 Hello, welcome to the Match Preview, Fulham vs Everton, Craven Cottage. 745 kick-off, and a big, big, big game for the topies. Come on, Brighton! Come on, Brighton! Big game for the topies. Just going out the FA Cup, obviously, but this is the game that I think Sean Dyche made it quite obvious. Before the Luton game, and this was a game that Everton see as a higher priority. I suppose the way Evan is right now is absolutely correct to look at it. Well, if you've seen it as a higher priority, why did he only make two shots then? Sorry, I'll just keep going with that. I'm not bothered. I'll keep it in that drum as I can. OK, but this game is a tough game. Generally, don't do great at Craven Cottage. We don't know right of later, to be honest. Neil Neil lost here. I think they've lost one of the last seven there or something like that, which is incredible, because we lost nine of the first nine there. Since they come up, so nine of the first ten, something like that. But they do seem to have our number. They won't beat us at Godderson twice this season. Well, if you include a patissiere. Is it a draw? A draw, all right. We've had a defeat, a draw, so this should be a win. OK. All right, but the last three games they've played, if they've been with two wins in a draw, then could be beat us at the back in the last season of Godderson. But this is a big game for Evan, a tough game, and having no decor right, no shame as Coleman, I don't think. It's just a game still away. Actually, he's back in the squad, no one's like Gomez going to Fulham. In this shape isn't ideal, to say the least. No, it isn't. I think they did make changes for that. They obviously got beat as well on Saturday, and they made changes as well. They swapped the squad a little bit, and that might have led them to lose the game. But they left the likes of Willingham out, I think he came on at half time. You know, and just left a few of their better plays. Him and his people. Him and his came on about 20 minutes ago. So they did move at a little bit, which, again, must be nice, mustn't it? So they'll have a few more fresher legs than we've got. And they have played a little bit lesser than us recently as well, nor have they replayed the last one, didn't they? Now, it'll be very, very tough, obviously, though. The record as a mean goal in Marcos Silva has got them playing well. Obviously, over Christmas, I had a great little run with him with scoring for fun. It's not quite... I mean, that seems dried up, but obviously, they're not as prolific as they were. And Wobie's gone out to the African nation, so that's a bonus for us. That's one story that can't be written, a bar or something. That very much can't be written, but... No, we just don't seem to be good enough to eat so far this season. The first game we played for them was very frustrating. Played well, innit? Again, in the Caramel Cup was very frustrating as well. Getting very close. And then obviously going out on penalties. So it's going to be a very, very tough game. At the moment, it's just at the moment, you know, when you're looking for something on the horizon, something positive, and it's very hard at the moment because it's not dead, and these three Premier League games are going to be very, very tough. And with everything else going on, I think most of the town needs a feeling. And it wouldn't it just be lovely to have one of those results where you go somewhere and no one's expecting it? And you're just chaining out three points and someone turns up and unlikely here. Nathan Paterson getting the winning goal or something. Cos he's normally terrorised by William. Don't put that up there. But I'm just saying normally is. So wouldn't it be lovely if it worked the other way and he was the one, it just bounces out of him and bang, just flies in. Something like that, something unexpected, just to pick everyone up. Cos I just feel like, and it's nothing to do with the cup, I just feel like at the moment everyone's on the floor, everyone's just been the second charge, just did everybody hard, just really just feeling at the moment. It'd be lovely to just get that little bit of something that picks us all up ahead of obviously two huge games. I mean, what's worse about the two games coming up is the both A-12, am I supposed to cope with that, with A-12 kick-offs? How do I deal with that, Baz? Does anyone ever think about me when you make these decisions? I love it, I'll be honest. I love a good A-12. It's over and done with an off the way. Great. Listen, Fulham, if Everton were to win, there'd be four points between the two teams. If Everton hadn't had the points deduction, we'd be ahead of Fulham. And you'd have to remember that. Everton only manned 60 and Liverpool have won more away games than Everton this season. So you'd have to look at that, albeit they come with Adelaide, and we haven't done that in an issue we've not been able to solve when he's been missing. These are not, you know, they're a good side or a decent side, but they're not like, it's not manned shitty away, which you look at and you go, you know, everything would have to be perfect for us to get a result there. This is a game where if Everton stays tight and compact, we can make it, you know. We have got to defend well, we're going to have to defend well. And Everton are going to have to keep a clean sheet if there's a win this game. But who knows. But the problem is with Pearson Health simply, with Everton. If you look at, like I've just mentioned, no André Gomez, no Adelaide Acor, no André Sagan again, no James Coleman, that's what we know of. You know, we haven't, because the manager did his press conference straight after the looting game at the weekend, we haven't had any update on O'n Armour, he seemed to be holding his hamstring at the end of the game. He said there's one or two minor things. So you never know what you're going to get when it's a quick turn around in terms of personal. But of Everton, how do you think you're lining up with everyone who we had available at the weekend is available for this one? I think if everyone was available, I think Ashley Young will play right in the field. I've got a feeling. I think Jack Harrison will go into the midfield spot. I can't see him playing 4-4-2, so I think he'll go with that, with what he's got available. I think that makes sense, though. No, I don't just say it. I think that's what makes sense. I just can't see him going 4-4-2 and I think you do need that extra man in midfield, certainly against, you know, these are like five in midfield, so you will need that extra man, isn't it? And I suppose if Young, if he could do that, and also he could play, you've got William Anthony Doddonson. But I was just going to say you need that as well, because if Aunanna does start, and he is suffering a little bit, to being a two-and-suffering is a lot harder. So I think that's the way you're going. We are, we're down to the bare bones. Against, oops. We are, aren't we? And obviously to hear the manager come out and say, no one's coming in. Unless they can, basically, no one's coming in unless they can get people out the door. And quite a few Premier League managers have said that this week. Marko Silver kind of hinted at that for Fulham as well, actually. Everton are in desperate need of bodies in, and it has to be. I imagine they'll be looking at Mason Holgate and maybe Ben Goffrey is too. Or Luke Holgate, or Eddie Auton, so that's a bit of a madman. I think they'd be out in Sheffield United, but I'm also going to pay the fee for them. Ben Goffrey seems to be what everything's hinging on. It's someone going to come in and pay money for him and taking. And that might free something up a few other hands. Yeah, possibly, but it doesn't seem likely, does it? It's not going to happen quick enough for this game, is it, of course? But listen, I mean, this isn't... I don't have to write this game off. I mean, Fulham did that good spell during December about the same time we did, but since then they've been beating three-nil at Newcastle, being beaten two-nil at home by Burnley, three-nil away at Bournemouth. They were beating in the Carrival Cup, obviously, away at Liverpool. They were beaten by Chelsea in the Premier League. They've only won one game, which was Arsenal home in over, like, six weeks, so... It's not that we're sitting here saying they're in amazing form and all this. They're not on a great run of their own. But it's... I don't think we're under any illusion with this evidence, and we know when we have our plays and we have the Corey and their old fit that there is a togetherness and there is a way that we play and they're all clicks together. The problem is that it's just not day. The Corey's not day, and the manager has not... still has not solved the problem. And it's hard for him to solve the problem when he hasn't got the plays, of course. If he hasn't got Ashley Young to play on the right, he doesn't want to play Dan Dume. But he also hasn't taken that gamble and said, well, let's try something different, and maybe that's something we could have done on Saturday and said, well, let's play Dan Dume on the left. Let's play MacNeil in the middle, like Harrison on the right and see if that works. So he's tried different things and none of it's working, so we'll see what happens for this game. I mean, we went to... Just briefly, we went to Crystal Palace, and we had a cup. We were going to have the Corey. And we looked all right in that game. That's against the team who can be quite strong at home and they've got attack on plays and the way we set up and the way that we did in that game. Everton should have won that game. And we've been good at the back. Let's not get it right. Let's not get it wrong. We've been quite solid at the back. We've been picking up clean sheets. It's just two set pieces, and I can't see full them having the same joy, just simply because Luton is so tried and tested. That's how they score their goals. That's their thing. Full them aren't going to have that same joy. I don't think, even though I do think of late, might be more than just late, our set pieces, defensively and offensively haven't been particularly good enough. We need a throwing coach as well, by the way. We definitely do. We give the ball away so much off throwings. That's something for you to look at when there's a bit more money in a budgetion. Obviously there's no money at the moment, so getting another... Can't imagine that would be number one on the list. We get money. It's something to look at. Let's have a look at how Everton lined up at the weekend, because there will be changes. We expect Joven Pickford to be back in, of course. It's injuries, isn't it? It's whether there is any injuries. I think Beto will come out like you said. I think if Ashley Young is available, then he may well come in on the right-hand side, and that would have free Harrison up to go off Dominic Alderlyw, and I think we'll start this game. But other than that, like you said, again, we don't know with the injuries who's in and who's out at the minute because of the press conference was done at the weekend, but I wouldn't have thought it would be that too much elsewhere, because it simply hasn't got the players to do it. Let's have a look at Fulham, how they lined up at the weekend. Rhodaach i'n goll, lennol byr bachau yma. Teth i diop, Tim Ream, Anthony Robinson, David Reed, Luke Edge in midfield, Wilson Pereire, Cod Over Reed, and Rodrigo Munes off-front, but obviously there's people to come back in there. William, Tom Cainey, Pilly. Yeah, Jim Innes at the bio. So, they've got... That's what happens when you've got a squad. That happens when you've got a squad and you've not got 13 players. If he's done it, isn't he? And we've now, but like you just said, they're not in good form. They're sweeping everyone aside. Last year, we keep reiterating it of Everton. Everton have won more points than Fulham this season. That's what we have to remember going into this game and just keep adding to the points tally. It's here for the taking this game. It'll be tough, it's a tight little ground. Actually, one of my ffadars are ways fuller to be fair, but it's an opportunity for Everton, and it's a big opportunity to go and grab a win, because like you just said, we lost at the weekend, they lost at the weekend. We've got a fighter's chance. They've come to good us and have dust the last two times, if truth be known. It was only really the three won last season that they were good value for. This year, they opened the day of the season. It should have been over a lifetime, and they nicked the goal and won it. And then the cup game, they don't not until injury time and went the almost win and won it. So we've got the opportunity. He's been the key man, or certainly we've picked them out as a danger man. 18 games, you've got five goals from an XE of 4.16. No assists, his XE though is 0.72, and his heat map is everywhere. And this is a player who is enjoying a little bit of a new lease of life. It all kind of dried up from a wolf since that terrible injury that he had, but he's gone off to fulham and new scenery and all that. I think he likes to tend it. Yeah, loves it. Loves that swimming pool on the roof of the new stand. Slow starter is clear, but got going, gone on a bit of momentum, lost that little bit when he got sent off at Newcastle. But yeah, definitely I think when he was scoring the goals, that's when he was having the little purple patch. So yeah, he's always a tough character. Obviously he started his wolves career with a double against Devon in his first game. So he's always had a habit of popping up against us and doing well. So keep him quiet and hopefully keep them quiet. Do we want a few stats because Ned didn't bother doing them? No, well that's classic Ned, isn't it? I mean the day, the 30th different campaign between the two teams, and it should be the first time full on the double overs with Devon. That's great, thanks for that. There you go. I've got positive ones, but then I think I don't want to say that because that might jinx you. There's no such thing as jinxing, that's just nonsense. OK, Dan, all right. Well, Evan have lost one of the last seven away games against Fulham, having won three and three. We lost nine of the ten visits prior to this run. Fulham have won four of the last five Premier League home games, as many as the previous 12 at the cottage. Each of the last six Premier League homings on this soil have come but the only one away when they've had all seasons, is Devon at Gwldersen. 33% of Everton's goals have come from Corners, eight out of 24, but we've only taken one short corner out of that 99 we've had. Interesting. No goalkeepers have more clean sheets than Jordan Pickford. Let's think about that. Let it continue. That's all I've got to say on it. Maybe we should take another short corner tomorrow, and catch them by surprise. Mix it up, why not? Mix it up. Rhaid i'n fytrachosgi, cos he basically wins every other in the box. To celebrate Shaun Dijkers one year at the club, we're taking a short corner. How about that? Take it short and have a shot. Mix it up. Let's see what happens, but it is a tough game, so no doubt about it, but it isn't an impossible game for Everton to win, and a win would be a fantastic result. Get Everton on to 20 points for now, hopefully soon, once Shag of Silk has it. It could be 30. But let's see if we can do that and build a bit of momentum. Again, two big games coming up as well after this one, but it's all about this one, a craven cottage tomorrow night. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't. 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