 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Newcastle United versus Everton at St James's Park, two o'clock kick-off on Sunday. A game we really hope we bounce back in. Really important game this one isn't it boss? For this season, we've not faced this half, we've not had to bounce back so far this season in any game. The previous eight we've won seven and drawn one, so this is a different kind of test I guess for Everton. And it's a big test because without three of our best players for it, which is obviously James Coleman, Luca Deane and Ritialason. So it's going to be a big, you know, big ask for Everton this Sunday, but it's a game that we can win, there's no question about it. Yeah, it always seems tough going to St James's Park doesn't it? Even though we've got a decent record in the last few years I think, but it always just feels like, I don't know, just one of those trips that you just want to avoid. It is a tough place to go, we've normally obviously very much if there's crowd there and it just feels like that. It is a difficult game and yet Everton have won most away games against Newcastle and any other team in the Premier League. We've had more victories there than any other team, so I think only West Ham have got a better away record at Newcastle and Everton. I think they've won 11 away games, Everton have won eight at Newcastle United, which is more than any other Premier League club. So it's not being a bad hunting ground for us, but it's always, it is always one of those games which you know are going to be difficult. We, with the exception really of the, in Martin as his face is, when we went up there and won three in a l. I think most other games have been very tight and it's always been a difficult game. So Sunday I'm expecting no difference, I'm expecting a very, very difficult game. Yeah, I mean obviously you mentioned it, it's empty ground so a lot of these way games now just feel, I don't know, similar. Don't you very say me? I think Bruce mentioned how much they are missing the crowd and how some of their games could be tense. Last time they played Manchester United, they were 1-1 for the last five minutes, to the last five minutes sorry, and then Man United grabbed the goal and then Man United run away with it, whereas if they had the crowd then I know that's the same everywhere, but they've been very reliant on that extra booster I think. Newcastle so far 1-2, lost 2, drawn 2, and being a very sort of stubborn side haven't they so far trying to stay in every single game to make sure they can get up more of it? Yeah, they're a well organised team aren't they, and they're quite durable in games, they hang on in there, and they do remind me a little bit of some of the David Moyes type teams of just make sure that you stay in that game, and they have got that bit of quality with the St. Maxim, they've got Callum Wilson and you'll get your goals up there as well, Ryan Fraser who's not a bad little player either, so there's some quality in that side, it's just at the minute for them they are staying in the games, they're becoming difficult to beat in. Burnley have proved, I think Newcastle had a better football team than Burnley, but Burnley have proved that if you are difficult to beat well organised you do well in this Premier League, and it's something we were saying about with Everton last season is that we just weren't hard enough to beat, certainly in the first part of the season, and if we would have stayed in more games last season, I think we'd have had a better season overall, but they're doing that, they're fighting for every game, at the weekend against Wolves they were one little down till late on, and then they're cracking free kick from Josh Murphy, I think it was, got them a point, it's really well shown, they are proving tough enough to crack at times, and you just said Manchester United beat them 4-1, but with five minutes left, five or six minutes left, it was 1-1 and the crowd had changed games as they could have quite easily pushed that into Newcastle's favour, we've seen that they've beaten, they're like Manchester City in that at home over the last couple of years, when City have been brilliant so we've had some really good wins, and they are a bit like us, they are missing that little push from the crowd at home, but they are in the games, and again this feels like that first goal is massively important in this game again, it felt a bit like that on Sunday, and it feels a bit like that for me this week as well. Yeah I think if they get the first goal they're going to make it very very difficult for us, they're going to make it very very difficult anyway, you know I've seen last weekend when they play Wolves, Wolves take the lead, and again it reminds me of when we had Sam Allardice, when you'd go 1-0 down but he wouldn't go chasing the game and the tactics wouldn't be going to chase the game, it would be keep it as tight as you can, almost play like you're winning 1-0 or you're drawing and you're trying to get away with a point, he'd keep it as tight as he can, and it's the same with Steve Bruce because they know they're going to get a chance at some point, every team is going to get a chance at some point, I mean you just mentioned Sunday there, they haven't went 1-0 down, we weren't playing well, if we just dug in and tried to get ourselves back into the game, then we might have but we can see that so quickly after that the game was gone, now Newcastle look to me like at a team that they know they've got limitations of course they have, but what they're trying to do is, well if you go 1-0 down just stay in the game and a chance will, you know with the forwards they've got, you know that bit of pace, they will get a chance at some point and like you said against Wolves, they get a free kick in the last moment, they'll have bends at hand, the nonexistent wall, and it's 1-1 and they come away with a point the same with Spades, they get battered to the whole game and then the last minute they put a ball in the box, hand goes up at a penalty and they get a draw all out of it, and that's how you stay in the Premier League, that's how you get mid table in the Premier League if you are disciplined enough. Definitely and like I said, then they have got that bit of quality in the final third to hit yet, they've got like I said the pace is St. Maxim and Callum Wilson is a goal scorer, he's scored goals in the Premier League every year he's been in it, you know, he's just been unlucky with big injuries, so they've got that, they have got that extra little bit of quality, they've got Almar on it where things are really good footballer, mention Ryan Fraser before, Joe Linton who okay hasn't come up with the goods for them in terms of goals, but he's a handful, he's a big lad as well, so they have got that bit of quality at the other end of the pitch. Like I said, it's very reminiscent of some evidence sides under Moise for me, where as you know, keep it nice and tight and like you said, we've got that bit of quality at the top end of the pitch, we do keep it tight, we will get the opportunity and we make it difficult on it, and you know, it's not a bad kind of game plan to have really because it does get you halfway up the league and then you're hoping that your other players will win those games when it is tight for you and get you that little bit higher, so you know, I think Steve Bruges done a good job there, he's faced a lot of adversity in his time at Newcastle, he's a Geordi, he's a Newcastle fan, obviously he's been sondlen manager, so he's always had that on his back a little bit, then obviously the rumours of, you know, where come it Mike Ashley deserves an award anyway, and then there's obviously the rumours of takeover that was going on for months and months and he was getting sacked and he was getting this manager in and this manager in, you know, and then in the summer there was a big transfer kitty and there wasn't, and he's just rolled with all the punches and you know, he's got his side, again I think they're at the bar halfway up in the league at the moment, so they're doing all right, they're doing okay. Yeah, it's funny you said that about Everton because I was watching Match of the Day 2 on Sunday and they had Liam Orsman and Tim Cail and they'd watched the Newcastle game and he just said, this reminds us of what an old manager used to make us do, you know, so obviously very, very similar to what Moise tried to do, just staying the game and then have a player like Tim Cail or, you know, for them, Supermax and whatever they stand this to just try and get you that goal and so far it's, you know, okay, two defeats, one against Manchester United and I think the other one was Brighton wasn't it which will disappoint the more than anything, but I think for us on Sunday we've just got to go at, we're going to have loads of the ball aren't we I think and Dale Time break on us and it'll just be what we do with the ball and if we have the same energies we had on Sunday then we're going to be in trouble. Yeah, so for us we have to use it well, we have to be patient as well and hopefully when the chances present themselves take them, you know, and that's all you can do, you've got to be, we've got to be organised ourselves, we've been conceding far too many goals, but what we can't do is give up that first goal. Yeah, the first goal sounds silly sometimes to say, but the Premier League is, I think it's 71% of the time the team gets the first goal wins the game, something like that, you certainly don't lose it, so the first goal is key and in this without Retialason, when you've got Retialason you feel like you've always got a chance in the game, he's going to create something or he can get you the goal, he's a big miss for us, there's no question about it. So we've got to create opportunities for Dominic Alvalu, we created nothing for him last week, nothing for the lad, he didn't have anything and we know he's not a striker, that makes his own chances really, you know, don thrives on crosses or creating something for him and that was something we didn't do well enough at the weekend, I've just done a numbers game for Peyton and I've had a couple of opportunities where I've stopped it and froze the game and especially the Ooby woman when he has the shot early on and Dean makes a great run and if he just uses a better selection in his mind, I just roll it to Dean, he's cut it across, Don's got a tapping and we score a lot of those goals and it was like that on Sunday, the decision making in the final third was wrong, we talked about on the final where the Calvert-Lewin woman he should roll it into the Corry, you know, it's that kind of decision making, we've got to be better at that this weekend because it will be a tight game but you know, we obviously, Hamers played last weekend, he wasn't fit, we're hoping that another week's training and he'll be back up to speed and the manager's got a couple of difficult decisions really but I would be going with the young lads off the left for that energy and enthusiasm because although it is a tough game you want to almost surprise Newcastle as well, have a little element of surprise in Cwm Cwm and Anthony Gordon, they might know how we play with Lluca Dean because he's very good. You've sometimes used those to your advantage to catch a team off guard a little bit, they don't really know, these two players, they haven't really planned for it and that might be key at the weekend but also I think something you've said this week on various things we've done getting that midfield trail right will be absolutely vital I think for this game. Definitely, it seems like it's going to be really interesting. Obviously Lluca Dean's missing, for you is it just Nas and Cwm Cwm's in there? Yeah, I don't want to see Fabian Belf put there as she warned in, I don't think he needs to be experienced, brilliant but I just think in Cwm Cwm has got the physical attributes to play in the Premier League. We've seen him absolutely outstanding in the Carabao Cup, especially against Lower League, he looked on a different level to the Lower League but then when he played against West Ham and he was up against Yamalenko, it was a more mature performance, he knew that he couldn't forget about his defensive duties but still supported the attack, so I would have no hesitation in playing Nas and Cwm Cwm at the weekend because he's our number two there, that's the backup, we didn't get a left back, a lot of people thought we'd get a left back when Bains went out and on Cwm Cwm's performance he's probably convinced them he didn't need to so Lluca Dean's out when you put him in and might be a little bit of a baptism of fire but there's no crowd, so it's just 11v11 for him and I think really his power and pace down, that left, I think he could cause a new castle real issues at the weekend and that's what we need, we need someone who's going to be brave because I don't know about you but Lluca Dean, I don't think he had a very good game at the weekend, I think to both goals he could have done better with and then he just didn't seem, it's probably because of what we didn't help him out but he just didn't seem to be able to get up the pitch particularly once we had gone to and held on and that's not, I'm not having a go at Lluca but he didn't have his best game normally he's so vital to us isn't he, normally he's one of our biggest attack and threat and I just don't feel like he did it at the weekend but I feel as though I've conquered the enthusiasm full Premier League debut, I think that might be the energy that the team needs as well really, something a little bit just to be a starting point. Yeah, there's interesting choices, like you mentioned there for having Delphi's he's going to be involved, Anthony Gordon is he going to start on the left. It's whether Carlo Ancelotti believes that last Sunday was just a blip and the plays he'd come in need more time and the same in midfield as well I can imagine he'll just go back to Andre Gomez rather than keep going round the Isles and going well, he might just go well, Andre Gomez had a poor game against Liverpool and maybe there's reasons behind that that we don't know, he never came off the bench himself Hampton and he might come in and start because he's one of his starting three and that way you're keeping that continuity rather than new left back, new left winger or left sided forward and then Andre Gomez just completes that three that obviously started the season because otherwise it's dead easy to go and what we should come out, Anthony Gordon should come in Fabian Delphi should come into midfield and suddenly before you know it you're on your third choice centre midfielder and you're on your third choice left winger and you know what I mean, you go round the Isles you've already got a right back who's not your first choice right back and suddenly before you know it you've changed half your team and people are wondering why you lose and they're not playing as well but the other thing as well that makes me feel like Gomez in, having lost the game so quite clearly they've all seemed to understand what each other's doing, don't they? You know what I mean? and I feel as though Gylffi's been better from the bench anyway really, I think he had his opportunity Sunday he didn't take it and I don't think it was Sunday Bernard was alright but it didn't really affect the game so I think maybe just for Gomez back into that midfield that's been in for most of the games and then I would fresh in that left side and then obviously the other choice is the right back choice obviously Ben Godfrey come on after half an hour in the Derby and played that, did okay played at the weekend and was a little bit exposed I mean what would you do there cos obviously I think John Joe Kenny is training and will be fit would you risk, not risk Kenny but would you play Kenny or would you leave Godfrey in again for another week? I suppose it depends on what the manager will have seen in training this week you know, as Godfrey is Godfrey understanding the role or do they expect Newcastle to target him like Southampton did I can't see Newcastle going after Godfrey I can see her almost like the other way round where they're almost happy for him to have the ball and then break when he comes forward do you know what I mean because if he is you've got to play like Godfrey and he's going forward and he's not natural going forward but you're inviting him to go forward and then his final ball isn't good that's actually better for Newcastle to help them break so I don't expect Newcastle to put pressure on Godfrey if he starts now whichever way Callerwans a Lotty looks at that he might think that would be an easier game for Godfrey I don't, you know what I mean it's whichever way you interpret it but I just think Godfrey's recovery pace is massive that's what I think especially because Seymys Leitman I think you need someone who's quick it'd be interesting if someone is I suppose the question would have been if John Joe Kenny had been fit last Sunday would he have started that's that's that you don't know do you we've all said Godfrey and so I don't know I mean Kenny played that right back for Schalke at the old games last season in the Bundesliga so he quite clearly knows the role I just think he's very quick it's very quick Seymaxham is very quick so up against Kenny I don't think he's very quick he's not slow but he's not lightning like Seymaxham that would worry me a little bit but the manager will have seen it all week he'll go with what he thinks is best obviously let's just have a little look at the Newcastle side that played walls so they started with basically five at the back three in midfield but two of them are wingers funny enough with Fraser and Amaron and then Seymaxham I suppose is a bit of a free role really isn't he and then Callum Wilson at the front and Callum Wilson is obviously the focal point up front so you look at Fraser you see Amaron there you see Seymaxham there obviously three players who are creative and then you've got Callum Wilson so it is a case you keep it nice and tight and those attacking players will get an opportunity and punish it the week before against United they played a 4-1-4-1 formation and that stuck them in the game as well so Steve Bruce has tinkered with it at times this season and really tried to he might be looking for his best formation I don't know or he's just playing it game by game so it'll be interesting to see what they do I could see them maybe going with a 4-3-3 and Matthew and us up at the weekend with one either side Seymaxham one side maybe Ryan Fraser on the other side of Callum Wilson because there's no John Joe Shelby he's out he's out of here so he won't be playing so I guess it depends he was got available in the midfield one of the long staff brothers or whatever in the show whatever they've got we've got more than enough to do well with top of the league we mightn't be by the time we probably won't be by the time we kick off on Sunday because all the games are played first but with top of the league for the reason so far this season and that's because we've found a way to win a lot of games Sunday was a big disappointment but we've got a bounce back and it's the first real it's the first real test isn't it I suppose a little different type of test we've had tests obviously Liverpool was a big test you'd always have to go through them games but this is a tricky one because we've got a bounce back Callum is what he said a few weeks ago he said the bubble will burst at some point and it's how we react I think it's a really interesting time at the moment because obviously two games before the international break we've got the Charleston out injured we've got Dean suspended maybe a squad not looking as fresh as it did but after the international break we've got a real opportunity for a few players coming back there's Mason Holgate, Jared Branthwaite John Flee Cobamon, not that famous Coleman even someone like Shane Towson which some people completely forgotten about it's another player in the squad people are bemoaning the fact that we haven't got another forward or that Moise Keane scoring goals for PSG to get him back into the squad just to be competing, just to be pushing other people he'll be hungry whether it's for a move in January because it's the Euros at the end of the year and take here there he'll be pushing so let's dig in Sunday let's go up there, let's have a game plan and hopefully let's see it through and then Man United next week will take care of itself and then we go into that international break and then we could have three or four players coming back after that Definitely Sunday's a big game we could win it being an incredible boost for us going forward United play Champions League next Wednesday and take it, don't they? and then they've got us our ass as well so that's good for us we've got a fresh week Sunday the manager has got some key decisions to make for the weekend but moving forward we could be talking getting five or six of our squad back and certainly the likes of Coleman, Retialas and getting them back and fitting into the squad and then into the team radar and then obviously making a whole gate to be a huge boost for us and it takes that pressure off, doesn't it? you know, on the back as well and you've got real choices if you get Coleman back you've then got a real choice if it's a whole gate, it's a Godfrey to partner Michael Keen o Gary Meany you've actually got the choices that the manager wanted he's not being able to have those opportunities at the moment to make a choice because we keep picking up these injuries but Sunday will be a big game and it's an opportunity for Everton to get over a big obstacle that's being placed you know, can you bounce back after you face defeat? Definitely There you go, let us know your thoughts in the comments Is it depressing time? Are you doing the depressing stats? Yeah Go on then Right, as well, just finished with a few Only West Ham have won more away Premier League games against Newcastle and Everton like I said before Newcastle haven't had a great home record of late Everton have drawn only one Premier League games you're in Carl Iwantuloti's reign West Ham in January, it's mad, isn't it? I'm not reading that one because it's grim No Premier League club has registered a few shots on target this season in Newcastle that I've written two a game but again just buys into that stay in the game, be durable, doesn't it? Everton have had a player sent off in the last two Premier League games so they've been looking to avoid being a tenth side to see Red in three successive outings since Wafford in December 2017 Everton's Dominic Calvallun has scored more Premier League goals against Newcastle and he has against any other opponent he scored four in his last three and only Manchester United's Bruno Fernandez has created more goalscoring opportunities than Ham's Rodriguez this season Fernandez has 18, Rodriguez has 17 so let's hope he is on it on Sunday And his injury situation is cleared off now that we know what it was Painful, let's leave it at that Painful in the old Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one are you confident or are you a little bit nervous No Don't forget, give this video a like Subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon The link is in the description, thank you for watching See you later