 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV, it is the starting 11 show Everton play Manchester City away from home on Saturday afternoon, hooray. Let's jump straight into it and go Jordan Pickford, Everton's number one, I think it's been, you know, not his best past couple of games, certainly against Bournemouth before the break. And, you know, he's been facing a lot of shots, you know, the numbers proved that, we've been under pressure and I think he's going to face a lot of chances this week. Manchester City have a lot of the ball and they're constantly attacking over him. He's got to be at his best, you know, in the last two games. I think we've conceded eight goals. So we can go out and I think a lot of people have got this down as a Manchester City win or have wrote this game off. And I think we can go there and just concede as little as possible. You know, the club have pretty much already admitted that we're in a relegation fight. So we're not scoring any goals or a lot of goals. So we need to concede as less as possible and we concede far too many goals. And I'd say I'd certainly in the last couple of games. So if we can go there and keep the score down or even try and get a point, then that would be, you know, a Christmas miracle in my opinion. But we need to go and be as tight as possible. So Jordan Pickford has to be on it this game. My full backs or wing backs, I've got Patterson and Mikolenko. I expect these to get, you know, improve a lot, to be honest. I think Mikolenko just has to start getting forward more, I don't know, any times on Boxing Day. I was screaming screaming that into running to the space where he's been told to stay back or whether it's just his confidence. I don't know, but we've not been producing out wide enough. We've not been creating anything from out wide, to be honest. So Patterson and Mikolenko both need to do more. They need to get higher at the pitch. I think the Patterson on Boxing Day, especially, I've noticed he's the only really ones with intensity going forward. He wants to get the ball, give and go, make runs. He wants to try and make things happen, but he just has to take care of the ball a bit more. And for Mikolenko, he just needs a bit more confidence in getting forward and needs to produce more because it's great having a full back who can defend. But when you're not got players, certainly out wide with producing, they need your full backs to chip in as well. My centre backs, I've got Conor Cody, Tarkowski and I've also got Ben Godfrey. I've gone for a back five today. I think with the pace they've got and skill with Mara's and folding and Grealish and then obviously Harland up front, he's just big pace power. I think you have Godfrey, sorry, you try and keep it a bit more tight and compact. You've got Godfrey's recovery pace and power. He's probably the closest thing we can try and match to Harland because he's a specimen, let's be honest. So I think putting Godfrey in there with his pace might let us get higher up the pitch. We can get them on the counter attack and then we've got Godfrey to run in behind me because I think Harland would lead Cody and Tarkowski for dead in a one-on-one race, to be honest. Midfield, I've got Idrissagana Gay, Onana and Iwobi. I've left M3 in there because there's simply no-one else, let's be honest. There's no-one pushing through. James Garners, I think, is still out with his back injury. D'Cory's been coming on and has been poor, to be honest. So I've gone for M3. Idrissagana Gay was completely fine against Wolves. I thought he had a good game. He was crazy and getting forward. He got clattered a few times as well. I don't really know why it took him off, to be honest. Onana and Iwobi was both poor. Iwobi's been good all season, but I think if you rely on someone to create chances, he's our only player. So it'd be a bit daft to take him out of the team. Onana has been poor as well, to be honest. I think he needs to find his form again. I think one game he had, which everyone keeps saying, is when he played in the double pivot. I would have gone with that today, but I've gone for the back five. So Godfrey can step into midfield. So that'd be that cover off the other defenders with Garner Gay. So I don't think they need to have a double pivot in front of a back five. To be honest, playing that back five with Godfrey and the recovery pace, if we can get higher at the pitch, it allows you to get plays forward. So we can get an onana higher at the pitch. Iwobi higher at the pitch as well. We might have a chance of actually scoring some goals, because our watchers against Wolves, we're not committing plays forward. We're not getting plays in the middle. So you get the ball out wide, especially against Wolves. Malpay was far too deep and he was the only player in the middle. If we can get onana and Iwobi higher at the pitch, then we might have a better chance of scoring. I think it's well at the start of the season, and certainly when onana came in at the side, we had him on the right and Iwobi on the left, and it worked really well. We've looked at games against West Arman in the Derby, especially it worked really well. And then I think it was Newcastle away, he switched them and he had Iwobi on the right and onana on the left. And I think he's been doing that ever since we did it. You know, we've done it against Leicester, we've done it against Wolves and it's just not worked. Onana hasn't looked the same at all. And I don't think he's Iwobi's produced like he did in those games as well. So I'd like to see him do that, switch those over again. I'm not sure why I did it in the first place, to be honest. And then up front I've got Damari Gray and Malpay. I think Malpay just isn't a lone striker. He doesn't make runs, he doesn't play on the shoulder, he's not quick enough. He certainly isn't smart enough in my opinion and he can't hold the ball up at all. So we can get someone close to him like Damari Gray who's got the pace he has. We can get him on the shoulder and play a long ball on the counterattack. We saw what he did against teams like Nottingham Forest. You know, one ball over the top, touch and finish. So more bodies in the middle, more men trying to play with each other instead of having Malpay 30 miles from anyone else. And then if you do get the ball out wide, if you can get Patson and Michelin go high enough at the pitch then you've got Gray, Malpay. Onana can be getting in there. I know he's not the best of headers or occupied offenders. You've still got plenty of players covering out the back. You've got Godfrey with his pace, Addressogana Gay. So I don't see why we can't nick something from this game. We watch us try and break teams like Wolves Down who have been shocking and the way we've been playing this 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1 is just not good enough. Gordon doesn't deserve to be in that set of line up again. I think McNeill is, I thought McNeill was shocking against Wolves. I'm playing with one striker up front. If it's not Dominic Carvert-Lewin who can hold a ball up and let other players get close to him and that allowed players to have time to get up at the pitch then it's useless playing one up front because Malpay can't do any of that and he was basically not even pointing playing him against Wolves. So were you going to play him this game? I'd start him next to Gray, bit of pay someone to play with. There's been some shouts for Tom Cannon to come to the side and to be honest I just don't think he's ready. He's 20 years of age with a few minutes of Premier League football and plays younger than him or the same age on miles ahead of him. I think in terms of his character development or player development we shouldn't be putting all this pressure on him or pressure to come into his side which is battling relegation and isn't scoring goals. I think that could really damage him and I just don't think a lot of people have actually watched him play or have watched him play in the 121s which is a massive drop off level from the Premier League. So if you can go out and get himself alone and league one or the championship bulk up a bit score goals against some decent teams then who knows what you might get a look at next season or the season after but it's far too early to be putting pressure on a kid. To be honest and I know some people have said well this is a right off anyway so it might be a good chance to give him some minutes see what he can do against some world class players at Manchester City but if you're going to have any chance of staying up then we have to believe that we can point to any games in my opinion and I just think as bad as Mopay is maybe Mopay is just ahead of him because he has scored Premier League goals and we can find a way to get those goals back into Mopay's game because he plays with plays around him or plays a certain type of football like he did at Bryson and I think we should do that because we've got no hope to staying up otherwise at this moment with this squad. Anyway we're going into January after this game and I will play Bryson I've seen anyone signed by them anyway but looking at that Southampton game hopefully we'll be sat here naming some new plays on team sheets so there you go let me know what you think of my team let me know who you would play against Manchester City would you start some cannon, would you not the manager has said don't look how well we will be in this squad so whether he'll get some minutes or not I don't know I won't be starting in this game because like I've said it's pretty much a right off on why would you risk someone who's so injury prone at the moment and he's probably not back to full fitness anyway so I won't be starting Dominic Havill living or Tom Cannon so let me know if you would if you want more videos including live daily video join us on SOVAZV premiere there will be a QR code on the screen in a moment or there's a link in the description thanks for watching, see you later