 Welcome to Toffy TV, here is the maths reaction. Eviton 2 Brighton and how well being 3. Another defeat for Eviton and quite frankly an absolutely abysmal display from the Blues who looked like, they didn't only look like they hadn't played for two and a half weeks, they looked like they'd never played together before. Absolutely appalling performance. The manager got it wrong as far as I'm concerned. Five at the back at home to Brighton who'd won one in 12 games is pathetic to say the least. To then persist with that with a flat back five, which is what it was for most of the game, is embarrassing. Domino Calvert-Lewin was back in the side and was isolated. He just made so many mistakes today. It set the tone really, Seamus Coleman at left back. The lad struggling to play right back at the moment and he was left back. Moving players around is embarrassing. He had Luca Dean on the bench quite clearly. I can't wait to see the back of Luca Dean. That's how it looks like because if you've got your first choice left back, sat on the bench, then there's quite clearly a problem. If you're playing a right back who isn't good enough and you're looking to replace, you're playing him left back and you're playing a lad who's got five months left on his emitting contract and won't be offered another one. It doesn't look like you're giving him a game at right, but it's embarrassing. It's stubbornness to the extreme, which is fine if he's got a decision to make and he doesn't think Luca Dean's being professional or whatever it is, then at least play someone who's got experience of playing left back in Ben Goffrey. There was no need in my opinion to play five at the back today. None whatsoever. We were up against Brighton. Brighton, I like the way they play football, they're a decent football side, but they don't warrant you coming and being worried about them. They've won one game in 12 before today. We've just again done what we've done numerous times under them this season and worried about them, which is embarrassing really. The game got off to the worst possible start. The team who's come out, it was a lot of people scratching their heads and then the game started and very quickly, you were like you knew in the first couple of minutes. Already Mason Holgate, right? There's a stupid back pass that almost put us in trouble and then Brighton went ahead and it was a good goal actually, a good ball in. Chested off beautifully and finished by McAllister. I couldn't understand why they took so long because McAllister made the run from deep. It was a nice finish, but apparently it was, I think he might have been mawpised, chested, he was looking whether he was offside. It stood, Brighton were up, and Everton just never really did anything. Never got going in the first half. Went soon enough down for it. I mean the referee, I won't go on too much about him, but he was appalling. He was absolutely appalling. Booked John Joe Kenny for a decent tackle. Day he was throwing tackles in, getting away with it. It was a foul on Dominic Alvalumin on the halfway line, should have been given. Drag to the floor, the referee allowed play to go on. Beshwmur, then went on a great run. Everton made the two easy four and he got a corner. Corner comes in flick on, it's 2-0. The game's looked over, ultimately was over. 2-0 down. We then get a penalty, which was a penalty. I don't know why the referee didn't give it because he was embarrassing the referee. But it was a stone wall penalty. The lad didn't play the ball, didn't attempt to play the ball. Stupid from his, I mean, if I was a green pot, I'd have been ffuming with him. Because there was no reason to shove Gordon in the back when he was going away from goal. Dominic Alvalumin had the perfect chance to mark his return with a goal. And he blazed the penalty over. Short run-up blazed it over the bar instead of just making sure he hit the target. 2-0 down. That half time. Expected to come out and have made changes at half time. Expected because he was warming up after about 25 minutes. He didn't, he left it as it was. We got a goal back, Anthony Gordon. He was probably Evan's brightest player, but was Evan's brightest player on the day. Scored big deflection and got us back into the game. We'd come out and in all fairness, we had a real go at them early on. The crowd got behind the team. We got a goal back and we were looking like we were going to equalise. They were all over the place a little bit. A couple of the wrong choices at times, but we were getting in behind. Damari Gray really come to life in the second half. Alan forced a good save, Aras Sanchez. We had other moments where it just didn't quite come off, but we were the team press and they brightened and didn't do anything. And then out of nowhere we make a hash of clear in the ball and McAllister pops in in the top corner to brilliant strike for 3-1. But they come from nowhere really, but for me the most frustrating bit was you could see that when Brighton did break, they were outnumbering us in a couple of times, they played the wrong pass on the counter, but we needed another man in midfield and he sat on his hands, the manager. Totally nutter, he sat on his hands. We had Gobarman on the bench, we had Andre Gomez on the bench, Tyler on Yango, all midfield players who could have maybe come into that midfield and put the extra body in there. We could have gone four at the back, we didn't need five at the back. They had Maupai up and that was it. It just didn't warrant five defenders on the pitch and yet he left it. To me it just complicated things. It wasn't as if Coleman and Kenny were raiding up and down the wing. Kenny was trying to get forward. Sheaim was blessing us to turn back because he hasn't got a left foot. It was poor. We 3-1 down and he brings on. We got a goal back and he scored and it was a good goal actually, a really good goal. It was a good ball in. Kenny played it in. Gordon played it in. He held it up brilliantly and played around the corner to Kenny, put it back and Gordon swept it home. It was a nice goal, really well worked and it was no more than Gordon desired. Then Anthony Gordon had an opportunity to make a 3-3 and go play for him and cut it back and he just couldn't get it beyond Sanchez. Rondon came on and offered nothing, let's be honest. We huffed and puffed. We could have got a draw in the end. They were at a few close moments. They were scrambling things away. We had 17 attempts at goal today at 12. They nicked the possession by, I think, 51% of 49. I don't really think they can make a case for fully deserving the victory but they scored the goals and that's all that matters in the day. I don't want to sit here and try. It wasn't a hard book story at all today. We were absolutely terrible and it's another. We've won one game of football since September. I think it was the 26th when we beat Norwich. We've had one win, it's January. It's embarrassing, it really is. One win in 12 games is absolutely scandalous and I don't know what we do because these players aren't good enough, end of. Lads who come in are not good, no one near good enough. The manager is making a mistake after a mistake. That team he's picked today is shocking, really, with that formation. It's absolutely shocking. Even if you've got something in your mind, have the balls to change it. Have the thing to go. Don't be so stupidly locked into your ways that you think this is what I've gone with and this is going to work when it quite clearly isn't working. I've just listened to his post-matt interview and he's on about what we know. We're disappointed with the goals we can see. We weren't focused and we work on it in training and all that. It just sounds like Martinis, when people were telling him that he had to worry about defending and it's just pathetic, really pathetic. But these players have got to stand up and be counted. On care if you're a squad player, if you're in that team, you should be standing up and being counted. Battling for everything. When you're in that team, you give everything for it and there's too many players in our side that just don't want it enough for me. The core and Alan are not accusing those two, those two being quite good, but I thought they were terrible today. A pair of them give the ball away so much. Alan tries to drive the team forward. He needs another player in there with them. Shedder all season, those two aren't good enough, and it's true, especially when you haven't got people like Retialas in the side, taking it forward or Townsend doing lots of work. Just all over the place. The manager has really put us in trouble today with that side. I'm not correcting it. You can sometimes think of a formation, think this might work, not doing anything about it when it isn't working. It's shocking. Fair play to Brighton. We are in a relegation fight now. I didn't think we were going to be what we are. So what can we do? We need seven wins and I don't know where we're getting them right now. It can change, of course. It can very quickly. We need all our best players fit and available right now because we are in a little bit of trouble now. Man of the match, Anthony Gordon. I think the only one there. I think Damari Greig, come to life second half, he worked this. He's the one who gets on the edge of his seat. Though Dom don't know what I can certainly hasn't played for four months. But man of the match, it was Anthony Gordon. So there you go. Another disappointing home to FIFA Everton and that fifth year on the run we've lost the opening game of the new year. So boss. We are boss for the first game of the season. First game of the new year. There you go. Let me know what you think in the comments. Have a good night. Happy new year. And there you go. See you later.