 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the player ratings Everton won West Ham United Nail first victory of the season for the Toffees perfect timing just before the international break and all good, all good, tight game always was going to be West Ham came, I don't know, they played like we do essentially when we play away, they play with getting five at the back over the plate like we used to, five at the back and then shut out the midfield and it's very difficult to break down like we've seen with the way we play so it needed a good goal, a good strike, we haven't had too many of them this season, they were really difficult to break down and I think we've only had something like one shot before we scored the goal so but we got the three points again, again defensive, built on defensive the defense and which was superb today and will be reflected in my in my player ratings so just glad to get the three points it's out the way now the win is out the way no more court it's great having good performances, decent performances but when you're waiting for that first win of the season you know seven games in the pressure can start to build outside more than inside I think as fans we've been watching it since you know develop since the first couple of games of the season where we got beat and we're behind with you know we're behind what's going on so and the managers obviously know what he wants you know in terms of the the defense and the centre backs and getting into very reliable centre backs and it's made a huge difference with the way we've defended so fantastic stuff let's get into it anyway in gold, Begavitch obviously came in no no real issues made one good save in the second half that he had to he did he did sort of whistle one away when the one at the post when he just stood and watched it but what I would say is if he dived for that shot it could have hit him and gone in so clever stuff from Begavitch today he knew what his angles were he knew it was it in the post and he probably thought if I dived this might hit my arse and go in and I look stupid so who's stupid now you know I'm saying genius genius but he did a fine did fine um couple early on at us from Corners he got under but most game nice and steady and done his job to be fair decent decent performance from him I've given him a seven um Nathan Patterson excellent again really really good again solid in the tackle aggressive wants to win his battles um doesn't want to be beaten in the tackle doesn't want anyone to go past them but contribute going forward as well always a always a will and run it always an out ball um if it it's just a pity we haven't got it's just a pity we haven't got someone who can switch the play a little bit quicker in our midfield otherwise our full backs would be on all the time all the time they're always free and at times I think we if we if we just had plays you could get their heads up and switch the ball quickly we'd be in so often um but it seems like a dying dying out in football doesn't it someone who can pass the ball 60 yards but he was brilliant and and what typified his what typified his um his game was towards the end and I didn't even know it at the time the one that um Schmacher's put wide but Schmacher's in and Patterson just gets a touch on it and takes it away from his foot and the ball just goes because I'm sitting I can't see that in the ball he looks like he's trying to go down round Begavitch um and I thought he'd go to be honest the first but the touch by Patterson he doesn't give up on it he doesn't just let him get a shot as he's pulling his foot back Patterson just gets a touch and knocks it and that is a that is a match winning tackle a match winning tackle that from Nathan Patterson there just just they're the things in games where you look at maybe you look at other players or from other teams and you're like you think of the little things like that but I don't know who I was they took the shot by the way I only seen the video might have been corn I don't know um I've only seen the video of the tackle I wasn't even paying attention to who was but um he just puts his foot he just gets his foot in there and it's just it's just an incredible incredible tackle which you if he hadn't made that tackle and they'd scored no one would have said anything about that that's the thing that's how good a tackle it is um so just brilliant I've given my nine on I can't speak the high highly enough about him um just can't speak highly enough about him at all just just absolutely brilliant uh Mike Cosgrove on the super chat thanks Mike says that's an evident team I can get behind thought gone a man of the match closely followed by Patterson yeah super thanks Mike um so I've given my nine um Michael Encore on the other side I thought he started a little bit ropey he lets Bowen get the better of him and Bowen put a lovely ball in and and Connor Cody to be fair made a brilliant block to go for a corner um but he grew into the game and I think as the game went on he got more and more into if started winning the battles defensively offensively I I don't think he's I don't think he's um the kind of play he's going to give you what may be our last two left back to give us but defensively I think he grew into the game I've given my seven um as I said a little bit of a shaky start but I think I think he grew into the game um the center backs Connor Cody captain the team brilliantly absolute leader this is exactly what we've been missing for the last few years is someone who understands how to defend which is not always a normal thing by the way people who smell danger said this so often some of our defenders and Michael Keane has been guilty of this all the time the they wait for things to happen rather than intervening in them Connor Cody completely understands how to defend he's just it's just such a dying art that as I never told me and I've been brought up with this completely brought up with this since I was a child all the way through and it's in in the last few years it's been something that's been missing so much yeah he mean it can do it to a point but somewhat I just honestly can't speak highly enough of Connor Cody and what he brings and his leadership is just huge huge if I was honest no if I was ever right I'd try and just get the deal done now to sign him and make him our player that's how much I think he I don't think anyone ever thought like you know when he signed for it don't think anyone thought I should read them all I don't think anyone was like that but obviously him the goal he got in the barbie obviously that was disallowed you could see what it meant to me you could see what it meant to him today and there was about five minutes to go or we were just going into injury time and he was I think one of our players was down or something like that and he's like saying to him you know he's saying to the team get up get up for this this this you know you could see how much it meant to him three points is experiencing his first three points well first experiences first three points playing forever in a good this one part but you could see how much it meant to him dragon players up and I just thought I just love that side of football that doesn't get spoken about or in this in this age of like analytics and stats and all the rest of it you can't quantify leadership you can't quantify players dragging another player or getting in the face of the opposition you just can't quantify what that means and we haven't had that for so long and now we've got two now we've got two and you know Everton as a club have done so well to bring these two players in and I don't care if they're both 29 or whatever they are I couldn't care less you know it's for the younger players to lay in off them so I've give I've given him an eight anyway I'd give him an eight and James Tarkowski next to him as one thing this is what I was going to say about Conocoady on the ball Conocoady was was really good as well playing some lovely balls and maybe that's just one thing that Tarkowski playing on the left side maybe is something that he just lacks occasionally on the ball early on the game he was getting the ball you know when it goes back to code maybe this is just he's a defender he's a defender isn't he and I think you know there's any still what there was you know between there were very few mistakes there was a one late on where the ball just like bounced over the red or something but there's very few very few mistakes there are the odd one I appreciate that but they want to defend they want to get their head in there they want to they don't want to get hurt but they're not they don't mind being hurt and James Tarkowski was the same today again just he wants to defend and we're Conocoady next to him they're just a brilliant partnership in terms of in terms of games like this where they're edgy and it might take a set piece I mean set pieces look how much better we we look on set pieces now the organization and people but getting their heads in the way and there's so much more confidence in our defendant and it comes from those two so I've give James Tarkowski a seven and a half Garner sitting in front of them brilliant impeccable just does his job perfectly just wins the ball gives it played that lovely pass a couple of times that he used to play all the time that round the corner back to the center back on the other side ball just breaks things up and gets us going I thought again just look like he looks like he's been an everton player for ages doesn't he anyone who had any issues of signing you know again a player who's in his 30s he's seen what he can give us today just worth every penny worth every penny of what we pay what we're paying him just effortless absolutely because he's class because that's what good players do they're effortless and he is he's class I've given me an eight today he just sees the danger gets a foot in plays it nice and simple just again he's another leader on the pitch fantastic absolutely fantastic uh oh nana I actually thought today this was I thought he played within himself a little bit oh nana I don't I don't think he was poor by any means because he wasn't clearly and he gained a couple more of those brilliant trademark tackles I just thought he looked a little bit off the pace slightly um a little bit slower than we've seen in other games maybe he'd been given a particular job in the midfield and that was a case there was a case of you know not not going away from that I just thought he played a little bit within himself and it led to a little couple of mistakes you know they're passing um but he but he was fine he's fine just thought it was just times and this was a general thing in the first half where we slowed the game down too much and I thought I thought it was a little bit of a culprit to that of of slowing the game down um I don't think he always looks like he's got the ball and the control as well um which can be a little bit of issue and he was up against listen Declan Rice's class act isn't he he's a class act but yeah I thought I thought oh no it was just a little bit just again you've got to appreciate what this was that is third start in the Premier League is that right third start or fourth start is it fourth start um in the Premier League so you've got to appreciate that as well um but he was fine and he enjoyed uh enjoyed doing a video with the Gladys Street at the end uh which is a first I've seen obviously seen other players do it but it was a first to see an ever player do that take a phone out and do that I don't know where he'd been hiding the phone but um so I like all that and I think the fans will love all that um so I've given honor a seven a woe be nice and tidy did really really well for the goal just broke the lines that's exactly what we need from from him breaking the lines getting the ball into Mopai um look few lovely little tricks little nutmegs and drag backs and all those kind of things always looks like he knows what he's gonna do with the ball always knows looks like he's gonna he's well he doesn't always look like he is in control of the ball as a fan but yeah that's his own particular style um and he uses it almost I think he does it to like draw people in almost like he's gonna he it almost feels like he's knock off control and he's just drawing the player in and he's gonna use a little trick he gets himself out of some really really tight situations but again just again just um played the game he's been playing in recent weeks and done his job I've given him a seven point seven five um as I said got the assist for the goal just like to seem do that more often drive forward the ball a little bit more link up drive drive with the board this this will come from playing with better players and the team playing more together um just drive forward break those lines because we do have a little bit of an issue with the front three let's be honest it's yeah we'll come on to that in a minute but yeah I think um again at the woby woby was really good today uh Gray put some lovely balls in played one after we'd scored the second fizzed it across and all it needs is a tapping again at the back post um just just needs a tapping at the back post but again there's times with Gray where he just wants to I understand what he's doing he just wants to he wants to slow it down so he can use his base of pace to get away from people and I understand that it's just at times I just think don't slow the game down there's times he's given the ball and you think just run at them they're not going to get men back and he'll slow it down and then that allows them to get men back and then he speeds it up and it's just like no no hit them while hit them while they've got um well they've got you know numbers forward um it's sometimes just a little bit too too slow in that in that term I just want it to run at pace but he likes to he likes to slow it down as I said but it can be annoying but he did he did alright he did okay again I think first half was difficult him him him and Gordon weren't really affecting the game at all um you want them to be wide but obviously you want the full backs wide as well but it's they're just not I don't know they're just not they weren't linking up properly I think he got a little bit more joy second half and I've given him a seven Gordon I thought he was poor I thought he was very poor if I'm honest um okay so Anana was using the fans phone for fair play um I thought I thought Gordon was poor I thought he looked you know what he reminded me if he reminded me de la feu when de la feu used to always be blowing out of his ass after 20 minutes like there was serious times in the game where he's like there was one way I think it came from I think it was just after we scored and the ball was played across the box I think it was the wrong choice but it got to Gordon but he was like he was like labouring it was like I was running after him and then there was just moments where he was given he was given the the the man he was supposed to mark far too much space and then he quickened up towards the end towards you know a little towards as he was getting to I don't know whether his fitness his fitness looks an issue to me in terms of general fitness or like getting right on the pitch for 90 minutes it doesn't look like someone who can play for 90 minutes it doesn't look like for someone who can sprint and then be fine he looks like someone who sprints and then needs five minutes to recover like again like when I used to play Sunday league and that's an issue if you're a professional footballer you need to be on it all the time and yet he looks leggy he looks like he needs a little break every time he has a sprint and that's I think that's a I don't I don't yeah I think that's that's an issue that he's got to sort out I had to thought he was poor all game and I was no surprise that he got dragged off I thought he was crap I mean I wasn't going along I'm getting wet saying he's worse but there's times where he just doesn't take responsibility for for like the play he's supposed to be marking or the job like at no time today did he ever look threatening and at no time did he look there's a couple of moments where he got back and he put a foot in and stuff like that but I thought he's all round play was was poor and where his first half had go well okay dead loads of men back and they were keeping it tight and all that kind of thing second half you know certainly after we scored Gray started to get a lot more joy and yet he just looked tired so I people make excuses for him and I don't understand why do you make excuses for him he's a Premier League footballer who should he's got talent and we've seen the talent and I just for me it annoys me it annoys me I think people have seen this and it annoys me when players aren't doing the basic job they're required to do and I think the difference is he's he's standing out because at the back end of last season he was the one putting the effort in maybe when other people were but the teams changed a lot since then and he hasn't quite gone up with it and I think he needs maybe the next couple of weeks just I don't know whether it's a fitness issue or whatever but I was I was really disappointed with them so I've given them a five five point five really disappointed with them because the last two home games he's being crap absolutely crap and again the major issue I see is a fitness issue so talented player very talented player when he wants to but he just doesn't look like he can get around the pitch and Mopai got the match winner didn't he and that's all that really matters worked hard again first off really difficult for him to to get over the game because because where he's playing and and stuff but second you could see him trying to drop in and get trying to get a little bit of a feel of the ball players like you know out of the game for ages they come in and they try and drop in and try and get a feel of the ball and get into it but he he stayed in the game and he took his he took his he took his goal brilliantly took his goal brilliantly and was always a threat always joined up really well okay listen he's not today we could have done with a with a domino carvel even just because we need an out ball and and things like that but he done his job and he's got his goal and that's all you want you know second start and he's got a goal that's all you can ask isn't it you know one and two for evident that's not bad um so i've given him an eight because of course he got the match winner i'm not gonna really i'm not gonna say well he wasn't he wasn't rubbish when he was in the game he joined him really really well so um just everyone's got a different you know way of an i've seen his name as well it is Neil Mopai and that's that's the way he's gonna be said um yeah i've given him an eight it's good when it goes a great goal as well to be fair it was a really well taken goal um and and sometimes you just need that in games like that just in games like that just a little bit of class it's a little bit different that's what separates two sides it was a good goal so i've given him an eight um just before i move on from the subs one thing i would evidence set piece man that's absolutely awful and this is something we've got to get sorted you know whether the whether it's great or whether it's um Michelangelo took when it was terrible set pieces or something i haven't have got to sort it out of me we've got to put put a woby on them put a woby on the set pieces but they are garbage like in a game like that again where it's close that can be the difference and we've got big men in the box but the set pieces are rubbish gotta sort that out anyway on to the subs uh Decorei great to have a sub like Decorei isn't it ready to come on you know after you know after six seventy minutes whatever it is it's great to have players like him coming on um he did alright apart from when we had the break late on in the game we had something like a four on three and he tried to play the hardest ball in the world we were in injury time and he tried to play some mad ball when he could have even if he just kept all of it and run into the corner it would have wasted more time he basically kicked it back to their player which was so annoying so annoying um i've given me six point five years but that's so i hate that that was a chance to wrap the game up but even if you don't wrap the game up don't give the ball away don't give the ball away simple as that on the set pieces yet it's great having a set piece specialist who's on the bench we need one who's in the team you know i'm so annoyed with that though give it to someone an easy pass and even if you just keep the ball even if you just keep the ball uh rondon fantastic cameo from rondon again was the what a little cameo that was his little he didn't he did a nutmeg on one of the west hand plays but he was he was he did it in so slow motion that that their player didn't even see it because it was so slow that their player couldn't it was like bullet time in the matrix he did it in such slow motion that the west hand player couldn't readjust himself because i don't really i don't think he could comprehend how it had been done it had been done so slow um incredible stuff by rondon there i've given him a six uh dwight mcneil wake that run around a little bit do's a favor dwight do you know for the next two weeks find a wall a finch farm just a just a innocent innocent wall right and just practice kicking the ball against it with your right foot just i don't know how a professional footballer has got to the stage of being in the Premier League like he is that is so one footed it is incredible incredible how he has managed to do that so find a wall every day and then every day after training for an hour like ryan gigs ryan get let's talk about ryan gigs better but ryan gigs said that all he used to do was practice kicking the ball with his right foot against the wall and literally it's your job isn't it it's your job to be able to do something basic with your right foot he is the most left footed player i've ever witnessed in my life it's like it literally is just a for standard like he won't even attempt to play passes with his right foot it's mad it's absolutely mad just kick a ball against the wall for an hour please and honestly you're a professional footballer it is literally your job to be able to just do basic things with your right i reckon i've got a better left foot than he's got a right foot genuinely genuinely because he won't even attempt to do things with his right foot and it's so annoying because it's literally your job to be able to kick a ball that's like that's that's sort of like the main part of your job kicking a ball so stay behind after training for an hour and just work get a coach and just say can we work on my right foot can we work on my right foot because and you know what if you go if you do enough training you should have you've got you're going to have 10 more years of your career work on your right foot please because it will give you so many more because everyone knows that all he does is get on his left foot they just they just get on his left side and that's it which is everyone knows is the crib side so yeah there you go three points happy days happy days we got there seven points seven games seven points the ref was garbage the ref was absolutely garbage they had about three files and then he booked on a kodi for nothing booked on a kodi because Antonia decided to do a forward roll absolute nonsense and we probably should have had a penalty as well we probably should have had a penalty gray was definitely clipped definitely clipped so so the corey six and a half rondon 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