 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton vs Dynamo Kieff. Everton's last pre-season game ahead of the Premier League start next Saturday against Chelsea and it's a weird one this one isn't it because obviously Kieff their last league game was in December they have been in Champions League qualification they've played a lot of friendlies as well in the last few weeks their league is due to start again in August, August 23 but just a very strange, there are very strange circumstances around this game aren't they? Yeah obviously with the ongoing conflict they've been disrupted haven't they and have gone over to Switzerland and played a lot of games there I think he was saying he had 8 friendlies over there so they have been playing games they've got a mixed back of results in Switzerland and that's what we've found about you last week. We are obviously recording this before due to play the second leg of the Champions League qualifiers so they're going to be fit and up to speed just given the amount of games they've played but it's weird they've got obviously Champions League game Wednesday a friendly condition on Friday it's a bit of an odd one and for us obviously a home friendly but you haven't had for a few years obviously COVID the last one we had was behind closed doors which is Preston, Carlo Anciolotti was the manager, three different managers since then or rather the third manager since then so the last sign of Fangirling was a while ago obviously Friday night as well under the lights and it will be a special occasion for bitterly Michel Enco. Yeah it is a charity fundraiser we'll directly support humanitarian efforts in the Ukraine, Kiev have previously participated in games in Poland, Turkey, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium since the start of the war as part of their match for peace initiative. Be the first one obviously on British soil with money going obviously towards the conflict and obviously there's going to be people within the ground Ukrainian refugees and Ukrainian families as well they're going to be in the ground as well so it is actually an important game as well not just for what happens on the pitch but obviously what happens off the pitch for obviously support and everything that's going on as well so that is all massively important obviously if we can get a full house that would be huge but just in terms of football obviously Evan have had three games so far obviously we beat Blackpool last Sunday and this is the next step up isn't it? Evan will be looking for a tough game, you mentioned there all the games Kiev have played and obviously playing in two champions league games as well, Evan will be looking for a tough game, it's not just an event for a charitable occasion, Evan will want a tough tough game to prepare them for what they face next week against Chelsea and what is a tough game this season and a fast start of the season as well but so many games in August? Evan started off with a under 21 opposition, did not need a very first game yet which is behind closed doors of Finch Farm and then stepped it up to Arsenal and Minnesota and then you wanted to go up again and did a Blackpool at the weekend in terms of fitness and where they were in opposition wise obviously and this one is another step up champions league team or attempting to be played more games than us so yeah Frank Lambert will be looking for a tough test Evan will be looking for the same kind of energy that we saw at Blackpool on Sunday and players you know places are off the grabs this season kicks off in eight days you know the time of the game there's eight days till the new season so for some people the opportunity to put a marker down for that Chelsea game might see a couple of new faces as well so yeah an opportunity for the fans of being gooders and to see the team before obviously the premier league starts so you know it will be, it should be a difficult game for Evan and one that I think they'll welcome because you need to be facing tests before the Chelsea game because the Chelsea game will be a huge test you know they're still hoping to bring players and they've already brought Raheem Stering and they've already brought Cullaballion, they're looking to do two or three more deals so it's going to be a really difficult game that first game of the season and you can't go into it undercooked and I know some people still aren't happy and probably in this group still aren't happy with the amount of games that Evan have played I think I might have liked another one maybe two but it's all on this one it is what it is and the players have got to go out and put everything into this and get the levels up I think it's important as well isn't it that we find out the shape you know we're going to take into the season whether it's that three at the back with the wing backs it's obviously something towards the back end of the season that Frank Lampard prepared I mean a lot of the times it did end up just being a five at the back and that did suit us towards the end of the season because we know how porous we were and we've made score on that many goals but I think obviously what we saw last Sunday was how high Michalyn Coe and how high Patterson were getting and really you know giving us some width high up making it so it was a three at the back and Tarkhouse was stepping out of it I think it's important we see more of that and we established what we're going to go into the season with you know you mentioned it there there is now a possibility of players coming into the side or coming into the squad certainly but that's not going to happen straight away and we've got to be flexible we've got to have more bodies in the squad but I think more importantly right now it's that the players have got to be happy with the set up then in and it's got to suit the plays we've got as well and I think obviously with Michalyn Coe and with Patterson I think playing and the amount of centre backs we've got as well it does suit us more I think playing three at the back with the wing backs? Yeah just with the personnel we've got right now you look at that midfield and even right now with the players you were linked with still nobody to go in that midfield obviously we have got the links with Ghana so he would go in it's still probably walking through our midfield anyway he would walking through our midfield and he does know that role really well and that could free up people like the core and help people like Delhi and things like that but if it isn't if there's none of you know he's not here but certainly by this game and you wouldn't be anywhere don't think now but you've got to look at who's going to play in that midfield so the three at the back makes sense with your wing backs hi I still maintain a three-five to be better out than a three-four-three I feel as though if you're going to put Delhi off Dom if Dom's fit and we'll know obviously he's began training again if he's fully fit you want Delhi buzzing round him it does then obviously leave a question mark over at my golden the marry grey because if we're not playing with natural width if you fall back to your width where are they playing for Anglampard might see it as the two behind the one and then the two further back and might do it that way which means Delhi had come off the left a little bit but I just think he's much more comfortable in those central areas but the midfield is still a huge issue for me obviously Ghana was to come in that would improve that even if it's a shortane fix it would certainly improve it and maybe give a swell months to it even though you think people have already identified but maybe the finance is in a better position in a year they can identify you know even maybe by Christmas by January transfer window they can identify someone to do that but I think it will be I think he will start with the three at the back I think he tried to play four at Minnesota didn't he and we got over round and that was we had opportunities in that game to take the lead me didn't in once we went behind me were getting caught high with the you know where I'd been at a position and they were breaking on us and I think that probably gave him a little bit of a rightly all wrongly he looked at it and thought probably better with three at the back and he reverted back to that against Blackpool so I imagine that's how evidence that the scene yeah it does definitely I think definitely suit us with the place we've got and I think we're Patterson being so airy in his in his everton and Premier League career and obviously shame's come and not being available to take you know some games I think it's important we bed him in in the most comfortable way and obviously when Michael Enkel came in we didn't quite have the well it was a similar situation wasn't it it was he there was only one left back and he had to play and I think it's something similar now but I think to get the I think to get the most out of both of them I think I think playing wing back will suit and that's what Patterson did saying he may have seen him play for Scotland playing that wing back role it's suit him a lot more it's obviously going to be a lot more difficult for him but he's got the energy to get up and down I just think we're having the extra cover of the centre back saying if that centre back is you've got the likes of Tarkowski and you've got the likes of Yeni Mee. And then obviously adding to Ben Goffy with his pace leaves us a little bit more solid than just a four way. Seeing Patterson get caught out in that role playing as a traditional right back and only he's ever been a proper right back Patterson so far in his career I think it's why struggle to get in at Rangers is that it just isn't a traditional right back yet I think it's something he's got to learn. Sometimes shame's common went through when he started his career at Everton something he had to go through you know he wasn't always suited to playing right back and he went on loan and then he played don't forget he played right wing for a time you know at Everton as he learned to get up to the speed of playing in the Premier League and I think it will take him a time but I think that's a lot more suited for him. I make an income we've seen it when he's played for Ukraine as well he's good at getting on the outside he's not a bad cross of the ball he wants to get up there the modern four back does that anyway now. And what we've seen last week when he played against Blackpool was them two obviously combining from Patterson from the right and getting the ball into the box. And you mentioned there that Deli Alley is playing in a role behind Dominic Arvalun or whoever the centre forward is. If he's alive to situations when balls are coming into the box then I think we can get a lot of joy from him playing there. That's going to be an interesting dynamic at Deli Alley this season he didn't play much at the end of last season. And I think no one's quite you know even though it's you know Deli we've seen him play for Spades playing for England and only anyone's still quite convinced that he can deal just because he's playing forever and he can repeat that. But really he should be one of the first names on the team sheet. He should have his place nailed down you know whatever's best for him whatever we can get out of him. And he's still very tender age you know that's a me as well if you're going to spend that money because don't forget when he plays 20 games that closes activators you're going to pay that money. You've got to know what you're paying for and you've got to know how you're using them as well so I find his dynamic in the team very interesting as well. Well he's a top well he was a top player wasn't he he's obviously lost his way he's had evidence for the reason he's not pulled up any trees since he's been here. But he is a lad who naturally finds himself in positions where he can score goals he's a natural goal scorer. We haven't got enough of that but be mown on the fact we just lost a 10 goals a lad who got double figures every year. So Deli has got to replace those goals for us or certainly add goals for us if he's going to be here you know. So we've got to do what we can to get the best out of him and if we do that then we may well replace it's Harrison's goals. People are looking and are concerned and rightly so. But what I would say is if we can keep Dom fit you know we only got five goals last season but he missed most of the season or half of the season. If Dom can stay fit I'd expect Dom to get 15 goals because he was that was the kind of path he was on anyway. If he was to get back to his normal 15 goals and I know the year before he got 20 or before he was injured but if he got 15 Deli got six or seven or whatever. Then already you've replaced the goals you've lost from Ritalis and just from last season. Deli adding goals you need from other areas but Deli could be really important for us but we have to use them right. Sticking them on the wing and expecting them to be Ritalis and ain't going to do any favours. And I don't think and this might be letting them get away with it a little bit but I don't think expecting them to put the hard work in that Ritalis and did. I don't think he's that player. I don't think when he was that space at his best he was that player. He's a player who floats through games. He's a player who just pops up in the space and I think it's where he's actually gone wrong. It's not laziness and so this is something like you've seen in the space documentary. He's a very old fashioned player who doesn't tend to want to work very hard and you've seen that. He's a luxury player and if you can get the best out of him you get rewards but if you don't you're not getting much out of him. So you have to put him in a place which is going to suit him most otherwise it's pretty pointless I think. You're sticking him in on the left side or whatever. The game is just going to pass him by. He's not someone who gets hold of a game. He's someone who's seen in his style. It's very laid back and I think that's a balance and act down for that as well. I think that's where the best managers who look after a player or who can get into the ear of a player going I'll give you what you need, you give us it back. That's going to be a really interesting thing this year and as I said I think it's going to be amazing. It could turn out to be an experiment that just doesn't work but we'll wait and see. Obviously that area of the pitch is going to be very interesting because you've obviously got the likes of Anthony Gordon, the likes of the Marey Grey as well, vying for those roles. If we are playing wing backs where does that leave them? Does that leave them tucked inside forwards? Those players say to me this season, you're Anthony Gordon, you're asking them to go up another level and he has to because where he was playing last season was worked hard but it's about the end product and I think the Marey Grey is similar. It's second half season he was rubbish. No two ways about it. The last couple of games he done well in but he dropped off. These players have got to start having an end product. I think that's so important as well and it's about finding out now what positions they're going to hold on the pitch as well. What, where are they going to fit in? Because again they're not players that you can, especially when having wing backs, a lot of where they like to play is going to be at space is going to be taken away. Can they take advantage of that though? Can they take advantage of full backs going on the wing backs going on the outside and them getting on the inside of that. So that's going to be an interesting time and hopefully we'll see a little bit of that on Friday. Yeah it will be interesting to see what he goes with. I imagine it will be the three at the back and then what patterns of play he produces from there and you're right with those two players is he really going to play two wingers and then two full backs on the outside of it. I don't see it so I think Deli has forced his way into his thinking right now whether he can stay in there is up to him and that means the other place is up for grabs but you know there's sort of maybe Dwight McNeill coming in and then where does that leave him, where does he play? Because he's not one or the other. Does he play as one of your dream of field players? Does he play off the right and you've got someone off the left so it's going to be interesting to see what they're looking to do this season. That's different from last season because obviously we need a plan, we need to stick to it and we need the players to perform and Friday gives everybody that right now it's going to be Evan's last pre-season game unless they can squeeze one more in in the final week. In the final week I'm not convinced they will therefore it's everyone in that squad's last opportunity to put a mark on that if you like what you say to Flanc Llanparg you know I should be in your start. Yeah and it'll be interesting whether we see our new left back as well getting a chance. I'm sure he'll get on. I'm sure if he's done the training I'm sure he'll get 20 minutes. Well that'd be good to see another two new signings obviously confirmed as we speak getting an opportunity. Well yeah give me a first taste to Gwldersun, get him on the ball see what he's got to offer. That's what it's about isn't it? Yeah do you go looking forward to it, looking forward to being back at Gwldersun. 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