 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match reaction. Chelsea won, Everton won. Football is mad. A result I'll be honest, I did not see coming at all. Certainly not when it's on the team sheet either. I didn't think we had a chance tonight at all. I've gone to the European champions with as many players as we had out. Eight I think it is or nine or whatever it is and to get a point is an incredible feat by the players. You looked at that team sheet before like I said and you saw Ella Sims getting his first Premier League appearance. Never mind his first start. You had a brand thwy back in to the Everton side in the Premier League for the first time in over a year I think it might be. You looked at the team and there was no Damari, Gray obviously we knew that Alan was touching goal, there was no shame as Coleman, he was only sub. Obviously we'd lost time around Charleston from the weekend so no Fabian Delph and you were looking thinking this is a huge Ash John Joe Kenny for Seamus Coleman. But when three at the back or five at the back the manager had a game plan and you know what even though a lot of people will still think Rafa Benita should be sacked and even though the results haven't been very good. The one thing I guess you have to say still right now is that them players do seem to still be playing for them because they all stuck to the game plan really well tonight. I thought obviously Chelsea and Chelsea were at it immediately and it should be told they could have been three in the open the first 15 minutes. It's just Jordan Pickford making a brilliant save with his FIFA and Mason Monti. They've already missed East James, I thought it scored after five or six minutes. GH fired one over, Mason Mont pushed one wider of far post. Pool of Sitch was a constant threat so everything had to be very, very disciplined. We didn't really offer anything going forward which you kind of knew when you looked at it. I think Ella Sims did okay tonight up front on the zone and now he tried to hold the ball up, worked hard, could work a little bit harder, there's no doubt about that but I thought he did okay. I thought Anthony Gordon was excellent tonight in terms of work, rate and effort and he got better and better as the game went on. Everybody really stuck to the task, he had a brand thwait outstanding. I thought that was how he had to go. In that first half they were by far the better side, there's no mistake about that. Ever had a shot from Andre Gomez which was blocked and we had another one from Anthony Gordon which meant he comfortably caught and I think other than that there was nothing. We had a few moments where we broke but we couldn't quite get the ball into someone or get a shot away or the final pass was missing. We had to ride that look at times, we know we did. Nill nill at the break, delighted with that thinking they'll come out and really push on in the second half and push us back which they did. But what Everton started to do after I guess 10 minutes into the second half we started to try to get forward. Godfrey went on a great run and got a shot away albeit with his left foot. We'd had a couple of breakaways where the final ball wasn't there, especially one we broke through and Alex said we should have just played the ball into the corner, he was clean through and he didn't. He hesitated and played it wide to Ellis Sims and he came back inside for some reason and it resulted with John Joe Kenny firing a shot over the bar. And then we made the change, Lewis Dobbin came on for Ellis Sims and he really worked his socks off, he was a live wire, put himself about. And we just started to look like on the break we had them a little bit concerned, Anthony Gordon flying down the wing really worried reached James at times. And just when it looked like, we still had to be disciplined, we still had to defend for our lives, there's no, I'm not sitting here saying we passed the ball and I'm brilliant because we didn't. We hung in there but on the counter attack towards the end we looked at the threat and we had a great breakaway, had the light of the corridor, it was fantastic. And if he lays the ball out to Anthony Gordon, we've got three men in the middle and it's 3v3 almost and he doesn't, he hesitates and plays the, ends up losing the ball. Chelsea break loft as she runs with it, I think Barclay involved as well, stabs her off and there's Mason Mountain to put Chelsea 1-0 up. And that was a real kick in the Nether regions because it wasn't like they carved out a brilliant goal and you just had to say well they're a really good side. We give the ball and got caught because of a choice from the Corry which was really poor. But we go and get a free kick, John Philippe Gabamon comes on as well in this time, we get a free kick and Anthony Gordon bends a fantastic ball into the penalty area and Jarrod Branthwaith arriving at the far post to side foot it beyond Mendy to equalising a brilliant moment for Branthwaith's first ever Premier League goal, first ever and goal. And it was superb, what a ball in from Anthony Gordon and the Evertonians who'd gone against all the odds made the trip down to London Thursday night, hours on a train, Cina team lose seven of the last eight, we're in raptures and rightly so. And after that there was a weird little thing of we might actually nick this game which would be bizarre. We looked like we might have got a penalty, it wasn't a penalty let me just say that now. But just in that split second when Dobbin goes down and the referee blows a whistle you're looking and thinking is this a penalty? It wasn't and it was the correct decision, it wasn't, he was on his way down when he was caught. And then obviously you're having to worry about Chelsea every time you break. But the lads rode it out, we brought Tyler o'n Yango on in the last seconds for Anthony Gordon, he came on for the last five or six minutes. And every player put a real shift in, I thought like I've already mentioned Jarrod Branthwaith was brilliant. Dobbin really did put himself about the core, all of them really Michael King got better after the opening 25 minutes. He was shaky John Jo Kenney had a good game. They all had to but Jordan Pickford was exceptional and it's a toss up between him and Jarrod Branthwaith. I'm going to give it to Branthwaith simply because playing against Chelsea topside, scoring your first goal in the Premier League, getting Everton a point when you've not been in the side. That to me is a man of the match performance but it literally is by the skin of his teeth from Jordan Pickford. Pickford was exceptional, so Branthwaith will be my man of the match. Excellent point for Everton, really good point. Just got to keep adding to the tally, it's not great. There was many men out front Sunday, the Talys and Tarns and Delth, Coleman straight off the bat. Great, five players missing even from Sunday. That's the way the season has been for us so far. We got a point, we move on and the game is off now against Leicester. The next game at the moment is a week on Sunday, boxing day away at Burnley and we've got all of that time to recover some of those players. That'll be a really tough game but we're going into that mini break now on the back of a really positive result. It shows you're on my foot, Chelsea are far far superior to Palace and we just didn't perform at that level. The one thing I will say is the enthusiasm of the young players really helped tonight as well. Excellent result for Everton, man of the match for me, Jarrod Branthwaith. I'm buzzing because it's a bonus point so there we go. That is it for the match reaction, let me know what you think in the comments section below. Give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't. We're very close now to 55,000 subs. You could be the one that takes us over. Thanks for watching, see you later.