 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, Burnley vs Everton. This is a game we can't wait for me in Andy with literally counting the minutes to watch Everton again. Now listen, big game actually at the weekend, tough game, all these days against Shaun Dice's boys and now Everton had a 5-1 victory there last boxing day and it was very good. But this one will be difficult one, haven't it? Yeah, they're back to playing, I'm not going to get 7 this season but they're back to playing that sort of way they played that year and they got 7 because they haven't got European football, no more Joe Art of course. So it's going to be a difficult game and obviously we know how we've struggled against the low block and as I've called them before they are the kings of the low block. That's what they specialise in is defending, that's their first tactic is to defend and then obviously you can counter and get calls from set pieces. So yeah, it's going to be a tough game, we've got the better side, it's just whether we can break them down. That's the key to the game really, whether we can break them down. I think Marcus Silver probably has to work on the movement of the players as we discussed. It's a major thing to sort of move Burnley around the pitch because you're just going to have basically 4 defenders who never go forward and then the fielders 2 of them won't go forward. So you're basically going to be facing at all times at least 6 defenders, even on a counter attack. So we need to start as we need to go on. So this is the game where Marcus Silver needs to say this is how we're going to break down teams going forward and it's the perfect opponent to try it on. Hopefully we won't go with 2 defensive midfield players. I'm hoping that Andre Gomez is fit enough to play in this one day today. But I know that when he was asked last week before the city game he said he's got no chance for City but hopefully for next week. So I'm hoping because regardless of what people think about Andre Gomez, he's our best midfield player in terms of recycling the ball. He can protect it, he's strong, he can break, go through the game, he can break the lines when he does it very sporadically which is mad because when he was off valentia it was something he did regularly in Barcelona. He knocked that out of him and he needs to get back to that. I think for everything to get the best out of him he has to be that midfielder that travels forward with the ball. At the moment I think we haven't got the make-up of our team. We basically have our 2 defensive midfield players holding hands on the half-way line. Well they passed it back for us. You see your gap before you hit Shigarton and Calvert Llewyn or Shigarton and Keane, whoever it may be, I'm guessing it'll be done again. And there's just a chunk of the pitch that doesn't get used and we've seen that against Sheffield United when they come to go to us in a couple of weeks ago, they came. And that middle bit of the pitch there midfielders just doing whatever they wanted. You need to sort of create space by occupying players. If you're two defenders, two midfielders basically in the middle field circle, then all you're going to get then is they're just going to leave the strikers on them in the middle field. And basically you're going to be facing two men there in every position. It's about spacing them out, pinning defenders, creating spaces, finding the gaps wide, finding gaps in the half space. And having a struggle to do that against them teams, this is the game to try and do it. And I think a lot of it depends on who we play really, as you say, can't beat them type of players. I'd try something different, we'll see if he does it. I mean this is how Dave generally lined up. This is how he lined up last week at Aston Villa. He played the same and he played knowledge the week before. Nick Pope and Gull, Louton, Tarkovsky, Ben, me, Eric Peters from Stoke. He was basically a centre-left. He played left-back. And then he's got obviously Hendricks, Westwood, Cork, me, McNeill, Wood and Barnes up front. And now Barnes sometimes drops back in and makes it a five in the field. So they are very difficult to play against obviously like McNeill. He's the stand-out in the centre. He's a bit different. He's a good dribble in. And the other is a hard work. No issue with that good hard work and side. Difficult to play against like you say. But they do shit with, I mean, when you look on at that, they can obviously revert to almost a 4-3-3 of McNeill. And you know, with Barnes. Well that's what he was saying because he changed in the second half of the game on last weekend. And he went to a 4-3-3 with McNeill joining and Barnes going out wide. And he thought he'd rather go out more out onto control in terms of winning the ball back up. That's the base defensive system that you'll see anyway at the very least. Even if McNeill is playing higher, he will play low block 4-4-2 as it's known. So it's like what you're saying there. He immediately, when you look at it, because Hendrick can play centrally all bad. He'll tuck in because that's what they do, they tuck in. They want evidence across it. And this is where we fell down these weeks. We always cross it. Cark asking me, you only have to defend this area. That's what they want. If you keep crossing it to them, obviously the quality of the crosses is important. But if you just cross it aimlessly, they'll eat off it all day. And that's what we need to avoid. We need to try and attack them differently. Obviously echo wide mixed crosses in two different things. Try and get it down the middle. Try and get one-on-one with the centre backs. But it's whether we can do it or not really. I mean, I watched the goals they conceded at the weekend against Aston and Bill of it. I had honestly two crosses into the box. They conceded at the goal, which was this allowed by VAR, which again was a crossing to the box. So they didn't deal with it as well as they normally do. Do you want people to cross it? So that's their bed, but they play percentage football. Of course, yeah. They want you to cross it rather than have shots inside their box. So they'll take that all day. Obviously the quality of the crosses is good. You'll beat them, but you can't rely on solely crossings to beat them. And that's why when Man City go there or Liverpool or whoever, they space them out, they drag them out of position, they create gaps for the players to get in. We've got the players to do it just how we set up and how rich will we play really is the issue. I mean, the two goals they scored at the weekend, the two crosses as well, unsurprisingly, one from, I think, Ashley Barnes dug it out, I think, and J. Rodriguez headed it in. And Chris Wood, who's been on good form for them three goals in his last two games with a good header, a good cross and a good header inside the six-yard box, which you look at it, and it's difficult to defend because he's such a big lad. And you've got to make sure that he doesn't get a run on you. And so, meaner, and obviously, Michael Keane, he's going to have to be on the top of their game this weekend. That should be their bread and butter, though, because if you look at the early season, we'd be all over Ben Teche, Wesley, we didn't deal too well, but they should be the, sorry, Drudin, they should be the type of strikers that they shouldn't be able to eat up all day because they want to be able to defend that they're two stoppers, they want to be able to head the ball out. So, in a sense, barely, if they cross a lot, we'll play into the hands. It's getting, it's getting McNeill and others can get into space and cause problems. That's where it happened. Or find the problems defensive and players can get in positions. Strangely, Man City scored a header, but you know, it's the quality of the cross. Tell, tell of a cross. So it could be the gating teams, you know, you could have an ill-nil, but I think, you know, the way we need to do it is just mix it up defensively. It's just, as you say, set pieces as a big one because that's what they're going to feed off. They'll send, obviously, the two centre backs up as well. We need to be solved better from set pieces than we've been looking about. It's creeping back in those problems when that season, there's no one left. It is, but, I mean, I thought Saturday we were fine. No city didn't have that many to be. I didn't think you can see many free kicks at all. Four, I think, in the whole. Those stupid files. Just mad at it really. One, but one obviously ended up in the back of our net from Marys. But, you know, saying about set pieces for Bailey, but the last four goals they've scored have all been out and play, which is people being four crosses, Chris Wood got a brace the week before against Norwich from two crosses from the wide area, both from the left hand side. So, you know, you look at Ben and you go, oh, set pieces and all that, but because the two big lads in the middle, well, three, if you include J. Rodríguez, when he comes on, you've got to just make sure you defend your box. Particularly a lot of their goals are in the six-yard box. You've got to defend that area properly. The goalkeeper Jordan Pickford's got to be on his game this week in terms of, you know, not stupid, just his awareness. Talk to his defenders. I mean, from Evanton's point of view, Alex Owe will be fully fit this week. He wasn't last week. Bernard, I'm guessing, will be back after illness as well. Luca Dean will be fully recovered from being ill as well. So, Evanton should have a little bit of freshness back. But the midfield is a key area for me. And I think a lot of bad issues are because of our midfield make-up. And some people will agree and some people will disagree. But I think just the make-up of Snidel and Delph and Sigarton, it's too slow in a Premier League that is dynamic. And I think, you know, I think Delph's fine. I think Delph's being good. I think he can play in different midfield formings. I think he's OK. I think he can play as a six. He can play as an eight. If you want to compartmentalise those kind of areas, I think he's just a midfielder you can get on a pitch. But I would have him as our deepest midfielder for me. You know, you watch this. You'll be able to see me play a 4-3-3. But it's actually 4-1-4-1 in it. So, you know, basically one sitter is sweeping up centre-backs and basically dropping to a back three when the ball goes to the pitch. That would be Delph. You can play a woe being Sigarton ahead of him and have two wingers still on the pitch. I know that's completely outside of Markham's silver's comfort zone. But against Bailey, they're not exactly going to throw him in and then forward. You know, it's very... It's a couple of players get forward. And obviously, you know, they cross from the box wide. But I don't know, I'd try something different to try and break them down after you attack them. Would that be your midfield? I'd probably play Tom Davis, if I'm honest, instead of Sigarton. Yeah, probably. For me, I'd just want... You know, Tom's... You know, it's going to be... You can stagger them in a field if you want. You could still play 4-3-3. I know that's not going to happen. He's going to play 4-3-3-1. But you can stagger and have a woe be as your eight or 10, whatever you need. Then you have Tom Davis in the box, the box. And Delph's sitting. And Tom Davis can get forward. Then he does. He gets into the box. That's what we're missing. What would... What would you say about Sigarton, then? Because a lot of people would say to you, well, I've only created five chances last week, which he did, but the caveat to that is four of the set pieces, four of the corners. That's Sigarton, he is fairly good from set pieces. There's no doubt in that. He's okay in open play. Not to go the free kick forever. Yeah, he hasn't. That's what I'm just saying. And it's still surprising to me, and I haven't created something together, you know what I mean? Because he's picking them out, he just doesn't seem to be going in. But with Sigarton, it's the movement, and now you have to get into the game with City, because they do attack. It opens pockets of space form, and he does allow them to get involved in the game. He still wasn't involved in the game enough for me. But with a Wobie, instead of... A Wobie won't sit on players. He'll be dropping between the lines all the time, and that's the difference we need in this game. You saw it in the chef-wed game when they played him and Bernard. That combination. That difference, yeah. Because basically, instead of standing there, waiting for the ball to come back at the edge of the box to shoot, which is what Sigarton wants to do. A Wobie's in the box. We can run this beyond, and we don't have that, and against Bay and Lee, that type of movement for drag players with him, he creates space for people to get shots. I'd take him out this week. He won't down. Because I look, and I think, last season, he was almost un-dropable, because he was scoring goals regularly. We've played seven games, he hasn't scored the goal yet. And that started day one for me after a minute when he had that chance against Palace, and he had the whole goal to it, and he missed. He's just not playing well. And for me, regardless of whether you look at it and go, we'll create a five-shot, I'm not, with all due respect, anyone could take a corner and pick a player out, and that's a chance created. Well, that's my point, Barron. He's created... There was a chart up there, he's got the third most chances created. He's got nine in open play, 11. So most of them are from set pieces, over 50%. You look at Jacky, you'll issue people go, oh, Jacky, this isn't a good season. He's created 17 chances from open play. He's a better open play case than Guilvie Sigarton. And people go, oh, well, people didn't take shots and didn't challenge, you know. At the end of the day, he says it's a good player, scores goals. Open play creativity isn't something that he's really good at. You know, he's a good passer. He just doesn't get involved enough. Building a player is fairly important. Whether you're assistant or you're the third or fourth pass from the goal, it doesn't matter. You need to be involved all the time. I think as well that, and I think this about Morgan Snidl, to be honest as well, is that in a specific role that he can play well. Morgan Snidl had a decent game against City at the weekend. His pass completion was 92.5%. He won a lot of tackles. He was involved in the play. Protecting, he offered nothing at the other way. So he done a job in a specific role, in a specific game. I was still dropping this week. So he could have come off the pitch last week and had a gone, you play well there. You know, he done a decent job there. Not that he's not playing well. But this team and this make-up of this midfield doesn't shoot. It doesn't shoot. And the same applies to Guilfee Sigarton. Add look at Guilfee and go, you're still a quality player. You're still part of this squad and we need you at times. But the way we need to break some of these teams, you don't fit the way we play. So, therefore, coming to City, if you get on a role where he's banging goals in, you leave him in because you think he might produce something. Well, that's exactly why he's still on the team but he's not at the moment. No, no, but we haven't got that abundance of goals. I think Marco's hesitant to take him out. But you look at what's worked for Sigarton this season. The games that he has, I'd say above average games because he's been middling really this season is the games against Wolves. Wolves got off the pitch, the full-backs. He got that space on the right. He praised him on Saturday, I think, because he said he was dangerous out on that right-hand side. And that works because the left-backs in Senco plays high up the pitch. Sigarton plays at Wingers. If teams sit in like against Sheffield United, he can't do much. The space is cut off to him. And he doesn't move well enough or he doesn't carry the ball well enough for him to play against a Bayley. Now, against them, other teams, you do do that. I'm fine with them playing the same games, maybe in a different role because the role's too rigid right now. And it's not all his fault. It isn't his fault because the ball... To make Sigarton work, you have to play different players than we play. Don't like Harvard living him, apart from that one chance on Lassati with Denison. Because that was to be fair up to Craig Ball. They don't really work together. You see, they hardly pass to each other. Don doesn't make the runs that Sigarton needs. But he passes them twice on Saturday. Right, there you go. In the whole game. Wait, there's very much keen plays. He stretches the play, which is what Sigarton needs someone to do. So do you want to play Sigarton? Play the players to get the best out of them. But Craig, not the week before he passed on which keen twice. Well, there you go. That's again, that's the low block again. But if I looked at it, and me and Paddy done a bit this week and we were talking about different things. We might not have said this on the thing that we were talking about. But he'd looked at people like Jota with him and it was like 13 times in a game. It is, there's no comment. This is something that clubs look at now. So you look at when you're buying a striker now. You don't just buy a striker. You go, what services are you getting? What makes them work? Does R number 10? Does R wingers? Do they fit what works to him? If not, they don't sign a player. Could be the world's best player. They don't fit in the team now. Or you change the team around them. But that's the point. This is where my big point is. I was going to get onto this on the podcast. But the combination of players don't really fit. If we had a system, a mark, we said this is the system. You had a fit in it, or you and me moved on. And we basically went through the motions of that. But we don't. We play the system now. It's done to fit skill if you see it. But it doesn't. It doesn't even fit him. And it's... I mean, I'm with you. I'd mix it up this weekend. I'd have him on the bench and I'd go with a Wobby and Davish. And Bernard, back in for that skill, yeah? Bernard on the left to give us to stretch them and to give, which means that it brings Llychydine into the game. Well, the weekend and I know the musil, so it wasn't as dynamic as he normally is. But we only had 28% of our attacks down the left-hand side. It's getting short and short down the side. Which used to be 40s. But the right was 47, and we only put two crosses in it. But again, because you had three players, with Charleston. No one over it. No, but that's the idea. It's bizarre. There's no change in the game, no you see. So when you see that, it's not really working, you shift it. We don't do that. We just carry on. Because that's what works for them to three players. And Charleston's not a winger. No. You can play wide, but it has to be narrow wide. I do not want to see with the ball on the chalk on his boots. He's closer to the goal is where he's most affected. Yeah, exactly. It's insane. So I'd mix it up because it gives barely something to think about as well. And I think with Delph, I think Davis works hard enough and I think Wobe works hard. And now people with critical on the weekend, but he was ill. You could tell. He's very being very energetic for us great with the ball. You could tell on Saturday he just looked lethatic. That's cos he didn't have the energy. And yet he still put an absolutely pity of a ball to Sigarton in the first half at 1-1. He'll finish the game. He should have got a shot. But I just mix it up because what we're doing at the moment is not working anyway. But back to Burnley, like we said, they're going to be defensive minded first and foremost. No problem with that. And we are going to have to come up with different ways to effect it. If we're just going wide all the time to look at the end and hoping he can pick someone up. Is it going to be Tom? Do you think it'll be Tom? It'll be Tom. It's got to be Tom. It's got to be Tom. It's got to be Tom because why you can't take him. I think Moise Keane is going to be great. I do loads of potential. I think you just need to go on. One-on-one with the finish. I think you're getting him in and I think he'll cause real issues for people. He's going to get them closer to the goal and he'll cause problems. But I think if you take Dominic Halverlumin out at the moment, it's the wrong message. He should score four goals in his last three games. I've got no problem with Tom playing. It's just how we serve him. I, a big believer, and I said this before the Sheffield Wednesday, it's going to be incessant. See what Tom's like with different servers. Two goals in his feast in that game. The aimless crossing. Why? Because he had different players. This is what I mean. I'd like to see him get more. I'm not saying he's not great with his feet. We all know this. But let's try. What about this? Cut balls back. What about this for the weekend? What about Keane on the left? Halverlumin. On the Charleston. What's in my field? A wobe. Delf. Delf. Davies. I'd love to see him. Is that too attacking for this kind of game? Is it better that we're stretching the play with Bernard? Is it better to think? You've pinned the whole back four back with them three now. They wouldn't come up. No. But do they come up anyway? They don't. But the four backs are still going to get into the deep crossing areas. They're not going to go to the boss. But they're going to be going to the final crossing balls. Or is that more of a home formation? Because I personally believe. And I love Bernard. Absolutely love him. And I think he should always try and make room for him in our team. But I think for some games, that should be our front three. A home. And I think we should play a proper 4-3-3. And then our two full backs can go on the outside. And we're still protected with four players. You can play two up top even. I'm not saying you should go 4-4-2 flat, because that's what they all do. But you can go 4-2-2. Have a wobe in Bernard. The two attacking the fielders with the license to go drift wide. Come by with the right back. And have the two strikers with Charleston again can drift wide more easily. It basically mixes it up a bit. And then you can still have Davis. You'll fill in the gaps when they split wide. And it works. We just want to see something different. See if Gomez is fit. Gomez goes in with Delta. We have a little bit more control in the field. And all of a sudden we're a bit stronger. As long as he pushes and I forward. That's what I want to see. But don't forget, with the three Premier League games, we've lost. We haven't had Gomez for anything. We've lost with Gomez this season with Villa. We've shared a horrible game. And he was terrible. The reason I think we miss Andy Gomez. Some people say it's creativity. We're trying to control games. 65% possession. We haven't really got the players to control a game with Andy Gomez. He sets the tempo. He knows when to go right. I need to quicken this up. Because they're getting the slot in. And that's the difference. That type of player, you can keep all the possession when you need to. You take the pressure off. But I have to take more responsibility as well. I'm not going to knock at a size. I think he's still playing well within himself. He's such a talented footballer. It's the mental thing with him. And if he can get over that, he'd be a really good player. But that's why we miss him. Because we're trying to control games. And we haven't really got that on to control. Because if he's in the team, we've got that. So hopefully he can play. He's been based there for a week now. I suppose he probably could have played maybe in those games. But who knows. But we'll see. We'll see. I've picked out a danger man for the weekend. It's not Dwight McNeill. He's really, really got lots of ability. Definitely has. But I've gone for Chris Wood. And I've gone for Ashley Barnes. He's another one. He's am-full. Ideal he is. He's horrible. He's great if you've got him. And Westwood is a good player. I'm not going to put six men to watch him. I'm like, come on, just do six now. No, I agree with Chris Wood. Well, Chris Wood at the moment, just because he's such a big lad. And he has spells. Doesn't he in the season. He's hopped for a few games. And then he's rocked off. He's not a good all-round player. But he's a goal scorer. He knows where to be in the box. He knows how to play as a striker. And he knows how to move defenders around. Old school strike, you know. One in three. I mean, there's a stat from last season. 29 Premier League games. 10 goals to assist two men on the match. I would love for someone who's got 10 goals. Exactly. So it was a one in three strike. And they picked them up for not a lot of money. I was a goal of a million, yeah. So, you know, he's a big unit. I mean, he scored against us for Leicester, didn't he? He scored when they first come up. He had a score for 18 months. That was it, yeah. He's a big unit. He's difficult to play against. This season he's got three goals in seven appearances. Three in his last two. Two against Norwich. And then obviously he's scored a point. You know, they're going to, again, teams are picking out the right-on-side of our defence. And I was expecting to sort of sit on key. But this is someone keen should that be okay with same with me in it. But they've got to be caught. These are the type of players though. They're going to be bombing balls in the box. We need to make sure that we're ready for them, really, yeah. The thing with them is you can take it on a chest. You can lay it off. But he's a deal. He do him and Barnes do it really well. Take it down. Play it wide. And then they are all fashion centrefold. They spin into the holes in behind you for crosses. And that's what we've got. They're never going to that run, yeah? No. They're never going to that run. I do like watching Barney sometimes. Because I watch Treyk McNeill. He's like a sore thumb. Because he is a bit different. He's creative. He's a bit of flair. He works hard though off the ball. But he's standing in space sometimes. And because it doesn't really fit their patterns of play, he's just not doing anything. But he's another player. I know we've already mentioned these. He's a good player. But yeah, they're going to be a tough test. I still expect this to win. I don't know whether I expect us to win. But I think we need to win. And I think we're more than capable of winning. That's why I expect us to win. Because I just don't think we can go on a run like this. And don't be wrong. If we won one game, I'm not going to be out of it. We'll be over the moon. But I want to see some consistency. We need to start getting consistency. And you need to start it now. Especially for Markham. Because it's starting to strip the win. Well, it is. I mean, if Barney were to win and they're quite capable of beating us. No problem about that. Then we've lost five of the last six games. I don't know whether I expect us to win. But we've lost five of the last six games. And five out of eight Premier League games. Where we've only played really Manchester City. And I know you can say Walls as well. Who will probably be top off. Or there or there about. But in general. In general. We've only really played City. Who you're expecting to be okay. The longer the run goes on, the more you're going to go. It's going to be a seven to eight season. That's because you're dropping too many, but it gets too long. If we keep losing games, people will be looking. There's the same people not too far away from me. About. Whether we're in a relegation battle or not. But people do get nervous. Because what you do is. Once you start losing games against teams. You feel like you should be beaten. Or at least getting points from. You start then looking at other games going. We can't beat anyone at the moment. So it doesn't matter. If you put. If you put. I don't know. You know. Lower stuff town. With an injury crisis in front of heaven. You'd be worried about the game. Yeah. Well, chef Wendsley. People were flapping themselves over that. But. You know. We didn't play that well all over. We played well enough. We started well, didn't we? We just re-tailed off. We need a complete performance. I know we played better on Saturday. There was some say comes on. But you know. I said this to Paddy. Just before we finished. Did we play better? Or did we? I'm trying to be positive. I'm going to be honest. No, no, no. What we did. What we did was. We were better. We were better than we were against. You know, the United Guard. But I just thought we were better. And because they allowed us to have the ball. We were able to create things better. I don't like to say it. Saturday is the one. Yeah. For me. Man City. If you beat Man City or you draw Man City. That's a point gained. You know. When you lose to these teams. It's definitely. And obviously you are losing three points. But it is like three. Because we need to beat these teams consistently. When you want to go for top four, top six trophies. You need to be beating teams that are the worst. A waste than you consistently. And we're not. Until we start doing that. The teams are the top six. Over there. The stage dreams. We start beating these teams. We done a double over them last year. It will be difficult. They've beat us a few times over the years. It'll be a tough game. But we've got to go out. Man off. Roll ass leaves off. And get involved in that battle straight from the off. Win your battles. That's another thing. I can't do this thing. Even if we go go. We switch off. And let them start. Because that's what I haven't been like this season. And then when they score. Then they start again. We need to kill this game quite quick. When we beat them in boxing day. We scored after three minutes. We kicked off. And we're on it immediately. We were threeing it up after half an hour. Exactly. You need to put the game away. Because the longer it goes. The more and more we get desperate. You'll throw a second striker on. And we'll just play the plans. We need to take the first half. It's very important in this game. There you go. We've got more out of that than I thought we were going to. It's going to be a difficult game, of course. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Is this a game Marco Silva has to win? Is it a game that you're confident? Or are you a bit nervous family fans? If you're watching this. Are you looking at this and thinking. Is he three points this weekend? Why wouldn't you? You would at home game. You'd be expecting to win. But from our perspective. It's an evident perspective. This is a game we need to win. And we really, with the money we've spent. We should be winning. I know it doesn't always work like that. But we haven't got to start winning football matches very soon. Otherwise the manager is going to have a problem. I like him. And I want him to get it right. But if we don't start winning games. Someone takes the book stops with someone. And unfortunately it's the manager. I don't think it's jobs. But in the sense that he's not going to let it slip and go. I'm building this side. I need someone to... He spent money and he needs someone to make your project work. And he's not the man to do it. Come on, Marco. 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