 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the instant match reaction Everton have just beat Fleetwood Town 1-0 in the Carabao Cup and that's a barrel I can say a barrel. No, no it was an absolute typical second round of the Carabao Cup for Everton. We played a mixture of squad players, a mixture of new signings. For once we actually played some kids which is quite unusual for Everton and some plays that have started. No different than last season against Huddersfield and every year before that, I think the year before that was actually Fleetwood, wasn't it? It just wasn't a very good game at all, wasn't it? It wasn't a very good game, decided by a player who shouldn't even have been on the pitch because Tom Davis was due to start and Damari Gray started instead. One mistake and a couple of passes later and he's put it in and it's 1-0 but yeah it was just what you expected this time of year. I mean you'd love it to be better, you'd love it to be a bit classy, you'd love it to be a bit of a hammering but unfortunately it wasn't. We've got our first win of the season and we have to be happy with that. But it does highlight all the issues, let's be honest it really does highlight all the issues we've got with the squad. Rondon off-front obviously is the main standout, he was poor, he doesn't give you much at all, he doesn't give you much of anything. He was very very disappointing tonight against defenders who we should be handling and that in itself is not really the issue, that he's had a bad game. The issue is that that is our back up and also our starting striker at the moment and evidently I've got to do something about that because if we don't, if we don't do something about that then we will be in the bottom three at the end of the season. I guarantee you if we don't do something about that because that's just not good enough at all. For him to be a back up striker and you can't fully rely on your main striker, that is a major issue. And all the talk about players coming in and going I don't care, go and get me a striker, go get me two, go and get me a striker and a goal scorer and winger or midfielder because that's a major, major problem we've got at the moment. A major, major problem. They don't solve it by a week Thursday, you know, eight days then we've got big problems. We have got big, big problems ahead of us this season so that has to be sorted out. Other little disappointing things, Dwight MacNeill, garbage. He was garbage, I don't really care what anyone thinks he was garbage tonight on, you know, very, very disappointing. Yeah, he's so, so the target of them, the kitten with some heavy tackles, you know, welcome to England kind of tackles that in this tournament you always seem to get away with, always get away with it. It's very, very strange that the referees play, don't try and play up to the standard, they play down to the standard. So it's just like, oh, it sounds you can just get away with booting people all over the place because that's what we do in league one or two or whatever. It's every year that happens and it's a joke to be fair. So it's difficult to gauge this game tonight. It was difficult to gauge this night just because again, I'd like to have seen Tom Davis having a little bit more and maybe having someone in there, a bit more defensive minded and not allowing to push forward, but we didn't and the person who replaced them was the goal scorer. Just on him, it's good that he scored last few games, real good confidence booster. Let's see him grow now. Being a lot of question marks about him in the last six months, but it's great that he's got back to back goals and that'll give him, because you know this team really doesn't have goals in it. So it was good that he scored tonight and that's good for his confidence and he has to keep that going. Awobi, best player on the pitch by a mile. I mean just like the confidence is flowing through. They'll add best player by a mile just everywhere all over the pitch. Just miles really, miles better than everybody else on the pitch. Everyone else was, you look at everyone, you look at everyone else and plays coming into the team or whatever. There wasn't too many plays. You just had like a calm night. He was excellent and probably saved us some money in the role he plays, even though we've already wasted that money on Dwight McNeill. So yeah, he was excellent tonight and it was good to see the young lads getting a game as well. You know, the contributions here and there really, in terms of them doing anything, you know, Bruce Welch and Wellington and Stanley Mills coming on. You know, Lewis Wellington always wants the ball. I really like that about him. He always wants the ball. He goes back to the defence and asks for it and then starts Stanley's pre-passes. Mills very competitive and Welch did alright. So good to see Frank Lampard trust in young players because as I said before, we don't often tend, because in the last few years our squads have been so ridiculously bloated that we've played a lot of the squad plays in these games rather than the youngsters. And it was good to see three on there tonight. Good to see three given a go. Yeah, Vinagre, yeah. I'd like to see him put more crosses into the box. But he's fine. Good to see Coleman getting the full game under his belt. Patterson did alright. Tarkowski came up on the end just to shore up. Funny enough, I think they had more shots on target than we did. But we were never going to lose the game. We never looked. There was a little spell in the second half for five minutes or so. That was it, you know what I mean? They never really troubled us. But I found a ball and obviously around the box. Patterson had a decent effort in the second half and obviously McNeils had a shocker of a miss in the first half. It's hard, isn't it? Because you know, Vinagre, people will say, oh, you've had a terrible game, but that's his first start in everything. It's difficult. It's difficult. You come into a new team and you've been on the bench and that's your first start. You can say that about O'Nanon as well. These players need game time. To be honest, I used to stress about playing. Why would you need to play our best team? I don't really stress about it now because that team tonight, the manager put it out. It should win. It did win. It wasn't a great game, but it won. O'Nanon has got minutes now. Vinagre's got minutes now. Welsh has got game time, Coleman's got game time. From that point of view, we've won the game and people have got a game under their belts. That's all that really matters at this stage and I know a lot of the time. I've been guilty of it myself. You go and batter these, make an example of them, but from the manager's point of view, I need to get him minutes and I need to get him minutes. Actually, it's nice to have some of the youngsters as I said as well. Also, he's kept, you know, Hallgate hasn't had to go on. Michael Incom hasn't had to go on. Anthony Gordon hasn't had to go on, which is nice with Chelsea. So they haven't had to play, so that's good as well. Jordan Pickford's not involved, Conoco, he's not involved, so their legs are saved. Obviously, there is the issue of Tom Davis, how bad that injury is. I mean, he's done it in the warm-up, so I can't imagine it's too bad. Sometimes what happens is players do have injuries in the warm-up and they just can't be assessed. So it's a case of, no, you're not playing, especially in a game like that and I don't take the risk. So it is what it is. It's not great. It's a win. We're through to the next round. Hopefully we get a nice little cushy home number. Don't want QPR away like last year, you know, somewhere, some long journey away when you just want a nice little cushy home one. And that's it. That's it. Listen, we know what the issues are. The issues are, we need a centre forward and we need someone else who can score goals. That's the day with the issues on Saturday and they're the issues today. They're not any different. They're not any different. So get that sorted, Everton, because if you don't get it sorted, we are in a huge amount of trouble. And that's got nothing to do with tonight. It's to do with the bigger picture. But tonight and the performance by, you know, Rondon and how poor we were in the final third. That just shows it. So tough game saty against Brentford. A few players have had a chance to be rested. Let's see what happens ultimately. We need, we know what we need and we have to go and get it. So there you go. Yeah, I'll be doing my player ratings, which will be difficult because, yeah, it's just like a weird, slow rubbish game. And Baz will be doing his video. So make sure you check out them. Thanks for watching. We'll be doing the final way tomorrow live on ToffeeTV premiere. So make sure you catch that as well. If you're not a ToffeeTV premiere, become one. The link is in the description. I'll be on the screen in a moment. See you later.