 Welcome to Toffing TV, it is the match preview Everton vs Crystal Palace Monday night, 8 o'clock. I've got to wait for everyone else to play and then it's our turn in what is a pretty big game Everton without a win since mid December. Going up against another team now, obviously a desperate need of a win as well. It's going to be a massively important game. It is, it's a huge game for us obviously. The points deductions for us right in the rap. We haven't won since we beat Burnley on December 16th in the Premier League. We have to start winning games. Our home form is dreadful. It's the one thing the manager has not been able to show us out since he got here. He's done really well with the away form but I couldn't have been an issue. He's got to turn that round for a larger honour now to do it. He's got to start on Monday night against a team he was struggling in. He'll probably have a new manager in place but that doesn't really matter given the length of time it is. It's up to Everton to go out and get the job done. Yeah, absolutely. As you mentioned there, probably going to have a new manager as we record. By the time this goes out it might all be confirmed but as we sit here now it's basically done. You guys agree but I think that shouldn't really matter. I shouldn't really play too much of a part in it. We're only having a few days to look at the situation and that. The home record is a pull. We're coming into the back end of February and we've won three home games. That's a pull and we've always built everything we've ever done really on our home form. It's only had three wins in the Premier League. Two of them came over the same weekend basically. It's really frightening and it's something that this team needs to sort out. We do have hopefully the positives of getting a few players back. D'Corey looks like he's going to be available as he's training. O'Nana came off the bench last week which is really positive. And just hopefully players just coming back now to get that full squad on Jay Goldman. Probably a little bit more away but in the last few weeks he was coming. Young's come back in. Players getting more time between games so hopefully they get a little bit fresher. The right back situation is still a bit up in the air but the manager probably now at least he's got four to choose from. Which is very interesting to see what he's doing. Obviously D'Corey coming back is the major thing isn't it? Because only one win without him. That was against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup under Sean Beish. One win and we simply haven't solved the problem. We don't have a play to solve the problem so I understand. But it's massively important that we get him back and we keep him fit. Yeah I mean he's played one game in the time that we lost one of Premier League games. That was Villar at home. A game that he did score him but it was offside. And then he went out injured again. We just were not the same team without him. He's played Jack Harrison there. He's probably the best one that's played there without D'Corey. It hasn't translated into victories. And like Gomez played there in the game funnily enough when we beat Crystal Palace which is the only one we've won in 11 games. He scored a win with a free kick. We just haven't been able to solve it. This is a bit of a reflect on me with the manager because we saw this last season when D'Corey was out. He didn't know how to combat it. It is difficult. He's had his eyes, his hands tied behind his back. But that is something they've got to look at going forward in the summer in particular. Getting someone in who can play in the same role as D'Corey. Maybe not the same person. There's probably not too many of them like him. But you've got to have another plan for when D'Corey is out. You can't just go, we haven't got him. We don't win. Which is essentially what we've done last season and we've done it again this season. So it's huge to have him back. He gets us goals. He links with Dom much better than anybody else. And his energy and he gets it on a pitch. He presses really well. It's a huge boost to have him if we've got him back. And like you mentioned on Anna, hopefully back to full fitness now came off the bench against City. He makes a big difference. We've seen the reintroduction of the dresser again. He's made a big difference to us since coming back in. So getting Coleman back again and obviously Ben Godfrey talked about the right back spot. Godfrey seems to be preferred there at the moment as well. So we're moving into a period now where it's one game a week. But we really have to double down on our home form. It's poor. Three wins the middle of February is atrocious and that is the big thing that I think the manager has got to get right. He gets that right, we'll be fine. There's home games against a lot of teams in that bottom half. We should be beaten. And Crystal Palace are one of them for the simple reason that the right buyers, we need to get the victory. And they look like they may well be without their best two players. Ezy and Olyshrae both don't seem like they've got any chance of making it for the game and they have to use that to their advantage. Let's have a little look at the Crystal Palace side on the last game out. As you can see. And as you mentioned, both of those players out. They are really the difference makers aren't they? The goals they scored recently before they got injured, they showed them the ability both of them have got is fantastic. And I'm sure people will start looking upon them soon enough. I mean, they score the great goal against Chelsea on Monday night. And they are very much aware when team and those two players give them that little bit of... Just give them something a little bit different and for them to not have those two players because we saw how good Ezy was when we played them down at Sellers Park in the league, obviously when we beat them. But it's a massive boost for us and we have to take advantage of it. Yeah, the shame when we've gone to the players and we haven't had the corey, we've had to change it, those teams have took advantage of the fact we've been depleted and we've lost the game. I'm thinking back to wolves away, we were tired anyway but we didn't have the corey, we made a big difference, we had a couple of injuries that day, they took advantage of it and full them away. It was an opportunity and we didn't win the game, they played as much as we did. This is our opportunity to get points by a team off the team, we were right by us. Who knows, we might have even been told how many points we're getting back or if we're getting any points back by the time this game kicks off. We might not because the Premier League might be thinking get another game off Sky out the way before we announce what's happening. But who knows how that'll play out if ever when they get points back and they drag us right next to the palace. Then this shows yet what a big game this is anyway but even without the points back that on one side, a win against these means that there'd only be three points between the two sides then. If we could beat them on two points, and that's what everything has to look at, we have to look at it that way. There's not too many occasions where you can drag someone else closer to you at the moment, we've just come off a run where we had two to three teams in the top four of our last four games. Let's just have a look at Mateta's numbers going into this game because he'll be the big danger man I'd imagine. 21 games, three goals next year of 2.87, three assists and an XA of 0.9. 5-9, sorry. 9-9. I'm just being told two different things here. I'm just being told two different things here. There you go. You can see the problems they've got very similar to us in a way. Goal score, we're a team, goal scoring, same problems. We take the best plays out of the team. They're obviously going to suffer. Let's just have a look at the match facts going into the game. Next Monday, the 19th February, eight o'clock Everton take on Crystal Palace in the Premier League. In the Premier League, the two teams have met 29 times. A total of 14 wins go into the Toffees, six to Palace and a total of nine draws. Everton are beaten in this fixture since December 2021 with the reverse fixture this season being the 3-2 win at Sellers Park to Everton. Season so far for the two teams, Everton sit 18th after a 10-point seduction, eight wins, five draws and 11 losses. Crystal Palace sit 15th. They've won six, drawn six and lost 12. Everton are second in the rankings for clean sheets this season with eight clean sheets. Crystal Palace have five. Everton's top goal scorer is Adelaide the Coray this season with six goals and he looks like he's set to return for this game. Crystal Palace' joint top scorer this season is Edward and Elyse, although John Felipe Tether has been leading the line-off as of late and Michael Elyse is out injured. Jordan and I are tops the assist chart this season with Crystal Palace with five assists. Everton's most creative player on paper is Dwight McNeill with four assists. There you go, all the stats ahead of the game. Palace are someone traditionally we do well against Andy so that's a little boost for us. We often sit here talking about bad stats and stuff but Palace, we've played them three times already this season, two wins and a draw last season, beat them at home, drew with them away, I think it was, season before obviously we got the late win. So it's someone positive that we should be beating again. Take the positive. As positive as it's been, I think we haven't done a double over since we qualified for the Champions League in 2004-2005. Listen, it doesn't count for anything of course but we have had a good record against them but it's up to us, we're at home and we don't win home games and that has got to be correct. We won the last two, we won two over a three day period other than that we won one game all season at home which is an embarrassment. And therefore... And home games are going to be so important because the home games we've got coming up, when you look at them, they're the games that are going to get us away from the trouble we're in. We are in the bottom three. It's sort of like it is this weird no man's land because of the 10 point thing and waiting for everything to happen but we are in the bottom three, that's the way it should be looked at and it is going to take results to get us out there and to get us away from where we are and we've got the likes of Palace, Field United, I like to knock someone's forest, Bailey to play home amongst others so we have to start getting that feeling and it's not about just going well if we do all right in this one then the next one's set up for now. We've got to go win games of football, do the job. No, we do and you touched on it there both teams, we've had a similar kind of thing this season we're structurally they're okay but the goals just haven't been there and you know we've seen, three goals leading the line for Palace and centre forward to go how many goals, three goals as well you know hasn't scored in 17 games which is, you know if you go with your own dikes model then it's likely to happen sooner or later then isn't it because that's the record today to be broken and that's up to Dominic to change that if he's the one starting the game on Monday we could do with him getting on a run now and getting us some goals and getting his confidence up cos that'll help us get over the line in games this is a great opportunity you know all of a glass and going in there ex-Frankfort manager I'm sure he'll do alright there but this game will come a little bit too quickly for him to be able to effect it massively they might get a little bit of a lift he might run a little bit more cos it's something new but we'd have to have that energy anyway we'd have to run them down anyway because that's what it's about you know when it's the players you play the game no matter how good his tactics may well be Crystal Palace will still be without their best two players and Everton have to take advantage of that and win on Monday night it's a tick, it's the first win for a while it's the first win of 24, it's a home win it ticks a few things off and right then it will shut you up going to Brighton and having other home games to come that'll be winnable and some are tricky obviously to Dabi I love that, it's going to be the end of the season it looks like we have got to start getting on a positive run and this represents the opportunity to do that we have to start putting pressure on the teams above us and because we can't rely on if we get beat or if we draw with teams hoping that they have a negative result we have to start putting pressure on the by winning games and taking advantage if they have negative results you know it's like this time of year you don't expect wins from certain teams and they start picking up wins or whatever we have to start getting to our getting ourselves to a point where because at the end of the day it's all you know 10 point deduction we might get some back but we might not and if we have to get ourselves in a situation where we have 10 more points than what we need essentially isn't it so if it's 36 we need 46 points that means we have to start winning some games simple as that go on do we you know you've got the opportunity don't pass these opportunities up because we've done that we've won the first three on games of the season like we should have done we wouldn't be anywhere nearer in any of this trouble but we haven't we haven't won enough on games and it's as simple as that and we've had games we had loot and again in the FA Cup the other week at home everyone was like yeah we beat these we didn't really we probably should have won the game on the day but we didn't take our chances the intensity wasn't good enough on me losing we can't do that on Monday ultimately that's where it starts to start changing isn't it defensively we are a good side it's the second best team in the league it's the backbone of what we've done this season but we have to start scoring goals that come from open play it's as simple as that there's too much reliance on set pieces it's great it is a way we can we can get goals but what we saw at the Etihad was if you don't force corners then you're getting goals we have to find a way of playing open play if that obviously will be helped because the core will come in and it does allow us to play slightly different way second balls will drop to him a lot of the time but we have to find a way because if we don't we can't just be reliant on those set pieces and start forcing some games because you get a goal you go a goal up in a game like this then a lot of the time that's enough you go on and get your second goal and you know it's just that face one a lot of the time we scored with the biggest under performance for XG so if the manager has gone on of our XG this season we're lasing out days of staff for him we scored 26 goals and our XG puts us at 36 26 goals and 50% of those are being set pieces so we scored 13 goals from open play it's a disgrace it really is not all on the manager the players are missing chances then players have got to start putting the ball in the net talking to Dominic Alvedlun and talking about Dwight McNeill the core has done it in general and done well but where's our full backs getting goals where's our centre backs getting goals you know no brand to be got one against Spades but we have to see more of that the midfield your time is now go out and get a couple of goals from your field them kind of things they will drag you through some of these games but you do no matter what with all that being said you need your centre forward scoring goals Dominic Alvedlun fitting firing and we must have figured he's scored a cracker against these last year it doesn't really go goal that put us on our way to a 3-0 win but it's something like that again this time and then you're looking for the likes of Beto to get on the pitch near the end and try to take the game away if you can win this, who knows we might get some points back we might even know about a takeover all of a sudden we might have some clarity but not even rosy but at least just some clarity for us to go ok this is where we are right now it all starts with the football and the football is winning the game so they'll want to impress the new manager but you've got to put all that instead of being fearful and going we've got to go now with a better side or we'll prove with a better side on the night you've got to injure these and all that haven't got to go and do that and if they do that then maybe things will start looking a little bit the killer thing is that we don't play everyone else plays before so the situation could look a little bit worse before it gets better I think about that all weekend do is worry about ourselves and hopefully get past Palace before they may well have a big up time with Glaston at Inchars but who knows we just got to do a bit in this and get over the line Absolutely, there you go Let us know what you think in the comments tell us how you're feeling going into this game Download the sofa score now I wouldn't yet, free to get all of the stats on next year's stuff and all of that, that's easy the link is in the description or the QR code is there If you just get your scores from it if it's the app you go to to get your scores get all the stats Let us know your thoughts in the comments make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want daily live videos exclusive videos without any adverts on the videos or the podcasts because some people haven't got time some very busy people want to 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