 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton versus Leicester City. Everton returning to Goodersham Park, an empty Goodersham Park to play Leicester City and what is a pivotal game for both teams, but before we start an important message from Bas. This video is brought to you in association with One Football's app. One Football's app is free. It's available to download now. It's excellent. It really is a good app. A pair of us have got it. You get the latest stats, you get the latest transfer rumours, what's going on throughout the world. All the scores in full detail. Stories every day, not just transfer rumours. Stories every day from the whole world of football. All available on that app. It is free. Make sure you download it. Another good thing about it is you can have a designated news feed. I've got one on Everton, obviously. It keeps me up to date with all the stories like when Cucamartina Newman, the ass left the other day. Lots of rumours and everything. 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They haven't really got go. They play at times, play some good stuff but just haven't got the flow going. Hopefully they won't either. I think to be honest we were unlucky in both games really. Certainly done there. I thought we don't know. Considering we were terrible at the time and they were second, we went there and played well for about 70 minutes. We were going on a little bit at the end by way but then obviously the goal in the atio score was the last kick of the game. The line is that there's a flag up you think you've got away with it and then BAR went on to, as it's done many times in this season, cruelly go against us. But yeah, you know, when I'm in the cup, I thought for a bar on our day, with the better side really, Goddison and Evan finished strongly and obviously banged and he ends up equalising but it's a tough game. It's looking to beat Evan for like three times in a row. They're the first time they've ever done it in the history 300 runs so big thing for them in one season. So we've got to make sure that that doesn't happen. Yeah and as I said it is a pivotal game because obviously they're in third place at the moment but obviously the chase and park have pulled them closer. Chelsea obviously we've just beaten them within a win away from them. Then you've got Wolves, they've been fantastic for them and then you've got Manchester United, I think six points behind them who have been doing well in the league and I've got that little bit of momentum so they'll be looking for it but what I would say is they've been for goals quite shy but defensively they've been quite good as well. You can see the two obviously. You can see the two, you know the one against Chelsea obviously Welsh Barclays and the last minute overhead kick against Wofford. So defensively they look all like Casper's Michaels in good form but they've been a really, you know this season they've been obviously, I think they won eight in a row at one point between like October and November and that really shot them up into that top four. And they are actually one of the teams that I think the lockdown came with the worst possible time. I think they needed that momentum to keep going. You know I think they're a team who, I think they've got the kind of players who thrive on momentum just because they're not, I think you know they're not blessed with, they've got very good players but they're not blessed with like exceptional talents. They are a real team and a real unit and I just think that momentum coming to a hot coming to an end. They had that little bit of a sticky patch though just before it don't forget. Oh yeah, yeah. But the last game they played was to be Phil O'Fornill had me and they were like I think you know they were really good that night so for them it's what probably they come at the wrong time. And they're also allowed other clubs around and to reflect. Like I was listening to us, it was really interesting listening to Villa Wolves at the weekend and they were talking about Wolves benefiting more than anyone because they've been playing in Europe since July and they've had this three month break so they've been able to get everyone fresh again. They've got a couple of players who were carrying knocks fit and they've come back and just picked up and the momentum's carried them through and then you look at the likes of Leicester who were flying at that time. And then you've got injuries and the prayer is out and Maddison was missing at the weekend. Looks like he's very doubtful, like there's very doubtful for this one. The hopeful are getting them back at the weekend seeing Brandon not just saying that. So it is sometimes that momentum is broken. I think another club in that has been Sheffield United were another team absolutely flying. Lockdown came at the wrong time for them so. I think a lot of that might, I don't know if it does, but it might come from the fact that they are teams that and it's funny because you're talking about Wolves and what they've gone through but having that small squad, not having the options. You do just bandy together and obviously this goes back from when Leicester won the league. It's that idea of the momentum keeps you going. Every game you're playing the same kind of team. Wolves basically uses 14 players they've gone through at the weekend. They use the same 14 daily for most games and Leicester, you write Leicester a similar. I think when we've seen Everton's most consistent teams, they've been a squad of 13. It's great this 25 man squad with all great players but for clubs like us and Leicester and Wolves and teams that haven't got massive budgets like your cities in the United, you do need Liverpool, won the league and if you probably went back and looked at all of that, they used basically the same teams. I mean, I don't know how, but they used basically the same team every week. So Leicester are that club, they are that side and you're right, they're like a workman like side. They have got good players that are not being disrespectful, they work hard is what I mean. But they have the lockdown and knocked them off the side and hopefully that's a good thing for Everton from our perspective. Yeah, and from our perspective, obviously four points from the two games, obviously two very different performances, obviously the Mesaad Abbey was a tactically astute performance. Norwich a little bit less so. It was just the case of getting the three points and we got the three points, the less we say about the performance. But I watched the best. Norwich in the United at the weekend. I was just about to say that. We're better midfield than us, struggled against them. Yeah, they struggled against them as well. So, yeah, I haven't had a week's rest. Leicester have played on Sunday, so hopefully that week's rest and a few little... Not only rest, but sessions on the pitch, tactics again, chance for plays to come back. We've seen Jeri Mina training. Not sure whether Delph will be available, but Jeri Mina will be available. So, it freshens it up, it helps the tactics. And off the back of this game, we've got six games in 18 days. It's an incredible run of games that you only really would find over a Christmas period. So, it's really important, I think, that we get off on the right foot, because Leicester at home, then like Spares, Wolves, Southampton at home is not going to be easy. So, we've got a really interesting run coming up, and it's been nice to start it off in a very positive way. Because you look at the league table and you just think, okay, we spoke about this last week on the show, but you look at all those other teams. And there's a couple of teams vying for third and fourth now, and you just think, well, underneath that, the Leicester Spares, if it does drop to eight with the semi-finals being confirmed for the FA Cup, we know now it's going to be dropping to seventh. Well, depending on an Arsenal, sorry, depending on an Arsenal. Yeah, but they're in the race for seven. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm saying, but it does depend on Arsenal. Let me just clarify that. But these are the games, Andy. See, we've got to win games like this if we hope to finish in the European places. Definitely. Seven for the best home, that sort of thing. So, these are games you're looking at to win. Yeah, it's a tough game, but we are a good side at home. We've been a good side at home for a number of years. It's out of way for them. That's awful. The caveat to that is Leicester has been good way. I think they've had seven away wins. So, it's a dangerous game, of course, as we've seen it before, but we did the double over them last season. It's not easy to do the double over Leicester at home. We've got to make sure they don't do it over us this year, but it's a tight game. I think they've won two of the last four games of good or something, just as many as they managed in 20 before. That's how, you know, like it just said, we beat them last season at home. So, it feels years ago now, but, you know, you've got to look at them and think this is a great opportunity to drag ourselves right into that pack of, you know, like you just mentioned. Sheffield United did. We mentioned they've come back in being poor, you know, results wise, haven't they? They're struggling a little bit on their results. We've seen Southampton come right close to us now with some great results that they've had. So, we've got to really cement ourselves into that pack and show that we can be in the fight. I think the one thing that you've got to look at with everything, and it's difficult, it's tough to look at really sometimes when you're right in the midst of it as an Evertonian. It's that the progress has been there since Vegas and then until after you took over, it really is. I mean, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, only three teams who've taken more points off Everton since until after you've come in, more points than Everton had since until after you've come in. Three big sides. One of only three teams who've took points off Liverpool this season, you know, we've had back to back clean sheets, we've got a good home record. So, there's a lot of way going on in the background, and it's easy when you watch the Norwich game to dismiss that because it wasn't a good performance, but we won the game. And so, we have to look and go, right, we're doing things better than what we were doing. And when we do our jobs correctly, we're actually a decent side. We know it, we know it, we're not the best. We know that the midfield isn't great. But, can we cause less the problems? 100% we can. Will they cause us problems? I'm sure they will with Vardy because in Vardy, they've got a fantastic striker. Don't mention Vardy. But what I'm just saying is, he's got a fantastic striker in that midfield. In Diddy, he's a fantastic player. The two lads at the bat, you know, two or whatever, however you say his name, he's had a very good season for him. Defensively he's been really good. Very good, she'll well, yeah. It's a good side. What I would say now, obviously, right now as we record, we're sitting 12th, but when you look at that pack ahead, Tottenham in 7th place, 45 shift, United 44, Arsenal 9th to 43, Crystal Palace, Burnley, it is, you know, that seems to be the pack now because Man United are on 49. For us, I think that's a little bit too much of a stretch. You know, eight points ahead of us. So, it is really that 7th place now, isn't it? We've got to stay in that pack no matter what happens. And with that many games now, in such a short time, it can change quickly and a couple of wins in a row can really knock you up. A couple of games ago, you go, well, you know what? Maybe like one, they don't win there and they have a couple of draws there and we win. Then we're playing them to big game. Now they look out of sight, so because they won game after game and that's what you have to do. We've got going into a situation where we've got a couple of tough games. We've got home games that are tricky but are winnable. We've just got a demonstrate. There's players in our team that are playing for the future. There's no question about it. People are, anti-lotties looking at everyone now and going, what can you do? Can you do this? Can you do that? And it's an opportunity, I think, for everything and for some of the players to really put markers down. Last nine games, there's been no draws. We've won four, they've won five. It's only our second ever competitive match in July. What was the other one? You'll get it. Rosenberg. Everton unbeaten in the last eight games. Lester have failed to score in four of the last six. Haven't only failed to score in three of the first 25 games. But a lot of teams have done this. We've only scored one in our two games back. It's low scoring because people aren't as sharp as what they are. I hope they're sharp and relax until Saturday. They can be sharp as they won at the weekend. Everton is still the only team in the Premier League without a penalty this season. Not a shock. They've gone 38 games since we last won a penalty, which was against Chelsea in March 2019. That's the longest run we've ever had in the competition, which was 38 in 2008. Which ended, I think, with Leighton Baines' penalty against Newcastle. I think we won 2-0 at how many scored a penalty. We had that one all season. I think Jack scored the other one. It might have been three ones. We've won the game. Everton have scored 61% of our Premier League goals in the opening 45 minutes of the season. Of games this season. However, only Liverpool and Sheffield United have conceded fewer in the first half than Lester. Lester James Hardy has been involved in eight goals in his last nine games against Everton. Scoring six on assistant two. Excluding penalties, Everton's dominant Calvert Loon is the highest expected goals figure in the Premier League this season. Since the season restart, the Calvert Looners have 45% of Everton's shots, including seven of day 12. When you talk about games and stuff, things like Calvert Loon, that's one of the things I've noticed since we come back as well, is willingness to have more shots. It's something he never ever did and this is something you see with Hardy. Actually, as he's progressed in the Premier League, don't forget the first Premier League season when they come back up. He only scored seven goals and he was talking about getting rid of them. And then the next season, obviously he was incredible and he's been amazing since. And he's someone who has a lot of shots and it's right for a striker, isn't it? So he's scored the goals. So that's what one of the aspects I've been pleased with, Dom, since we've been saying this is willingness to have a go. And he should have really, he should have bagged a couple of goals already. You know, it's opportunity, half chance against Liverpool but to dive another at the far post on the back heel. And then Norwich last week, we saw the header off the wall because he should have hit the target. The other ones, OK, you know, he's having shots in 25 yards. But this will be a tough game but it's a game that we're going through and I think we can beat them or do. We'll have to be at our best but I think we can beat them. I think we just need to be a little bit sharper and what I would say is I don't think we'll get away with some of the mistakes we've made against Norwich. I think if they're breaking on us with speed, I don't think we'll get away with that. That's one thing we do really well, the counterattack that they do. And where Madison doesn't look like he's going to play but in all bright news, like a bit of a journeyman, but he's a good, like a good, you know what you're getting off on. They've got Harvey Barnes who's good at running at your pace, Tealamans from midfield. And that's where, that's the one worry with me with this game is our midfield area because obviously Gomez will be good on the ball and switching the play in all that. But who do we put in there to compete? You know, they've gone and did here, I think it's brilliant for them, he's a monster. You know, whether they'll put probably Dennis de Pryde in there who's good on the ball but who do we put in? Who would you go for? Tom Davis lost the 45 minutes against Norwich. Is it zigging in there and trying to keep the ball a bit? It's a difficult one because I think that's the pace of the game, actually. Suton, with mum said that a few times. Delph, I've seen no thinking of it if he's available. And then we're just, it's at the time of day, when you go or if they're going to have loads of energy. What about Benny Benningham? And you're thinking he hasn't even played but he's never... You'd, after all, most change the way we play but yeah, they'll play a 4-1, 4-1 which is what they play. Mae'r ddweud a'r ddweud wedi'u ddechrau. Os y gallwn ddim yn mynd i gyd yno. Mae'n defnyddio'r role o'n ei ddweud. Ond mewn ddweud ei ddweud. Ond mae'n ddweud. Mae'n ddweud i gyd o ffwrdd i gyd i'r ddweud o'i ddweud o'r ddweud i'r ddweud? Mae'n ddweud yn ddweud i'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud a'r ddweud o'r ddweud. If you play saeg iddyn, you have to be a bit more direct, you have to say to your wife plays like we're gonna be knocking things. Maybe, Anthony Gordon will come back on the left instead of Bernard for the heightwires and stuff cos you've got to try to... They had James Juston at right back and he's not per errors level at all. You've got to make sure on the right hand side that we will be occupying Ben Tylwell cos he is someone they use a lot. Gonna be a lot of interesting areas. Wales is dim, pobl... Ia'r very tough game. I'm expectin' a very tough game, I'm expecting... bwy ond difficulties every game over the next few weeks, not just because of the opposition, but because of how many games we've got, so there you go. I will expect a tough game, less Motion الشarpen to come to goodness from park and make it 3 wins in the raw a ni'n gael i gael i'n gweithio i'r rôl, i'w ddych chi'n gweithio i'r cwymysgol. Yn y cwmysig, nid yn fwy o'r ffordd o'r ysgol â'u awr a'r link yn y ddisgyfffyn. Felly, ydych chi'n gweithio i'n gweithio'r ysgol, roi'n meddwl o'i ffordd, i gweithio'i gweithio'i gweithio'u gweithio, yn y gweithio'i gweithio'i gweithio'u gweithio, rwy'n gweithio'i gweithio'i gweithio'u gweithio. i'n ddweud i chi'n gweithio. See you later.