 Welcome to Toffy TV! Everton successively navigated through a messy tournament to get their hands on the Florida Cup in Orlando last night with a penalty shoot-out win over Milianos of Colombia. There they are, the lads looking delighted. Sheamus got his hands on a trophy. Sheamus was disappointed with no fireworks because Orlando is the home of fireworks for any occasion. Sheamus was disappointed but a good run out, a good workout for the Blues. Obviously daft heat, daft humidity playing a team who were a little bit further along in the pre-season than we were or are. It was a good one out really, just a good opportunity to get the fitness in the legs in the short time we have before the pre-season starts. In those conditions you will benefit from it when you get back to humidity and running around. They were used to the conditions more than we were but it was a decent game. Nobody can say grew into the game because there were basically two different teams but they performed better than the second half in the first half but there were still decent signs in the first half as well. Obviously we have already played a couple of games at Finch Farm, at USM Finch Farm to practice games. I can't understand Liam Blackbeam but this obviously went up a notch because of being in a stadium, having fans there. The temperatures were quite high when we played at Finch Farm as well but more likely the humidity and also the fact that the levels they've been training at as well. They would have stepped up when we've gone into America double sessions. Obviously we started the likes of Luca Dean, it was great to have him back because he hasn't had much of a pre-season in a couple of days over in America. So that was good. Tanzen started the game obviously big of it. Like you said there it was a slow start of the game getting into it. I thought they started a lot better. Obviously he got the goal from a set piece, very fortuous goal hitting the back of his leg after he had the post. But there was some bright spots obviously. Tanzen looked really good on the right hand side, looked comfortable with both feet cutting on his left. Obviously we've seen him at the bar but also crossing with his right and the advantage having a player you can go both ways I think it will be massively important. He was very good to be fair. Worked hard. I think one thing stood out and it's not a negative or such for Sheamus but we need to go on to the overlap a little bit more. He did it a couple of times and allowed Tanzen to come and try. So it just showed you that if you do have the full back that's going on and you've got some on that can cup back in and evidently have been looking for that left foot right winger for a while. And I'm not saying Tanzen's in there because they're still in the market, they're still looking but he can do that role. And he did, he was good. You know we went on the outside a couple of times and the difficulty you have then is a full back. Is he going to come inside on his left or is he going to take me on the outside? So you know with predominantly a right footer player running down that wing that if you show him inside he's got to come into his weaker footwear as Tanzen doesn't appear to... Quite clearly he's left footed but his right foot is decent and he put a couple of great crosses in and if you don't want to call the looms in you know you're talking about having an opportunity at goal. So showed really good trans, I thought Tanzen worked really hard and the one you talked about there when he cut in and bent it onto the bar would have been a tremendous way to mark your first game for him. Yeah I thought his attitude was spot on as well and it looks like he's the right profile whether people think he's a big enough name or not. It would be interesting to see how it goes. We go on the season with him where obviously with the time left in the window, five weeks left whether we can secure somebody. But what I would say is you mentioned Seamus Coleman if we could bring in a right back who continually offers something down that right hand side then actually Tanzen wouldn't be a bad fit because he can come in on his left foot and he will. The person who keeps on going on the outside can offer but also allow him. Seamus I don't think he can do that saying he can't do that for a full season. The whole last season what happened he started the season really well then got an injury in and out all season and we can get someone again. It shows how important that right back position is because we've seen on the other side with Luca Dean. Luca Dean was offering all day and would put a couple of great crosses in. On that moist keen should have buried let's be honest he had 10 yards out and he's put it over the left and that probably he's put it over the bar. I don't know why but he hit it on target to go. It's as simple as that. But you see that with Luca Dean we've seen it since day one of him coming into the side. He just offers all the time and that's what we need from a right back because suddenly then you do get a little bit more from your wide men and then your wide men can tuck in then and help them to field out as well. Encouraging signs from Townsend coming in. Did you think there was a little bit of an early nod to it? We're going to play a bit more direct as well. You could definitely see that when the opportunity to get moist keen in was on the centre backs had no problem with the behogate or Ben Godfrey did have no problem just sending that ball over the top. If you have got pace up there why not just exploit it and moist keen I think was unlucky a couple of times just not taking the ball under control. It would be interesting to see if they do that during the season how that would affect Dom and the Carbon women's game because he's transformed his game to be a back to goal centre back and his hold up plays really well. But it's whether they look at it and start trying to get him on the heart and say well now if we send the ball over the top trying because you've got this is the thing that we've said it's funny about Dom and the Carbon women. He's got pace but we never really see him stretch defences because of the way we've been playing saying you know it's build up build up build up and there's never that directness with them. And it would just be interesting to see whether the manager looks and says you know we're going to exploit that pace whether it's him or Richard Allison by just putting balls over the top and seeing if you can beat the centre back and start working on that and change his game a little bit so definitely trying to do that. And that could be because of the heat and you know there's a ball. You could definitely see early on that it was something that obviously talked about. I don't think we're going to be trying to have like 500 passes to get the ball forward. I think it will be a mix. And to be honest Benita has said that a few times in his conversations that he's had with Evan and TV is that if we can do it in three passes we'll do it but you know if it takes ten we'll take ten. But I think having that we saw live up we'll do it to fantastic effect a couple of years ago when we won the league. Fandai chi'r tyst ar awi yn ddi bian bian. And before you know it, when he beat us far too, I think he scored four of the goals with the one pass. And it was like why try to build up where teams are blocking that midfield area and it's difficult to pass through them if you can do it early and get people in bian. It's about getting the support up though. It's no point it in that 60-yard ball, don't brings it down and runs and then there's nobody. That's why obviously Tansen and the Grey company have got a bit more patience, a bit more of a profile in that. And also if you're going to do that, we're not blessed with a quarterback style centre midfielder who can go and pick the ball up from the midfield and turn and do that job for them. So the centre backs, if they have to do that job, we'll have to do it. Because I think what we saw again, it's early days and there's rustiness and there's got a goalkeeper who's kicking on as good as Jordan Pickford is. We got course a couple of times just trying to play it out from the back and of course that improves once the season goes on you a little bit sharper. But why do you do that when, as he's just said, if there's someone off the front and you're running willy, running willy, willing runner, then you've got that then. It was just that moist keen, again, lack of sharpness, couldn't take it. And when he could, he never really got the ball out of it because his performance was a little bit again pre-season. He had a few opportunities where he was picked the ball up, never got his head up and never opened himself up to get into those areas. The one particular where Thomas played him in the first half and he's running in the goal, he's just had to go to the side of his feet. The classic thing when you want to score, you try to get everything perfect to get the shot away, where when you score and you'll just take it early. And I thought he should have got a shot away. And then another time a Wobie gets it and nicks it and gives it to him. If he gives the right ball back to him, a Wobie can follow the pass then and get himself in an area where he's got a trapping. He had me turned and tried to go himself and he was just running out to a blind alley and he just cried with him out. And that was what we saw when he was here the first time. The head up and played the right pass, it's always trying to, it's almost like when you try to prove to everyone you can play, instead of just playing. Trying to add almost and I think if he can just simplify it a bit, he will score goals because he's got good movement. But we wasn't brilliant last night, but then we didn't give him loads of opportunities to be brilliant. But I thought, you know, I thought the Corey and Alan were alright. Alan, forgetting it was kind of a friendly. Giving a few kicks out. Yeah, definitely. I thought the Corey was allowed to get forward a little bit more and I think that's key what we're going to have to do with him. Is that to get the best out of him you've got to let him go on and get in there. But I mean what we started with that 4-2-3-1, which we played in the second half as well, you just wonder if that is going to be the preferred style for the manager. Because if that's the case, then that midfield two is a pick between Alan, the Corey, Gwbamon. They seem to have Andrea Gomez at the moment because Tom Davies in the last two games has come on on the wing. Hasn't he? He's played wide. He's been more stuck on just there. No, but that's what I mean. But he's not in this position. Maybe the manager's got a profile. I mean listen, the manager might have a profile though. Managers do. They have a profile of what fits into a certain position and he looks at it and says, you have to be this size and this weight and this kind of... That's how some managers look at certain situations and we don't want somebody who goes in. Ironically like we've done before, Tommy is going to pick the ball off the defence and he's not a quarterback. He doesn't pick up and he's a 30-yard ball. What he does then is just move the ball onto the next person. What we found last season when we were playing off from the back was the ball just gets stuck in midfield and then it starts coming back. We have to be starting being a little bit more direct and have that noticeable as well. We were interested in Moise Keam. We were looking for crossfield balls to get the wide men in as well. We had to be almost a trans in a couple of times. I mean, we're... I was going to say Alex a woby. Listen, what I thought was that was that. It did show that he obviously wants to have inverted wingers. He wants to... Which is obviously, which makes 100% sense when you've got a fullback like Luca Dean and when you've got a fullback like Seamus Coleman. Now, obviously like we said and we've said about a million times, we need to replace Seamus Coleman. It should be this summer. If it's not evident now, just honestly... That's trying aren't it? Yeah, I hope they are, but I'm saying they've got to get it done. It doesn't matter. If it doesn't make one more signing, it has to be a top right back. You know, whether it's done free or not. And then what you've got is two fellas who are willing to go up all day for you. And then your wide men don't necessarily have to become wide men. They can come inside. They can solidify them in the field as well. Then you can start joining them with the attack as well. So it becomes a front three. But until we get that right back. But that's obviously what he wants and that's what he's seen. Because I think what he's seen is, certainly the players he's brought in, he wants to utilise Dominic Harven-Lewin as much as he can with crosses and getting them into good areas and hitting them early. It was interesting that I will be started there. You know what? I haven't seen him play off the right a lot. And I don't know whether that helped him a little bit more because obviously he can come inside them and open it up for himself and almost come into that number 10 spot. We're waiting to see. He didn't look very sharp. He had a couple of opportunities, but he didn't look too sharp. But he was just wasn't in the game, was he? You couldn't get him in the game, couldn't find the pockets. Again, because I think we were going direct and we were trying to hit Moise Keane early. He was almost getting bypassed in there. Managers sort of made a hint that he needs to pick his fitness up, which is natural because if a player is someone who does pick up a lot of injuries, if you can build that core fitness up in pre-season then you're going to get less injuries of course because when the big game starts to come it's going to be awful and your body's going to cope a little bit more and then it's about managing it. So that's maybe something for him. He's looked great in all the videos and everything else going on and looks like he's really happy in all the rest of it. We know the quality he's got, don't we? If you can get him on the ball, we know that he's fantastic. It is about getting that core fitness up. It's about being able to look after yourself even if he's peaked fitness for like 65 minutes of a game and then he starts to waive it and then you can get him off if you can get to that level because we know that he's got the ability. What I thought was interesting was he was deployed in the number 10 role in the first half because he had time's end on one side and the other on the other. So that's a good thing because I think he can do that brilliantly after seeing if he gets fit enough because all the lads will be fit. Obviously in the second half there was a lot of changes but for the better actually, and I think Rafa Benita has pointed this out in his interview after the game on everything TV, in the second half there seemed to be a bit more pace, a bit more agency and listen you're talking an hour later so there's a little bit less sun, it's a little bit cooler and suddenly there's a bit more youth as well. Maybe a few more players you think they have to prove themselves but I thought the subs you came on worked really hard. Straight away, he likes to have Anthony Gordon and Nathan Broder I thought he impressed, I thought he impressed straight away. Wanting to be on the ball, wanting to move it quickly, it suited them because they are young and they've got a bit of pace and suddenly they wanted to get on the ball and we started trying to get them in areas rather than just trying to hit the centre forward don't you think we started putting a little bit more into areas in the second half? Yeah, there was a definite change obviously one thing we didn't say was big of it's made too really good for me. Well I was going to say that for later in the first half. But in that second half he mixed the rhythm and he came on and went into the 10th he came on for hammers he left that land and he left Broder and said go home as well to play with him and we had Bro dead off playing up front instead of Mwys Keen and Anthony Gordon off the left they were quite youthful and started getting into the game and we were picking the ball up and running at them which we weren't quite doing in the first half and we ended up pushing them right back onto the back foot and Greif looked a real threat and well we actually improved in the second half he was linking up a little bit more with Greif as well so we had those moments and obviously Broder did you mention don't alright got himself in and obviously won't have it in the penalty and you know we had three players wanting the ball but to marry Greif whether it was age or experience or shutting one the day and fired the penalty into the back of the net and level things up and I thought that was really positive from him to say no let me do it you know I want to get off the mark on me on my debut show to speak and it's a good penalty didn't it Yeah it was a great penalty Did he impress you? Greif I don't think he impressed me It was weird I thought it was interesting that he went into the number 10 position and didn't go into the wide position but I think that might be more to do with the players we had going on the pitch and he'd go on this morning Well that's interesting well we played off the right in the second half and Gordon played off the left I think he looked positive on the ball and he was just trying to he was trying to knit things together so we didn't really see any of that pace but you could see that he's got there's a quickness of feet and he was trying to knit things together trying to get people down and I thought he almost got Nathan Broded in a couple of times maybe just Broded not quite up to the speed of what he wanted but he did okay looks confident straight away play comes to a new club looks confident himself which is good but as I said Broded Broded did impress because he was always trying to get in behind them and wanted the ball in the space and obviously that's why we got the penalty just playing off the shoulder using the pace got there before the goalkeeper I think I could have got there before the goalkeeper and then he had another opportunity later on which he ran from the left hand side he had grey in this penalty spot but then if he passed it it might have always people to come when you just have a shot he just needed to open his body up more that was all he needed to do to be fair he looked like it the minute he came on that's not anything about his fitness I just think the temperature is just lovely to be honest mate I've had times when you come on as a club on the first five minutes of the waste because you come on trying to get up to the speed of the game and all of a sudden you breathe you go through it that's what he did but you write the humidity in all that and he looks like he's a fish getting lad but doesn't look like that that kind of weather shooting but he did well and you write if he could have just opened his body up he'd have given himself more of an angle but we did, we looked lively we were sure Louis Gibson would come on because he did okay when he came on off she was Michael Keane John Joe he did well it's John Anderson come on and did well at left back so I think they all got on and put themselves about I mean John Philippe got back on and a lot of people have him there's definitely a small element of people that want them to be getting injured there's a lot of absolute lunatics because they keep these stories keep going round I can't get me head round it's a player against show you can go I don't understand it but people are weird but I thought he was excellent again he just shows you that if he can stay fit heaven I've got a hell of a midfield player there because he's everything we need he's big and strong and powerful can move with the ball we show them out muscle people we show them take the ball forward which is a bit weird for midfielders to do for us but a couple of times he nicked it and went off and I think there's still being cautious with him and rightly so and it'll be interesting whether he starts the game on Wednesday but I think there's just still being a little bit cautious to still holding them back a little bit just trying to build that fitness up why wouldn't he has been out for two years with a couple of different injuries and I think that's the right thing to do and I think he's got everything that we don't really have another place I think the most important thing is he wants to move the ball really quickly and then look for a pass and that's something we don't have from our place just getting on the ball that's what he was born for getting on the ball and taking it advancing up the pitch now he's had bad injuries he's over the first one and the second one was actually worse in terms of being a footballer and it's just now open so you can build it up and you're right it's out there he's got injured again it's pathetic glad that a really bad time the injury he got at the end of last season which was just a contact injury that could happen in any training session could keep them out the last game or whatever it was so it's just like people just need to let him get on with it and just let him play now and hopefully his body is adjusting and he's building up slow that would have been on him the world he could be injured in training he was out for training to cross the ball on someone not mentioning any names and he was out for 10 weeks or 11 weeks those training injuries will happen cos you're supposed to train like you play and you're there so you'll get them but you're right, everyone's just got to go leave and be he's training like everybody else let's stop training he's broken down I don't understand that we should all be willing to be fully fit changing the way we look at him he's coming back now if he does stay fit he'll be fantastic and just having his own confidence in himself as well that'll be the next thing that's what you want that's a terrible time he's due some luck now not even luck he's just due a clean bill of health but overall to be honest everything should have won it in the second half they had less and less in the second half obviously they had done very well yeah getting into penalties not actually a really good set of penalties missing one out of 11 is not bad not even not at the underside of the bar and doing obviously the obligatory American pinnaker which John Jo despatched but it was good and obviously Begavitch made a couple of saves he's made a couple of saves in the game in the first half as well looked at the manager said he wanted experience in that position to push Jordan Pickford and he's obviously got that he is a big intimidating looking fellow when you're going down in whatever situation and the saves you have to make where the kind of saves you expect them to save but that's what you get when you're being someone and just that kind of size you expect them to make those kind of saves very positive for him so it was a good run out it was a good sort of run out and everyone who was there, all the fans had the Americans or Basin America it was great for them to see the team to see a positive outcome whether you put much in that or not and that's all it's about building for everything in terms of what they do on the pitch but also what they do off the pitch it's not an easy situation with Covid and obviously a couple of teams have pulled out but I thought that everyone made the best of the situation and that was good to see as well everyone made the best of the situation and it would be interesting to see what we do Wednesday whether we change it around a little bit or what but yeah, it was a good night it seemed like a good atmosphere there are a million Irish fans travelling and having hammers there it's a big thing for them as well and I thought they looked good they looked the great occasion they had a great time we've seen lots of videos before and the night before so it looked like a fantastic occasion so everything has to do now every year and keep expanding and just on big a bit I thought he was good he's a good goalie we know he is he's a top-class keeper doesn't matter he's come into post job and picked for these 34 good age for a keeper in terms of experience he's won stuff with Chelsea and that's how he was just nice and steady and that's what you need all in all like you say good night's work it was it was positive you've seen from the Evertonings there was a lot of blues there but it wasn't all of the Evertonings in America I would imagine because of and I know there's more stuff going on I think there's other events going on ahead of Wednesday Wednesday's game and not everyone can stick around for Wednesday's game I appreciate that but I haven't had to do this every year because there's a major there's a major market over there which ever in 10 years ago really got into and you're seeing it with people yes Tim Howard would obviously be there Tim Howard's the reason I'm an Everton that kind of thing Everton have to go back and do this every it's the only way we're going to grow you can't just turn up now and again and expect the fans to be there or expect to get new fans last night I've seen people before when you're doing the live thing and people were like this hopefully will convey how many Americans are watching it's not about Americans watching it's about the Colombian fans more than anything actually getting them to go oh I like these these were blue as well I'll make these my English team and all that and if you do that every single year and you take Evertonians and you bring the people back so kids get to see Everton play once a year that to me is something we've missed I can't understand the thinking of this football club for the last 10 years and we've said it all the time but now hopefully that thought process has changed and obviously we've got something out there looking after the situation for us and hopefully that person is making sure if this tournament is on next year or if we're not in this one we're in another one and we're out there and we're touring and then fans from here can go as well because we double it we double that as well I mean we'll go over and make it there already so we double it again and let's make it an annual event because it is a huge market and it's so accessible so accessible I mean listen I know they go over to Far East or whether it's be Singapore or whether it be Thailand or those kind of places and I understand there are Evertonians out there but this is the market we should be going after for the last 10 years because we've already got a photo all day I mean this is demonstrated there very few external people were able to go to that and yet there are blues everywhere so it's not a case of all these people travelling anyway none of us have really been allowed to go none of us have been allowed to go so you're right I think the number would have been well greatly if people would have been allowed to go so I think that should be something for the club to look at and go we've got a photo you know the American fellow who's come in and maybe that's his job to keep to keep that going now and that's where it comes down to and you build on it and you try to get people in and every year you might grab a handful of extra fans who you didn't have because they can go and watch this tournament live in Orlando American fans in Orlando Premier League teams go and watch it over football is growing in MLS, MLS is getting bigger the names are there so it's the opportunity the fans that marry in the two together on a Premier League club, FIFA has done more for the Premier League probably than anything else so it is a case of building on it and if ever and do it every year you will get that worldwide fan base so yeah hopefully hopefully that's what happens but yeah good run out and obviously I haven't played Wednesday 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