 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview. Southampton vs Everton. Ever looking to stay unbeaten in a very tough game at St Mary's, which has become a little bit tougher with the news that Hamas Rodriguez, Sheamus Coleman and with Charleston are all set to miss out. One of them is absolutely guaranteed to miss out with the Charleston, but Sheamus Coleman I think we all thought was going to miss out, but Hamas Rodriguez is going to miss out as well according to Carlo Interlotti, so that is a bit of a blow isn't it, that is a bit of a low straight off the bat. It's a huge blow isn't it, cos obviously he's our chief provider isn't he, he's created the most chances this season in the team, so that's a big blow. We knew Coleman would miss out going off of the hamstring injury and obviously we knew that Charleston wasn't available anyway, but to lose Hamas is a bit of a blow. We're never going to play the whole season with the same 11 and it's about being able to get over these bumps and it gives other players an opportunity to come in and stake their claim. Absolutely, obviously it's a huge negative. Hamas Rodriguez is like different kettle of fish, he's not going to get many people who can replace him and it's like that with any good team, the one player, your best player, you can't replace them. And the better they are, the harder it is to replace them and he is really top class. But I'm trying to look at this as a positive and think to myself, well it's been great so far, four wins on a draw on the Premier League into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. You need to be tested I suppose at some point. You need to look at the team and see where it is and where it's going. Southampton had a good side, they've been on a really good run since Christmas. They've started the season a couple of the feats and now they've found their feet a little bit. So it's going to be a real test. If this evidence team could go to Southampton and get a win, let's say, having a few players missing, it shows you there's real character and it shows you that the players in the squad are also pulling in the right direction. We saw that in the Brighton game, we saw it with a couple of players missing in midfield and players coming in. Are the players all fighting for the same thing? Did you all want to be in the team? Do you all think they've got a chance of being in the team? And we'll find that out on Sunday because there's a real opportunity for a couple of players now to come into the side. The Carabaugh Cup was used really well actually when you think about it because it was an opportunity, especially with the short pre-season and everything. It was an opportunity to get players up to certain level and someone like Bernard who played him who started both of the first two rounds against Salford and against Fleetwood, he hasn't had a minute of Premier League actually. And then someone like a Wobie hasn't started the game yet, but hasn't started the Premier League yet. So it's there the two players you would look at and think they'll come into the side, but then again, we did a video the other day about who replaced his ritualism, expecting hammers to play obviously. And we thought that in general it was between a Wobie and Bernard and I know there's been a lot of calls for Anthony Gordon and he was in the conversation as well. I think we both went with a Wobie because he seems to be like one of the first subs and he's got on done quite well. But now obviously it's Bernard or Anthony Gordon. So there's two ways you're looking at it. You can look at Gordon and think well he's a bit physically, he's a little bit taller than Bernard and probably a bit stronger. Like to cut in and have a go with that right foot or do you go for the technical ability of Bernard on that left hand side? Yeah, you're right. I expect a Wobie to start on the right now because there's a couple of plays you can come into it. And it'll be interesting to see what happens, Bernard, talk of him leaving the club obviously, Anthony Gordon not being getting on the bench. So the manager's got to look at it tactically and using the right mindset and he's been chomping at the bit all week. So we've maybe known that as an opportunity. Hopefully he'll be making his decision on those things. But it's going to stretch the squad. It's going to stretch us a little bit. And obviously, like you said, James Coleman is out as well. And that'll be whether, does he continue with Ben Godfrey at right back or does he go for a now fit John Jo Kenny? Who does he look at? So it's... Who would you go for there? Godfrey, I don't think John Jo Kenny's good enough. I don't think I'd go for Godfrey just because Kenny's only just coming back from starting training earlier in the week. And I just think the physical side and the pace of Godfrey, because if you've got someone like Nathan Redman playing, it's quite quick. You've got Che Adams running into those channels. You want someone who can get back and cover. And while Kenny's all right, I just thought he's not as quick. I don't think across the ground there's Ben Godfrey. So I think I'd go more with Ben Godfrey, although John Jo's obviously more of a specialised right back. Godfrey is filling in, but I think that's who I'll go with. And Southampton and I might be wrong on this. They always strike me as a team that are good on set pieces. I might be completely wrong, but they always do. They're just one of those teams. You look at Danny Ings and you look at the plays they've got in the backline as well. They always strike me as a team that will do well on set pieces. And it's good to have another physical body in there, because we're not too bad defenders on set pieces. The manager's got decisions to make. But as I say, you go into the December time, you go into January time, you go into those two months. It's ridiculous how many games of football there is. It's absolutely ridiculous. And we know this season the Champions League now is relentless for the next couple of months or the next six weeks. It's just every week and you've got an international break in the middle as well, which is just ludicrous. So once December kicks off, you know you're going to have a lot of games over Christmas and we know there's loads anyway. So the squad's going to be testing it to the manager can trust. And I think like we've seen in the Carabao Cup, it's like the manager will put players out and just say, I'm giving you your chance now, what are you going to do? And it's those players. We're going to see who's up for it. And I said in that breaking game, I think when Sigurddon come in and Tom Davis, I think you see the reaction of a couple of players going, I want to be in this team. I think that's what we've all been talking about this season. There's Carlo and Trotty said to them, who wants to play for this team? Who wants to be part of this? I think what we've seen so far is they've all responded. They've all responded in the Carabao Cup. And I think that's what we want to see. Even like Fabian Delth, who most of us have written off really, because we've started seeing enough of them and was the desire there. He played against West Ham wasn't it and played really well and he come on in that breaking game for the last half an hour and done okay. So they have responded, Sigurddon has responded very well. And I guess to Bernard, if he can recover the form that he had two years ago, this first season, him and Dean, we were loading them as possible. Bains and P and R level at one time. Can they link up like that? So if he could come in for this game and link up down the left hand side, that would give us the option. I guess he's looking and he'll look and think, do we go for almost a wild card in Anthony Gordon? Because people still don't know what he can do. He's not really known in the Premier League at the moment. Or do we go for that link up playing, that technical ability of Bernard over on that side? They're the real question. I know I've seen people throw nears and kunkw into the mix as well. And who knows? I mean he's physically really good. There will be opportunities for obviously two players who are going to have to step up to the bench, whether that be Anthony Gordon or will we see Ellis Sims in there because we haven't got any other strikers. Un kunkw, with the look at him as well, has been someone you threw on in the last 15 minutes to play down the left hand side. We don't know because we don't know the full repertoire at the moment. But what we have got is we've got that spine, the goalkeeper, Michael Keane, Jeremy Meane, Alan Decorey and Dominic Alvin Llew. That's the spine that you want to keep together for as long as possible because there the players are not going to open up games. But there the people are going to see out games. There the players who are going to work through games. There the players that you want for a game like this where you know it's going to be tough, you know Danny Ings is record against us and all the rest of it. There the players who keep your side together when it matters and you just hope that all their elements come together. Listen, no one's going to be as good as Amazon Vegas. No one's going to cross that, you know, the crossfield passes like he does to whoever on the other side. So you've got to look for something else then and you're asking a woby, you're asking, as we said Bernard or Antigone, whoever to come in and just do what they do. But if we can keep that middle together then I think that's a huge positive for the whole of the season really. You've got to look at when you're going to have to make those changes, he was never going to play every game. Rodríguez, we knew that when he come in he was never going to create and have an assist every single game because he'd be the greatest footballer in the world. And I know that he's world class and he's a top, top player but there was going to be games that he misses out on, games that he's nullified in because some teams will try to nullify him. It's up to your other players then to create those opportunities. We give them a Calvallun, who's the top scorer opportunities, he will take them. And then it's up to other people, it's up to people like Abdelhaid y Cori, who've got half a dozen goals from Wafforddon in the field, it's up to him. Is it his moment on Sunday to come up with an important goal for everyone? Is it Yeri Meeners' turn this Sunday off a corner to score, you know, we've seen him come up with a big goal against Brighton, we've seen Michael Keane last week. So, Evan have still got players of quality, there's no question about it. A Wobing Bernard ain a bad shooter calling from the bench to come into your team and Anthony Gordon who's a live wire trying to get in there. And it'll be amazing to be seen whether they think Alice Sims can be on the bench or not. I don't know, it might come down to who's available and who isn't or who the man who thinks. But I don't know, I just look at it and think it's an opportunity, that's what those players have got to look at. They've got to look and think, I might only get this opportunity this week because the manager, the way he was speaking, made it. I mean, I've still got like a 5% hope that he looks like he'll miss the game. Means that, you know, someone will drop some of the A-2 shot that could have been on Saturday and he's able to play. But it made it sound like if it isn't there this week, he'll probably be fifth in Newcastle. So, for a Wobing or Bernard, it might just be one shot you've got at this. And you have to make it difficult for Carlo Antelothi to consider putting that kind of shot. But it might be one shot though because with the Charleston being out for three games, if Bernard's on one side and the Wobing's on the other side, both of them will be, you know, thinking, if I do well today I can take that spot on the left side. But it'll be one shot for one of them. No, no, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. They've both got an opportunity, so... Well, let's have a look at, I mean, Southampton, you know, they've had a mix back, haven't they? They lost an opening two Premier League games this season. They've won the next two an entry with the weekend. And then this is how they started last week against Chelsea. Alex McCartney and go, Walker-Peters and Bates and we now two full backs that like to attack. Bednarich and Bestergaard, two centre backs. Good in the air, so it'll be a test for them, but he's quicker than the pair of them. And so I think that could be somewhere where Everton can get in behind them. Then you look at that midfield, obviously, Nathan Redden played off the left. No Theo Wolcott this weekend, obviously, because of the loan agreement. He had a decent game for them last week. Interest in that he played the full 90-odd minutes last week, wasn't it? For Everton it looked as though he was a last 20-minute man. Now, so, but obviously, you know, did well for them last week. Warprous and Remail in the middle. I think Alan and Dacorey can take that. And then obviously the threat of Tia Adams and Danny Ings up front who, you know, Danny Ings four goals in five games this season, loves a goal against Everton. So we know where their dangers are, where their danger men are. We know what we have to do. Don't give cheap free kicks away round the box at Warprous. We know he's got a fantastic delivery. And listen if Everton can go and play the way we know they can. They can win this game. It'll be a tough game, like you said before. You know, we went there a year ago and we won it. They'd just been hammered their own by Lester and we all feared the worst. We all thought, oh, they're going to come flying out here. And we were in terrible form, really. And we went up there and, oh, sorry, went down there. And won 2-1 and come out played really well for the first half. And then had enough in the last 20 minutes to take the game away from them. So while it is a difficult game, it's an opportunity. Isn't it? To stay top of the league. And it might be have to go back top of the league if the results go the other way. So it's a big incentive for Everton. And if they can get over this, what is a big obstacle this Sunday, if not having to be your best front three, then it'll give the whole squad confidence and obviously us, it might turn some of our non-believers into believers. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Just give us your terrible stats. The last bit of the pressure bit of the year of the preview. For this game. So let's go. Southampton have won five of their last seven home Premier League games against Everton. But obviously we're beaten last time out. Everton are looking to win consecutive away top flight visits to Southampton for the first time since 1992. Southampton have kept more clean sheets against Everton than they have any other side in the Premier League. Ten of 13 clean sheets coming at St Mary's against us. Southampton have lost just two of their last 12 Premier League games. One six, three four losing both of their opening two matches of the season. Everton, though they've lost their 100% winnings. No, I'm not doing that one. Sorry. No, I'm not crying it in that much. Everton have won each of their last three Premier League games. Last winning four consecutively on the road back in December 1985. Interesting. Incredible. No side that scored more header goals in Premier League history than Everton. 322 currently level with Manchester United and we've got Willie in the header goals chart for this season so far. Six goals. Danny Ings has scored four in his last five appearances against Everton. He's only got more goals against Spares. He's got five against Spares. Dominic Alderman scored in every Premier League game this season. He scored seven goals. The only player in Premier League history to score in each of his teams was Sergio Aguero from Manchester City. Interesting. And the son of Spares is the only player to have created more chances this season than Hammers Rodriguez. He's created 16 Hammers. He's got 15 but we know he's not there. That's nothing new. We knew that he was the chief creator but that to me just throws down the gauntlet to someone like a wobbio. Bernardin says you've got to become that chief creator now. Llewka Dim ond by far by Iron Hammers for creating opportunities. So it's who can maybe link up with him as well. Opportunity. And listen, we knew we had no with Charleston so they've known all week and now maybe they've known all week we've not have Hammers Rodriguez as well. We've kind of been training with that. So there you go. It's not all doom and gloom. Come on, let's be positive. Top of the league. And if we get through this one then bouds well for the coming games with our squad. Obviously at some point we'll be stretched this week and it will be stretched again. So let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. Are you confident or do you see this one as a potential speed bump for us? Let us know. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. And if you want more great videos, live daily videos, join us on page. The link is in the description honestly. It's well worth it. Loads of jointers this week. You can too even if you just come over for a month and see what you like. It will only cost you £3 or so. 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