 Welcome to Toffey TV. It is the final word. Brighton, Hovalian, Nill, Everton 2, Ace of Pairb, a Wade Day performance for the Toffey's gives Everton all three points and takes us into the international break in a good mood, a good mood net. Underfeed, two games away, four points and I'd say Leeds was a good point, Arlen Road, a good home in and a really good away win. We threw to the next round and the league cup as well, so a couple more days to go of the transfer window as well. It's all a nice start of the season and I think today's performance. I think out of the three games, just because of the way Brighton started the season, started it really well and everyone's four goals in two. Everyone was giving them the big and all that as you normally do and we haven't won there either. We've been there four times and we haven't won them. The home side I don't think had not won this fixture. So we've gone there and we've taken the tables on them and it was just a really, really good all round performance. To be honest, I think the first ten minutes I'd have been happy, I was saying to you wasn't that happy, I'll be happy with that point here but it was just, we rode the game out really well. We seemed in control towards the end. The goals we took really well, the Damari Gray goal, it just feels like, I was telling to you, pass it, because you don't expect a winger to just watch you. I don't expect a winger to score, to be honest. It's been so long, we've all been conditioned. The team itself, we had to obviously start with Keane and Paul Gates at the back, no Mina, no Godfrey, who both had problems. It was very weak. Gabamon had an abscess in his mouth, Mina had a noch, don't know where Tom Davis is, obviously no Keane. There was no one like if you went one little down, you need to change the game, there was no one really. Possibly you won't be on a good table. Andy Gordon was back in there, we had two goalies in there, so we wouldn't have eight players. It was a rather weak side, rather weak bench sorry, and you're worried about that. But you're right, listen, the first 30 minutes were not great in terms of like us creating. It was a bright enough and a lot of the ball, but without actually doing anything with it, they didn't have too many opportunities. They had a lot of the ball and they were breaking in midfield really quick. But once they got to the edge of the box, we dealt with it really well. They didn't have, I don't think they had any big chances, they clear cut opportunities. I think most of the shots on target were probably outside the box. Exactly, and I think what we did was, we did what we did last week at Leeds, we restricted them to very little clear cut chances. And I think the thing which would have been said in this game was, cut out the mistakes, don't give these opportunities. These be offered last week off two mistakes. They're not renowned for being a goalscorer, they're being renowned for being a good passing side. They're renowned for moving the ball quickly, but they're not renowned for winning. The XG is amazing, the XG is amazing, it's top four last season XG, but XG doesn't win your games if you haven't got a centre forward. It doesn't matter, our possession today was 34%. It was the same last week, and yet we've got four points out of the games. About half the passes of them as well. Because we control the game by not allowing the opposition to get in the box, essentially. I think before the season we said, with Raffer-Benith as a manager, you can imagine that games at home are going to seem like these. Most teams below us will get at them and then these are the way games will go and stay tight and compact and try and come away with a goal off a set. That was always going to be the danger, today was going to be set pieces. They got a few early on in the first half. You saw the team news before the game, obviously spoke about it just a minute ago. What did you make of Keane and Holgate starting? Who else could you start? Obviously me and... It's a bit of a nil point if you can't start anyone else can you? You knew when the team news was, you wasn't in the team in you. Let me change the question. Okay, go on. Was you confident that Keane and Holgate would have kept it to be cheap today? No, maybe that's what your question should have been. That's probably what your question should have been. No, no, I wasn't confident. Because we've seen them play together and they're not great together. They're not great together, they've got mistakes in them. And I was worried today off set pieces because these are good off set pieces. These scored last week on a set piece on the 10th minute and then scored the second goal with a mistake. But the capitalise on mistakes don't work really well. And they've got Duffy and they've got the other kid at the back as well. Lewis Dunk. Dunk. And that's what changes game set pieces, but I thought we dealt with most of the set pieces. Huddersfield did the night. Set pieces weren't great for us because obviously we've changed from one system to another. We've gone from last season playing a system where we were very deep on set pieces. And this season we've changed it to Zonal. And sometimes that can take a little bit of time or if you switch off. But I thought today everyone worked hard and they cut out those mistakes. So I was very nervous about them starting. But they did what they needed to do. They just defended. They didn't mess about. They didn't get caught on the ball. They didn't. They weren't passing it round the back. It was just that, get it and kick it away. Don't worry about anything else. I suppose that was a frustrating thing. Like you said in the first half an hour. We were winning the ball and he couldn't really seem to get out of our half. It was just the first 20 minute counter-attacks. I don't think we had a chance. We didn't have a chance. We just seemed really slow. We had a few ways the ball was getting round the edge of the box. We never actually had any attempts. Didn't have many shots off in the first half. Didn't have many shots across from some set pieces for those were terrible. And it wasn't until Townsend got older the ball. And I thought probably the last 10 minutes of the half we started to wake on things. Five minutes before we scored I think we were starting to get a little bit more joy. With Charleston was dropping in and picking the ball up and going nowhere. And he was dead filling that first half. I didn't get much better in the second half. But there was little signs. And I think Greig's goal shows you what you can do sometimes when you've got a little bit of pace and you have a shot. I think there was a couple of times in the first half we were sitting there going just shoot. Just put your foot through the ball to a couple of players. And he had the ball on the left hand side. He knew he had the player for pace which is fantastic that we've now got a player who can get his head down. Because Dom and Charleston are quite quick but they're not like... You don't see Dom making a run with the ball or you never see him making a run behind. Which Charleston seems... So we fear to Dom. Dom doesn't go out looking for the ball anymore. Dom stays between the posts and that's where he does all his best work. That's what he's been told to do and that's what the kind of striker is. Which Charleston goes looking for the ball but there's very few times where Charleston picks up the ball like one-on-one with the full back or the centre back and goes on the outside and beats him. More likely to win a free kick. It's more likely to come inside a lot of time where Gray just got his head down, beat him and once he got that half yard just thought I'm making it and once he hits it, can the keeper do better? Probably. I imagine the keeper probably could have done better but he hits it and it goes right in the corner and that's what happens sometimes. Sometimes that shot rolls back to the keeper and not, you know, but I'd rather see that than sometimes when a winger goes and then stops and checks and that was the difference. Every time they broke on us, which they did quite a few times in the first half, they had to stop and put the foot on the ball because we got a good defensive line and when they put the ball on it, foot on the ball, that had had Allen and the corey. The corey was stopping them and Allen had come round and nicked and I think that was just those little differences today. And once you go one-nil up, you think, okay? We're one-nil up now. We know they've got to come at us now and we've got to hard time and the manager would have been saying the same things. Don't give away silly mistakes. Don't give away silly files. Silly set pieces. First time being a goal up, isn't it? Half time. First time being in the lead. This season, yeah. First time we've been winning half time this season. Never again. So to come out second half, I thought, first five minutes again, they dominated and they got a free kick on the edge of the box, which looked like he was shaping to put a top corner and he's put it the other way and to be fair to Jordan Pickford. Jordan Pickford could have gone, you know, took that step and gone and that's what they're looking for, I think, plays in that position. They're looking for the goalkeeper to take the step because they think they're going to go to the corner but he didn't. He stayed where he was to the very last minute, which is, listen, if it goes top being everyone would have gone, why didn't you go early? But he didn't. He waited. This is something I think Neville Southall mentioned a while ago about goalkeepers in general. He said too many of them gamble now. He said sometimes you've just got to wait. You've just got to wait and he waited and he hit it and listen, it bounces off him and it nearly falls but it could have gone any way but we got it away and to be fair, there was only really a couple of skers in that half and that was one of them. Like I said, I don't think they had many shots on target. That weren't outside that were in the box. They had a couple from outside the box. Tross side had one, he had to wait too much space to get the shots off. We tried to curl it around and Pickford obviously nearly saved and jumped on it really quickly so I don't think we're giving much space. I think the message would have been today, don't let them get in behind you. There was one, I think there was one in the first, second half as well sorry, where they got down our right there left and he pulled it back and the shot was actually going wide and Michael Keane kicks it back into play and the box is full and obviously that led to a bit of a skirmish. They never really had a shot but that was the only real one I think at 1-0 to worry us and maybe if Michael Keane looks around he just lets that go on to play. It looked like it was going out but I'm guessing he's thinking the goal's behind. Oh yeah, yeah, but what you don't want to do is kick it directly into the penalty box. What you don't want to do is put snow on it, don't you? You just hit it right there. Thankfully they don't have a play who's reacting to it. Well that's the difference though isn't it? They don't have a play like that. Listen, we've been here a couple of times. I remember the first time we went, I think we got beat 1-0, I think it was around Christmas. I think it might have been a couple of... I think it was two days after we... not the first one, it's the second time. The first one was the ruining one wasn't it? The first one was the one. The second time we went there we got beat 1-0 and they scored literally... it was two days after we got... after we beat Bayley 5-1 and literally they had a corner that hit Gomez and went in. So it can't happen. So you've got to be wary of it of course but we dealt with it, we got it away. We had men behind the ball and I don't think they had many more. One shot I think from outside the box that Jordan Pickford pushed wide, done well and I think Sheamus Cullman cleared it up but apart from that they had nothing all game and we just started to get men behind the ball and we were breaking well and our second goal to be fair was superb. It was a superb ball inside the full box. It was a good run from Cullman getting across him straight away and then obviously if you get across your man you have away from him or you get brought down as a penalty obviously. It was a superb ball and Sheamus Cullman you know, you get in the box we were going with a little bit of pace and straight away we said penalty didn't we? We were watching it, we said penalty but you don't always expect to get them. You don't because whatever and we don't expect them and without any force or fanfare it was just like it's a pen because it was and I know that sounds stupid but as Evertonians we're so used to not getting those decisions and yet we've got two in two weeks. Do you think we should have had another pen? We'll get back to the first one in a minute but what about basiwm handball? No, there was the pull on the charlison. The pull on the charlison. That was the penalty? And the handball on basiwm. No, I wouldn't give that as a pen. I think it was too high up. No, I just think his arm was in a position where I'm not sure it would be a penalty. But what about the red charlison? Yeah, it was definitely a penalty. It pulls him back. Same as the one last week. But it's a pen but these are the things that annoy all football fans. We're one nil up, we're away. We've got a penalty and we've got a fantastic opportunity to go and double our lead with half an hour to go in a game where we're controlling. It might mean controlling the possession but we're controlling the game. And we were sitting and we were seeing the charlison with the ball both of us and we were like, what's he doing? What's he doing? Has he been told he's on the pens this week? But you could tell by other people's faces that he wasn't on the pens. But players don't want to make a big deal of it because they don't want it to turn into something it's not. You know, it's like anything, it's like when two players square up you're trying, you don't want to go over it and make it a big thing. Because most of the time when two players square up to each other and everyone runs over they're just trying to get them away but the next minute you're pushing, you're pushing, turns into a big thing. So it's just your own team, you don't want to do that. So you could see that, you could see the ever play sort of slowly saying to... The charlison was like smirking like that. He was like, the charlison but Tansen was like, come on. And then Alan was saying, Alan was like talking to obviously both Brazilian probably saying this. Don't be stupid, you know what, you know you're not the penalty taker. Dom didn't get involved. It's not in Brazilian is it? It's in Portuguese. Portuguese. Dom's staying out the way but then Coleman comes over and Tansen just knocks the ball out of his hands and rolls to Dom. I thought that was brilliant. I started seeing Alan's go up from a charlison and he's getting silky. It always happened when he's had a bad game he starts getting selfish and he's like, I want to push something. When he's had a bad game he's been clapped, he's been absolutely clapped today. If you're Dom there, you're just stood there feeling a bit awkward. You're like, oh, I missed this now. I'm going to look a bit like an idiot. Dom's that, we've seen this before. I've seen it with charlison last year against Chelsea. We saw it, the famous one with Morales when he cried about it and then missed it and we end up drawing the game 0-0. But the thing about to me was not only you causing trouble for yourself but you're putting pressure now on Dominic Arvill-Lewin to score the penalty. You're putting pressure on him. To be fair to a charlison, his last penalty was for Brazil and I think the ball's still going up in the Olympics. Silly run-up, won't it? Luckily enough, it was great to see those senior players get older. It was nice to see Tansen who's only been at the club a couple of months talking to him. It was good to see Alan you know, compatriot and it's good to see James Cormann going over to saying you're not the penalty taker. Come on. Let's have discipline at this club. Let's have leadership at this club because that's what's been needed. And I thought that was really important to show that leadership and I was delighted we had that leadership and then Dom steps up exactly the same as last week. Listen this, no matter what you think about Dominic Arvill-Lewin or whatever, ever. That shows what kind of person he is someone who practises, someone who's meticulous, someone who's being on the training field practising his penalties knowing that he was going to get an opportunity and he put it in exactly the same places he did last week and never go too nill up. Keep going the right way and it's the word. It's a great penalty. Bright in the corner. Brilliant penalty. That's someone that's a muscle memory that every day in training I'm going to hit that spot. I'm not thinking of anything else. I'm not thinking of oh God this goalkeeper might have watched my penalty from last week. I might know where I'm going. I'm going to change where I go. No, that's where I hit it and that's where I'm going to put it and he did and you tune it up and then it's can you control the rest of the game? Can you get through the next five minutes? And I think actually that's when Pickford pulled off a good save that he pushed wide. Can you get through the next five minutes and then the next five minutes and then the next five minutes and start wearing these down? And we did. We did through getting men behind the ball and you know good work by a lot of the players and clever subs. Well it don't went off soon after the penalty didn't it when I've been injured? I don't have a calf problem or something. I don't know. He looked like he looked. I don't know what it is. We're recording straight after the game so I don't know what it is. Obviously I think it will be coming on putting an extra man in midfield. Well the will be was about to come on anyway and I think maybe it might have been a muscle problem. If it's a muscle problem we know he's had problems with his I think his thigh before his hamstrings. You've got to be very careful with that. Tune it up with Charleston can go up front and woe we's going to come on. And that was probably the right thing to do. Well it was the right thing to do. Especially when you've only especially when you've got a couple of weeks as well till the next game. The right thing to do. And actually with Charleston when he went up front I thought he did alright. He held the ball up really well and he had a couple of opportunities that have a different passage coming. He would have had a tapping. And I thought We had a shot that went just wide into it. Well I thought midfield after we scored we just got older the game and we controlled. It was like Leithas week. We controlled the game. They had a huffed and puffed and then they tried to start playing it over the top and they were just saying we'll see going out because they haven't going to centre forward. And they just huffed and puffed and they never got anyway. And it was just it was that midfield I think it was the subs I thought the subs were brilliant. No matter but he says his tactics in the subs so far have been spot on. Every game he's got every... I thought last week that he could have maybe have brought it Five minutes. Thought he could have made a sub last week five minutes earlier just to just to get a grip at the game. It happens though sometimes things happen in a split second. You think your plays are doing well. You know it can happen really quickly but I thought if we want to tune it up and we even having to change it he wouldn't have wanted to bring Dom off there. Dom's out. Dom's someone you can knock the ball up to but we started playing differently. We started playing third man running a couple of little passes third man running giving the ball the Corey, a Wobby, a Charleston that little extra pass getting through and I thought we were so disciplined and we controlled that game the last 20 minutes brilliantly. It was never really I mean as I said I'm always near if you're watching a game football with Evan always because I've seen everything seen everything seen as being tuned up with whatever five minutes ago I've seen as tuned up with 30 seconds to go and not with the game I've seen everything with Evan so it was refreshing to see a controlled performance with the game. That was alright I couldn't see Brighton Brighton just weren't creating anything I know but I don't watch the game they didn't have any space in the final third I don't watch the game like that I watch the game through emotion I don't watch the game through the eye of someone who I don't watch the game You're watching the game thinking all the wind could blow in the ball I do, I do I genuinely do mate that's how I watch games of football I watched games that had a pure emotion because anything can happen in a game of football the goalie could kick the ball up and it could take a gust of wind and blow the ball over the goalie's head and they are it only takes one thing to change a game of football by the way when you're tuning up they shouldn't score it's all about momentum and we had them and to be fair when we were tuning up we should have scored more goals I said we would get a third one here didn't we? We should have the goalie had a chance I think maybe it may be Dom going off I think after scoring the penalty I think you could have had another 10, 20 minutes I don't know if you did have another 10 minutes but you had another 20, 30 minutes then you could have gone and got another one well listen it was all what I liked about the last 20 minutes was that we just kept the ball out they had a lot of the ball but they didn't go anywhere with it they didn't do anything with it what they did was they just huffed and puffed in midfield and we got men back and then we broke because they had committed and really it would have just been nicer seeing us get one more just to show the confidence levels that we had and the corey had one again he broke and it's come inside and the keeper makes a good save well we had a few didn't we? we didn't get on the ball and had it huffing away like we did most of the time in the first half we built a little pass and go down the left it went off and obviously that one with the corey it will be ran straight made a run down the middle and play it off to a child and I would say there's one in the last 10 minutes we just held the ball in there half so well and what we did really well what we did was great he came on and he just used the ball really well little one twos getting good areas becoming a different kind of number 10 and he's been, let's be honest he's had a really good start to the season and they said I'm the first I've given so much grief I've given so much grief in the last few couple of years because I just think just because I think when you pay a lot of money for someone he's not been good enough he's not been good enough and you expect you expect when you have two poor years I think you can have one bad year but when you have two poor years but again now listen this is the third manager and all it takes is that one manager to go I know exactly what I'm going to do with you this is your position Call over with Davies Silver had an idea of what he wanted to do but never used it and you'll have to use them as a winger but Benitez seems to know what he wants and it doesn't matter where he starts see this is the key thing right it doesn't matter whether he starts or he comes off the bench the manager knows what he's doing with them and what I like about today is because we had no other players to see Townsend for me is not going to come on and make a difference but a Wobie can if he's put in the right position and it's almost like the manager saying it's the manager backing his own game plan by the way it's the manager saying I've got a game plan and if this works out we're going to bring a Wobie on with 20 minutes to go and he's just going to grab all of the game and do what he needs to do that's a manager backing his own game plan rather than saying no we'll start with a Wobie and we'll go after it straight away and blah blah blah this is a manager I think that goes looks at the game and says this is what's going to happen because I understand the tactics of the game and there were 20 minutes to go whatever's happening a Wobie can either come on and hold on to the ball for us or he can come on and give us something to go and get scores from goals get us at the pitch exactly and I thought a Wobie did really well I thought Gomez did well as well I thought he did well the other night I thought he did well today I had a chance at the end as well didn't he he did from outside the box did we win a corner from that as well he had one where he won as a corner and he had one where he hit it from outside the box and the keeper had to make a smart save but again it's that intention to get in the box so far when I've seen Gomez in the last two games he's getting in the box he's not standing at the back he's getting in the box and maybe a lot of that comes down to who we're taking off and who we're bringing him on for and those kind of things and obviously you know Alan let's have a look at Alan's numbers by the way cos I just thought he was brilliant 49 touches 94% pass accuracy one assist staff for the penalty was it Townsend who made the pass for the penalty you got him assistant that might have been Jules 1-5 out of 12 key passes 3 there you go I thought he was sensational Alan today just all over the pitch he controlled the game brilliantly allowed to get a bit more stuck in I think the most important thing is that we see that every single week that relationship with Ducore has been absolutely fantastic so far seeing a lot of Ducore getting up the pitch a lot more obviously had that shot in the final 10 minutes Ducore is all over the pitch Alan is controlling the game in the midfield Ducore is all over the pitch though and it's it's telling that the manager is working on that relationship I think I think it's really telling that he's working on that and he's creating a base for those plays to go forward and he's asking some games Townsend to go forward, some games he's asking forward and back he's asking for Charleston to go forward and back he's asking a Wobie to go forward he's saying to them he's not something like a Wobie you just cast them aside on the right wing and go go and do it there but they're in the game now so I told Alan was a men's man of the match easily today is he your man of the match? Alan was a man of the match easily I agree with you, I think Grey had a good game just because of Grey's goal let's have a look at Grey's stats 32 touches 79% accuracy 1 goal shot block 2 key passes 2 and he's been he's been a breath of fresh air since he come into the side it's just nice to see a proper winger isn't it can play on the wing because he's a proper winger can beat a man can get him behind lots of pace and can score obviously with Charleston scores off the wing but he's centre four really isn't he it was just a really good performance it was a really good performance a good away win, first away win of the season nice to get that off your back straight away it's just a point out of the three games on the free to go on to them let's hope in the next couple of days we can make a couple of signings just to help that squad out get the players back who are covered as well obviously first game back it's Bernie isn't it home game next game Monday night under the lights couple of easy couple of games to expect we've got games coming up that we should be winning we should be winning the manager now can take stock of everything that's going on we've given ourselves a good base anyway to come off so being a good starter season the manager now can have a little look at it review the starter this season and as I said we've got a couple of days now transfer window see if we can get a couple more strengthen the squad get the players in hopefully some players don't go away on international duty all this stuff going on and listen I think the most important thing is for me anyway that I've been watching the first few games of the season and I'm not seeing this like horrible negative stuff we were told we were going to be seeing I'm seeing the kind of football that I like watching direct football taking chances having to go with the opposition and ultimately that's all we want to see that's all we want to see being in the lead and going for more we're building as well this time last year and I mean the start of the season we were okay we dug in a couple of games and Crystal Palace but then we put goals past Brighton and goals past West Brom and everything looked amazing but it was all a bit fake and a bit false where is this it looks like we are literally trying to build from the back defensive unit in now we're going to score goals as well so what's profession as well last season if you won a game you'd expect goals to be from Dumbledore at Charleston maybe Hammers and then I think after that was like Decorey had like a few a three I think Keane had three and then already we got Gray's got a couple so we got the one million worth Charleston, Dom's got three and three Decorey got one in the first game already I know Dom's got a couple of penalties but he's got three and three well if he took all the penalties last season if he scored all the penalties we scored last season rather than have it all stuck then he'd have had 20 goals wouldn't he it's all about confidence it's all about building confidence it's been a good start and I think most of it's only going to be happy with it so let's have a quick look at the stats go on match stats so 14 shots 14 shots, three shots for them five tools on target that's breathing for an away game one big chance 34% possession which is our sweet spot last year it was 38 this year it was 34 and obviously they had nearly double the passes we had but most of them are on the back it doesn't really matter you can have as many passes as you want as long as it says 211 that's all I care about so there you go good win good three points and it's been a good start to the season so let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one make sure choose the deadline there you are all over toffi tv because we'll be all over the transfer stories all day we'll have updates all day on what's going on what isn't going on who's coming in who's not coming in who's going out and who's not going out so make sure you have a bell for a late ticked that you're subscribing of course give this video a like and if you want more great videos daily live videos join us over on patreon thank you for watching the link to the description and also on the screen right now and we'll see you later