 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Manchester United vs Everton. Old Trafford. Saddonny Knight. Obviously Manchester United on the back of the mollishing Southampton. 9-0. But more importantly Everton off the back of a 2-1 victory at Leeds United. And yeah it's setting it up for potentially great game of football. 2nd vs 6th at the moment. Tough game there obviously about a tremendous victory against Southampton. You know last week we were beaten at home by Sheffield United though. So not quite clearly not invincible at Old Trafford. Much better than way fantastic away. But much like Everton who seems to be much much better away from home than the other home. So it is a hugely difficult game for Everton because it always is. Old Trafford but no crowd there. And who knows? Who knows? You know I still look at United and I think it's good as side as the other. Still up and down aren't they? You still they're not like free flow. In Bruno Fernandez fabulous Marcus Rashford. We all love Rashford. More a human being and more a footballer. You know they have got an embarrassment of riches at times when Cavani and Marcial and you've got even like Dan James coming off the bench and Pogbell when he's on it. They've got so many good players but I still feel as though they're back for is vulnerable. And I think for Everton the way we've been playing in the low block try to slow the game down. I think it'll suit us. Yeah obviously we've played them already twice at home this season. Cup and league and obviously two defeats very late on in the league cup although they did pretty much batter as the game. Spending for the first 20 minutes they battered us and then. And obviously in the league it was a 3-1 victory after we took the lead but I think this is you know Everton full of confidence they've won the last four away games. We've got a particular style that we play away from home. You know low block and then try and play in the counter attack. And like you just said there you know okay they scored nine but they scored none against Arsenal and they got beat by Sheffields United. So it's not like you know they are a good side on the day but I think if we can frustrate them certainly in the opening part of the game and then grow into it and you know Carlo will have tactically will have us all set up and we have that energy which I think we have when we play away from home because it's you've got to have energy when you get when you're at home and the onus is on you to take the game to the opposition I don't think that suits our best style so I think we've got the ability to frustrate Man United and then by frustrating them I think I do think we can maybe cause them problems. We're not we're not a bad side are we we're a good we're a good side but a decent side you know on our day you know some days where we look awful but I think we are we I think we can cause them a few problems certainly certainly the when the counter attack in place Cavani I do have a worry about because I just think that he has become there the you know other option and it showed that when people have tried to stifle the counter attack then you've got a forward like Cavani and Luke Shaw's putting great balls into the box as well but I also think the way we defend have been to defend the set pieces and crosses into the box the way we deal with them you know that there's an opportunity to keep him quiet as well well we're going after if we're going to get anything because they are dangerous players aren't they Cavani brilliant in buggy you know come on it's got his first goal reunited against us a goodness in the third goal in the league which was very much a count you know very much new castle second goal of the weekend wasn't it injury time we'd commit the players forward and he broke Cavani swept it in but in the cook game he was the difference wasn't he and you know with the league goals so give them the lead from nowhere so obviously we know bar and me as a good player they've got their attack and threats are evident you know the day to see but you're right we've got a very good way of playing away from oh you know yeah five wins in the draw in the last six away games for everything you know one seven away games this season it's a lot for everything definitely and you know you've got to go back to 1985 december 1985 when we last won four away games which we're on now so you know for us we know what we're going into played them twice we know where we can improve you know both games are good isn't they were you know good on the counter attack both times you know and cut us open and we've got to try to do it to them but you're right staying in the game got to stay in the game in the opening 20 minutes you know and if we can do what we did at Leeds and make a goal in that time then it gives you something to hold on to you know don't forget we got a point there last season yeah probably should have won the game or certainly well we should have actually think on back we had opportunities and give a goal away Mason Green didn't he go up a 20 minutes left we could have on gone a money but we didn't but this time we've got real threat on the counter attack with the others and looked a bit better against Leeds Don scored again which is good you know Josh King will have had another couple of days training a bit more fit got like to the core and stuff so we are good on the counter I think we've got genuine options as well I think you know the bench against Leeds looked a lot stronger and I know and and it's more like the experience blazer on the bench now as well the likes of Coleman the likes of Delf you know hammers hammers was on the bench of course so and Michael Keane so there was experience on the bench as well you can change it up if you want he's got you know Hallgate and Ben Godfrey will be relishing this kind of game um you're looking at midfield as well where listen like if you're dastas after the Newcastle game no one wants to ever see Seagate's never again but then again against Leeds he has a great game so there's Andre Gomez and you know Decore we've got hopefully you know in the next whether it be this game or or certainly sooner you've got Alan coming back in today as well so and like you just said with Josh King as well you've got someone who can come off the off the bench and maybe make an impact I mean that it didn't necessarily happen at Leeds only being at the club for like a day and obviously you know it didn't look too fit playing playing on and off in the championship all season um so that'll take time but I think we can definitely hear them there of course we can because we've got we the players genuinely look like they believe this believe in the system now they believe in they don't mind dare I say being under the cost your times they don't mind not having possession we play better we win more games when we haven't got possession so it's going to be tough of course it is but I don't I don't go to Old Traff with any fear because what is that a fear all it's going to happen if you don't play as well as the opposition they'll beat you but I feel like we've got the we've got the tools to go there and do something at the moment United don't hold any fear for me and that's not me disrespecting them they're a good side they are a good side you know top four last season strong again this season but the United team built on very much like we've been built this season which is away from home on the counter attack don't forget the first few home games did the terrible palace won there spares done them six there you know they've now gone on and lost to Sheffield United at home as well and Arsenal got a point there didn't Chelsea got a point there all nil nil so Arsenal beat them there sorry didn't Arsenal won at United so Chelsea doing another so they've lost I think they've lost the same as us I think they've lost four home games this season which is what we've done so but away from home they're a mach they're really good away from home United because they've shooted them the plays they've got Saturday we'll have to go and try to make it a game where we're the counter attack and see my frustrate and if we do that and they're forwards and and a shot then we've got a great chance you know it's certainly changed you know up until up until we beat them in 2013 you know it was good the year before we'd had the four all of me with um we'd had the four four with Moes having me as well or not the year before but you know in the recent past we'd had the four four with Moes and got a good result there then we went and won with Martinas and then we had the draw there with Cumin and and since then those the fears kind of gone of like we get beat here every time they still they still have beat us you know they still have beat us in that time but I just feel like just at the moment they're still not that team that you need to be totally terrified of but they can you know United could chain up beat us four nil at the weekend if they clicked their four of a place but then again I look at it and think but we could actually go there and beat them and that's how it feels we're definitely getting better they are as well but we're definitely getting better as well so with that and I think like you said with the tactical approach you'll know what he wants to do in this game makes evident a different proposition for them certainly from the two games I feel that were a good decision yeah certainly the I think the second one the the cup game is it like didn't score it's like the 88 minutes and we looked all over the place early on but once we sorted that out but in the league the league game you know the two goals you can see didn't that I just don't think we can see goals like that at the moment we don't look like can see and goals like that anyway at the moment because we the city would mean it you know mean it mean it just eats that stuff up you know when he would have on that day we played um no we gave whole guy his first after the team that day from seeing me from nowhere it's like a couple of days it seemed he was in the team and he just wasn't sharp and Michael Keane that was like one of the only off days he's had I think Carlo made a big mistake that day one of the only one of the only mistake he's made of this season is doing that that day bringing Holgate back straight into it I think he felt at the time like Holgate was his number one that he was going to start the season with but it took Holgate's time and I don't think that was the game to do to do it whereas mean it would have mean it would have loved that but maybe maybe you thought maybe may have thought many a night I wouldn't have played that way I wouldn't be putting crosses into the box and they've scored off two so we've got we've got to watch Bruno Fernandez yeah Fernandez is incredible he's an incredible player he's been played against us three times and been brilliant three times so that's the that's the worry for us is that it's tracking him almost isn't it and it's well you don't I don't think we've got anyone who can follow him now on the pitch unless you're asked the corey to do that but then you'd be taken away from the corey's game so you've got to make sure that our shapes right we get into the right areas and then when we go forward I do think we do carry a threat now and set pieces they've not been great at all at United no chef United score from one last week they've not been brilliant at defending them and that's something we're really good I think we've scored the most in the Premier League this season we're really dominant off set plays scoring goals which is I don't I'm not sure I've seen a stat that said we had 11 goals from set plays I think this season something so you know if we can get a few put it right on the higher and get meaner in there and dom in there I think that key is is definitely to get to not let dom get isolated there might be times in the game we might need to have a lot of the ball we're used to that but but I think what we did better at Leeds in the first half is where we nicked the ball was a little bit higher and then we could set a woby and Richard and up with Dom where you know and got Dean forward as well I think you know saying like you look back to the list again when we we went we went we went nicking the ball we were defending the ball so we went nicking the ball and and then when we were cleaning it it wasn't really getting past halfway point of the of our own half and then so you stuck then and happened a little bit in the second half at Leeds as well where again you feel like the defense is just stopping a little bit and it's you know it's them clearing the ball it's not them what we did so well in the first half is it was the it was the midfield nicking the ball it was on on digomus getting on it was the corey getting on it and then we're away quicker because we're we're already higher up the pitch and that takes a lot of energy you know and it it takes a lot of bravery as well thing to do that um that kind of plays well it's what made Liverpool so good over the last two three years is playing that style you need more energetic plays that's what we did in the first half at Leeds it'd be interesting to see see whether we try and be a little bit more like that because as I say when we played like Leicester or other teams we allowed the ball to come in the box and then deal with it but but if it's only going if it's only bouncing to the edge of the box you're seeing how the goal we can see is against Leicester that's where that comes from and you're seeing players like Fernandez and Crock but also you're seeing the incident with Olson and the saves yeah that's where that comes from as well it's not it's it's dealing with it in the box and it's going to drop on the edge one thing one thing we can say is that Old Trafford will be it's pitch will be miles better yeah the pitch will be better than Leeds yeah but no it's going to be a big game a tough game but we're playing really well and we have to go there being buoyed I mean the record Manchester United have lost one of their last 27 Premier League home games against Evan 20 victories and six the six draws in that time Evan's only winning their last 11 Premier League games against United was a 4-0 win under Michael Shilder in April 2019 since a run of six Premier League games with that a winner Old Trafford Manchester United have won five of their last seven home games in the competition. Everton looking to win five consecutive away games for the first time since April 1970 under Harry Cattrick with Jordan win the title there you go only United and Leicester have won more away games than Everton this season they've won eight we've won seven and this is the most wins on the road since 2013-14 we finished we had eight with Martinus all he's gone on Chelsea has 100th game in charge as the Premier League manager not at United Carla Mantelotti's won twice at Old Trafford with Milan in 2005 and Chelsea in 2010 and he'd be the only only the second manager to win away at Manchester United with three different teams in the Premier League Marino is the other one Bruno Fernandez ended the run of five games he had a goal scoring against a goal or an assist scoring once an assist and two against Southampton scored his 10th penalty in 36 games for United and Antony Marshall has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 11 appearances for against Everton rather so we know that we know it's going to be hugely difficult but like I said there's a confidence in this Everton side certainly away from home yeah you know and certainly in games where we know we have to be on it like the Newcastle de Fifeirag in the safe for me was exactly the same as Westham is that and I know Westham are doing very well but I think 99% of Evertonians on that new year's day will be these yeah these are just having one of them seasons where they're not that good and we were we were complacent Saturday most people were like we'll beat Newcastle and we were complacent and we couldn't get up for it where we can't be complacent you're not going to be complacent going through Old Trafford no chance so and that suited everything change like when we went to Leicester and you know things like that we were taught them we had to be on it gotta be on it and when we play in that low block like you say and it's the first 20 for me yeah if Everton get through the first 20 minutes it's nil nil and we've got a foothold in the game then I think we'll grow into it from there um yeah see what happens see what happens the season of madness isn't it so you know someone said last week didn't he on Monday it was this week you know we we were all talk and could we get six points against Leicester and Newcastle and got one and he said I bet you would get six out the next two because that's Evan and we've won at Leicester let's hope that's Evan yeah yeah yeah there you go uh let us know your thoughts on the game uh have we got what it takes to go to Old Trafford and get three points can we do it even I mean a draw a bit wouldn't be a bad result at all but out of the two games if we got four points out of the two games it wouldn't be terrible would it yeah so let us know your thoughts in the comments make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already any of your more great videos join us over on page and the link will be down there and we will see you later