 Welcome to the Match Preview Everton vs Baylor Carabao Cup 4th Round, Gwdysun Park, Wednesday 1st November, 7.45 kick-off, joined by Dave Witt from the County Road Publitz. Dave, big tough game, tough game, but an opportunity, big opportunity for Everton to get to a quarterfinal in the Carabao Cup, which would be a big thing for us. Absolutely. The Carabao Cup has always been a bit of a sticking point, hasn't it? Whether it's the Wavington Cup or whatever you want to call it. But it has been a bit of a sticking point, and so has the home form. So, for them two reasons, Wednesday represents a really good opportunity for us to get to a quarterfinal, but also go there and get a professional winner on. It would be not better to be stunned at the concourse at halftime to your mates, and we're 2-0 up, and we're looking professional to polish performance. We're coming into this game with a good base after a really strong performance on the road, so it's about converting that now into the home games. We're not going to get many better opportunities, I don't think, than Wednesday, and a bit of a pre-case ahead of Brighton as well. Absolutely. It's four victories in the last six games for Everton, which is the best run of form we've had for a while. We had a great win in the last and the last round, and won our last home game 3-0 against Bournemouth, obviously, in the Premier League. This is it. Although it'll be a tough game, and Ben, he'll come and have a good going, and we'll have to play well to beat them, because we don't take any of them for granted. We don't take any of them for granted anywhere at the moment, we can't, but it does give us an opportunity to build on that Bournemouth game. For too long, Dave, Godderson's been just not happy for us. We've struggled to win home games, because we haven't had a way of playing where I think the manager is trying to get us a way of playing on. Vincent Cymru's gone into Burnley and he's changed their perception, from Sean Diter's Burnley, he's changed them into a more attacking side, but there is gaps in that side because of the way they played. There'll be opportunities for everything to get at them, and hopefully get a good result. It's ironic, isn't it, that I'd actually prefer to play a Burnley side under company. I think a Dyche Burnley side would probably be a lot more apprehensive ahead of Wednesday. But yeah, no, I think absolutely, similar to what we've seen with Arie Olders, Bournemouth, where they were trying to play off the back of course a couple of times. I think Sean Diter's got to be looking at that and almost using that same blueprint to say, let's be on the front foot, setting them traps, and that closing down high up the field is going to be key. And if we can get an early goal, settle the nerves, I think that it would be nice really to put Burnley away. And I think the opportunities are there, Burnley could make a few changes, and it might be a good opportunity to get a bit of confidence for better as well if he does get into the side and Dyche does rotate that forward line. What do you think he'll do? Because obviously, when you look at this one, it's a tough game, there's no doubt about it, Premier League opposition. Everton, like we've just said, he won four at the last six, he'll do it in a good moment, as they say. We've come unstuck in this competition in the past by making wholesale changes, looking at a home game, and it might be with a little bit of, at times I think it has been with a bit of arrogance. I remember Ronald Cooman making like 10 changes against Norwich, and Norwich couldn't beat us 2-0, and we're by far the better side, by the way. I think, so I think, what's your vision of a good side on Wednesday is it's close to full strength as possible, or do you want to see maybe four or five changes? I think I'd like to see the core part of that side, as in Jordan Pickford's and our central spine, the two centre and halfs, two centre mids to stay in the side. I think if you set it up like that, I think you can then make changes around the peripheries, but I don't want to see more than I'd say three changes. The ideal situation is we get better scoring goals and confidence, and you've then got a great foundation to go into the Premier League games with two strikers on it. So I think definitely get better into the sides. Dan Dume, I'd be having a ways of him this week, sitting him down saying, look, if you want to be playing this as your opportunity now, I want to see a performance. A goal assist, I want to see an output from you. So I get Dan Dume into the sides. Harrison would say needs minutes still in his legs, so I just leave him where he is. Obviously the question marks about Coleman, where is he at the moment? Is he up to speed? But look, Patterson just had a good game yesterday, so leave Patterson in. Give him 80 minutes or 70 minutes. So yeah, a strong side for me. Let's hope the better can come in, get a couple of goals and just put them to bed. Too often in this competition, as you say, we've made them wholesale changes, and I don't like doing it that way because you always end up bringing the players on anyway, calls into the game, and you're chasing it. I remember we, you know, I think it was Millwall when we played them, and he wanted to rest a curi, and next minute you bring him on. I think we ended up extra times. He ended up playing nearly 90 minutes. I don't think that was, but yeah, he ended up coming on. He ended up playing 90 minutes anyway. So just get the game one and then rotate it. You've got to show ultimate respect a bit, and because they deserve it, they're a Premier League team anyway, so they deserve the respect. Exactly, so you've got to show that team all the respect in the world and go out and see that it's the biggest game of the season you've got to. I know people might go well, the league's more important, and I wouldn't massively disagree, but this is a great opportunity to get into the quarterfinal. Every round we progress, and if we get home games, the position haven't there, and financially we need all the money we can get, really. We need to progress. Prize money, gate receipts, we need it all because we're not in a great position financially, so this is a big game for Evan. Let's have a look at the evidence side from the weekend, and we've just talked about that, but this is the team that for Burnley fans are watching that Evan went with at Westam. Pickford yng Ngol, Patterson, Tarkovski, Branth, Dwight Michalenco, Harasyn, Ghanau, Amaduwnan, Dwight Michnill, Dychorau, Dominic Calvert-Lewan. Like you've just said, Dave, I think maybe better coming in for Dom, maybe Danjew, we're getting a go off the left instead of Dwight Michnill, but Michnill there would be ready to come on. I wonder if you'll rest the core, when you play the core, interest on one, that one. It's momentum as well, isn't it? Anyone, you've been in a dressing room beside, you want to keep winning, you want that feel good, in fact you don't want to be derailed by a one-nil defeat at home. Can I get our home form right at home? We've won one home game all season. Definitely, and look, we are closing in on the last stage. We've seen the speakers getting installed today at Bramley Maw, at the last of the roof. It's being completed as well. We're not going to have many more cooked games left at Guderson Park, so give the fans something to be electric about, to night game, get that feel good fact, to get the fans up for it. I think it's an opportunity to get a good atmosphere there. You want to remember these nights, you want to give us good memories to finish the last few days at Guderson Park. I think there's a million and one reasons why we've got to go out of the strong side and actually get the win there as well. Absolutely, this is the very side that will be true one at Bournemouth at the weekend. James Trafford and Galvatineau, O'Sheaid, Alderarchy, Charlie Taylor, he's got a cracker. Josh Bramwell, we know about him. Josh Cullen, Jo-Anne Gudinson, Calaisio, Zeckie, off-front Andrew Arnie, he's a good player as well. Like we said, we're not sure whether or not Vincent Cumpney will make changes with that one player who wasn't available at the weekend but may well be available for this one. This one is Lyle Foster, let's have a look at him. He's been a live wire for Burnley so far. He's played eight games and got three goals as XG of 1.55 so he's overperforming his XG. He averages around 1.4 shots per game and his XA is 0.48 and this heat map is basically, he's everywhere. So he is a live wire for Burnley and someone who we'll have to keep an eye out for if he is available or not, whether Cumpney wants to make sure he's available at the weekend for them. Who knows, we'll have to wait and see. That's the thing with the Caravow Cup is you don't know whether Vincent Cumpney will look and go, well I've got a squad of players and lads need to play so they're ready for the Premier League or whether he thinks we'll go as close, as strong as possible and try to get a result. We just don't know which one we're going to face. No we don't and I think the key is actually in the way that Burnley play that will be the defining factor on the result of the game. Do you play nice football don't you? They're going to come out and try and attack and that will suit Everton and I think that's a big part of our success on the road has been because we were prepared to take teams on the counter. So they're not going to be a team that sets up, I'll say this, Cumpney might have a change of heart all of a sudden. Doesn't seem to be does it? The evidence so far suggests that they're going to come out and try and play a certain style of football and I think that'll suit us down to the ground. There'll be a few players there, the title will be well aware of, inside knowledge does help doesn't it, when you're looking at how he's going to set the evidence side up. If we can't be Burnley at home in the cup then we don't deserve to be in that cup at all, you've got to go there, not just win but I want to see a professional win. Two free goals, put them to bed and try and get a clean sheet as well. I'll be saying to them that the team as well we want a clean sheet not just a win we want a clean sheet. Absolutely it's going to be a tough game like I said but Everton at home you've got to fancy us, we've got to get our home form up to speed. If we do that then we can start looking up the table and not down to say I know this is a cup game. If they could get past Burnley gives them a great opportunity. Quarterfiner, the carabao cup, we get a decent home try in that one then who knows but first things first we've got to get over Burnley on Wednesday. Let us know what you think in the comments section below how strong should Everton go in this one or should the manager make changes and what are your score predictions. Let us know, make sure you give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you're having big thanks to Dave, check out the county road Bobblers. The podcast Dave does to give that a listen as well and we will see you later. Take it easy.