 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview Everton vs Luton Town in the fourth round of the FA Cup. It's a big one. It's the big one. Is it a big one? It is, of course it is. Home game, chance to get into the fifth round. What more can you ask for? Saturday, three o'clock. Traditional, nice additional. And also like back to being footy every week, isn't it? Yeah, we had too much footy. Then we didn't have enough footy. And now we're striking a nice balance. We will have to Tuesday. Of course we've got to play Tuesday and we have no players. But that's a side issue that we'll obviously come on to. Luton Town, obviously they've already beaten us at home this season. A massively disappointing game. But it will be tough, won't it? It will be a tough game because I don't think Luton will look at this and go, oh, we've got to be careful about our team. I know they play on Tuesday. I think they play Brighton on home on Tuesday, don't they? So obviously that's an important game for them. But I don't look at them and think they'll make changes. I think they'll throw everything at it because so far what they've shown coming into the Premier League is like, this is our one go and we're having a go at it. And we're not going to, you know, revert a type of some team or we'll just play a completely separate eleven in the cup. I think these will have a go and it will be a tough game. It will be a tough game, you sure that, when they come to Gwddon, back in whatever there was September, I told the Simon. They won the game and obviously that day, it was usually disappointing, on that day Evans shouldn't have been beaten by Luton. We had more than enough opportunities to win the game. You can see the two poor goals. And then spent the long time trying to pull it back and we just didn't have enough when they defended the brilliant. But they got better and better from then. And now, they're very, very competitive now. You know, I think Robert has just done a fantastic job there. Clever recruitment, you know, Ross Barclay had a trucking in the summer, said it at the time. They got Andrews Townsend as well who's done well for them of late. They got Morris, they got other bio. You know, they've got players who can cause issues for you. They're well-organised. And they're in every single game, you know, okay, Bolton in the last round when they've got a draw, a can of a draw, but come to the replay and Luton got past them. So, they'll turn up on Saturday. There's one point behind Evans in the Premier League with the game in hand. And all the game in hand is away at Bournemouth, but that's all it is between the two teams at the moment due to we'll see the outcome of the appeal, of course. But that's where it is right now. So, both teams have matched if you look at it like that. And it'll be a tough game. And I imagine it'll be a very tight game. But from an Everton perspective, it's an opportunity to try to build on the home front. You know, we had a couple of really disappointing defeats. The city wasn't disappointing, just was what it was. But we'd lost the United. We started to build that home for them a little bit better. We beat Newcastle and Chelsea. We drew them a filler who could have gone top that day. We've now beat Crystal Palace at home. So, we've only, I think, the last five, maybe six, seven have lost once, two. Manchester City. And even in that game, you know, we led 1-0 in Dominic Alvalu. This is a great chance at 2-1 to maybe make it 2-1. So, we have been quite competitive. This is an area that the manager wants to and has to improve, which is our home front. And Saturday represents an opportunity to keep building that momentum. We know that we get through within the fifth round, which is a Wednesday night. And one off, I think, as well. I think the replays are out the window after Saturday, after this round. So, good opportunity, but it'll be a very tough game. Yeah, it will be. And, you know, you mentioned there about, obviously, the next round, having no replays. But I think, for Everton's squad at the moment, it would be, if we could get it just done on Saturday, it would be massively important. Just with the state of the squad at the moment, it doesn't look like we're bringing anyone in, although the manager has mentioned the possibility of loans. You're there on the side that it probably won't happen rather than what happened. And we are just struggling for this, you know, on the team. The team news, obviously, no Gomez. Obviously, she scored the winning goal in the last round. Seamus Coleman's not ready. Yesley Young, even though he played 75 minutes for the young 21s, probably won't be available, though. You could maybe see him sneaking onto the bench. Maybe, I mean, look how fast we got Dwight McNeill back who didn't look ready. I'm sure the manager won't be taking any chances with us having Fulham on Tuesday night. Let's just have a little look at the team on the last game. So, obviously, there's not going to be any Gomez. Paterson, you imagine, will continue at right back. Dominic Hall-Lewin, can you see him, maybe? Or do you think maybe he might look at playing possibly better on Dom for once and maybe thinking, right, yes, okay, you've got the opportunity of having Dan Dweymur or a Dom in there, but is this one way maybe he looks at it and thinks, do you know what, I don't really want to drop Dom in a cabinet, that's very clear. He doesn't want to drop Dom, and I understand why for what he gives the team. He's a different player to better. That's what people, I think, need to understand, but is there an option, maybe you go, you know what, just for this one game, let's have a little look at it. He could do, I mean, he put, did he have the two of them together for a bit in the home game? Yeah, he may well have done in this diluting game when we were chasing it. We'd have to change it. We'd have to change slightly, but it's still enabled him to have a back four and a midfield four, wouldn't it? I feel like he's more lightly to start Dan Dweymur, though, and play him either off the striker or play Jack Harrison off the striker with someone else. I also think, though, these are strong on set pieces and I think having an extra player who's big and can get back and also in a second sense as well, I used to think, I'm not saying I wouldn't give it a go. Why not? Why not give it a go? It's a home game. It's a cut tie. If we can, we want to affect it in one game. You know what I mean? We don't really want. The last thing we really need is another replay. Cos it just seems strange. I mean, it's not strange. It just seems a little bit silly, doesn't it, that we've got sitting on the bench, we've got two centre backs who don't get played. We've got better, let's say 25 minutes. We've got Shemiti, who won't come on. He's scored 3-21. We've got Dan Jume, who might start, but then if he doesn't start, he might come on. So it's like we've got options, but the options he doesn't want to make and the area that obviously we haven't got in the options is midfield and yes, you can create, you can put Dan Jume in, you can put Harrison central, you can put McNeill on the other side or a variation of that. That's two natal centre midfielders. So, as I said, there is an option to say, well, if we're only going to have two and they do complement each other, let's have the extra attacker is going to be Axis centre forward and make Luton have a little think about this. Well, why not? It's not like we are slow build-up through midfield team. We thrive best, or we have thrived best when Decore is there. We know that. He's injured again. You know, we normally plays off in the middle, it's been, and drops in and helps out midfield, but when Jack Harrison's played in there, he's not like he's back in the middle of the midfield, winning battles, he works hard, he works a sock-shop for you, same when McNeill's gone central or Dan's humour even, they're still up with the striker. So, why not have one of your two strikers? Because are a possession with a 4-4-2 team anyway. Luton don't build up through midfield either, really, they get it forward quickly, or certainly when I've seen them, they do. Ross Barkley's really the only one who gets it and tries to play a little bit through the midfield. Not saying he can't, of course he can. But I think more often than not, they want to put you on the back foot. And they're coming to Gwldersen, we should be looking to put them on the back foot. Dom has gone a long time without scoring. I think if you're playing a 4-5-1, I'll take him out Saturday. If you go home with one off-front, I'll take Dom out and give him the last half an hour. And maybe break his mindset. But I think if you're going to go with Dom, give him a genuine bit of help net. Play better. And just get it forward earlier. And then ask either... Well, it'd be James Garner. Ask James Garner to bomb on, and try to pick bits up and get you two wide men and be harassing the McNeill, I imagine. Get them out of the pitch, get crosses into the box, have two centre forwards to go. Why not? It's something different. Uncover a different opportunity for us. Is the corey going to be available for Fulham? Probably not. Is he going to be available for Tottenham? He didn't sound like it, but he is a quick healer, so you just never know. So that's the case. We're going to have to look for solutions anyway in those two games, aren't we? Or be it he'll go with 4-5-1 and the option will probably be actually young by then as a winger. But for this game, this is your opportunity to maybe go, you know what, because we are down to bare bones numbers-wise, really. So why not play me two centre forwards? You've got, you just said it, you've got use of timidity there if you want another someone to come on last ten and run around, he scored in midweek. Or you do have the option of going right another wide player than you and push one of your wingers in field. But I'd give it a go with the two and just see how it goes. You can always change it after. You can't, honestly. You can always change it after an hour and just feel like neither of them are really in the game. Go throw an extra body in midfield but why not mix it up? He done it a lot of pain, didn't he? Or I suppose the other option is we could go 3-5-2. That's changing it a lot, isn't it? That's changing it a lot, isn't it? And we could, we could and he's done it before. I'd rather see better I'll start than a Michael Keane say because I just don't think, I think that puts us on the back foot because he won't. If I'm 2-2 genuine forward then you'd go OK, I get it a little bit but he won't. It'd be more like a 3-4-3 and then a beat your car isn't trying to drop off so if you're going to do that, play the 4-4-1-1 but why not? Why not just go with better on Domin and see if we can get a couple of goals and see if we can help Domin out? Let's have a little look at Luton's team and obviously, yeah, I mean you can see there, playing through at the back and this was the team and Luton away and how compact there is in the middle there and obviously Chong obviously done well of late and obviously you've got Ross Barclay those two are going to provide the danger coming out of midfield and Ross this season has looked like he was getting back to his best let's have a look at some of his numbers 15 games, 2 goals XC of 1.76 assist 1 and XA of 0.98 5-8-3-9-8 9-8, sorry, that's my quality I'm complete and report here and as you can see his heat map is all over the place but he has massively improved as he's not improved he's got game time and he's reacted to the game time he's just back playing football again so he doesn't want to accept it but he's a good footballer and ironically Everton just don't have anybody like him if we had him in the midfield with James Garner he'd be perfect for what we had he'd be a good player he was available on a free low wages I personally would have taken him I think he would have improved us big time but he's gone then he's done really well and like you just said because he's playing regularly he's improved and he's a good footballer but they will I look at that scene there I still think they'll be a bit stronger there's no other bio there there's no Andross Tarns in there but then again it depends on Rob Edwards how he looks at it you know it's great going well Newton will just go for it he may well do but he might also go we're actually very much still in this fight to stay forget about it even if he looks past Everton he'll remain there only there were four points off Forrestaddy and five off Brentford so that's nothing really with the game in hand so he may well be looking and thinking Brighton's the bigger of the two with them as I imagine Shaun Bites is looking at Fulham is the bigger of the two but and he may well end up with a team like that but he could also go a little bit stronger and give us a little bit more of a you know more of something to worry about and obviously the bio just tarns in and people like that could be in his thoughts at the weekend he has got a squad and he's going to use it but it's going to be a tough game it's just going to be one of those niggly tricky games isn't it and as I said we're going to have to we're going to have to change obviously again that's the frustration for us isn't it and I know listen we're not the only club that suffers with injuries other clubs have been decimated as well but when you're this isn't really a criticism but he lies on a certain amount of players doesn't he even though they're big bents he's got probably in his mind maybe 13, 14 and he thinks they're my players like my first team so to speak when they start dropping off you're having to piece things in we haven't come up with anything for the core and we get Andre Gomez who you're sure to go okay he's doing alright he's injured and that is the big thing because he must be pulling his air he hasn't really got any to pull out he must be thinking since I've come to this club everything's being kind of against me even though he's made improvements and he's made out of a better team and he's got everyone on the same kind of page we've been it with the points deduction we've been it with this and then he's had men sent off for no reason sort of thing he's doing very well to roll with the punches at the moment you're on date and I think this is why in my opinion the club have got to really move everything they've got to go and bring them a couple of players who can come in and help us for this second half of the season he's got to the core play, play, play, edit and do very well at once he's got 11 and 33 for he got injured, for Dyche goals wise get injured, we don't win a game we come back he scores a goal or be at the top side but he finishes it well he's injured again misses the games, okay we win the next one but now he's out again it's a hamstring injury which is normally four weeks which would have them spares you'd be like is there any chance it might be more like Man City then you look at City and go so he's key everybody else we've kind of pieced together that is an area we haven't been able to to solve at all and therefore that's why for me the club have got to explore every avenue possible and give the manager a little bit of help on how it's difficult it's a difficult month anyway but you know the likes of Forrest are trying to get reiner in and people like that, there are players out there and Evan have got to explore it because the manager have a fighting chance and give the players a bit of help yeah, that's the thing everyone else is strengthening and Evan are can't by the looks of it but if you can get anything over the line from Wednesday that would be huge so there you go, let us know your thoughts in the comments you can win this though, it's a home game this isn't downbeat with opportunities to get in the fifth round then you get a home draw again so let's keep the momentum going a good as in it get out there Saturday get out there Saturday and beat loop and very quickly does pick for play or is it Virginia again I'd probably play Virginia don't well as me in the two court games so, may not may not that's not what I'm talking about there you go there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already, we've got more great videos join us over on toffeeTV premiere daily exclusive videos plus all your videos and podcasts don't have a date on them we all know how annoying that is so if you want to join us over the link in the description the QR codes come up on the screen now see you later