 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton vs Leicester City. Another huge, huge game at Goddison Park with Everton. Well, Everton have the chance to open up a six point gap over Burnley if they can get three points in this game. Obviously no game with the weekend bars. Burnley got a draw and it's just a big chance isn't it. One of those big games now. Every games are going to be a big game. We're going to be some of Cuff Files and everything. But this is a huge game isn't it. We love celebrating the fact that we get to semi-finals but anyway it's a different story. Huge game. Huge opportunity to put that six point gap again. Burnley played the night after at home to Southampton. Anything could happen in that one but it's all about trying to put pressure on teams like Burnley. If Everton were to beat Leicester we'd go nine points ahead of Wafford and we'd go six points ahead of Burnley and then obviously two points behind Leeds. That drags Leeds united into it and Everton do of course. Everton would be two points behind Leeds with a game in hand. Which means that obviously Leeds are back in it despite having three wins or something on the run or whatever it was. It's a huge game for Everton. Just getting into that thirties with seven games to play. Mentally put you drags you closer to every one. There was a couple of other sides one at the weekend and they're out to sing a Newcastle winner and obviously Brent for the one. But that was a good visual for Everton. We've just got to look at Leeds and Burnley now. That's who we're playing against. A win here and it'll be a tough game but a win here would really put us right in that mix. For us I think Leicester have played three times since we played our last game so obviously there's going to be a fatigue factor for them. They got into the semi-final of the conference. They played Newcastle Sunday and they'll have their eyes now. They're not going anywhere in the league let's be honest. They're going to have their eyes in the next couple of weeks on that semi-final. I think we played them the game after they've played the second leg as well. We've really got to capitalise on that because that's what you see at this time of year. It's actually what I was worried about on Sunday with Burnley. I thought we're playing West Ham. I thought they're going to play a flat West Ham game team after beating Leon and it nearly played out that way. I mean West Ham should have beat them comfortably but that's nearly how it played out. They should have beaten the penalty but that's where you get the result of this time of year is that one team is just strolling. There's not much on them and when you look at the teams that haven't got to play there's a lot of teams like that. I think that way it's a nothing game to it for them. I think for Leicester in the game like this after just coming back off the feet of Newcastle. This is a game where if we can really have a go with them we can get a goal up and keep pushing. Then it's those little extra moments we've seen sort of against Manchester United in the last game. It's those extra moments where who wants it more? If you're going in for a 50-50 did they really want it? Did they really want to pick up an injury ahead of a semi-final? Did they really want to dig in and they got that little bit extra to dig in? I think for this game it's huge. I think when we play them next time it's huge. I think when we play the likes of Brentford and Palace at home that's their big factors as well. For me it's we've got to go out and like the United game give everything. Throwing ourselves left and right in the centre trying to get a goal up and just push and push and push because push comes to show that we will want to win this game more. I think that can be a huge factor in the game. It can be a huge factor in quite a few of our games that even the Chelsea game will be similar. They're a good side but when it comes to the actual what it means to the two teams who are playing each other which one wants it more and I think certainly on Wednesday that could be a big factor. It would be huge because like you said they're less than on 40 points. They're not going the nine points behind Wolff's, they're not catching Wolff's and they're not dropping down the league. They might put the other place. They'll win two or three games before the end of the season. They'll finish ninth, tenth. The Europa League Conference for them now is the one that they want to trophy. They're in the last four of that so they're all playing in this league. And we'll get them into the Europa League next season. And we'll get them into the Europa League which they're not going to do. So for them it's all eyes you've got to be on that. That's a huge opportunity for them. A Premier League game when you're just about to play again. You're just being beaten in the 95th minute on the Sunday wherey after a quarter-final travelling back from Holland and all that. You know you haven't got the opportunity to just want it that little bit more. We've seen it over the past years when we've been mid-table going to these kind of games. The first goal goes in and it's just like... We saw it this time last year didn't we? We had to play for us as fans. We could have gone into Europe and maybe with the fans we might have done it but without them we were easy owesy and teams beat us. You've got to go and do it. We've got to be the ones that... Te Leste doesn't matter. They get beat so all eyes are on. For their fans they'll be looking going mid-table, going up or down, the semi-finals, all they're thinking about now and rightly so. For Everton this is huge. Everton winning like I said, Everton get into the 30s. They go on to 30, one point, they drag Leeds into it. I mean, madly they'd be five points behind Ville. And I'm not saying we'd catch Ville cos I think they're probably too far ahead but what I mean is you just right back in that mix. Leeds are all of a sudden, and don't forget Leeds don't play again until after we've played again. We've played twice before Leeds play. We've got obviously Liverpool away which probably being no point but they've got Palace away the following night and Palace is stronger home so maybe... Gives you something to aim for doesn't it? Well, Burnley, you used to say Southampton. You know, deep into Arsenal, the weekend, you used to say Southampton won't go to save more and beat them. Haven't got a man as yet. Won't get a draw or something. So for Everton you've just got to focus on what we're doing. Got the opportunity now. We've got a game in hand on Burnley with three points ahead of them. We've got the opportunity now to go right. Let's put some ground between the two of us. And almost by winning against Leicester you'd almost eradicate the Burnley result the other week. It goes to six points. It would have gone to seven points that night, level games. Well, if Everton had to win on Wednesday night it goes to six points with level games. It's seven games to play. It's a lot of points. And if Everton was to win he would have a better goal difference than Burnley. And also it puts the pressure on Burnley, doesn't it then? It puts the next game, being the Southampton game becomes a must win for them. It puts all that pressure on them, takes it off us. They've got two on games now. Burnley, they've got Southampton and Wolves around on Sunday. Could win both, they could lose both because Wolves are strong. Wolves are in trap 8 of doing all that. Southampton, a little bit of a miss but they work hard. Burnley, what's done a bit on Sunday they were a little bit more open which meant they had a couple more chances but they went great at the back because the new manager had them quite open so Southampton can cause the misuse. We can only look after ourselves, can't we? If you look at the fix you list there's some points for being leaders are horrific. People talk about evidence, about leaders are terrible. It's just that. They've got that cushion at the moment where there's evidence to win on Wednesday. Then two points is nothing. It's absolutely nothing. And if they both lost the next game each which could happen. Liverpool away palace away for both of us. Going into that last, leaders have five games left and maybe three points behind them. Two games on hand on them. Or a game on hand on that. Lest there did away funds really poor as well I think they've only won three away games all season. I think there's something like fifth run bottom in the away table as well. So they haven't travelled too well away. Obviously at the weekend they got 95th minute winner for Newcastle for another one. I imagine a lot of that comes down to the balancing act of being in first of all obviously doing your Europa League win they dropped into the conference league and it's always a balancing act especially if you play those away games and it's from the Thursday Sunday it's always a difficult one that one. So they don't travel away. We talk about our away record being poor. This is not particularly great as well. So it's up to us again to to punish them. What we've seen is the nares when you go away. That thing of fully enough what you're on. These don't know how to win away from home. We have to make it that as well as get on top of them early in the game. Try and put a goal ahead in that and then get that feeling for them going away we go again. Do we have the reserves to come back? Can we muster something? Because the longer the game goes on if it's 0-0. I watched them a couple weeks ago at Old Trafford and again it was one of those games where it meant very little for all the teams which were strange considering man United still going for the top four. And then they got a goal. I mean they deserved it but it was just that the game was so stale and the atmosphere wasn't great and it allowed them to just play that football that you like to play with. Whereas I think on Wednesday we've got to get on top of them like we did in the last game where it might be pretty. It's not going to be pretty is it? But it has to be dogged. We have to dogged out again like we have in the last two home games. Well they're a possession based team aren't they? They like to have the ball. Even on Sunday they had 69% of the ball at Newcastle. But they had two shots on target and Newcastle had 16-17 shots on target. And that's what you'd have to do. So we've got to accept that day for having gone off the ball because it's like the way Brendan Nott is like to play. But they are suspect at the back. They haven't not been in good form this season Lester. They've had injuries as well. And they've had to balance. When you've got a squad like Lester which is a good squad but it's not massively deep and you're playing in four tournaments like they are. And they're going far in one of them. But you're picking up injuries as well. You're trying to juggle everything out. You're trying to juggle FA Cup early on and Europe and the league. They haven't been able to do it as well as what they would have hoped because injuries do that. And that's why sometimes going away from home and now if you're the players you've got a semi-final on a Wednesday you've just been to Newcastle you've just been to PSV. Third away game in six days it's like recovery and all that. For the manager you'd be thinking just get these games out the way. I'm not saying Brendan Nott just will go to them and go it's alright to lose because of course he won't. But for him and for the squad I imagine they're just thinking get these next couple of games out the way and recover for our semi-final because that's the prize for them now. 10th If they could still get to you if they could still catch the top set then that's different but for them he'll be all about preserving his best players now. And everything do after go out and rattle him a little bit early on the crowd will be up for it. We've seen it in these games that sometimes when the opposition won it a bit more with the crowd you can't have just gone. You end up losing the game 2-0 or something because the team just wanted it that little bit more and you haven't got the reserves to go again and players do start thinking what a big game and then we've got that game coming up you know maybe not doing the hard yards and this is where everything run 11km or something more than United in the last game they're going to have to do it again today. Forget about the derby on Sunday it's irrelevant the home games right now are the ones that will keep everything in the prem we can worry about the derby on Thursday or Friday both just for tomorrow the crowd and everyone has got to be at it and if they are, they haven't got a good chance again. Let's just have a little look at Leicester's side that they've played against Newcastle I think they've made 9 changes with this game or something. It's just trying to think he isn't he trying to juggle everything he's got a marty in Sonshire with the two centre backs Justin back in, Luke Thomas at left back and then in the feeling of Lachman playing a game and scoring a goal and he has Keane and Dewisbury in the middle with Taylorman Dewisbury looks a good player as well he's alive by it he looks a good player he looks a good player obviously of course they've got no one dead they have these out for the season and stuff like that I think Jamie Vardy is still out as well isn't he and probably if there is an opportunity to bring him back I'm sure they'll rock them and cop well you wouldn't be throwing him into a play against Everton once you show Madison's improved recently hasn't they so let's have a look at his numbers because he dipped for a bit 10-22 start a gold 5 assists 2 shots per game he did have a little dip he seems to have come back now and he seems to be fulfilling that role there's that number 10 I think when everyone's fit he's not always your start he shows you're out strong no he's not but he's got the ability James Madison to just bang one in from 25 yards he's got to strike the ball so well that you have to make sure that you're on him because he probably is when you look him in another one he's got a couple of goals recently we know his quality don't we he's got that quality he doesn't do it all the time it's just why at 24 he's still a sub and he's only on low and seeing something at the weekend saying he's going back to Leipzig and follow him on he's gone on so at 24 over there's 23 something you want to be 24 you want to be settling down but he's got the ability he just can't put it all together he might be a little bit he might be a little bit of the marig I mean maybe with Fulham going back up Fulham might just now say right we can take him out because his contact is probably got a year or two left on his contact so he'll be the price will be a lot lower Leipzig will be looking to get rid of might just see Fulham he's got a year in the Premier League and goes back to Fulham and maybe that's what'll happen I don't know but from our point of view Leipzig's going out doesn't he but getting me in is back in contention do we throw him back in? I would I'd start out with no hesitation whatsoever in starting just get him straight back in it's better when he's in the team it's as simple as that is in case you're just managing him going forward like you know place against Leicester you leave him out against Liverpool and then you're bringing him back for maybe Chelsea and then it's then you've got a week again then you have to start managing him again 5 games in 14 days which will be difficult but 12 days it is so yeah just I'd start with Wednesday and just get through the game see how he goes and then maybe yeah he might feel he can play a Ramfield as well but I would go with one game at a time but I'd have him straight back in I know Keane and Goffrey did okay against United but I just think we're a better team at me so I'd put him in I think the rest of the team maybe stays the same to start in line cos I was going to say then there might be a temptation to go through at the back within back but there is that temptation but also though in the last couple of games we do seem to have found a bit of a formation that works and with a woby a woby playing as that third midfielder that's a number eight it does seem to have just helped us out a little bit I don't think we know we're a better side with three midfielders we've not got a pair that is good enough to cope and our fullbacks aren't flying for I think if you've got your fullbacks are bouncing up and down then three midfielders can sit and you'll have a little bit of that so when we play with two and our fullbacks don't go past the half way line then we're short up front whenever we do try to commit we haven't got the legs to get back so I think when he's tried the three three four three the two like you said the two midfielders aren't quite enough where he's gone with three in the last three games and even though we should have got more points than we've got we've looked better balanced yeah we look more of a team it looks more of a wakeable formation anyway and obviously we'll have to look at who else he likes a Donnie van der Bakes back he's got the Corey there as well I wouldn't be making too many changes to this game maybe if he is ready to go then maybe I'd probably have him back in there but it's so difficult isn't it because you feel like you've got to wrap him in cotton walk all the time last time he went out for a while when he came back in the Arsenal game when he got injured after 26-27 minutes so you've got to be very very careful with them he castles the shame though won't he that's the way that's the way it goes isn't it with them unfortunately if he stays fifth for the last eight games I think we've got a great chance yeah yeah we'll have to see what happens anyway here the goaler has now your thoughts in the comments on this one obviously it's another big game it's going to go to St Park and it's an opportunity for the fans to do their part during the game before the game and hopefully we get the three points out of it and get us a little bit closer to where we want to be where we need to be let us know your thoughts in the comments make sure to give this video a like and if you want more videos, daily live videos join us over on Patreon the link is in the description it's on the screen now, see you later