 Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the match preview Everton vs Aston Villa, Gwldersen Park. 6 o'clock kick-off on Thursday. This game has come from being a bit of a nothing game to a very, very important game for Aston Villa. Not much in it for us, but for Aston Villa a very, very important game as they strive for survival in the Premier League. One of first game in ten at the weekend to give themselves a chance. I mean you're saying it's not a big game for Everton, but it is a big game for Everton because there's a bit of pride that needs a story for the last three performances. You know, we came out of lockdown with seven points out of the first nine, you know, and you could argue we should have had nine. Trond Davies'r shot goes in against Liverpool at the post, come out with seven out of nine and dragged ourselves remarkably into a position where there was a possibility of a Europa League place. And then winning, lost a Tottenham and that performance was flat and the other three performances have got worse. Southampton wasn't very good and Wolves was dreadful so. I think this is a big game for Everton because it's a big game. James Coleman come out after a game called the players out. Carlham Antelott each questioned the attitude of them and the mindset of them. If you're not an Everton player, you've got your back up a little bit. For me, you shouldn't be a footballer because the minute your professionalism is called into question, which it was, by your captain, then there has to be a reaction. For me, the first thing that has to be looked at, if Aston Villa do the double over us, then we might as well just pack in. And I don't mean that in any disrespect to Aston Villa, but where they are in the league, you know, we're going into the last three games of the season and Aston Villa, Sheffield and Leighton and Bournemouth and they can all do the double over us. And that to me is horrific. That to me is horrific a club like Everton Football Club, the money it's spent is just, for me, that's the embarrassing part of all this and you're absolutely right. As a fan, as fans, we deserve a reaction of these players on Thursday night. That's literally the only thing we deserve is to see players go out there who for the last few weeks have just been going through the motions, less than the motions, because I feel like as a professional footballer you go through the motions, you at least run around a little bit and go in the direction of where the opposition's goal is. And for me, I mean, I'm not going to sit in and say, oh, Sunday was a water shed, it wasn't a water shed, because I've seen that performance a million times before. And I also understand that for some of those players there was nothing on that game and they're thinking about two weeks later when the season's over and they might be able to have a couple of weeks off. That to me, that needs a reaction and you're right and it needs to come on Thursday. And it has to start with James Goldman if he starts, it has to start with him and it has to start with him embarrassing all the other players by competing, running through brick walls, doing the job he's supposed to do as the captain. And then it has to go to the next most senior player. People like Tom Davis, if he starts the game, have to look hate and embarrassed from how they played against wolves and I understand the fatigue factor comes into it. But you know what, at some point, you've got to compete, you've got to get above that. Because wolves and self-harm to me for them played the same amount of games as us, that's the villain of playing the same amount of games as us. They play on Sunday, no question of a day's extra action or anything else. There'll be fighting for the lives, they'll know what they need to do and for me, if we don't see a reaction and a very positive reaction, I don't know what's going to happen but it's not great at the moment and I know there's a lot of reasons why and a lot of excuses why but none of that matters. Playing at home against a team who are currently in the bottom three and we should have enough to go and beat them. That's it, that's it for me. I'm not asking if they fight for the lives, you said it yourself, one win in 10 games. That means they're not very good, that means they're coming to go to some other little bit of a hope but a hope shouldn't be enough to beat us. We should have enough and we'll have to wait and see what happens. Where do you demonstrate, where do you've got enough isn't it? You're right, Coleman, you'll be up against Villa's best player, Jack Reales, who plays off the left. Jack Reales is really good footballer, Coleman's got to win that battle. It's about players winning the battles, too many of them lost the battles on Sunday lost the battles against Southampton. It's not good enough, it isn't good enough to manage yet. It's got to put some players in who actually want to play. Let's have a look at that team, could Jared Branthwaite start, will Mason Holgate be back? If Holgate's back he starts and he plays alongside probably Michael Keane, Coleman will be there, Holgate will give you the bit, Holgate wants to win. You're looking to me feel where the real issues are, no way on earth would Gilfee Shigarton be starting for me. But then on the other side there's nowhere in earth for Tom Davis to be starting? No, no, but then hopefully we'll have Andre Gomez back who hasn't performed either since the lockdown. But I would have said it before I'd have Benny Beningame in there because, and again, just to reiterate to people I'm not saying Benny Beningame is the answer, but Benny Beningame is a kid. Michael Ball, former Everton player said that it's not the singer, I'll say a lot we probably can catch. He probably does. I said in his column that it's time to throw that in younger players who want to have a go. You know, if Shigarton doesn't want to put a tackle in, let him sit in the stand. Davis has had enough chances and hasn't taken them so sit in the stand. No, good enough mate, go and sit in the stand. You know, and say to Benny, get in there alongside Andre Gomez, you just break it up, break it up and give him the ball. And let him, he's the one then that has to keep ticking over. You know, if Walcott's playing, started on Sunday, lasted a half, taken off, if he's playing, get up and down, show your way at something. You know, Anthony Gordon on the left hand side, get up and down, put these under pressure. You know, and then your front two. Whether that be Brutialis yn ymwysg chi, whether it be Domyn Brutialis, whether it be Domyn Mwysg chi, you know, on Ritchie. Mi personally, I'd have, for this game, I'd have Gordon on the left, Brutialis on the right and Cain and Calvert Luna front. Now, I can't make a case for Mwysg Cain starting, cos he's shown me absolutely nothing in the last few weeks. However, most of his appearances have been off the bench and you're always asking the lad to come on and do something in a game that, in general, I'm playing very well. You know, so maybe giving them a start might boost them a little bit, I don't know. But I would go with Villa. We need a reaction. We've been too passive in every game. Every game, I think you were talking about on the final wave. Every game, since the lockdown, seems like we've set up to nullify the opposition. Where every game before lockdown, we were going after teams, so what's the difference? Same set of players, not like there's half a dozen players out. We've got the same, roughly the same set of lads who've finished lockdown, you know, finished before lockdown. So I would be going after Aston Villa. Aston Villa have got some players you can hate. It's as a guy ain't bad. Greel is a good player. He's got a couple of goals and he's a threat. He's scored against us at Villa earlier in the season as well. I think, you get the second goal, I think you did. But he's a player who's got a goal in him. But Villa don't score a lot of goals, so I think we need to put them on the back. They're the ones with something to play for. They're the jeopardies with them. We're trying to put a performance in. You know, we've seen Spares come off the back of a humiliating defeat at Sheffield United against us and get into us early on and set the tempo to what we've got to do. So that for me is why, again, another reason I play Beningame, because if you play Gordon Retialas and Calvert Llewyn and Keane and say we're going to push you back, Beningame and Gomez can almost sit in that midfield then, which Armourfield loves to do anyway. But I think Beningame can get about and break it up a little bit better than what Davieson Trigg had to think. Yeah, listen, I really, hopefully, make it an all day to be back because I do think he's integral at the back now. But I think also, though, he helps that midfield because he has got that little bit of pace and he doesn't, it's not rigid, whereas I think we're meaner and Keane are there. The stopper's added, haven't they? They've ridged your plays. He's got a bit more fluidity about them. I think that will be because I don't think meaner's going to be fit. I wouldn't take it to the other way around. I wouldn't take it to the other way around. Because the manager's already said there's not enough time between games. And you're right. I mean, this one, we can sit here and we haven't seen anything of Beningame. And you're absolutely right not expecting him to be the answer. He's not the answer, but he can't. Surely, I think in a way, and maybe listen, Carl and Slottie might be too big for this in terms of the way he looks at things. But surely, if you've got the same set of players, the same three sentiment fielders, who every game are struggling, whether it be through conference, ability, fatigue, underlying injury or whatever, then surely you've got to look at your bench and go, there's a sentiment fielder over there. On the bench. So, therefore, I trust him enough to be that extra man if I need him. Just like Jared Branthwaite was on Sunday. Soddy, I'm going to give him a go. I'm going to give him a go and let's just see what he's got. Because you know what? Honestly, what could be worse? What does it really matter at this stage? You can change it a half-time anyway. You can change it after. If it's not working, you can take him out. He's stuck. He tried playing Sunday and stuck playing off a half-time. I look at when off a half-time. I won't be just going off a half-time and come on a half-time. But it might be just for the sake of having some fresh legs on there. Someone who's completely fresh, who hasn't played the game yet, who for a half could get out there and just break up the play. Give the other sentiment fielder a little bit... What of a break? A bit of support. A bit of support. Do something a little bit different. I just don't see any... I think if you're going to... If you're willing to play something like Gordon, if you're willing to bring on something like Banthwaith, then I don't know why you'd be scared to put someone like Ben Ingemi. Because if he's on the bench, then he's got enough tactical notes to understand. He'll have been in the meetings. He'll have been in training. He'll understand the way you want to play. It's, you know... For me, I just think it's the thing that actually you need to do as a manager now and again to just go... Ain't good enough. You are good enough. I'm just going to bring this lad in and we'll see what happens. You know what? Whatever happens happens. It's a mental challenge for players. It's thrown a Gordon at them. These players have let people down for long enough. You know, haven't they? They're all probably good footballers, but what's the point? If you can't deliver, what's the point? What's the point in Tom Davis being a good footballer and got something about him if he doesn't perform? What's the point in Sigurdim being an Icelandic international who can score for him 20 yards if he's never in the game? He doesn't make... It's a greater point. I had to centre my feathers on Sunday. Didn't make a tackle. Didn't do anything. They offered nothing. Not going forward, not going the other way. So why should they be rewarded by playing again? For all we know, first thing we might do is go out there and snap someone. Well, you know, a strong challenge. And then it's like, do that again. Set the tempo and keep it going. It's all Ghanis to do. I mean, Ghanis was great. But you know what I mean? Ghanis to just go, I'll go and kick him. You break the player and you make them think that they haven't got time on the ball. And then the next person might be like, I'm not going to do that. I need to get into him. Sometimes there's a manager. And listen, Carlo, he's won everything. So I'm not trying to tell him how to do his job. But you've seen evidence of this with other managers in the past to get a reaction out of players. You do have to throw someone in and go look. You're an international. I'm prefering this kid over you because your performances have been garbage. Absolutely garbage. And it might be a kick up the backside. They might not. They might not. Okay. You know. But we care as fans. And I think I'd rather see Benny Benningham running around the pitch trying to do his best for everyone in football club than watching Gilfee Sigarton walk around pointing. Well, Tom Davis kicking the ball out under no pressure. Or Andre Gomez at times thinking he's got three hours on the ball and just getting the ball taken off him. You know, Alex O'Wobee who's quite clearly a talented footballer jogging around the football pitch. I want to see players who it matters to wear the shape of Everton Football Club. There's nothing on this now other than a bit of pride. And we have to go out and we have to make it uncomfortable for Aston Villa and we have to go, I'm going to check. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're in the bottom three and we're Everton Football Club and we're trying to get to the top up the top end of the table allegedly. And then let's go and do it then. Let's go and prove it. Not where Everton will be. We don't have to try. We have to go and fight and scrap the same as they do. In the right to play football. We've got lads at the top under the pitch. If we create chances, we'll score goals. We don't create chances. We can't expect them to score goals. They've got to do a bit more as well up top. They've got to go. Got to get involved. Looking for the ball a little bit. Get involved. With Charleston's got to go on. If he can't get it, he's got to go looking. At times, just go long to them as well. Get them in the game. Get people round them. Winning a couple of feathers. Knock dance and then getting people around. Get up the pitch. Tia woke up. Get on the ball and try and get up the pitch with it. Just get us up the pitch. It doesn't take a genius to tell why we're struggling. It's because we don't move the ball through midfield. We don't have a player who runs with it. Who gets us high up the pitch. And then maybe gives it. I don't think Guilfee Shigarton would be as bad as if he had. I know it's been terrible, and I'm not making an excuse for him. But if he had someone next to him who run the ball up 30 yards and got it to the edge of the box and then got it into Guilfee's feet. And then suddenly, because that's basically what happened last year. Then Guilfee's got the ball on the edge of the box and suddenly he's got the ability to shoot or the ability to find the pass or whatever. That's the difference. Guilfee Shigarton used to sit on the edge of the box when he was like a number 10. That's when he was at his best. So we've got these players, but we don't have anyone. We don't have any way of getting up the pitch. So let's start making it easy and getting up the pitch by just lumping it up the pitch. Letting Dom win it. And then everyone else get on the knockdowns. That's right if you played with Gordon Calvert-Lewman, the Tialys and Moise Keane, say, for argument's sake. You can go a little bit more direct because then you've got three other lads who are buzzing around and then they have to defend. They played a 4-5-1 Sunday against Pallas with the two wide men to raise a guy in Gwyl. It's making it a 4-3-3 when they're attacking, but essentially a 4-5-1. Let's force them back. Let's force them to have to defend on the edge of the box. Everton Villa, the most played English tough life fixture. Villa have won 74, Everton have won 76, and there's been 53 draws. Villa looking to secure their first league double-over Everton since 2001 season. Everton v Villa will be the seventh Premier League fixture to have been played on all seven days of the week. Can they give it a happy? I mean interesting. First win in 10 after last time. Villa, I'm not reading that one. Villa have faced 582 shots in the Premier League this season, 49 more than any other team. Before the enforced break, Dominic Alvedlun has scored eight goals in 11 Premier League games, but he's yet to find the net in six games since the restart, despite having more shots than any other Everton player with 16. He needs a goal. He needs a goal ASAP. He does. We need a win. They need a win, but we need a win. We do need a win for a bit of confidence and just to get the fans and a bit more optimism towards the end of the season. There you go, there's no you thought. Do you think this is one we can win? Do you expect us to win? I think expecting us to win is a bit far. No, it's always a bit too far. What would it mean if Villa did the double overs? It'd mean there'd be a great position to stay up. That's what it would mean. In the comments, give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos. Live daily videos, podcasts, special interviews. Original ideas. Get over and join us on page. The link is in the description. Thanks for watching. See you later.