 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, Aston Villa vs Everton. Three points, come on. Big opportunity to get the three points this weekend away at Villa Park. Two teams who were both beaten on the first game with the season. Obviously Everton have brought a couple of players in since then. Tough game, tough game though isn't it? Very tough game, not beaten Villa since they got promoted back home. But a really tough game and obviously Everton's team or squad has been well documented and was really evident last week against Chelsea, the final third no striker. Everton do have Salomon Ronddon, the gold machine back this weekend. Now to be fair, you know Everton I've got a striker back in the squad this weekend. But it'll be a tough game Villa, always is a tough game. The most played top flight fixture of all time. Villa got good players, they're a good side. So we were beaten there last year, we don't actually be played all right for an hour there last year. It's the only great opportunity that he put wide and then 30 seconds later we fell behind and then they ran all comfortable in this one again. It's going to be a tough game but they didn't start well. They went very good against Bournemouth at the weekend either so. But I'm sure Steven Gerrard will have them fired up. It's a challenge for us to go there but we've obviously brought Conacodian which is big for us, he knows that area really well doesn't he? What's the city? Just around Villa, just right by the Grandi knows that area. Now obviously being playing in the Midlands for the last seven years he's had some good results of Phillip Park so it's good for Everton that we were able to get him in following the injuries last Saturday to obviously two of our centre apps. Yeah I mean obviously we were sitting here last weekend there was a lot of rumours about him coming in and he's now come in and obviously you would imagine he'd go straight into the team. He'd take the place of me in it and I imagine Hoggate will come in as well. I imagine we'll continue with the three and as you mentioned there Rondon likely to start the game really because you need the centre forward. Would you start him? I would start him because I just don't see enough in those other three. You know and Delhi will be the one I'd start but I understand why you would say Rondon for an hour. For an hour yeah I'd just probably start him and say well this is a bit of a focal point at least keep the defenders occupied and then trying then that maybe would allow someone like Gordon or Dwight McNeill then to play in and around them. I just think you need that focal point up front and then it would be interesting to see where they own on and get a debut with me. What I would say is I wouldn't replace either Woby or D'Corey with him. It's just whether the manager feels like he could go in and make an extra body in there with the being on the way game. I'd play 5-3-2 at the weekend or 3-5-2. I would and it'd be Rondon or Delhi but probably Rondon because he's a specialised striker certainly to try and get us a photo holding the game and I'd have someone off him whether that be Anthony Gold, No Dymarey Gray, just off him. I think the reason why I'm saying that with those is because they've got peace to pair with them and if you've got someone who's flicking things on then you've got someone running beyond them and then you get your wit for the little incone pattern because they'll play 3-3 back a lot as well and all that is a track and threat so everything might match them up. I actually think if he did that, I guess I am affecating on Anna getting his debut and that might be a step too far but if you were thinking about playing him because I don't think D'Corey or Woby did it to myself because I thought he played well against Chelsea but if you add Omnana in there as well you've got three bodies in that midfield can make you compact that midfield and then obviously get up to Anthony Gold and at times it can be a 5-4 one if you want but away from home we all want to win, we always want to win of course we do but we've ever wanted to come out of it with a point I think that would be a solid point that because it's a tough game, it's winnable because like I said we haven't started great they've had the rumours of a little bit unrest there at the minute sure that's settled down but right now they're not pared and they're not bombing along I think if you make it as difficult as you can for them haven't I got opportunities to get some out of this game? Yeah it is obviously scoring goals for us is a worry but I do think that one place ever can have a bit of joy is definitely like set pieces I think the first game of the season certainly from a defensive point of view we looked a lot better and I think if what's happening defensively then I think offensively you've got a big chance as well and you know Connor Cody loves the goal from a set piece you know Tarkhouse he's no slouch up as well you know I've got the aerial threat of then like someone like Rondon if he does start the game so I think that's the corey off set piece Yeah and I definitely think that's definitely somewhere where we hopefully will get better this season and in tight games that can be the difference can't it if you have good deliveries into the box that's the main thing you've got to get the deliveries into the box and they haven't always been there but certainly for us so Would you go with two midfield like Lashley would you go with three to try? I don't know ultimately because I don't know what condition O nan is in and I don't know whether he's ready to start manager you know he might have had nearly four weeks training and the manager might look at him and think yeah he can go straight in and with another two because ultimately I hope he's not a defensive midfielder he's someone who's going to try and pick up the ball and try and break him don't know what he's going to do the other side of the game as well it's just that he's not someone who I think is going to break up play and then move forward with it and that's going to be tougher away from on because obviously they're going to have a lot more possession so we are going to try and imagine playing on the counter attack and listen if he's got more options then that's a great thing the more options the better so we'll have to wait and see what he does with that but let's just have a look at Villa's team from last week yeah so there you go and he went to four at the back last week did me mings result and there's been stuff around him while I was seeing something today saying he's on a break against signs to be fit so I don't know what that is but there are partners obviously very good goalie Matty Cash Consec, Carlos and Dean stay back four and then Ramsey Cymara and McGinn and Catini o Leon Bailey and obviously Danny Ings there's rumours that Gerard's fell out with Watkins again this is all noise that could literally just be nothing other than rumours but they've got quality in that squad you know we know all about it we know last season Leon Bailey had this a great game he got his dust never played again no turned the game and then carried on getting injured but we know he's a threat, there's Paiche, Catini he's got that ability to win a game on his own so there's real threats on up front whether it's Danny Ings or whether it's Ollie Watkins they carry a threat, I really like it Jacob Ramsey, I think he's a fantastic young player and we know where he could be in threats so Villa have got some classy players that can hurt you but haven't coped with Chelsea quite well at the weekend they had really not created in the game until late on which was a counter attack what we were pushing on and we have to have that kind of performance again we have to be taking the sting out of the game what's funny is though is you go up against a team like Villa and obviously they're playing at home and they do have a proper striker and that's the Chelsea didn't play with the proper striker and that's where we were able to nullify them and it would be a different test but of course with Conacody going in there he's no obviously no stranger to the Premier League so we'd be well aware of that threat we'll be a different test but of course it's going to be a different back three basically as well, I thought Holgate did well when he came on last week and he will be that little bit extra paced on the other two so if we can make sure we don't give anything away cheap because I felt like last season a couple of the goals we give away the one from the corner no goal by Dean just straight away those kind of things we can stop that's what I mean, no that's what I'm saying if they're goal Leon Bailey at the the freedom of the ground so we think if we can we obviously have got to get away from giving away cheap goals and you look at the pace and everything we have got the ability but then it does tain into well yeah but you've got to take the pressure off as well what can you do with the other end and that's always going to be bringing in players bringing in good players, better players but if we're not bringing in players at that end of the pitch it's always going to put a pressure on and I'm sure we are but for the next couple of games without having that threat at the other end of the pitch we're going to have to be on it in defence and make sure we keep those kind of players quiet whether it be a catino or whether it be what can's is involved and Bailey obviously so it's never an easy place to go bail apart the last few years with not had great memories of it so it is a tough game it is a very tough game and you don't want to start the season with back to back defeats even if the first game you're looking and go Chelsea at home and didn't have a centre for you don't want to start the season with back to back defeats you've got to make sure you can try and get something on the board something you can go into the next game thinking we've got a little bit of positivity here and it takes the pressure off that game yeah of course it does now it does and obviously like we say in isolation it's a tough game we know that but they didn't start great they were poor at born a lot of the ball and they didn't do much and so again like I said before catching them you might sometimes catch these teams at the right time they'll be looking to get their season up and running of course they will but that's the challenge isn't it everything in some areas have really improved from last season and in others are you up front where it matters at times where it matters mostly we haven't had a lot of players so I remember Salomon Rondon close to in fact this was his full debut last year but we just lost him and he had the opportunity to score great for it he just reacted too slowly that was at 0-0 so hopefully he can go one better this time and put the ball on the net but the quicker Everton addressed this on a game that we spoke about on other shows ideally we'd like them to bring two in up here and not one and that might look like a wide player and another forward to go through the middle I think we need to I think we do have to push the boat as much as we can to bring in to play because when you look we've improved the squad people will tell you that we haven't simply because Retialison has gone that isn't how you look at it you have to look at the whole squad and go well are we better defensively than last season well James Tarkovski and Connor Cowley yes we are we've lost two to the weekend but then to make you better there in midfield we've got Omnana, we didn't have last year looks like a real good prospect it's early, we've got to be patient if we get Ghana, former Everton I'm a villar player of course you get him over the line then midfield is better in my opinion much better it's that final third and that's the goal and if Everton can get I'm not saying he won't but if Everton could get like an Emmanuel Dennis he talks over Gerasif in France at the moment they've got him as well but it is early and those players those players you've just mentioned there they allow you to be on the ball more and more solid and be a little bit more dominant and you have more opportunities then that gives those players like Gordon Dwight MacNeill Damari Greig if it gives them more opportunities if they're getting on the ball then I'm sure we'll take a couple of chances sorry to interrupt you might have brightened it the weekend Pascal Gross doesn't get loads of goals he's ended up with two on day one because other movement from players you can get them goals at any time of course you can and that's what we have to in the short term but I think we both said it that's okay in the short term while you're looking to get one in but you can't do that over the scene even someone like Rondon in a game like this if the full backs are pushing high and the wing backs and getting the ball in the box and Rondon makes a little bit of a danger making a nuisance of himself and a ball drops and it breaks to one of our offensive players then it's little things like that that I think last week we didn't have but I think in a game like Villa would suddenly and you do have someone in the box Rondon might be the greatest player in the world but as a centre forward he knows the role he knows what to do you're not going to be able to throw a ball in the box the centre forward the centre backs are just going to be able to header away and there's not any problem you have someone like Rondon or someone who knows how to play that role suddenly even if you're challenging and you're putting the centre back off and it breaks and you're keeping possession and you're on the that's where a real centre forward the role we had that opportunity last week we didn't want to call God now too much but the one we griped for it in it was a free header looks like Anthony conclosed his eyes but if that was Rondon you'd have fancied him to at least get a header on target whether he scores one or two different things so I realised that people would be watching going you seem to be talking Rondon up here but what was saying is he's he didn't have a forward last week and he is a forward and the point is if you haven't got a centre forward in the box and you full backs get the ball you wing back get the ball you're always turning back that's another way to score goals and if you've got runners in behind Rondon and he's playing the back to goal and he's pinning centre backs at least they get people might go it gives you nothing but I tell you what as a centre forward I'd rather have had Rondon last week than Gordon simple as that he would have given them a tough attack and would have allowed us to play a little bit higher up the pitch but maybe Gordon and Grey would have done more just let's have a look how everything lined up last week because obviously there will be changes for this week obviously we have a pick for the goal and we started with Godfrey, Meenard and Tarkovsky will quite clearly this week two of them ain't there and they're not going to be there for a while so you'd expect it to be Mason Holgate because he came on and did quite well last week and obviously you'd expect Cody to come straight in rather than Michael Keane he's had a week's training with the lads I expect Paterson and Michael and Co to start again I think both done well last week D'Cory and a Wobe I thought he both did well last week I've seen people saying D'Cory didn't play that I thought he didn't I thought them two were fine last week and then obviously we had Dwight McNeill off the right, Damari, Grey and Anthony Gordon so Rondon is to come in Udoeish and Frank Lampard does keep that and he does keep the two in midfield which would be them two there's no one else really at the moment someone out of the front three is going to drop out I think it would either be Gordon or Damari, Grey and I think you've got then maybe a bit more of an impact player coming off the bench and I think Dwight he was so left-footed and I think he's going to keep his place whereas I think the other two are a little bit more I was just thinking it might be McNeill just simply because we're going to have to play almost on or I imagine we're going to try to play on the counter attack and that might be Rondon coming short and Grey and Gordon over the shot but I understand what you're saying if Rondon's on the pitch and he's the one that is going to be backing in McNeill's got that lovely left foot and it might allow Paterson to run and deliveries as well, set pieces Exactly, it might allow Paterson to run Dean as well because we know that he's not the quickest but he's fantastic with left footers so it's going to be dead interesting and I just wonder if if he will put three in my field or he will go with that almost that three, four, three again it's going to be interesting, it's going to be a tough game but let's listen to a few stats we didn't do them last week it's great, it's entertaining to the Premier League, Aston Villa have unbeaten in all six games against Evan they're the only side they've faced in all three seasons and not lost against Evan have failed to score in the last three away games against Premier League matches against Aston Villa attempting 38 shots without scoring they're the only side they've faced in each of the last three seasons and not scored against This is the 105th difference in the soft flight season Aston Villa and Everton are set to face the most of any two sides in history it's one of only three Premier League fixes this season that was also played in the inaugural soft face soft flight I'm not going to say that one because I don't want to jinx it I don't want to jinx that and I don't want to jinx that there you go you've given me nothing but negativity there no, but there was two really positive ones I've said that, you've jinxed it no, that's right I'm cutting that section there you go make sure you check out the starting 11 show as well so you find out what we really think who's going to start and also if you're a toffee TV Premier member, join us over on there for the opposition preview as well give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want to be a toffee TV Premier member for exclusive videos exclusive daily shows and all our videos coming out as podcasts join us, the link is in the description it'll be on the 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