 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, Everton vs Wafford at Goddison Park. Last time we'll be playing a three o'clock game on a Saturday for a very long time, so enjoy your normality while you can. Mid January, isn't it now? Obviously coming off the back of a bit of a tough week, losing a game at home, losing a very important player. This is a game a lot of people are looking at now as a big one. We've got to get three points, no matter what we've got to get three points on Saturday. It does feel like that, it feels like no matter what we have to get three points as we go into a spell of tricky games coming up. Once the international break comes back, a lot of games, so this feels like one of those games that we have to get three points on Saturday. A must win? I think it is, it feels like a must win just to get the energy levels back up. We responded last time that we had lost a league game, we lost a villa, then went off the cup to QPR. We had knowledge at home and people were talking about a must win game and everything else. We got a job done and created that momentum to go to United. This one feels the same, I don't think, I think in general people are being quite calm about the defeat on Sunday. A lot of people knew it was a tight game, I think most people looked at it or some people looked at it and could see it was an either or game. If you've ever got the goal, you've probably won it. Had we not had the Decorae news, I think people would have been like, alright, come on, bounce back. The Decorae news really does feel like a kick in the Netherlands, doesn't it? So we do have to bounce back, it'll be a tricky game. They've obviously replaced the manager with Ranieri, he was given a baptism of fire at the weekend of the full spank them. So we've got to be wary of that, but it is just about getting the job done this weekend, it's about... ..wch o bai croc job, you know, just get the three points because it will pick the momentum back up then. We've got another tough game away at Wolves, but we've got nine days before the next one. Haven't we? So it is a must win, you don't want to put too much emphasis on these must wins in October, but it's a case of just making sure we respond with a negative result, with a positive result, to just keep that forward momentum, definitely. So it is ultimately fan week nine, five thousand pound up for grabs this week. I'm going to make one change to my team. I'm going to bring Bruno Fernandez in for Phil Fowden, just because I don't want to be relying on one result. They are, Man City are a way to brighten. I've already got Karl Walker, John Stones, Kevin De Bruin, so I'm going to bring Bruno Fernandez. And I think that's going to be it for me. I'm happy with that. I'm happy with that. So that's it. That's it. That's all I'm going to go for. I could bring Luca Dine in. I could have the likes of Tealman's in there. I could have more Liverpool players. I don't want to do that. That's even more data. I'm going to stick with that Bruno Fernandez in for Phil Fowden to this game. Yeah. You see, you've made me think now about having too many players in one fixture, because I've got four players in one fixture. I've already took out Suture, so I've come out, putting Kai Havett in, Chelsea are at home to Norwich. I'm going to take out Mason Greenwood. So my team is Chelsea and my team, Van Dijk is in there, Karl Walker. My field players are made up of Kai Havett now, again, home to Norwich and Bruno Fernandez. And he's the captain. Jamie Vardy's my captain. Most others my golden boot. And then the two up front are Sun and Ronaldo. Ronaldo's my golden boot. There you go. Don't forget Pax Drop on a Tuesday. There's a free pack available. 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So there's a chance to win money every single week. So check it out. The link is in the description. Yeah. I totally... It's just... Yeah. I just think you look at a game like this and you think you know how. You know what? All of us, any fan can be like, you don't want to hit that. You don't want to hit that thing, do you? You know, your man takes you elsewhere or you think that all the season is going to be this or that or... You know what I mean? You're absolutely right when you've had a negative week. You just want to get back on it straight away. Win a game with football. Take the pressure off. And I think this is a good opportunity. Listen, what for that has just come off the back of a really, as you said before, a really big defeat. But you're playing up against the really good side in good form. Ranieri's first game, maybe he's looked at it to try to be clever or look at different things. It hasn't quite come off. You'll have had a weak sign up with them. You might be able to see what's going on a little bit more. He might look at other results, you know. Not that you came to goodness and park and they tried to keep it tight. You know, we got a penalty and then he frustrated us for a lot of the second half till the goal he scored the goal. You might look at it like that, trying to play in the counter-attack. You might look at it like stoppers playing it. Cos that's the other thing. Do you think about these games? Is it sort of forces us to play the way we've been playing this season? You know, we have been playing with a lot of possession and that's the way the manager wants it. But a game like this forces you to go the other way. Can you open it? Ranieri will be looking at going, can these open us up? I'll forget he won the league with Leicester. We just have a ridiculously slow possession range. He'll be looking at something similar. I imagine going forward, get men behind the ball, set pieces, sarr on the counter-attack. So for us we have to be wary of that. And it's about us, can we break them down? Do we have good enough players? But it has to be the other way for us as well. If we get a set piece can we make something of that? And I think that's what's interesting about these games are. You're looking for that little moment of inspiration. And hopefully we'll get it. We don't want to be bogged down. Cos I think that's the other thing. You go into a game like this. I mean a lot has been said about the atmosphere and whatever your thoughts are on it. You know in a game like this there's a certain level of expectation and a certain level of trepidation. Cos you feel like your job should be. So you're waiting for the team to do something rather than setting the tone. And if it takes a little bit of time and it's not quite going the way we want it to go. You can feel that frustration within the ground. So an early goal on Saturday would be lovely. That would be lovely. It'd be absolutely lovely but it's not something we've really done this season at home. We did score in the first half against Norwich but it was a penalty like you said. But we didn't score in the first half against Westam. Three goals in the second half against Burnley. Three goals in the second half against Southampton. So we haven't scored a goal from open playing in the first half. And yet we've had a lot of chances. Even Sunday we were in a game where we didn't have loads of chances. We had two good chances in the first half. A Wobie should have put one away. And the Corry was closer to the header that just went well. And you know you could turn on and say he maybe should have hit the target. But it'll be a case of a different way anyway having a lot of play that weekend because the Corry's out. So the manager's got some important decisions to make there. Is it on Davis? Does he come in and sit? Does a Wobie stay in that number 10 role? Does Gabbaman get every start? He's lost the only start in the Premier League he's ever made. But Evan was against Wofford. So does he come into the thinking? So Evan have got, you know, we're hoping. And the manager's come out and said something as well. He's hoping to have retialis in the squad at the weekend. I don't think he'll start. But just having him on the bench is a good option. It gives you something to look at the bench and go, well we've got him to come on. So we will have to approach it differently. They do carry a threat. It's my size of player I'd love for Evan. You carry a threat, you're right. They'll be strong off set plays. You know before Saturday they conceded 10 goals in seven games. So they're not letting loads of goals in. They're not scoring loads of goals either. I think they've only scored seven goals themselves. So they're not scoring a lot of goals. Evan and I have almost scored two, you know, we're averaging almost two a game onto the weekend. I don't know, four, one point, whatever it was, seven. So we have scored, we found goals, you know, decent to come by. But we're going to have to, like we say, we're going to have to play a little bit of a different way. And it might be that day, throw it over to us and go, we'll have the ball in. And we have got to be then clever and we've got to make sure the movement's right. You know, they went with five. We can have a look at the formation. They played against Liverpool, which has changed because they've been playing four at the back. They went to a back three or a back five, if you like, against Liverpool. And one person who had a particularly tough time was Danny Rose. Now he was playing kind of like a left centre back, left back role. If that's the case, he'd be up against Andros Tarngend, who's having a really good time at the minute. He struggled a little bit. They've moved Ishmael Sarr from a wide area up to the lone front man. They had, obviously, just so go. We know all about him in there as well. They've got Dennis, who's got that knowledge in one of the way wins. So they've got a threat. Jal Pedro was on the bench, so they do carry a threat. But I think with Everton, it's how we, you know, negate their threat. We did it. Even though West Ham had a lot of the ball at the weekend, they didn't really create anything of note until they got the goal. And the goal came out of a mistake. So we did stop their threat. They did a good job on us as well, by the way. So we'll have to do that again and make sure, you know, we're wary of them on the break. But it's going to be dead interesting because Rondon struggled against West Ham, let's be perfectly honest. He's got to get himself into this game. He's got to get himself in areas where he's going to hate Wofford. Because if he just sits like he did the other day, this centre back will have an easy game again. And we've got to try to catch them and unsettle them. If you get a early goal against teams like this, who are in the middle of a change over, they've just been spanked. There's a tendency to, you see it with some teams, it's here we go again. And the reds go down a little bit. What we did against Norwich, we allowed them to get confident. We did it with West Ham. We allowed them to get on the ball and get confident. So that's something that I think Everton have got to try to mix up. It's difficult, isn't it, when that's the style of play. When the style of play is counter-attack and let the opposition have the ball, that's what West Ham did really well on. Suddenly they didn't allow us to get behind them. And we were never going a bit on them. So we never really stretched them. We never got too many opportunities where we broke. They lost the ball in the field. But I'm sure there will be opportunities to play like that. In the games we've played, the court has been the centre of that. He's the person who picks the ball up and then starts striding forward. Then you get the likes of Townsend and Grey going on one side and the other. But we're not going to have that, as you said. It's going to be interesting to see what we do. Whether he just brings in someone to fit in that role. But there's nobody who's like for like. But you could have a Tom Davis, a Batman. We don't know what his levels are. And that's the very difficult thing. Does he put him in there and see how he works his levels? Does he put him in there taking a wobi out? Put a Tom Davis in as well and say, well we'll protect you as a midfield. That's what I thought. What would you do if you go with the three? I think if Andre Gomez was available. I think I would go for the three and have him and Tom Davis in there. I don't think it's ideal. But I do think that allows a front three to just be a little bit more higher up the pitch. Trying to get Gomez on the ball, trying to get Tom busy. It's not ideal. Of course it's not. We've just lost our best play. He's our best play this season. He's been our best play this season. The numbers all say that. He's the play who score goals, assists. He gets forward, he gets back. Over and seven miles again. Helps us on set pieces. He's massive and there's no one to replace him. So it doesn't matter whatever name I say, it doesn't matter. All I'm trying to think of is how do you almost replace him in the aggregate? I personally would go with Davis, Gabamann and Allen in midfield. And I'd have transcend right, I'd have grey left. It's going to be Ronddon. In an ideal world it'd be the Charleston Fully fifth. But it's going to be Ronddon because they're going to take the time at the Charleston. I'm probably likely so. We don't want them breaking down, do we? But like you just said, I would say to Grey and Townsend, get higher up the pitch. Let's try to force these back. Say to Ronddon this week, pin their centre backs back. Don't drop into midfield and allow them up the pitch. Even if you just stop there. As a focal point where you're backing in, you're holding them up. The minute you drop off, the minute they can move forward ten yards or five yards? That's what I would do because I'd say to, have Tom Davis probably just sitting. Allow Allen to push on a little bit and do a bit of harrying and pressing and get Gabamann doing the same. I think what he may do is have Tom Davis in there with Allen and have a Wobie in the 10. And then a Wobie will be tasked with breaking forward. Kind of the way. Yeah, yeah. Like the Corey, but like you've just said, what you have to do is look and go, we've just lost that. What's the best way that will still have some of those attributes? Is Gabamann going to break into that space? Possibly not. You're doing it in pre-season, but like you've just said, we don't know what is left. He hasn't even got on the pitch in the Premier League yet, so we don't know. So it's how you can get round that. But this, we lost the Corey last season for 10 weeks, wherever it was. We still got points. It wasn't the same. We weren't as good, but we still won games of football. It's up to squad members and I know I say it and I'm not really convinced in my own voice when I'm saying it. But it's up to these players who call themselves evident midfield players to get in and prove that we can cope without them. They will bring different attributes to it. But sometimes, well, most times the best teams are a team. And that's why it's so frustrating going into a game like this with that negativity. You want to go in there, go on, and we've just got people. You know, imagine if the Corey hadn't got fit and you're thinking, oh, you're thinking about this charlatan coming back. And that's all you're thinking about, but no one's thinking like that. No one's thinking like that, but what they're thinking is how they will replace the Corey. And that's the difficult question. But I suppose in a way, you know, you want a game like this. You want a game where you're looking at it like that and thinking, well, someone's got to go in there and do it. But then again, we don't know who's available. We don't know if Andy Gormas is available. We don't know what the Baman's levels are. You know, I'm sure. See, this is, Tom Davis will be tasked. I imagine one way in order to get in there and do his job. And at least, you know, with him and this is where this is why managers do play him. Because he's always available. You know, you're going into a game. You're going on a game on Saturday. You've got, we've got no idea if Gormas is fit. We know Delphys isn't fit. We have no idea what the Baman's levels are. That leaves you one player and that's Tom Davis. And it doesn't matter whether people like him, don't like him, think he's terrible, think he's a championship player. That lad is always available. So therefore he will get games. He will be, I imagine, he will be the immediate swap for the core. And then it will be, well, how do we change it? Do we bring someone else in and drop a wellbeing? Or like you just said, do we stick a wellbeing in the number 10 and say, you've got to, you've got to be the player. We say you break free. You pick that ball up and you move with it. You use the space. Theoretically, that still should create four attacking players in theory. Plus your full backs. That's a front diamond. That's what it should be and it will be, apparently, is that's where he wants to play. So go and do it. I know, let me say it every week and I've tried to always give him. I've always tried to give him the benefit of that. I can go Sunday. It's going to do something. The problem is that people will put it. The problem with this way is, you could look at Anthony Gore and say Anthony Gore plays out left and Grey drops in, but I don't know whether Grey can drop in and make that exit midfielder. I don't think I will be able to do that either. But what do you do? I don't think he can because I don't think he's big enough. I don't think he's got the discipline to drop in. You need a player who's going to drop in and become an exit midfielder. I will be sure that this stage is clear. You have the brain to do that and the ability to do that. Even if you just need something. I don't know if he will. Like again, if I remember any kind of physical condition that we knew of. He should just be in. This is what he should be in this for. Before he signed for Everton, he was a midfielder who picked up the ball and moved it forward and then just gave a pass. That's exactly what you want. But we can't. The injury he got to his killies as a physical level is just destroyed him. We don't know. I'm not sitting here going, he's the answer. The manager don't know what it is. The injury, what's the answer? The injury. If he'd have had no injury, he'd be amazed by Everton's team. This would be that thing. This is the ideal scene. We talked about him somewhere and people were like, I want you to give him a goal. I was like, let's get Alan McCory in their face, then we'll see. But what we saw from against Huddersfield, his levels are just, he didn't look like he had it. But how did you get it? In his defence, right? He doesn't get on the pitch because he is the core of his back-up. So who knows? Maybe on Saturday through o'clock, Gabamon's name is on the team sheet and we all go, okay, let's see what happens. What I would expect though is that he gets some game time. Regardless. But he'd have to, I do imagine if Gabamon played, Tom Davis would play as well. Cos I just don't think you can get away with Alan and someone like Gabamon in there. I think you'd have to have Tom Davis as your security and I think he's probably more likely Dave as he'll play and Gabamon will base up and come on back to get on the pitch in the game. But I'm saying if Gabamon... Cos he'd be ideal player for his physicality. And 100% mean of backers by the way. Ah, well Jerry's got to be straight back in there. You see this again, there's other options, isn't it? There's Mason Holgate. I still think he'd do his job in there. I've seen people saying pubbeng off in there who's played 50 odd career games as a defensive midfield player. I don't know if the manager's got to come up with those answers, hasn't he? Yeah, but I think in the short term you've got to try and keep it as simple as possible. Well, meaner will come back in. He's not going to drop. I don't think Michael Keane gets dropped. So, Goffrey's either right back, which means Coleman's getting dropped. Is he going to drop James Coleman? I don't think he was that bad at the weekend. So, Goffrey will be out of the team. Man, doesn't he? Morning. We've got five centre backs and we've got really who could all play a part. But we're not fit for papers, and we feel once we lose one of our best two. So, that's where the issue is. Obviously, we've just mentioned them Wafford. Let's just have a quick look at Ismael Yshares. That's what we've picked him out as the danger man. He's had eight appearances for Wafford this season. He's got four goals, 12 shots on target. In Ultima fan, if you're playing that, he's the top Wafford player in that. He's got you 65 points if he's in your Ultima fan team. I've actually got him. He's on my bench. You're not going to start? I can't because I just want him to do it. So, we're staying on the team. But now it's a game, listen, and I must say as well, one of the, even though he'll wire me up after 11 seconds on Saturday, I do love Ben Foster and I do love his cycling goalkeeper video. Wafford, fans don't seem to like him after the weekend, but there you go. So, be fair. He made one he should have done better. He made quite good. Imagine if one of our players had done better. No, no, we wouldn't like it. We should have signed him two years ago. We should have signed him when he went down. He should have been our backup goalkeeper. But if he'd done his video and said I'm playing for us, we should have done. So, it'll be interesting to see whether Rangieri sticks with him or mixes because he's been in and out a little bit. Rangieri changed in the team. No. He just wants to get the three points, get through it, and move on to 17 points. Just very quickly before we finish. There's a bit of discussion over evidence, possession. At the weekend like West Ham, I think we have 39% of possession. I'd just seen quite a few Evertonians loading the Simeoni in the weekend. Loving them at our club. It's average is 27% possession. Our fans would hate it. Absolutely hate it. I can't see whether Rangieri does, because you have the ball. You have the ball. Balls just in the air all the time. No, listen. We need three points. We need to get back on winning ways. Get off to 17 points. Click our wings for the week later. Just get back winning. That'll be another week to help players get back to the core. I don't want a carbon living. That's where we are right now. What we don't want is just being miserable. That's what it's like. Can we just have a nice week now? Moffa can have a nice week after the weekend. It's come to early for Moffa this game. Hope so. Do us a favour, download the ultimate fan app. The link is in the description. Get involved in it. Get your packs. It really helps the channel. By the way, if you do that as well. I guarantee you'll start playing it. Don't forget as well. Give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already and we want more great videos. Daily live videos. Come over to the page. The link is in the description. It's on the screen. The great community. And also just ahead of Christmas, you'll get discounts for e-shirts, jumpers for these mugs. Ideal Christmas presents if you're thinking of someone in your family. You don't know what to buy them. Get over to our shop. 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