them the the back heel for Dwight MacNeil's chess kiss isn't it it's beautiful it's just you can see where that's going see when Dwight MacNeil picks up the ball with his one leg he's running through it's a great run to refer to him and he plays the little one and you just want a lot of plays there tune it up with a tuck a touch and try to have a shot now he knows the run's continuing and he just he just um just put it back in his path and he he was brilliant today and again little tweak a position get them higher up the pitch get them close to Dom um fantastic he just I've given him 8.5 he was just he was just superb all game he's so good on the ball and again listen I've noticed I've noticed um my criticisms of some players have come come back to bite me today apparently they don't come back to bite me um and obviously again I was very very critical of Alex Awobi but for the for for the right reasons because he was rubbish but he's tamed it round brilliantly tamed it round to be his numbers are brilliant his numbers in terms of assists are fantastic um and just the way he plays the game and the way he uses the ball uh he's he's he's become such such an important play for us and give us such a good balance to our midfield and I think today we saw I think today we saw a bit more of that balance just because of the way we play Donane and the way we play the Disagana game that just that little subtle tweak and that comes I think from again having a centre forward who's on it you can win headers for you means you don't need to send Donane up up up as a second striker at times um and I think um I think having full backs that push on as well um though having full backs haven't Michael Henkel pushing up these little things are so important to your game they're so important to the game the full backs having a centre forward who's a who's a proper centre forward he's just so so important to the way you play um so as Alex will be have given me eight and a half today um no let's make that a nine let us make that a nine two assists i'm not being nice enough there let's make that a nine Alex will be a nine uh any good another another player I've been massively frustrated with if you haven't already noticed someone I've been massively frustrated with in recent games I think today again again I think where he played he was in the game from the start Alex um Anthony Gordon from the start he was in the game and I think that's so important that players get into a game early and they have loads of touches um and they they they feel like they you know they're getting touches with a ball and they're getting into the game and people are giving them ball and they feel like they are they've got the run of the play they're playing against I think a little bit early on in the game he was getting the ball he was playing it backwards but I think as the game went on he got a little bit more confidence and just after we scored um he he got a shot off which the keeper had to um the keeper had to save um and I think he just he kept himself he kept himself in the game and I think that's so important for Anthony Gordon I really do this talent day but he drifts out of the games and it's almost like when you look at him that he's not really interested now that might not be that that might that might be that might be so far from the truth that you know but he looks he drifts out of games and then when he gets the ball he's trying to impress all the time this is why I think it's really important that he's in the game that he's defensively competing that he's pressing that he's trying to stop the failure trying to get past them that he's trying to put in tackles that are not those tackles that he does when he's frustrated he picks up a yellow card I don't they don't you go and get a yellow card today I don't I don't if he did then it's nonsense but let me check no he didn't get a yellow card and the reason he didn't get a yellow card is because he was concentrating on his game and he was doing alright and he didn't get involved in any of the nonsense and that's important and I think the more he does that and the more he plays the more he's involved in a game he's doing his job and he's pressing and he's doing his defensive stuff then that you know that's better and and again you know if you've got full backs that are going past here and you're coming more central and you get more touches of the ball it all helps the player so I think you know we've done a lot better today his goal I mean great finish of course for his goal um but he was there he was there and again this is something if you go back to the forest game and the Liverpool game critical of him not being at the right place at the right time against forest he could have had a tapping when Malpie put it across I think it was a forest that he put it across he put it across goal um was it first no it was in forest was it I don't know uh yeah it was against forest but it wasn't no but I don't know anyway um he could have had a tapping he could have had a tapping tapping in the derby and today he got a tapping I think he's our top goal scorer now got it got a got a tapping because he's at the back post and he's reacted to the shot and he's been in the right place and that's what you get that's what you get if you're focused and you're concentrating and you're doing your job and you're doing your job off the part so he's been dros let's get it right since the lead game he's been really really poor since the lead game um so today I'm glad he bounced back and glad we've seen something and he's gotta go so fair play to him um give him a seven and a half um Damari Gray um again I think he he was picking up the ball in all the right areas trying to get the ball in the box yeah I mean he it was better than he was Wednesday night because there was a lot more there was a lot more um joined up thinking with him and the other players and obviously with Dominal Dominic Alvent Leung in there you can throw a ball into the box um he makes the opposition worried because of his pace uh yeah it never a lot of it never really come off today but he's a threat and when the way he played today he's a threat there's there's a lot obviously there's a lot he doesn't do but he does try and defend and he does he does try and get on the ball and do different things whether it's having shots and I think he got the first um I think he got the first shot on target just before we scored but again haven't Michael Enkel going on the outside of it's so important it's so important having a full batter on the outside here and then you can come and drift inside and I think that was what was important today he drifting inside his position and was much better because Michael Enkel was higher up the pitch and that opened up the pitch for for other players so I've given Damari great a seven uh Dominic Alvent Leung great to have him back starting a good isn't great to see him score um the touch to get him inside the box was fantastic after the night away from my wobi um kitter across the goal which is supposed to and that's what happens I thought the keeper could have done better for it but the fact that he hit it and he put it in the corner means he's done his job doesn't matter from then on the same way um Michael Enkel uh hit across the goalkeeper um that's what happens when you shoot that's what happens when you shoot being saying it all for for days not having shots on target that's what happens when you hit the target keeper spills it comes out someone's got a tapping or you or he doesn't get it or you know your shot's too powerful or it's too but Dominic thought it was a was a presence or game was a nuisance all game um of course he's tired towards the end but he's he's a good centre for Dominic Alvent Leung and when when you get him in the right areas and when you play him the right way he is he's a real handful and I think he kept you know their their centre backs didn't have a clue today they were garbage this their centre and one of their centre backs in England's what apparently just no England right dead easy Tarkowski and Conak Odie you'll win the Whale Cup you're not telling me Tarkowski and you know Conak Odie aren't sorting them bapby out winning the Whale Cup with those two telling you right now put your money on me um no he was he played well I've given me I've given him an eight um but he just there's just such a difference between him and Malpie in terms of obviously height touch pace and just keeping hold of the ball just keeping the ball where his Malpie needs to come off the centre back and then he moves more into midfield and that's that's not he's a good player Malpie just he just can't play like Dom um which is just the way it is so I've given Dom an eight and the Shubs um Dwight MacNeill great run I actually picked Dwight MacNeill to play in this game if you're going to watch my start at 11 by the way so anyone who's given me anyone's given me grief about Dwight MacNeill I actually picked them to play in this game on the left hand side so I thought he should have started but there you go great run just run into the space picked the ball up run into the space and then got the ball back and put it in the back of the net fantastic made up for made up for him I hope he does well I hope he does well I hope I end up looking like an absolute knobhead for saying I don't rate him I hope I do I've got no I don't care I just want the best for heaven so great run and good goal fair play fair play and he was the right so by that time so I've given seven and a half Malpie um don't all right but you know I've given six and a half um and James Garnay uh yeah don't don't okay as well come back and made a couple of tackles and the game was already won by the time we come on so it was it was nice that he could come on and and and play uh I've given six and a half as well uh who were the other two Shubs was Tom and the Corey I'm not going to give them ratings because they were on the pitch for about two minutes um it was the Corey and Tom Davis they were on the pitch for yeah about six minutes but they barely barely touched the ball but there you go um yeah a good good solid win they should we should be getting about six seven of them a season easily two three nils easily genuinely we should a good lesson we should we should in fact I think in the last five or six years one of the major frustrations is this is that we don't be teams like palace more comfortably and I think and every game has become knife edge we should be beating teams like palace forest anyone who gets promoted basically um you know there's loads of them we should we should be getting we should be getting two nil three nil wins comfortably every season five six seven times genuinely um because I think that's what that's what we've been we were used to for years and I do think there's a large part of that frustration comes from there's so many close games and there has been for the last few years nip and tuck games but today we just scored at the right time and took it away from them I think the last time that really happened I would say was leads last season um against scoring goals at the right time and really dominating and making sure when you're when you are dominating you get the goal and that's why the second goal was so important today so good win good win made up with back back to winning ways and I think we've got we've got what is it three Premier League games now ahead of the world cup which on paper you go yeah don't that looks all right I think we could do all right there not going over but fullums fullums come coming up to tough game they're doing really well but you look at it and go we can get them there and obviously you're always thinking that way after a win anyway because you're a lot more confident but there you go delighted with that everyone worked the bollocks off today and that's the that's the baseline the baseline as we worked our bollocks off and we got our rewards in the M4 itself good win make sure you check out if you haven't already my instant match reaction goddess reaction there's loads of clips of the game well not the game the the the ground and all that kind of thing and um yeah make sure you check out Baz's videos as well uh there you go we'll be doing the final word on Monday live over on toffee tv premiere so make sure if you're not on toffee tv toffee tv premiere that you get on toffee tv premiere the link is in the description that might be on the screen in a minute see you later