 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the final with Westam United Nill, Everton One in the London Stadium, what a result and just when Everton looked like Europe was finished, they pulled us back into it, the opportunity to finish back in Europe again. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. Tremendus! Tremendus! You can't... You can always bank on everything to give you hope, can't you? You're a gang of absolute beastards. When you think you've done and you can put your flip-flops on, Everton always pulled the result from somewhere, the absolute gang of charlatans. This is why we've all got like hard conditions, cos we're like... That was a good Carlo Ancelotti tactical Everton performance and kind of we've been used to. And really, when you look at the game as a whole, it wasn't moving close in terms of like they had no shots on target. John Pickford didn't have to make a say, okay, they had a couple of moments which were hairy, but I think we were... Like Carlo said after the match, you do not need possession to control the game of football, you allow. I was looking at the stats after the game and West Ham don't necessarily like having a lot of the ball. They are a counter-attack inside and we flipped it on them yesterday and just said, you have the ball, we'll get men behind the ball. And it worked, it worked perfectly, to be honest. Again, you'd like a few more chances and you'd like King to have taken this chance. But ultimately, three points is three points and it just gets us back in there with a couple of weeks to go. I don't know about you, Cam, I thought it was a much better performance from Everton, certainly from Villa the week before which was still left a bad taste. But it was a very controlled performance, but a very Everton away performance as well, wasn't it? It was effective, we looked comfortable and it was effective. And ultimately, like you said, we've seen that type of performance away from home a number of times this season and it is frustrating because we had one big chance in that game and Dominic Calvert-Lewin takes it and you think back to some of the home games and we've had four, five, six chances and we don't take them. But now it was, it was effective defensively. We were solid for pity much of the entire game. Like I said, there was a couple of moments in there, but for the most part, Ben gone for a Yeri Mina whilst he was on the pitch was excellent. Michael Keane even done a good job on that. I haven't been a big lover of Michael Keane in the back sort of five or trade the back. I just think usually you get a little bit flustered, but I thought he was decent yesterday. Alan in the midfield was consoling everything. Like you said, it wasn't the greatest game of football, but it was comfortable West Ham, other than those two moments that I'm sure we'll talk about. Didn't really have much whatsoever and everything took our chance. Could have had a couple of war goals if Seamus Coleman gets it out of his feet quicker if Josh King doesn't hit the post from two yards out then. It's a little bit more of a comfortable win, but it's mad, isn't it? Just when we all sat here last week and said, oh no, you're done now, I've lost to Aston Villa, one resultant and we're all straight back in it and now we're talking about how a couple of wins or three wins out of the next four games will be massively important. Definitely. I mean, the manager brought in Michael Keane and Yeri Mina back into that back four at the line of the court. I don't would start the game actually because he trained, was on the bench, which is probably the right decision from the manager as well. But I'm impressed with how Mina and Keane did because I thought they were up against Antonio, who's a handful, you know, he is powerful and peishi, but I thought Yeri Mina played him brilliantly, he got him involved daily on in a physical battle and you let him know he was up for it. To be honest, Antonio was dropping so deep. She could see it on and again they kept on knocking balls over the top and they were just running through to Jordan Pickford. He, yeah, I like Antonio. I think what he does is really good. He's a really effective player, but he's got obviously a bit dodgy hamstrings. But he's obviously not somebody who likes doing what Don does or he's got the discipline to do what Don does and maybe be a better player if he did. And what he was doing is sometimes last week we played it all wrong with Ollie Watkins. We allowed him to dictate and allowed our centre backs to be pulled everywhere, where I think with Antonio what we did was we actually passed them on. So when he dropped, the centre backs still stayed high and didn't go following him and that's the beauty of having Alan and Tom Davis sitting in front. You can let him go because once he drops you just pass him on and yet he will physically get the better of those kind of players. But as long as you're stopping from taining or if he does tain you have no way to show him then I think that cut it out and they had not been on that. They had never had any players running. Jesse Lingard, I think one time in the first half he run past. I think someone made a block in the box as he run past. It was the only time he made a run past and I think that's what we did really cleverly in that way. I don't know whether that means it. Keep on saying it. He's our bestie for it. He's a ball magnet. I know you disagree on this. Harry McGuire is like that. He's a ball magnet. You know when someone's actually a decent defender when they always seem to be in the right place. That's what meena does. King yesterday, because of those two shitting in front it was like playing three at the back but it was still the block, still the low block. It was a weird... It was brilliant from the manager area because he was just three and a two. Three and a two dropped in and did what they had to do. Sometimes it actually went to almost like a four with Ben Godfrey playing right back and Dean playing left back. That allowed King to just play more of his natural game. The centre backs were never, apart from early on in the first half when the game was going on, the centre backs were never spread out. That always goes against Michael King when we play like that because he doesn't like being dragged out but yesterday he just held his little zone. He played well, he played solidly. As I said he just passed on Tony on and he was never a threat in the box and I think that's where we worked it really well. Definitely. I mean I thought I thought we settled into the game quite well. They were knocking it down but they didn't really... They weren't getting out of the car when I was opening or anything like that and we stepped up with our first mean and full attack and scored the goal. It was a brilliant goal and it was something me and Pead have bemoamed that we don't do enough, which is get down on a calvert loom, one by one with a defender where he can spread, you know, open his legs and get after a ball. Ben goffri, we just keep it nice in our half and then we work it back out to goffri and there's just a 15-year gap for him to run into and we've said this about... We talked last week about how he'll get not giving it a go. We had to step into that space where goffri did travel with the ball and then there's just that pass. It's a great little throw ball and Dominic Calvert loom does something that people don't think he does enough, which is take a great touch. It takes it away from his body, which means the only place it's going is back across the keeper and he dispatches it brilliantly. Absolutely, absolutely. Well before the goal there was a couple of times, two or three times when Rashardlasen found himself going forward but he had nobody really with him. Don was up there but he had two or three men around him so he had to come back on himself or win a foul on the right hand side and you were sort of sitting there thinking there's not much going forward here, there's not much room. Rashardlasen's taken it and he's sort of getting to a point where he's thinking I've got no help here so he's got to go backwards and then like you said Ben goffri steps in and it's an excellent, excellent ball. I know the space is in front of him and he can see it but it's just perfectly weighted. Ben goffri's passing has been criticised at the time this season but it was absolutely brilliant and for Dom we all sat here and said that he doesn't do enough of that, he doesn't score enough one-on-ones, he's not clinical enough in front of goal. Last week me knew about composure and being calm and comfortable in front of goal and again that was the perfect opportunity, that was the perfect sort of scenario to one that he's missed on a plethora of occasions before and we sit here and say why isn't he cool, why isn't he composed but he was yesterday, it was a great touch. The first touch just absolutely does, I think it's doorsome defensively and then he just asked the slot to pass the goalkeeper in for a number nine, a striker you would say it's a comfortable finish but for Dom I'm going to call for it, I think that's a big, big goal for Dom because they're the types of chances that he seems to typically lose his calm a little bit and loses his head a little bit but he doesn't, he finishes a bit. To be honest though I do agree with that to a point but I also think he doesn't get those opportunities enough though, he does get a lot of chances which has dropped him in the box and he doesn't necessarily take but I think on that one because he does take the touch and he is in control and he does slow it down then he does have a little bit more time and I think that goal. Sheddy worked on it and it's raining this week. That's Dom for you though isn't it, that's Dom for you. I think one thing for me about the goal is you just mentioned that they, because they are, West Ham are doing what Villa did last week there, they're saying pop it into your midfield and we'll jump on, I noticed earlier they had a line of four just in front of our midfield and they were basically saying to our centre backs, go on pop it in here and see what happens and when Godfrey picks the ball up they're doing that so Godfrey is the only one who goes well you know what then. I'll run into a couple of yards of space and then see where, and the channel's there and that's what we don't do enough, we talk about it every week about not having a player who runs, Alan's the only one in our midfield and we've seen that yes, he's picking up the ball and he's driving with it but that's brilliant for Godfrey because it's not even the pass, the pass is dead simple, pass is dead simple it's just inside the channel, it's those three four yards stepping up creating his own momentum. He's created his own momentum then hasn't he? No one knows exactly what he's going to do there and he does the most simplest thing which is place and actually the ball is really good because what it does is, it means that dom can be two yards off the defender, knows he's going to beat him for pace and his first touch is once he's passed the defender. He takes a touch before he slows it down and the defender's always got a chance but because he goes in front of him that's where he gives him a chance and you watch anyone, I've seen one Friday night in the Newcastle game so it's a ball played by a Newcastle player who goes round the outside of the defender but it allows Callum Wilson to never have to break start and when he gets the ball he's already ahead of the defender. One yes Steve, Wolves Brighton where the Brighton descends back or descends off before it. You're using the player's pace, that's one big problem we have at Everton, we've got players with pace but every time a Charleston picks up the ball and every time Dom picks up the ball they've always got defenders facing them up and you actually need a different kind of speed to beat a player, dead. You need like greasy speed, you need a bit of something so for Dom to not have to touch that ball till he has to pass the defender it's massive. The weight was on the pass there, the weight of the ball, he's took Dawson off the game, he's a brilliant ball but the touch can't stress enough, if he takes that touch into his body the keeper's on him and Dawson can get back but because he takes it with the outside of his foot he just creates that touch. And that natural finish then, it's a flashy back across the keeper which isn't something he's done a lot but I do agree with you, he doesn't get a lot of those opportunities, if he got them two or three every game. He never has one on, he never can get one on one. No and he should do it because he's fast, we've seen it yesterday, he's behind Dawson and gets two yards ahead of him so you know you see him when he opens his legs and he gets after a ball, he can leave defenders for dead. And what it takes is that you just said there, what happened was right midfield, dropped on to there midfield which meant goffery. Well Tom Davis is actually quite close to goffery, where Alan's gone, Guilfee's gone. And so goffery as he takes it out of his feet the natural thing and he does do this, we've seen him do this, he just travels into there after the ball. And because Retialason makes a run out of the right with Coleman, the gaps there need to play there in and Tom's put it away. It's goal number 21 of the season for all of the people who don't think he can get 20 goals apparently. He's the 21st of the season, it's a great goal and it puts us into, and then I thought after that, I thought everything looked like they were going to get a second. Dominic Alvalun kept coming off their defender and winning, he won every header, virtually I think, certainly in the first half. He didn't know how to handle him and we had an opportunity just after that with Retialason where Tom comes off, flicks it, and Retialason beat the man it to go to the shotkeeper, makes a save, needed to go further across him. But just back on Tom, he did have a really good game, travel over his numbers there. Three shots, one on target, goals won, 100% of his dribbles completed and he won 7 out of 10 aerial duels. I reckon that was 7 out of 7 in the first half because I don't think he seemed to lose a header in the first half. So that was immediately done with a head and West Ham were making them have to think then. It's a game plan, that's what we wanted, we're perfectly done. And I thought the other one where they picked Lingard out and there was a great bloch, I think it might have been Michael Key or something, coming nicked it. But the only other real one they had was Ben Rahman's header which he should have scored. And that was Ben Goffrey, just left him. I don't know what's going on as well. I've watched it again. Ben Goffrey, he's the right back. I don't know where he's going. The reason I'm blaming Goffrey right is because when the ball comes back before it stood up, he's marking Ben Rahman, and he runs into the middle of the goal where Michael Key and Gary Minner are. I look at where Seamus Coleman is for that goal and I can't quite understand why he's in that position. But I don't know what his role was in that first half. It's a bit of a free role in that time. It's coming in a lot, it might have been in my marking position. But he's left badly unmarked. The pair of them, anyway, he's got a chance that he should score. He had to roll for doesn't he. That really was their best moment certainly in the first half. And like I said, we also had a gilfy sigurtyn, a free kick for him. 25 yards, a bit more on the corner. We also had a corner that came in and Gary Minner couldn't sort his feet out. There was one really on the corner where it was exactly like the goal last season there. There were postflip backs and someone just took her off Dom's Edge just before he had a chance to knock her in. We had about four corners on the run. The first half especially, I thought we were totally in control of it. Like you said, we were just kind of giving them the ball going on there. And the possession was like 53-47 in the first half. The thing about the game was, as a whole was, if you're a West Ham fan and you're watching that game, you can throw all the shots for part on the ball so you want, you can shot that all you want. But we've won 11 away games, playing very similar to this. OK, the last one I asked them was a bit. It wasn't the greatest performance in the world. But once we got one nail up again in that, we sat here watching and we were saying, this is where you start getting stressed out, but this is what we've been watching all season. These lads know how to defend, leads genuinely. We've done it all season and you can say all you want. Park the bus wherever the ball. Does it matter? My only comeback to that park and the bus thing was to West Ham. Exactly what they did to us at Goddison on New Year's Day. They had 10 men behind the ball till about the last 15 minutes when they went for it and they got a spawning goal to win it. Well, we typically do well, don't we, away from home because teams sort of come at us and we say, go on, you have the ball and we'll defend it and we'll hit you on the counter. I think the ironic thing is we scored the one big chance that we had yesterday where as at home teams come to Goddison and sort of say, go on, you have the ball and we'll do what you do away and we're a bit like... It's exactly the same for most teams. Yeah, that's what it's for me. You know, I was looking at the rest of them, I've lost eight games at home. Same as us. You know, same as us. They've lost seven, haven't they? You know, city have lost four at home. Teams have lost a lot of games at home because of this. Because there's no crowd because of... and it allows these strategies. The manager came out after the game yesterday and said, we're not a possession team. He knows what we're good at and he knows what we're bad at. When we play at home, we're not good at having the ball. We are like West Hamway yesterday. We might bang up the drum a little bit, but we're not a good side like that. And that's where the balance won't come this season. But going forward, getting better players, you're able to hopefully address that. But you've got to make use of what you've got at and we're good at sucking up teams coming at us and just trying to hit them on the counter attack. And really we should have got another one yesterday, we should have made it safe. And that's the only disappointing thing is that it wasn't as comfortable. Because I think those players will look at that and think, we were comfortable. No-one's ever... Second half they've hit the post and we got a little bit lucky with the rebound. I appreciate that, but we've hit the post. And they got lucky with the rebound because it's bobbed on the line and obviously the goalie's shocked on it. But this is how we play. It's not a flu because that's how we play away. And it's when we don't play that away that we don't pick up the points. So when we went to Chelsea and we got beat soon enough... If we'd have played like that at Chelsea, we'd have probably got sucked. It was all too easy. The goals were soft. You look at the last few games, the goals we've conceded. Basic mistakes, all basic mistakes. And when we're on it and players are on it and the manager. So on the manager sometimes as well, don't get me wrong. Because Tom Davis, for me, should play every game. For now, while we haven't got other players, there shouldn't be any question. Because when him and Alan sit together like that. Because I thought Dave was superb yesterday. Alan was my man of the match. But we'll go on to all in a minute. But we come out second half and I thought Dave stepped it up second half. They had to, they were 1-0 barn and it was a game. If they, you know, the outside chance they had for getting in the Champions League. He had to win the game, didn't he? You'd be disappointed if you were a West Ham fan watching them. Because I thought they were 2-plus. They really did for a team that. Now they've got a couple of injuries that were forced on them that might have upset the game plan. I appreciate that. That's the way with the other man. Yeah, and I appreciate that that can happen. But I'd be a little bit disappointed if I was them looking at their last four fixes thinking this is the hardest one. I would have thought they would have thrown a little bit more aris. But I didn't think they did. I didn't think they just, I don't thrown crosses into the box to think for that. But I think we frustrated them to the point where obviously they'd come out in the second half and they had that little spell of 15-20 minutes where you could see David Moyes had said you're going to have to put your foot on the gas a little bit here because you're not going to get through them playing that way. But then in the last sort of 5-10 minutes of the game you could see them were almost like looking around to each other to say we can't break this team down. We can't get through the lines, they defend them well, makes an olgy to come on obviously for Yeri Minas, you know, slotted right into that centre-back position. There was one where I think Lingard sat to play a 1-2 with, I can't remember who it was, and Ben Goffley just stood up and he just ran into Ben Goffley and then fouled him. You could see when the ref gave the foul, Lingard sat up and was like, there's nothing to say, what can I do here? You're not getting any change out of Ben Goffley, are you? It's an immovable object. They were frustrated. They did step it up a little bit, but even that they had, you've already mentioned that you fouled one that hit the post and we did have, of course, it would be a fortune that they bounced up and bowing couldn't short his feet out. But other than that, you know, they had a four nails on it, the commentator got very excited about it on the zone which the defender went wide and when he showed it from behind the goal, it was rolling to Pickford. Oh, no on the first half. Second half, it hit him and now Ben Rahman won. But four nails had one in the second half, he hit it and it hit Keen, I think, it went for a corner, but they were going, it might have troubled them when you looked again, Pickford was right behind it. Other than that, they had nothing really. It was balls in the box and we'd like, you've just set camp Keen, just dead at every now and then. I mean it did until he got injured and obviously there was three groin injuries in the game, on the land, you know, Creswell for them and obviously Gary Mina for us. But I just thought we looked, I think you just set it there with Tom Davis and Alan. I mean, let's have a look at, first of all, let's have a look at Alan's stats cos he, for me, he was man of the match, he was man of the match cos I thought he was brilliant yesterday. Passing that, he was 80%, completed 100% of his long balls, four tackles, which is a lot. He won 7 out of 15 of his grand duels, completed 2 out of 4 of his dribbles. There was one in the second half where they played a nice little move and I think he might have come to Lingard, it might have been in the box, and he just come out and nicked it off me and off we went and it led to us actually having a counter attack which you want to go to and I want to just look at the counter attack, which was the moment which we could have made a 2-0 with Dominic Alvert Lund, so Alan's nicked the ball and set us off places to Dom and Dom faces up and there's this, he's in, where have stopped it here? Look at the arrow, that pass is on to the charlison, there's no other defender anyway in here. This is what I was complaining about this on Twitter. If he just rolls that ball now, the charlison's in with the goalkeeper. That's what I couldn't understand, that passes and maybe Dom's a little bit worried about his own passing ability, but if he rolls, like you put the other day, if he rolls that just in front of a charlison he's one on one. So he does that and he gets it under his feet so it's like and then I think it's the ock closes it off so we roll it on to the next one. He then has this moment to play it so the charlison carries on making the run. If he plays that round the corner the charlison's in the penalty area again with the ball and he hesitates again almost as if and I'm not saying that he don't like each other it's just for me it's those little fine things that we want. Chemistry or maybe like you said is he confident enough in his own ability. And yet the passing place is Seamus Coleman because he's brilliant. He ends up finding Coleman here and if Coleman hits his first time and he scores, he takes a touch and he gets a shot. Ultimately the run with charlison actually makes is a great run to open the space up and Coleman is on a good run. But that first pass is the pass we talked about we told him before putting ahead of the charlison putting ahead of Don. The two of them have got pace. In the first half they were both isolated away from everybody else because they're faster than everyone else but they've got it surely, I know we've seen one at Leeds where late on they moved on and Don got put through and he missed it. They had the chances though so we've got to start making for each other because they're both faster than anyone else. That's not a hard pass that, from Don. That's not a hard pass. He's just going to roll it in and Richie's won. He'll still get that. And he could get a penalty because the keeper's got to come and make a decision. And then it's down to the person who's got a chance and that was what frustrated me and don't get me wrong, there was one the other way round as well. There was one where the charlison had exactly the same and all he had to do was put it in front of Don and he chose not to. That's what frustrated me more about those two is that there's times where no-one's going to live with you. Just put it in. This is what Lester'd do really well in Inate and Vadi and people can go, Vadi's only scored two goals in 20 games but he keeps on using his pace to get in front and knocking it in front and that annoyed me. There was one other chance for him having a second half on a little bit more. We got the ball and we got it down the left and it was just after, do you remember when he got injured on the half-way line and he was down and Luca Dean got it and Luca Dean hit it first time and if Dom had been just on it he would have been like last weekend's villa he would have got it and they hadn't got it but he sort of realised too late and the defender just got in but if Dom had just been on it he had a tapping. If those two start linking up Vadi really well for each other they just create because Spears particularly under Marine didn't create a lot so it was down to those two to make each other's chances and I just thought Dom had a great game but just in moments play the right pass that was what you should set like Wayne Rooney aside from others he'd always play the right pass Great players play the right pass so it's a split second thing now but that's what you do in training that's what you do in training if you're Dom and you're running with the ball say, Richarlison's got to make a run and the vice versa we've seen Dom, he'll bust a gut to get forward but they've got to start trusting themselves and linking up because they will get so many more opportunities to make it happen and it's not a personal thing that's nonsense it's just that Richarlison likes having the ball and doesn't like passing it I think he likes the idea of taking the hold he likes the idea of he'll keep them busy because he makes good runs and I'll go round them and maybe Dom's a little bit like I don't know if I can make that pass and I don't want to give it away but that passes because there was nobody the opposite last man and he was facing Dom so those he plays that Hamers would have just gone bang there Hamers would have played it, the outside of his foot around but he'd ran on and like am ffild he'd back him to sloth it it was just a little bit I know it's being picky but it was a moment and then obviously Richarlison I thought was good in the first half and I think he was very good at all and he drifted out the game and it was the right decision I had to talk him off time in Italy and King got into it immediately and should have made it to Italy it was really good play actually went down the line with a great ball Sigarton played a lovely little ball to Dom and I didn't know whether he could just shift it and side footed him, I've watched it again he can but he takes it round Fabianski and stands it up and as King gets it I'm thinking that's it, game over and it hits the post and rolls on the line and Fabianski picks it up that's what my dad said to me is it just one of them things that he's just not going to score a goal forever it's just unlucky isn't it great cameo from him a little bit more worried that five minutes later he was blowing out of his arse he did look a bit he looked and every time the ball came to him he just bounced off him he used the ball away more than any player that's just sharpness I just don't think he's very good genuinely I just don't think his touch is good enough it's not good enough he's only bringing him on for five minutes at the end of the game on the ball quality he had another one before it where he played Guilffy Shigeton in again he was getting in the right areas somebody terrifies me every time it was like Leeds when he came on Leeds and then he set up a chance for them but every time he gets the ball this is why I think yesterday you watch back everything he did, brilliance for that setup but everything after that he kept on giving the ball away because he kept on giving the ball away and I know people will go he's only played here and he's only played there but the manager put him every day in training and I know I've been critic of where he picked here but for me, if you bring a player on to see how to game then I want them to get the ball and start stretching the opposition and every time the ball came to him it just seemed to bounce back and he'd hook it back to a western player but he should have scored once he gets a connection on that header, you've got to score for him I don't think he should attack it I know there's pressure on him but if he doesn't get a connection on the header you think whether the defender's defending but as soon as he hits, as soon as Ed makes connection with that ball, it's got to going he's about 5 yards out he's doing that thing where the fella's next to the post he's just trying to get contact on it because he's thinking this is going to be absolutely perfect because he's standing on the line and he'll knock her away but I don't know, being a centre form in the Premier League for a few years I think you should be doing a little bit better than that to go ball by Tom as well there's a lovely ball and that when you just look at that and go it was at the moment that we could have killed her off and if these get a goal from somewhere we'll be ruining it like you said before, Fabian Delph come on I don't know right to guess the right time to bring Fabian Delph on but he's experienced after that they had nothing, they had a Q-fals shot which went 50 yards over the bar and that was it it was totally out of ideas but I thought like we talked about Alan before, Tom Davies I thought he was excellent as well, let's have a look at his numbers passing accuracy, 89% long balls 100% completed 150% of his ground joules two tackles and two clearances and I think the thing with Tom Davies is we know all the things he isn't you know we know that he's not a manager he keeps on telling it but we know that he's not a dynamic box of boxman ffielder we know he's not going to score 10 goals a season we know that he's not a fabulous passer of the football but what we do know is this season and I don't think there's been many games when he's had a bad game this season even though people like to tell you that he gives the ball away again, 89% will tell you differently he's found there's a niche for himself which is basically the Alan role sitting in front of the back four and being disciplined he done that thing yesterday and it annoyed me when he thought he could buy a foul with three men and he just took the ball off it was the only time he did it everything else he done brilliantly put tackles in, he had a couple of ones he was harshly done to be won the ball but I thought he had a really good game he's good in that role isn't he especially because the corey's not fit but even if the corey was fit he should be in with Alan and the corey anyway he shouldn't really be anyone else Alan's skipping away from people and running slalons and all kinds can't do that if there's no protection behind you Alan which we've seen a week before I said it the other day I don't even know, I said it yesterday last week if Holgate got Tom Davis where Gomez is he'd give it to Tom he'd give it to him he'd got no problem giving it to Tom there at all but on Jay Gomez they're not so sure about and that amazed the difference people trust Tom Davis in the truck yesterday he was great he was, I thought to be fair for once the referee I thought did a good job because he was a couple of times where he went in and they weren't fouls but the player went over his leg and I thought that could have been a yellow card but he got away with that a couple of times so I didn't even bother and that's all part of his game he does get involved where you watch people like on Jay Gomez and he don't do the passengers, the passive they just walk around Tom does actively get involved and I'm not asked, we've defended him all his career he's 22 and I love him to bits I love his attitude, I love what he wants to do on the pitch but he's an actual asset this is due to the thing he's not a bystander he's not making up the numbers he actually works tactically and I think in the last few weeks the manager's got it wrong by not playing him and the manager likes him the manager was asking that Q&A the other week who's like you and he went Tom Davis he said Tom Davis is not as good as I was like but he said he's got that tenacity and he keeps on saying how much tactically are the understanding of the game and you can see it more and more he doesn't have bad games he doesn't even allow the people who have a go on him to let him have a go on him now because he can't really find fault with them because he just he looks at his numbers, he gets on he's the water carrier and Alan isn't and he allows Alan to do what he wants to do and I've actually said it before and I'll say it again I'd actually like to see a three of the corey Alan and Tom Davis in midfield just because I think that's in some games that Alan would allow the corey to just go and be higher pressure and Alan to be the intermediate and Tom to just sit get the ball, give the ball, get the ball, give the ball it's an effective midfield we had Guilffy in there yesterday again he Guilffy's sigur to know he works hard but again bar and the free kick and the ball through to to Don when he went on to keep it, didn't really do anything did he it's also like Petra said in midfield with Alan and Davis in there you put the corey in and said to him like Petra said, you try and get up and support Don as well because these two will look after the other stuff then I think we'd get more out of it because the corey will get involved as well he will go and nick the ball see where Sheamus Coleman made that run in the second half that's actually where you want your third man running from midfield you want the player coming behind that you open to space up because actually it takes so long for Sheamus Coleman to get up to get back to get up that allows everyone else to get back we've seen it in the first half with Charleston at the ball he's got Don in front of him he turns around and by the time he looks up again they've got six men back and we still haven't got a midfielder who's gone past them that's where the corey or someone like that would be able to that's when he did for Waffa didn't he would be able to go past and you can just knock it in he's got he's seen them when he scored when he knocked the ball back and Heamus scores he makes that extra run next to the man in the box and we haven't got that and that's what Gilfee does in off here don't get me wrong he's neat and tidy and there's a few times in the first half where he got his going because he's technically so good and he's in the little corner we've seen it with Heamus so I said to him we have to match it's not a terrible game it's just that these games games suit like this don't suit them he's there for that little bit extra isn't he in midfield or set piece or whatever but when you he doesn't go missing I wouldn't say that because you can't play it but I mean it's that in midfield with the corey Allen and Davey for now because we've said it a million times the answers are in the building already so you know what is that in midfield do you play for maybe the last few games we spoke last week about needing physical players and players that aren't afraid to get involved and I think that's what we've seen with Jerry Meenor as well with Antonio he wasn't afraid first five or ten minutes Jerry Meenor went straight to the back of Antonio and as if to say I'm here you're not having an easy game and that's what Tom does even if some of the tackles were a little bit you're sort of thinking oh he's got a way with one there he frustrates the opposition because he makes it physical he gets involved he won't let you just run off if you're on the half way line he'll take you down if he wins the ball great but he'll take you down he battles, he's a battle of Tom and technically he's a good footballer this is this myth that he can't pass and he's not a technically good technically he's a very good footballer he is but he sits in there and like you said he allows Allen to go I can trust him I can trust that he'll pick the ball off of the opposition players I can trust that if he needs to get physical he will so I can come forward where there's with Gomez he mentioned passengers Gomez is a passenger every time he plays he doesn't offer anything where there's Tom Davis does he offers us that bit of grit that bit of heart, that bit of fight that Allen I think relates to so much because that's what Allen is as well I would say this is probably one of the big problems of the season I know we love to have our players but it's personal about the chemistry between players and the manager has me named to find what his ideal midfield is because he's never had his ideal midfield he's had Allen out he's had the Corey out he's given on to Gomez's chances he'll have a sort of vigus out so there's no, he has me to build that chemistry at all because he doesn't know and maybe he's looked at Yesti and thought right now I need to defend but I think even when we need to go forward Tom Davis is better because he's he just sits he allows everyone else to go away and play and I think that's his position now and that's what people have found but pass, some of our goals over the years have come from him splitting the defence with the pass so listen again like I've said a million times yes we need another one we need another the Corey, the younger one you know Papa's arm maybe or Anguisher of Fulham what we want to try to get in or Zechariar or you know people like that would give us something extra but Tom Davis is certainly after you're talking about those three and he comes into the conversation he was very good yesterday let's have a look at the stats from the game West Ham 11 shots Evan 9 no shots on target for West Ham 3 on target for Evan two big chances each 68% of the ball West Ham had in the end Evan just below the sweet spot 38% is the sweet spot 32% exactly 606 completed passes from West Ham 278 from Evan so again Evan 11th away victory of the season as many as what we had in the 84-85 winning the team with only Manchester City have won more away games than Evan this season so quite clearly there's a formula there even if we had the mid table home it wasn't relegated we were in the champions league there's no question about it I guess just moving forward this formula is something I think Evan can replicate next season even with better players it might not have 11 away wins but if it ends up with 67 80 even then you're giving yourself a great especially if Evan can sort the home form out then it's something to build on isn't it for moving forward because we know the manager tactically it's very good brilliant away win gives us an opportunity now it does doesn't even go to Aston Villa Thursday they've lost all the walkins for the game it's huge for them it'll be a tough game because we know that they're a good side they just beat us chance to get some revenge and I tell you what if Evan can win a fella back on Thursday and come out of there going into them last three games certainly to home games as chef United Wolves got a fantastic chance of getting into Europe so who knows who knows you're delighted with Evan's victory and can we now build on this and get into Europe for next season let us know give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos including daily live videos this has been live to our patents live live right now it's not live if you're not watching live so join us on patents the link is in the description where 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