 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is The Match Preview. Everton vs Liverpool. The Maisleyside Derby at Godderson Park. Unfortunately an empty Godderson Park in... What is the most eagerly awaited Maisleyside Derby for years? Because Everton at the top of the league. Four wins out of four in the Premier League. Are we all excited? No, no, no. I don't like the Abys. I don't like them. No matter how good we are, I don't like them. I think I've said many times on this, the only Derby I've really enjoyed, while it was still going on, was when Andy Johnson edited the goal. And there was a minute to go and I thought, not even us can throw three nil away, surely. But what I would say is it's the best I've felt going into it. I feel as though we've got a team that can give them a good game. And if I give them a good game, then we beat them. I'm not saying we will, but I just mean I feel like we've got goals in us this time, where I think in the past, certainly the last few years, while not fearing them, you'd always think, well, if we can keep it tight and nick one, we can win it. Where I think this time, the way we're playing, or the way we were playing before the international, was like we're scoring lots of goals and we could cause any body problems. And if we play like that, we'll cause this Liverpool scene problems. Yeah, I think that's my feeling as well. It's not just four wins. I think there's a general confidence that we may actually be a half-decent team. Whisper it quietly. People know what they're doing. People know what their roles are in the scene. People understand what the manager wants. People are tactically understanding what the manager wants. It's not just a load of players running around. Because that happens a lot. We used to have 11 players who were better than the other 11 players, running around a lot and winning games of football. This team actually looks like it knows what it wants to do. The manager knows what he wants to do. And you see that in games, seeing that against second half against Brighton. The way we sat back and let them have the ball, soaked it up and then hit them on the break and scored the two goals. I think there's a lot of confidence in this team at the moment. I think people keep on asking what can Evan do this season. The more confidence we see from the players in what they're doing and enjoying what they're doing, the more confidence we'll get. The longer Kelly's on the better, including obviously Satie. I think the other thing about it though is that it's always... I guess you're going to get it because I think I've said it a few times. I think we both said it. The first thing Evan has to achieve is two seasons of consistency. Instead of it just being good for a year and then the next year, there's nothing to build on. But there's this thing where people are like, well, they haven't played anyone. It makes me laugh that because even when we done the opposition preview, we had Rossin and it was like, you beat Spares, but Spares are crap that day. It's like, well, them teams, you have to make them look bad. Everton taught them way in bad on day one. Everton were just better and could have killed the game off. And then we've had a challenge at Crystal Palace. West Brom gave us a bit of a couple of goals and had the goal brightened last time out. And so far this season in cup games as well, the obstacles that have been thrown in our way, we've been able to get past them. Now Saturday, if Everton win Saturday, it doesn't mean Everton are going to be in the top four or win the league this season. It just means that's a big psychological barrier removed from A players but B fans. If Everton lose Saturday, it doesn't mean that's it. Everything's rubbish. It was wrong. No-one should have been talking us up. But I think to be honest, I think Everton have got more to gain on Saturday than they have to lose. That's how I look at it. What you just said there's quite interesting because some of those teams that we've beaten this season, they're the teams that we generally fail to beat a lot of the time. They're the teams, top spares are top six side. Beat them away. Crystal Palace beat them away. We generally don't win a lot of away games so to win two on the bounce. To win home games that you're supposed to win. That doesn't always happen but they're the wins that actually get you into the European places. If you can add wins like Liverpool to it at home, that's why we used to finish around 15-16 with Moise all the time because we beat the teams we were supposed to beat and we'd add a few of us to it, Liverpool at home, Man United at home. I know a lot was spoke about as a way record but that's what he built on. I think that's what we have to build on. We have to build on those wins and look at these performances, look at games like they make side-dabbing. If we can get a win in this, just keep it going, it gives that confidence boost. It doesn't mean we're going to win anything or we're going to finish in the top four. It just means that we get that confidence that we can beat them. I think that's, listen, it's 10 years to the day since we won a Moise side-dabbing in the Premier League. Ronald Cooman once famously said that has to change sometime. Why not? If we can get that three points, that gives everyone that psychological boost more than anything. I think that fans will watch games of football and go, we've got a good team, we've got Hamilton Adegas, Dominic Alvin, Loone Scorn, Goals, whatever else. Until we get over that psychological bump of a Moise side-dabbing and winning one and doing what it takes to win one, there will always be those question marks. It is big for us but as you just said as well, it's not the be all and end all. You're looking for a good performance where we go in and we do what is needed to win a game of football like this. I think back to Martinis, it's fair season and a 3-3. We didn't win it. We should have won it. We were a minute away from having it shown up. But that 3-3, that day, we came out the ground thinking we've moored and bloodied our noses there. We should have beat them. We were a good side and we should have beat them. To be honest, we should have batted that day, we could have ended the bar 8-3. Mignolau was incredible. I thought it was incredible. But that day you come out thinking we've played really well. It's those kind of games. I'm 48, this is the longest time in my lifetime we've ever gone. Same with you, I've not beaten Liverpool in anything. 19 Premier League games since we beat them. That record has to end soon. That's some time it will end. This is a great Liverpool team, the champions. They're a brilliant Liverpool team. But I've seen us lose to terrible Liverpool teams. And I've seen us beat brilliant Liverpool teams. And not always with Everton's best team. It's a derby, we've seen the last 3. We should have beat them after lockdown. David sits the inside of the post, forces Alisson into a good save. And we have another one. Don misses a chance off a corner. We could have beat them. We've had the touch on one when he added wide. The one that Don blazed over. We've had our opportunities in the last 3 years to win this game. But this obviously will be very difficult. I think obviously with Carlo we've got a manager who tactically understands what it takes to beat a team like Liverpool. He beat them when he was at Napoli. Even though it was the first game back from lockdown, I thought tactically he got it right, sucked up the pressure, played in the low block and then tried to hit them. You just mentioned the Tom Davis chance and Don the Cavalier and after that nearly got us the win. And I think, again, going back to what I was just saying, tactically I think he'll have a set up the right way and it will be a cake this time. Liverpool love having the ball. And I think he showed against Villa. He had 70% of the ball though wherever it was in Villa. He scored 7 past them. Glad he missed an open goal to get the 8. I think even though that can be looked upon as the worst-case scenario for others, Liverpool are just taking a hammer and we're playing them next. They're not going to change the way they play. Their levels are just going to go higher. But they're not going to change the way they play. So Carlo will look at that and think, right, where do I or where do we hate them? And of course, listen, Villa got luckier times in that game in terms of three deflected goals and obviously you don't expect a goalkeeper to be giving you a goal within the first five minutes. But certainly the way they play. I mean, we went to Anfield last season with Silver. Silver's last game. Everything on another day could have scored four that night. Liverpool probably could have scored eight if he really wanted to. But the point being was, we had chances to score goals and we didn't take them and I think with a wide open game which I really think it's going to be a wide open game, sadly. Q and 0-0. Well, if it is, it is. The last three have been 0-0. No Premier League fixture has ever had four consecutive 0-0s. So, we'll see that. But that shows you though, doesn't it? Where we have been in the last few years, of when they come to go this season we look at it and go, we'll take a draw here. And that's in a way what we've been looking at saying in the last year with the lockdown of this year, so it feels like last year with the lockdown it was more of a like this is our first pre-season game get through it. Everything with both teams felt like that Liverpool were actually to gain by coming to try and win that game because they were practically already champions and would have just dented their egos which they didn't really need. So, a draw was fine, the year before we defended brilliantly well to stop them effectively winning the league that year. And again, we took a lot of satisfaction from that but I think it's going to be different this year because Carlons a lot of people feel with the right tactics it's there to be won. I think you can hear them we've got the top scorer in Europe from first, you know top scorer at the moment in Europe he's up front for us, we've got the Tialis in school for Brazil in midweek, brilliant playing really well, we've got Hamers Rodriguez being incredible for us midfield, the core outstanding, a land's being outstanding and they go messes back you know, hopefully look at the end it's fit, you know set the goal up in midweek for France so, we've got plays we're playing really well in confidence and then, you know, we've got plays on the bench there as well who've come in and done a job while the others on, they'll be back on Tom Davis, Sigurd's and all will be all feeling like they can contribute so, while they're pushing the squad, obviously you've got Ben Godfrey coming into the squad as well, new signing so, we've got nothing so, you know what, I can't and Liverpool would have all been together for two weeks since that hammering and you would have gone alright the deal, but Van Dyck's been away with Holland Alexander Ham, they've all been away but that's what I mean, everyone's been away haven't these only salar hasn't as he and Manny and Tiago have just come back this week but, in general, amid the defence and the midfield have all been away playing games all over the place so, you know, Jürgen Klopp's only really going to get his players back Friday you know, I think it would have been worse if Everton had them a weekend if they had been able to get back into it so, it might be a good time to play them it might not, but as you move forward one thing from having some mates here with Reds one thing I've learnt about them over the years is that even when they haven't had the best team and they haven't it's only really been the last couple of years they've still thrived on these games whether it was Everton or whether they were playing United they were great or shitty or that we'll beat these and I used to look and think they're miles better but that, like confidence and I think probably half of it was because they always had a couple of match winners in the team even if the rest of the team wasn't very good will Everton have got a couple of match winners now and I think that's a difference I think what we need to find on this game I'm hoping we get this from this game one way or another is remember after the beaters 1-0 we all know the game remember the next day and I remember we all fell down but I remember loads of our fans going I want them in the cup I want them straight away I want to get them straight away because there was that feeling that we'd gone to Anfield and we'd put on a really good show and we should have won it and the chances we missed that night and a lot of people were like I want them now because we can beat them it just went downhill from there we drew with Wafford and Newcastle and got turned over by Tottenham massively but there was that feeling of we can match these yes they beaters and I think whatever happens Saturday we've got to get that feeling because that almost comes from again if you go back to the 80's and when we've spoke to any of the 85 team and when they said all of them said that milk cup milk cup at Wembley when we should have won they were all like that day we realised that we were as good as them and even though the beaters in the replay that's what took us up a level we're playing against the best and we're competing against them so what does that make us and I think we have to have a little bit of that on Saturday and whatever happens it's a game of football you know what I mean that's for us the way football is we know what can happen in football if we can come out of that game and go we gave them a game today and we were good we weren't playing massively above our level that's our level then I think that gives you confidence no matter what they're the best in the land and we're competing so if that does happen then I think whatever happens score wise that can push us on quite a lot we've got to be in the game I mean listen would they take 20% possession now and we win 1-0 of course it would 100% but we've got to be in the game and causing them problems and if we do that that's where that belief will come if we're passionate about playing our game what I want to see from Everton at the weekend is us playing the exact way we've played in all of these other games that kind of flowing football that kind of thing we were attacking and we're creating chances and if we do that not only will we give ourselves a great chance of winning this game we'll give us as fans and the players the belief that look we play this way it can cause any one problems let's have a look at their expected line up they've got all the big hitters back for this one obviously we've gone with Adrian's got to play we've gone Trent Alexander Island Joe Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson and then the midfield three of Henderson Fabino and Thiago and then the front three who've never actually played against Everton at one in the start of the game against Everton of Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane but what I would say about that line up it's very very strong it's a very strong line up and the power between the posts means that their backline will be concerned and there's no question about that there's literally no question as good as that team is and as good a keeper as Adrian Canby at times Liverpool fans talking to the lads in here they're like we're just almost waiting for him to make a mistake that's the weak point but I also think that defensively they're not amazing in terms of because there's a massive boost because Henderson's back and he sits in front of that back four and he does his job and he's really important for them but I think you can get behind them for a start certainly in those wide areas you play a highline don't you you play the offside Trent Alexander Island is not great at it as Willard exposed he's fantastic going brilliant but defensively and the lads will say this isn't he he's not great defensively and he can get course out and I think that's one area where Everton are very strong down that left hand side whether that be with Richard Arleson and Luca Deane or if Niels and Cuncoop plays because again he's another fast strong attack on the fullback so Everton can get some joy there and I think the other thing what will be really interesting for me will be James Rodriguez because if he comes inside Roberton's had to come with him which leaves the whole flank out for James Cullman or for Beano's he's got to come out and engage him and then if that happens the key man on Saturday for Everton might actually be Abdelhaid Decore breaking because we should have a man overloaded so that might be where we can cause them Do you think that they might they might try and push Robinson as high as they can just because they tactically try and expose James Rodriguez's lack of defensive ability Possibly but then we just have to move one of them in ffilders over to cover with me and Decore if you watch the games we've played so far when the three of them have been in there on Decore and Andre Gomez Decore has gone and stayed over to that right hand side anyway to filling for James when James is going with doing the stuff so listen out of possession it'll be a 4-5-1 we know it will and we'll get bodies behind a ball in possession it'll be let's fly forward and see what we can do and we can cause them problems I'm going to give some facts because I've done it every game you'd be wrong not to Everton winless in 19 Premier League games with Liverpool since a 2-0 victory on the 17th of October 2010 which ironically is the date of Saturday when this is the longest Liverpool's longest ever run of unbeaten against a team seven of the last eight games between Everton and Liverpool have finished level you know that said that fourth one before it's the first time Everton going to a derby top of the league since 1989 it's just mad isn't it some of these I'm definitely not going to read out Liverpool have lost four of their last eight away games there's many as they had done in their previous 46 so they're not in amazing form Addy Dominic Alvalun has scored nine goals and six appearances for Everton making a top scorer for a player in Europe's top five leagues if he scored he could become the first player to score in each of Everton's first five league games since Tommy Lawton if he scores at the weekend Muhammad Salas scored 99 goals in 158 games for Liverpool and it's the game marks five years to the Dyson's Yeaghan Claw play this first game for Liverpool down at Spades very interesting so listen these games are there especially for Evertonians for someone to become a hero we love Lee Carsley we absolutely love him Kevin Campbell Super Kev let's see if Dominic or someone like that can become Dominic Alvalun was to get the winner I think that would elevate him and all the nations would literally have to just not say a word them because you've got someone but it's there for anyone let's be honest whoever scores the next Derby winner for Everton will be for the generations there you go how are you feeling ahead of the messy side Derby let us know your thoughts in the comments and if you haven't already make sure to check out our opponents preview over on Patreon that is there now so make sure you check that out give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already and I said if you want to join us on Patreon for daily live shows exclusive shows podcasts the link is in the description we'll see you later