 Welcome to ToffeeTV it is the instant match reaction Everton have just beaten Stoke City at the 365 bet stadium. Thanks to a late goal by Amadou Onane who was a second half substitute. It was a pretty poor game let's be honest. It was a pretty poor game today Everton had a pretty strong team out. One that you wouldn't be surprised if it started against Fulham in a couple of weeks. Hopefully it doesn't. Hopefully it doesn't because Everton are still massively lacking a centre forward. Dan Dume has started the game and he struggled to get into the game. Let's be honest this is his first pre-season action obviously only signing last Sunday but he just struggled to get into the game. Played the half obviously you'll have another week's worth of training and obviously we'll probably see more of him next Saturday when we take on Sporting but Everton still lacked that attack and threat. I would really have liked to have seen Dan Dume actually play on the left hand side and just see what he offered with being on the ball a little bit more and helping create things but hopefully that will come but I really hope it doesn't become this thing of he just becomes the stopgap to play up front because I think he has to be in the game a little bit more to get the most out of him because he isn't a lone striker. He is someone who's played a lot off the left hand side in the front three he's a versatile striker but I'd hate to see him stuck up front because that's not going to cure our issues. At the back we're okay actually you haven't got a bucking early on and I think that's somewhat limited him from maybe doing a little bit more than he wanted to but I'm sure he'd come on at our time for Michael Keane. I thought he did quite well. A few little misplaced passes of course it is first action back from coming back from the under 21s but he made one really good slide and tackle when they were one on one and go. Defensively we look okay but I still think we need another centre back. Patterson offers loads going forward but then again when it comes to the creative moments for him trying to get the ball in the box or trying to do something a little bit clever just didn't have quite didn't quite have that ability. Midfield I think we need little bit more well not a little bit more creativity a lot more creativity in there to open up open up the pitch and some you know a woby lots of lots of opportunities on the ball again pre-season. He is still probably our most creative player but he just he just it's still that thing of like he tries things he's not quite come off but he does try them and he is one of only a couple of people who went off with an injury come on come on for him in the second half again likes to get the ball likes to run with the ball a bit more he's certainly got a lot more confidence in him now than he did when he when he first signed for the club and obviously feels a big part of the the start and 11 now but we just we're just not creating enough but obviously in the second half Mopai came on and we were putting a lot of crosses into the box absolutely pointless absolutely pointless doing that with some line Mopai. I was impressed by Dobbin and and his his is running and tends to pick the right runs but he had a really good opportunity one-on-one with the keeper and and made a bit of a made a bit of a mess of it to be honest and the ball roll wide putting put another one cross later on that the keeper I think was the keeper forced over I think that's what led to the goal actually um he did okay when when he came on but again it's just there's just not enough out there there's just not enough there's just not enough tactical now because there's not enough creativity at times I'm wondering what we are trying to do as a football team um a lot of it just seems again like it's off the cuff and of course listening to two weeks till we get to the series stuff and then but even when you get to the series stuff it can take six seven weeks to bed down as a team and we've seen that in the past few years where we've had really good starts or um or it felt it feels like a good start and then when everyone sort of catches up and gets to where they are you you see the the real sort of Premier League start to um evolve so um yeah it it's you know we got the goal it's only our second goal in the last three games against three very very average football teams but I just I want to you want to see us create more chances you want to see us having more opportunities if you miss them that's another thing but today I thought it was a real lack of creativity I thought on on Tuesday night we were making more chances again a team in in League one that was wasn't it and the same against Wigan where we were we were making a couple more opportunities but not putting them away today I just didn't feel like we made the opportunities um we have to bring in a centre forward we have to bring in a proper centre forward and that will allow hopefully Dan Dume to play over on the left or the right and bring creativity from those areas and then it's up to McNeill and Awobi and whoever else to fight it out for those positions um I don't I thought Ohnana did pretty well in the second half and obviously he got the goal um so that was good as I said Dobbins a good runner I don't don't think he's quite got that he's quite at that level to play in the Premier League but he might be someone to manage a look at and thinks he'll be someone that can come off the bench obviously we've seen Stanley Mills and Lewis Warrington go on loan in fact Stanley Mills scored today for Oxford in their win against QPR so whether I imagine they're gonna gonna keep an eye on that um the situation of players coming in and then maybe Dobbin will go out maybe Tom Cannon will go out Tom Cannon thinks he's still got his injury um but it'll be about if we can get players in I think we seriously we seriously need to get a centre forward in before the start of the season and then hopefully in those three weeks when the season started we look to fill out the squad a little bit which is still still knowing the um you know uh big enough at all I mean again today you've got the likes of Fania and go on the bench you came on um you've got the likes of you've got two goalkeepers on the bench which is it's for me as a Premier League football club I find that massively unacceptable that you have two goalkeepers on a bench I just I find that incredible that you don't have enough place to fill your bench out whether it be pre-season or whether it be in the season I find that I find that incredible um but you know I imagine they're working really hard in training and that does sap your strength when it actually comes to those game days we are whether we like it or not going to rely on have to rely on that fitness this season because the creativity just simply isn't there and sometimes it's sometimes you want to sit sitting from where I'm sitting you want to moan about that but it is what it is isn't it it is we lack we lack quality and we have to bring that in so there's no point sitting and moaning about that like a quality as such we have to moan about why we've got a lack of quality rather than anything else and we know why that is it's bad bad decisions off the field that have been made and for me continuing to be made by the situation we've got at the football club at the moment where we we've got an interim board rather than you know fresh board looking forward and moving the club forward and so that all all has to be addressed hopefully this week listen we've just missed out on one as well Bill El Torre we the manager has got to start he knows what's going on behind the scenes but the manager obviously has got to start demanding that players start coming in and for all we know he is doing that off the field so listen we got the win people can feel happy that we got the win we can all look forward to returning back to Gothersham Park I mean whether you look forward to returning back to Gothersham Park but we can all look forward to returning back to Gothersham Park next Saturday and then obviously the Premier League starts the following Saturday so there's still lots to be done but I know from doing this for a long time and anyone who's been watching football in general pre-season you're not you know tactically you're not switched on to every single thing actually one thing I would say today I thought a lot of the set pieces were quite good and led us to our most dangerous moments including obviously obviously the goal that won the game but a lot of that tactical stuff will will be will be getting started to be done in the next couple of weeks so we'll stop preparing for these teams in the Premier League so they know what they need to do they just have to do it and that's the difference we all knew what we needed to do last summer but we didn't do it this summer we need to do it otherwise it's going to be a very very long season it's going to be a very very long season anyway let's not fool ourselves but there you go let me know your thoughts in the comments on the game I'm sure I'm sure there'll be a lot of negativity out there and I fully understand it and everything I've got to go out out there and bring some forward a forwarding maybe a bit of creativity as well let me know your thoughts in the comments give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you later