 Welcome to Toffey TV, it is the match preview of the travelling down to Villa Park, Friday Night Football, what a load of shit! Friday Night Football, behave yourselves, come on! Wait till five o'clock, how long is Villa away being in two hours? That's her my night, Jesus, that's her my night, it's a mission. It might just catch the last five minutes. Well, what I would say is that Friday Night Football, playing before anyone else does, it's a chance for Everton to... I'm not going to say what it's a chance for Everton to do, but... Gain an advantage. Gain an advantage on other teams, but it'd be nice to go back to Villa Park, one of the traditional old grounds of English football. They have been able to do what we can't do, which is renovate the ground, there's loads of space around there. And it's a final ground that I remember from my youth. That's where some of my earliest away games, semi-finals and stuff like that. A lot of fans are really excited to Villa. For me, a proper traditional football club. And when people talk about big clubs and they talk about Chelsea and Newcastle. No, for me, Villa are a big club. I think Villa are on it. I know they've spent a lot of time recently in the lower divisions, but for me, they're a club on par with Everton in terms of size. I've always had a lot of respect and a lot of time for Aston Villa as a club. Fans don't worry about that kind of thing. I don't think they're very much like us, I think, as a club. Although they are the biggest club around Birmingham, one of the European Cup and things like that. But I don't think they let that sort of get... They don't have a chip on the shoulder about that. I'm looking forward to this. It could be a really good game. Because I think Aston Villa have got the potential to be a good solid side in the Premier League. Obviously started the season with a couple of defeats, bedding on or a new players. But there's definite signs there of a decent side. Definitely. Spent over 100 million, I think it was, on the transfer window. You'd absolutely spot on, they are a big club. I think if I'm right in saying this is Everton Villa's the longest running game in the history of English football. They've got a point approved. They've not started the season brilliantly, but again, it's going to take their new players a little bit of time to bedding. They've got some decent quality there. In that last season in the championship, and this is where Villa should be. They should be in the Premier League. They should be competing. And out of the teams that come up, you'd look at it and people always like to say, which of the new teams will stay and which will go down. Villa were always one that I think we'd look at and went, I think they'll be all right. And they should be and you'd hope they'd be as well because it is a decent away fixture. I don't know whether they'll be all right. That's the answer to that. I don't know because the signs are early on is that they've got something about them. It just needs to work, don't it? It's not coming together. It's, you know, the first game they played away at space, counter attack, looked good, took the lead. And then just those little mistakes, second half, you know, Jack, I think it was 1-1, Jack Gleelish. 10-1 out with the ball. 10-1 out with the ball, got caught on it. That was the red-slop then. Well then that's the realism of the Premier League, isn't it? That's the realism. You've seen it on Saturday. First minute of the game, new goalkeeper in. And he gives away a penalty and the score. And Bormiff, you know, within 10 minutes of turning it off. And the Premier League is very unforgiving. I know they've got to go all back, but the Premier League is very, very unforgiving. And I think that what we've got to do Friday night is we've got to go there and try and put them to the shot. Because I don't think, even though they've been beaten a couple of times, I don't think their fans are, I think we've seen it earlier, I don't think their fans are expecting anything more than these players to work hard for them and try and get stuck in in, you know, where the shape of pride and all that kind of thing. And I think that's where we've got to be very careful, because they haven't won a game yet, but, you know, it's ever. It's ever. They'll be waiting for that win, and especially if it's a home win to get their season going. And we've got to be careful of that. We can't just go in going, well, we've been great at the back and all these things. At some point, something will change for Villar. I don't know whether it will be this early because of all the players they've brought in, but something will change for them. They'll get a bit of luck, and we've got to make sure that we go there Friday night, and we're professional. Yeah, definitely. And we use all that Premier League experience to our advantage. You know, and that's the difference. That's the difference at the moment, is that we've got Premier League players with that little bit extra. We've got a team that's been together now for a year, and we've got to make all those advantages count, but they won't if you are mentally not ready or mentally you make little mistakes. So I think we've got to be on it. Definitely. What we can do is approach this game like the Fulham game last season, I think we went there, and we shot and went, these crap relegated already, we'll walk through these, and we didn't. This will be a tough game, and if we get the three points on Friday, it'll be a fantastic three points. Obviously it'll make a really decent start of the season, but Villar have got something to prove. They've started the season, you know, some would say poorly, obviously there's reasons that the players will take time to bedding the new back into the league, but they've got to want to get that home win. Obviously everybody will be up for it. It's a classic Premier League fixture. This isn't going to be an easy game. We're going to turn up and walk through them. On paper, in hindsight, we've got the quality there, we've got that extra bit of quality in our squad that should see us through this game, but we need to turn up being fully aware that they could also turn us, they could hit us on the counterattack. They've got quality in their team as well. So if we go there and we put in a professional performance, and we use the quality that we've got, the likes of Rich Arlison, Bernard, you know, if Keane comes on a Wobie, and we use it to our advantage, and we go there, you know, give it 110% for the first 60 minutes, and if we're freeing it up, then you can go, right, okay, we can maybe, you know, not turn the gear down, but you know what I mean, but we can't go there expecting that. We're going to come away with the three points. I think we'll have a lot of the ball, but I think there'll be times in the game when Willard will have the ball, and let's be honest, our way performances have been out of Kelly's heel in the last two or three years, and that's the difference for me between. If you want to finish in the top six, that's the next thing we're trying to get. Your home record has got to be absolutely impeccable if you're a way former's bad. We've seen that with Arsenal last year, but you don't want that. You want to be able to go away from home and be confident in turning those performances, because we should be going to six, seven, eight Premier League grounds every year and be confident of winning and turning up and winning, because we've got the players. We've got the players that's two playing away from home where a counterattack inside, when we're in full flow, we have the players to do that, but we've got to start doing that. We've been to Palace first game of the season, the first game of the season. You know there's going to be limitations physically. Sending off, isn't it? We've got to start going to these teams and doing what the teams in the top six do, which is flexing our muscles and saying we are better than you, but actually playing as well in that manner. Proving it? Yeah, exactly. Proving it is the big point where far too many times in the past we go to these games. Listen to these times that season when we were very unlucky in away games, we never always got the rubber to green, but we still only won five away games in the last season. I think so. We've got to start going to these games into these away games and just going out and playing the way we can. We'll get a lot of confidence from the back four, of course, but at the moment, as we record, I'm not sure about the status of Dean and if Banes has to come in, obviously the quality drops and Banes can't necessarily get up and down the pitch as much as Dean can and has the quality, so that's an issue, but I just want to see us have a little bit of that swaggy that, again, the sides and the top six go to clubs and not saying teams already feel beaten, but teams feel like they've got to do a lot. They're on the back four from the start. I think too many times in the last season or two, and this goes for everyone. We've been beaten by teams at the bottom of the table or the rubber teams at the bottom. Relegated full-on last season. We've got to go to these teams and straight away, their fans have got to be like, oh, these are a good side. As I still feel like, this might just be me, is that the opposition go, oh, I think we can beat these. We've got to make sure we change that perception of Everton away from home and not give people a chance. I think we need more performances like the West Ham one last year, to be honest, we were in a good run of form. We went to the brand spanking and batted them. It was a good mix of confidence but knowing full well that on another day they could beat us. I think the full-on game was more of, oh, this is be this easy and it turned us round. If we can do that more often, if we can go to the ground and like you said, puff our chest out so teams go a bit intimidating. One of the things that, and I know everybody talks about it and it's a little bit cliched. One of the things that's making good is that teams are getting intimidated. You're coming out and they're going, what the fuck's going on, shit. The players jump on that, the fans jump on that. Obviously we're not going to get a shine away from home but we need that feeling away from home where teams are intimidated. The team have got to create that. The one you just mentioned, the difference in West Ham and full-on was West Ham, we came out the traps early. Straight away we got a corner and we were pushing them back and making them feel like it was full-on, we started so slowly and I remember doing the video afterwards and saying, big part of that was because of the atmosphere. Big part of that was because the atmosphere was poor and because it felt like a Sunday stroll because it felt like it was an end-of-season game whereas we were still on that for us. We still could have got 7th place in Europe and really that was on us that day and I think far too many times again, this is a thing that goes back four, five years. No, no, no, this is a culture where we've got to go into those games and be demanding from the start that our players straight from the off. No, you don't give it ten minutes because when you go to play, it's like real apart. If you give them ten minutes to settle into the game and feel comfortable about the game, the fans and the players then they get a feeling out of that going on. How many times have you gone to a game, big game where you've played a big team gone? No, we can get through the first 20 minutes and it's the same with these games as well. We should be going into this game and we shouldn't be letting them settle down. From the first whistle we should be on them, we should be pressing them and we should be pushing them, we should be creating opportunities because like you said, if you give them time to settle into the game, it makes it harder for us to then get the upper hand to then push because they'll grow only growing confidence and then look at that first ten minutes and go, well, maybe these arenas big and bad as we first feared and if we go out from the start and we attacked them and we pressed them it was similarly to Wofford on Saturday although we were at home we went out from the start and we pressed and we got that goal fairly early on and we set our stall out and that's what we need to do because it's not going to be an easy game against Phillip. Would you make any changes? Snydlan is available? No, I think a Baman stays. I think the only way a Baman is going to again carry on to playing the Premier League and get better and improve as if he keeps getting that game time. I think the difference is with Keen as I think he's a lot less fit, I think a Baman is. A Baman's now played what, 50 minutes against Palace and a full game on Saturday? I think the difference between the two of them I think a Baman you've got Snydlan I don't know how far away Delphys at the moment from playing and that would be a big bonus if we got them both back. I think a Baman playing next to Gomez he can lay in that position a lot better he's got a couple of good plays behind them as well defensively so we can lay in that role that's the only way he's going to lay in it. The difference with Moise Keen is if you're playing one off front you're on your own and I'm not, listen the manager will make that decision that is up to the manager I mean I'm not sitting here advocating one or the other but the manager has got to be confident that he knows the role because when he came on on Saturday he was erratic but he was erratic in a good way but when you're playing a game you've got to you've got a system you don't send plays out and just go do what you want you wake up all week on the training field and we know how silver, how it gets into the details and he'll stop plays and grab plays and everyone keeps on tumble how the detail is he's not going to overlook he's not going to look at Keen and just go go do what you want that's why he likes Dom it's because he's the kind of player you can drill instructions into and whether we as fans think he can he can do it the manager knows that whatever instructions he gives him he sticks to, he's a very disciplined player maybe with the discipline you lose that that little bit of something that Moise Keen's got but the manager just can't let him loose until he feels like he's got the basics of that down so that the system works so we're waiting to see do you think he'll ever play them both in the same team I think he will I think one of them will play wide I don't think he'll play I don't think he'll play two centre forwards I just can't see it but I think he might play in if he needs a goal from somewhere he might and we've got the options to change it but I could see I just think they complement each other and I think Dom would help Moise Keen as well the manager has a system the manager has a system, he has a way of playing I think if you did that you're going to have to start thinking with the personnel in Moise Keen we're getting more players we're getting better players systems are getting more fluid you can ask Dom to go over to the right or over to the left I want it so you want a front three actually so it's a proper front three like a certain other team I've got this fluidity in the front three because at the moment we don't have a front three we have a front one because while those two those two forwards swing forwards have to keep coming back into my field it's not a proper front three the wingers where is what you want is you want those two wide men to stay up there and move from one side to the other and be fluid you could have it to that and I think with Charleston Keen Dom Bernard can all change in those positions a Wobie as well maybe a Wobie a bit less because he is more of a midfielder but what that means then is more discipline in the midfield and then you don't have a then you can't afford the Guilfee but hopefully that should come and I think Moise Keen would benefit from that a lot more then we would have a nose two players around them and that's where they might play together and then that's where you might say well a Sigarton doesn't play and a Wobie does play and you have more of a solid three in the field that can get side to side rather than up and down and nose three or front can just play that position that's it side to side isn't it because what we've seen for large parts of the last season was with Charleston and Bernard coming back they're full back so we would need that midfield to do that role as well to allow those players to stay there and still have the defensive cover of course but yeah I think in terms of changing the team there's no need to change the back line other than of course if Lucadine isn't fit and then Bane's are coming I'd just keep gobamming in there next to Gomez I would and then I'd keep the front line as it is Moise Keen's not ready yet Richarleston looked tired he's only going to game fitness training and playing games and I would assume that we will see a Wobie at some point in the game whether it be off the bench even if it's for the last 15 minutes and then what we want really obviously we want to win the next two games but if we can if we can take four points from these next two games and go into that international break and then come back afterwards I think we're in a great position then in terms of you know pushing on because you get to that international break of all the players who were international go away they get a little bit of different fitness they get a little bit of rest they come back players who are a Finch fan who remain again get a little bit of get a break and stuff but it's interesting actually whether Richarleston has to go away on international break after them just playing the copper they'll probably stop friendly but it would be better if he didn't go but if we can get four points from the next two games minimal and then come back after that international break which yeah it's a great start and then you look at that and go that's a good start players are all bedding in and they're all getting up to speed and when you feel like the season is kicking off properly then everyone is going for it then you don't have necessarily the excuses of fitness you might have the excuses of people fitting into the system but you don't have the excuse of fitness as such and I still think we've got a little bit of that and then players can start challenging each other and you know I know there's a there's obviously a league cup game as well in between as well which will be good for some of those players just to come in and get a little bit more fitness so once all that's put to bed then hopefully the season go a little bit more but you know for me Friday go down there, puff our chest out and again it's one of those games where you look at it and go well if you want to finish in the top six if you want to compete with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United to get one of those three spaces because for me there's a top three and then there's another three and then there's another three and then there's everyone else and we've got to start closing that gap but the way you do that is go to these games and win, it's as simple as that I spoke about this before the Wofford game and I was saying we needed to win the Wofford game because we didn't want it to be one of those games that you look back at the end of the season and go and he would have won that game and I said you can make a launchers for the Palace game because it's an opening game of the season obviously he didn't have much of a choice as to back it up when Snadl and got sent off this is another game like the Wofford game where we have to go and we have to get three points and he said this is a game that maybe last year we would have drawn but he said we dug in today we were not our best and we dug in and we got the points and that's largely due to the back four not conceding stupid goals because that's the point we haven't conceded a goal we will conced a goal at some point but the point being is if we cut out the cheap goals and cut out the goals from set pieces teams will always score goals it can hit someone on the ass and bounce in of course it can but the form of the goalkeeper and the form of the back four has been brilliant so far but you will always concede goals keep on kicking the ones of people's legs this new phenomena you will always concede goals I don't think we can be under the illusion that we're going to go an entire season without conceding but you've hit the nail on the head again it's about cutting out the stupid goals it's about conceding less we know we're going to concede through all points in this season but if we can concede that we're out less than we did last season we're improving if someone's going to score past you make sure it's an absolute delta you know what I mean and it's not some cheap goal which we were giving up last season so let's hope three points on Friday night go into the weekend flying and then everyone's positive for the weekend and it doesn't become a really long weekend there you go big thanks for camp from 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