 Welcome to toffee TV it is the player ratings Brighton won Everton five. I didn't think I would be saying that this evening but there you go. There you go. Brilliant win. Absolutely huge, huge win for Everton tonight. Absolutely, absolutely massive, massive. Yeah, let's get, let's get, let's get into the player ratings. Jordan Pickford, huge game for him. I think it was four saves he made, just four massive saves. And even the goal he conceded was really unlucky as well. Even the goals he conceded, the goal he conceded, he hit McCallister on the shoulder and went in off, off bounce and off the post. So he was really unlucky with that as well. But I thought he was, I just thought those saves were so, so important for us to do such big saves at really important times as well. Massive, massive times in the game, you know. Being three in a open, you could look at it and think I would be safe but we weren't, we wouldn't be because it's Everton. We know what Everton are like. So four massive saves. I'm going to give him a nine because I just thought it was when he made the saves as well. There were such key moments in the half, in the second half. He hadn't really had to do anything in the first half but those saves in the second half, they just come in such, such big moments. So I'm going to give him a nine. Nathan Patterson obviously came in against Leicester for the second half. Has been out obviously large part of the season and can be defensively at times, a little bit of a woolly I thought. He started the game slightly ropey but I think he grew as the game, because the game went on and he just, he made sure he didn't do anything stupid. He grew, he got up and down, he got up and down the pitch. Not too offensive because he didn't really have to be. We didn't really counter attack with the full backs because we didn't really have to tonight. Because that was more of what Dwight MacNeill and what we were doing and obviously the Corey breaking from midfield was massive as well. But I thought he had a good game, I thought he had a good game and it's a good platform to grow. I keep saying this is a lad who hasn't played a hell of a lot of games. He's still very early in his event career, still plenty, still plenty of room to grow into. I'll give Nathan Patterson a seven. On the other side, Michael Henko, the same it was more about doing his defensive duties tonight rather than anything else. He didn't really get up the pitch that too many times, he was more just defending it. It was a bit more difficult for him, second half, I thought second half. It was a little bit more difficult for him when they changed. They changed basically attacking from one side to the other and I thought he did struggle a little bit like that. But then he came up and made some really good blocks and just interceptions and little things. Again, just little things like winning the ball at the back post off headers and things like that. Just big moments that added to the game. He wasn't going round being amazing or anything, he was just doing his job for the most part. So I'll give him a seven as well. In the middle, this is where I thought we were really strong tonight with Jeremeen and James Tarkowski. Jeremeen obviously is first game back since the West Ham game, so it's his first game under Dice. First minute he's gone under Dice at all. It's one of those things where you're like, I've wanted this play to be in the team for ages. I was a little bit worried because you just think, oh god, but straight away he was doing his job. 13 clearances, two block shots, one interception, two tackles, ground duels, one two out of four, aerial duels, he won three out of five. He was just heading everything to be honest, absolutely everything. He and Tarkowski because they do put a lot of crosses into the box. But also, they like to change your up a little bit as well. They like to change the angles that they play from. So he had to concentrate the whole game, he really did. I thought he was excellent, he meant Tarkowski. When you're looking for aerial dominance, when you're looking for someone who, I don't know why he got booked. The book was nonsense, I don't know why he got booked. But he's just a really good defender who's just a hell of a lot more switched on than Michael Keynes. He's just got much better defensive traits. Now, no, Keynes doesn't get injured and that's obviously been the damn fall of Jeremeen. But when you've got that many defenders on the bench and you can make subs for the life of me, I can't understand why you wouldn't keep that consistency. Sorry, when you can put them in there and if you get injured, you can bring someone in. So I don't understand why you wouldn't have Jeremeen in the team. I don't know why Michael Keynes was ever in the team, if I'm honest. He's just baffling. So Jeremeen, I would give an 8. James Tarkowski probably the same, won everything, kicked everything. Some really big headers in there. Like me winning everything or trying to win everything and making sure that if you don't win the header, you put the opposition off and I thought again, James Tarkowski was massive in there tonight. He probably has been our most consistent player all season. Tarkowski really has, he's been superb for us all season. Listen, he's had bad games and he's had to go from a 3 to 2. He's had different partners. It's funny, isn't it? Because we spoke earlier in the season. Him and Conoco, he just seemed like they were going to be the partnership once we've gone to 2 at the back. And he's played alongside. Obviously Michael Keynes, Jeremeen. Has he played alongside? On opening day he played alongside Ben Goff, he did me so. But again, so consistent. Yes, he has his off days. I can understand that he does have his off days but he's a regular 7. He's a regular 7 out of 10 every week. And he was like that again today. Again, another big performance from. I'm just looking at his stats. Clearance is 10, block shot 2, interceptions 3, tackles 3. Ground duels 1, 3 out of 3, aerial balls, duels 2 out of 3. So again, massive, massive Tarkowski again today. I'm going to give him 8.5 because I just thought he was so important. Especially in that second half. Especially in that second half he was massive for us. Again, got a booking but it's the kind of booking I like to see. The kind of booking where you take someone out and you make sure they don't get up the pitch. Again, just sat in front of that back 4, tried to break up the play. Not loaded, didn't have loads of touches at the bottom, 34 touches. But just really important in just the little things you did. Ground duels you won 5 out of 7, tackles 3, interceptions 1, block shot 2, clearance 1. But again, just consistent, just inconsistently sitting in front of the back 4. Trying to break the play up, just stopping the passing lanes. Doing all the dirty work that we don't always look at. And when that kind of play, when they're not in the team, you notice it massively. And I think again, I think I just again, I guess had people have asked, will last all the time or what does he do? But again when you do that job, when you sit in front of the back 4 and when you make it hard, when you almost become another centre back or you sit in the face line of protection, it's so important. And yeah, he picked up the yellow card but it's one of those things isn't he? He picked up the yellow card to stop them breaking. You've got to take them sometimes but he's got a consistency in this game that is it's massive. So yeah, so I'll give, what did I give him? Did I give him a score? I'll give him 7.75. James Garner, a little bit quieter. He should have got the fourth goal shouldn't he? He should have got the fourth goal just before half time. It was a sit-it, it was on a plate and that would have made us all feel a lot better. Yeah, he did alright but only 32 touches which is quite low. He was alright but again I don't want to pick fault with anyone today because I think they all did a brilliant job as a team rather than as individuals. Three interceptions, two tackles, clearance is three. As I said only 32 touches which was quite low but he did have a really low amount of possession didn't he? So not the kind of game for someone, even though we scored five it wasn't the kind of game for him for someone like him to get on the ball and because we did play an account attack him and Garner again because they did sit sort of deep. Their job was to stop them playing and then just get us on the break by one pass. So I'll just give him a seven. I might be being massively generous there but there you go. Abdelay de Coray, huge, huge game from him, two goals obviously but he just got round the pitch so well he was everywhere, his heat map for the game is all over the pitch. Obviously scoring the first minute is a huge help, a good finish from a great run from Dominic Armand-Lewan and the second one is a brilliant finish, absolutely brilliant finish. That is not an easy one to finish, it's a great ball in but that's not an easy one to put in the back of the net and he does and he set us up, massively set us up and he was always the player pressing, almost creating a 4-4-2 at times and again he had to come in, he had to fill in he had to drop back, he had to create a shape to make it difficult for them to break us down and he did brilliantly. So Abdelay de Coray, I'm going to give him a nine and he was scoring two goals, I mean two goals the most we scored away from home all season had been two goals so to get two goals in the game and set us up for the victory absolutely massive from Abdelay de Coray so I'm going to give him a nine. Alex Oroby, decent game, got us going quite a few times in the game couple of opportunities to get us going, to get us on, to get us goals I thought he was good in possession as well today he didn't give it away stupidly, he just kept the ball it was difficult playing on that side, especially in the first half but I thought he stuck to his task really well I thought I did think he had to go game today Tim and Dwight McNeill were the players who were trying to get us going and obviously that's where it was massively important to get us going to play in that way, on the counter attack, playing on the counter attack it's a difficult game, you're trying to stop Brighton from doing what they're doing and then it's got a wake and it did wake on so many occasions it was almost like the game plan was almost perfect today it was difficult to watch in the second half but that's why him and McNeill were so important so I'm going to give him an eight Dwight McNeill, a near perfect game from him even though I've just shown Dyson an interview saying that he dropped off a little bit but you know his cross for Dwight McNeill, for Dwight McNeill, his goal was brilliant obviously set up the third one with the own goal his fourth goal, celebrate before it went in, very clever and then a great finish for the fifth goal and it was a near, for the manager he'll look at it and think well he didn't, he wasn't amazing but I thought I thought defensively at times he did really well to help me clean co-out as well I thought he got back really well and just created an extra playing in there whether it was just to knock the ball out for them to which created set pieces for them or whatever but he defended really well and for a player to score two goals and get essentially two assists in the game and defend brilliantly as well just looking at his heat map it's had one big blob of heat in the box and one big blob right in the corner defensively for us which is mad but yeah I thought he was outstanding today, fair play to him he took some stick off me this season but I thought he was brilliant I thought he was brilliant tonight yeah can he go and get like say ten goals he should finish now top goals goer but can he go and get like ten goals can he go and get what like Richard Wilson did last season can he be the catalyst can he be the player that does it he does mentioned it before but the player grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck well he certainly grabbed today's game by the scruff of the neck and yeah do I give him a ten? do I give him a ten? I don't know, I don't know does he deserve a ten? you know what I'm gonna give him a ten I think I thought he was I did think he was brilliant today to be fair but defensively defensively I thought that's why I'll give him a ten not just because of the goals but how well he defended for us he defended brilliantly for us today and that's why I will give him a ten because it wasn't just about him scoring a couple goals he defended brilliantly and helped Michelin go out and at the end of the year I thought towards the end he was running intrigue a little bit but he got like a little second win that towards the end and put that one away brilliantly so I'm gonna give him a ten so fair play to you I think you're like the first player all season who's got a ten and yeah it's the player that's slagged off more than anyone so fair play fair play to you Dominic Carvin Lewin I thought he was brilliant today again and he was brilliant from the point of view of that's what a centre forward does that's what a centre forward gives you in a football team someone to aim at, someone who's gonna run in the channels the fact that the little turns and the spins and leaving dunk in the first half I thought he was absolutely brilliant in the first half man of the match by a mile in the first half dropped off in the second half obviously we had less of the ball but he just gives us so much and he looks fit and even though he didn't score he was superb superb and I say he got an assist and it's all round game it's just that's what a centre forward is supposed to do you know Ariel Jules won 9 out of 13 that's massive that's massive that's massive for a centre forward but it's all the little things he does all the little spins and the way he creates space for himself and the difference what it's made for is he scored 7 in the last two games two away games 7 we hadn't scored 7 in about 7 games before that so to have him back and to be playing this well is huge so let's just hope he continues let's hope he can keep on for the next three games because he's huge absolutely huge for us and he gives us an out ball he takes defenders away that opens a space for someone like the Corey it's across to for someone like McNeil but just being that focal point is huge huge for us so I'm going to give them 8.5 because he did go off the second half he was a bit non-existent wasn't he simply because we couldn't get out of our own half because we were defending so much but yeah excellent excellent from him yeah the subs weren't on long enough I'm not going to give them anything they weren't on long enough and they didn't do anything so brilliant team performance absolutely brilliant team superb all round obviously as I said Dwight McNeil stood out massively and I'm happy to give him for the season that's the whole season just a 10 for the whole season but I was just looking on sofa score where they do the stats and stuff and he got 9.9 so Dwight McNeil so that's massive to get 9.9 off a proper like a proper not just doing enough to stop your head kind of thing that's massive so fair play to Dwight McNeil really good since the manager came in he's been our consistently best player so yeah fair play to him fair play to him I didn't think I'd see that happen to be honest but there you go there you go there you go make sure to check out my player rating not my play links, my instant match action make sure to check out Baz's match action and his 3 things from today as well and I'll see you tomorrow over on ToffeeTV premium make sure you check that out that'll be about 3 o'clock over there live so if you're not a member become a premium member of ToffeeTV get lots of good pay, get daily live shows get 25% off the t-shirts and all the other match and dice which is basically wait for the loan just for the month basically if you buy a t-shirt you've basically got your money back in one go so and the match is boss as you can see the link is in the description and the QR codes come up on the screen in a moment see you later