 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Wolves vs Everton. I'm joined by Jack to discuss our last away game, penultimate game of the season. It's huge, Jack. This one is absolutely huge. We can go safe if we win at the weekend and the results go our way. It's massive and it's not all riding on this because we could get a bad result here and still be out the bottom three. But it's a massive opportunity. It's one we can't really afford to miss because there'll be no guarantees on the last day of the season and how good would it be if we could just have form if at home is just dead rubber, nothing to worry about, no stress on the last day. It could all be over Saturday. It was lovely last year having nothing on the last day to play for and it being the way it has done. Having absolutely nothing and chilling out and just watching the other results and all the other. I don't really want to go to goodness and I think we will have to do it because I just can't imagine everything will fall our way but it will be lovely. Just on this, you just said there, do you think Saturday? Everton do have to almost put everything on this game with only two games left because you can look at it and say it's a two game season, two cup files, blah, blah, blah, but do you think that everton have got to look at this and go well? Number one, yes, like you just said, we could be safe if all the fixtures went with us over the three days but the other thing is if you want to get to that last day in great shape then we've got to get something out of this. We've got to be looking to put absolutely every ounce of fight and ability into winning this game of football. I think we have to, I think we have to treat this as we must win because if we get beat we could find ourselves heading into the last day in the bottom three which means even a win might not keep us up. It could be out of our hands then. I just think we've got to treat this as we must win. We've just got to keep ourselves as the ones in control, keep it in our hands because then we only have to match other results on the last day potentially even if we aren't safe. It's still in our hands then. We could be in a position where we could get beat by wolves and then we could absolutely fompo on the last day and still go down. I think we have to treat this as we must win even if it's not all solely right and on this game we can just change the dynamics of the relegation fight so much to the point where we could potentially end it but we can just put ourselves in such a much more comfortable position. And with a win as well if we haven't could get a win. Being the first game of the weekend I think everyone else plays after us I think it would give us that mental advantage over those teams as well. Those teams know and they've got to chase us and they've got to get a result. It's not nice knowing what you've got to do. Sometimes it can help, it can be a big motivation but if anything could get a win and then go above Forrest and obviously have knowing then that if Leicester didn't beat Newcastle that they couldn't catch us so then it would be just that one place and then you're looking at the leads going to West Armen. Obviously Forrest play Arsenal in the garage 5 on the satay and Arsenal must win that game otherwise Manchester City are champions. Then that's the kind of motivation again. Again you're always focused on your own game but to me on this I think everyone has to put everything into this game and look at it as in this is that opportunity. This is that opportunity for us to get out and control our own destiny like you said there. Before we talk about walls in their form our away form recently has been good. Under Dice being scoring goals creating chances playing on the counter attack and I know we've only actually won one of the games but we've been scoring goals as well. Gooderson Park we always look like it's a chore to score goals but away from home. The way we break and you only have to go back to the last away game it's bright and the way we break it seems to help this other version of an evidence team look their best. Yeah definitely I don't know if the playing with less pressure away from home I don't know if the results of Gooderson have left bad memories there maybe for some of the players and they sort of struggle with the expectation of that now. But our away form like we have only won one in the last few away but it's better than what we're doing at Gooderson isn't it. So it's still an improvement and like you say we look better attacking just more natural going forwards. I think they don't have to think about it as much. I think the pressure of playing at Gooderson is getting to a lot of them and that's why we may be seeing the away form be a bit better. I don't think it's because we prefer being away as such. I mean because they prefer not being at Gooderson. You can never tell as a fan you can never tell what a player is feeling or the pressure. I just think we look really stiff at home. We look like it's all just like little straight lines and normal trying to get the ball at the back and then get it wide and then get it into the box. It's a way when we play away and we're sitting back and we're soaking it up at times. We've got that counter-attacking ability and of course the way games against like drags of Leicester we saw mistakes from Michael Keane and Forrest we didn't defend really well and Chelsea we were doing well to a point and then they scored. Then we woke up a little bit and then we looked a little bit freer but the fact that we've had three, two, two draws. We've gone and scored five at Brighton. Gold scoring has been a lot easier to come by then as a Gooderson with the 1-0 wins or a goal here, a goal there. Still it's only one game isn't it that we've scored more than one goal in which is obviously the Crystal Palace game. So we haven't found that freedom but we seem to have that. It suits our players. We're playing around just doesn't seem to suit teams who obviously are away from home. They chip back a little bit. Even City didn't even come out because they didn't really have to come out on Sunday. But having the Dwight McNeill's, the Wolby's, the Corae from the Carmel Moon if he's fit then breaking forward. A bit of physical ability. Yeah and that's solid base behind them. It just seems to have helped us recently and I think that could be really positive for this game. Well definitely and I've just spoken about the mental side of not being able to perform a Gooderson if you look at the tactical perspective now. At home there's more emphasis on us to bring the ball out the back and to break teams down and for us to take the game to them because that's traditionally how home games go that you're back at the home team don't you? On air away grounds we don't have that as much with the other team on to attack us. They're looking to break us down and then that suits us. That suits. Because what we are really are a counter attacking team. That's where we have our best success because we don't have players with masses of technical ability. I think now we've got some players with a bit of pace. Damari Gray, the Corae, Migs Goodruns into the box, Calvitt Lew and his good centre forward playing that helped us as a counter attacking team because he can bring the ball down, keep the ball and search out for an option. Against Wolsey we have seen them struggle against counterattacks when the terms are committing too many men up the pitch and that could suit us. It depends on how aware of that they are and if they want us almost let us have the ball and force them to break them down. Wolsey, just on evidence form by the way, I think evidence have only picked up four more points at home than they have away. We bemoan are away form but it's only four points and I know we've lost ten at home but you think about the wins that we've picked up at home and the lack of wins away. For only four points it does show I think how the away form has picked up more recently even if we haven't been winning the games. Wolsey are a very interesting side because obviously they've massively picked up since then they brought a new manager in around the time that we probably should have sacked Frank Lampard. Obviously the first game back was a good decision, the beaters obviously with the late goal and that's where everything's changed for them and they are a bit of a jack on the outside. Their away form is awful as well but they've really nailed down their home form. They've won five of the last six and in between that they've gone to Brighton and beaten six-nil, they've gone to Old Trafford and beaten two-nil, they've been beaten away at Leicester so it really is a jack-and-hide situation with their home form and last time out beaten Villa we were on a great run. Crystal Palace I think they ended there, they really good run on the hodge when he came in and they've beaten the likes of Chelsea and Brentford recently at home and Villa as I said so this isn't going to be an easy game by any means, it's their last game of the season. We know they've got nothing to play for but out of it now but they've had a brilliant change from where they were, bottom of the league when we played them and it really does show the power of what could have been if Everton had decided to make that change around the time of the World Cup. Not only at home, what suits the style of players as well but they do have players with a lot of technical ability on the ball, Ruben Neves, Mateus Nunes as well, players with technical ability don't have an out-and-out goal scorer there so a goal scorer is Neves with six, I think Hoddence has six as well but he's been off the team recently. That suits them being at home because they have more of the ball, enjoy the ball, break teams, that and more. That doesn't work as much away from home because you get less time on the ball, games moving a bit faster, the other team is trying to come out so that's why they are struggling on the road but they've just committed to good home form, a style that will work at home but not away. Let's just get four wins at home, that's 12 points, that will take us where we need to be and that's work for them and they're safe now and although they are on paper probably a better side and there's definitely more ability in their side. They are missing players in key positions, I think what they do for the striker like Dominic Calvert-Lewis if they could guarantee his fitness but at the same time they do have nothing to play for so that makes it interesting because that can go one or two ways. We see palace when they have nothing to play for on the last day of the season, they always turn around and smash someone, other teams have seen wolves have some shaky results in recent weeks after they've guaranteed their safety. So it is an interesting one and that can go two ways but I do think the benefit we have from that is we have a need to get something from this game, we have something to play for, we have a very big stake in this that they don't and if we can't make the game hard for them be hard to break down, outrun them, outwork them that's where we can get that benefit. I actually, I was just looking at some of their numbers and I don't think they're a team I do and loves having loads of the ball and that used to be the trait of the wall side, they were so comfortable in possession, they had so many good footballers but I think it's actually allowing them to have more of the ball which could suit us loads because as we've seen from the Brighton game. I was looking back at the Leeds game, they got before too, I think they had 66% of the possession in that game whereas a lot of the games more recently they've been having mid 30s to late 30s possession, they're obviously they're not a team, they've got characteristics of their own way of being dogged, being able to beat, they haven't been conceding a lot of goals and I don't think they've conceding the last four at home. So I think the trick for this game is to let them have a lot of possession and then try and play on the counter-attack rather than go, maybe they're like some of the results more recently where they've been getting wins at home, they've been up against teams who want to dominate the ball and that's been to their advantage but I think for us we obviously don't want to do that because it's like a kryptonite having the ball. The less of it we have of it, the better we seem to be and obviously scoring five away Brighton and I think what we've been in the mid 20s for possession that day and obviously we've seen. Well completely controlled. Well yeah and we saw when they went to Brighton, getting destroyed 6-0 and it really was, they really were on the beach that day and it is only, I think Gary O'Neill said it last week when the Bournemouth went to Palace and he said it is those, you only have to be three or four per cent off and if you haven't maybe, that's everyone by the way in the week if you haven't worked extensively on what the opposition are good at, if you've had a bit of a quiet a week if it's just, business is normal or it's just our last home game, we're safe we're on 40 points, it can be all that, not prepared for any advantages that the opposition have, whether it's the set pieces or hardly playing the counter, any of those little things sometimes. So Evan I've got to grasp this game and I've got to basically for me try and do what they did at Brighton which is, because I look at walls and I look at the situation with the goalscoring and the goalscoring was the big issue. The new manager was the big issue and not that he's getting a lot of goals now but they're a little bit more, they've sorted the back line out and also, I don't know whether you can make these decisions or stuff but I've seen Evan manager sort of do this in the past where it's like everything's on the home form. The away form if it happens it happens but like you said before if we can get four or five wins at home we'll be safe and that's where Evan I've gone massively wrong in the last couple of years it's like, there's no, there's like a wishy washy style of play that doesn't suit anything where there's walls look like they've gone, we're putting everything into winning at home. You're not coming here. With Evan I've done that I mean ten home defeats this season at home. I've never known the likes of it. Like I remember on the market there was eight and honestly you looked at it going this should never happen. That was criminal. Yeah that was it I mean eight I mean obviously. But like we were used to maybe losing a couple at home and if we did lose a couple at home they were to top side or you might get one where you've dominated and obviously the opposition get to come in and grab one and win the game. But I've never seen the likes of it and it's become this thing of oh we've lost another game we've lost another game so at home which walls have obviously gone this isn't happening, this isn't happening. And that does make Saturday afternoon difficult but as we just said if they're off just a little bit and we're on it then Evan I've got that opportunity. Yeah definitely and just in terms of what I was saying about walls on the ball I didn't know the possession statistics but I haven't watched them in that I do think under Lopateg really I've taken a step up in what they do with the ball. I think they look a lot sharper on the ball now. Yeah. But if we can force them to try and break us down and sort of set them up to fail, force them to give the ball away by trying to break us down that is where we have the advantage over them. And obviously you don't want to, it's still a risky game because the likes of Reuben Neves can play a brilliant passing behind the defence and that takes sharpness and it takes focus and it'll probably take Pickford being on it as well because they will get chances. Yeah and they put a risk and reward isn't it and again we saw that in the Brighton game you've got to be willing to give up so much of the pitch for your plan to come off and I think that's why against Manchester City when we were playing at home. Obviously we were playing against Manchester City but it didn't work because they were in control all over the pitch and there were very few opportunities for us to get in possession and then work it. They never overextended themselves because they didn't have to. Where Brighton did and we load them into some traps where we didn't press, we sat off and then we'd make maybe one player make a forward movement and make them give us the ball and then we were away and it was like three, four, five all at once just going and saying we'll come and come and catch us then. And I think it has to be a similar thing. You've got to have that risk. You've got to be willing to say no, no, we want you to come on attack because we are going to deal with it and then we're going to break. It's that when it becomes like a halfway thing when it's like we'll have a little go at you, we'll come out a little bit and then we cut through you. I think you've got to have that. I think that's where the best team is actually. You watch any best team. How many times you watch City and go, I go, look, I'll open these, look, Liverpool in there. Where are they? I bet you go, God. And then sometimes it does happen where someone gets that day with it and maybe this was what happened when we played Brighton where everything just happened for us. And I think that's the mentality we've got. We've got to have on Saturday. It's like you've got to give these a little bit, give them a little bit because they're not good. I've seen this happen to us by the way the teams come together and go, you have the ball because you will give it back to us. So that will be an interesting part of it, how shown by setters all. Well, we've got to be fully committed to it, isn't it? That's the thing. Like you just said, this can't be like, oh yeah, you know, we will be defensive on that. But like, you know, it's not all of us because we want to have a bit of the ball as well. Don't worry about that. We'll have the ball from them giving us the ball if it works, if everyone switched on. You've got to bite into that. Let's have a look at Wolff's team from last game against Manchester United. So obviously very 4-4-2 heavy. You look at the front two and there's not loads of goals in there. I think Costa only scored his first goal recently. Nevez and Nunes, we know a good place. But again, look at, I mean, I looked at that the other day, Killman and Dawson and I just thought, you know, if we are playing on the counterattack, we should be able to, we should be able to get through that. And obviously, listen, we're sitting here and we don't know what the situation is with Dominic Carvelin. We don't know at this stage where we are, but that's going to be, that's obviously going to be a major part of it, isn't it, whether Dominic Carvelin is fit on it? That's massive. I don't want to say we'll live and die on that, but look how much we are for having them in the team. I don't think it's that extreme because we've seen, we've had performances without them, but he makes us so much better having them in the team. And for counterattacking because he brings the ball down so much sharper than Malplay does because it sticks to him better than it would do to Sims because he's not as experienced, he doesn't have that. I just think it gives us such a better outlet as well and then you can attack better through defending better because you've got a player, you can get the ball too comfortably and you can keep it and that just makes counterattacking so much easier. He wakes centre backs. It's such an important trait. It's such an important trait. We've seen it while he was on its city. We've seen it against Leicester by winning the penalty, never getting between two centre backs. And what he did in that first half against Brighton, he was absolutely fantastic and he wakes players and then centre backs down. They don't know what to do for the best so they start following people round. And while they're following people round, it creates that space for someone like Dacori, which we saw in the Brighton games, because centre backs by their very nature list and the top ones at the moment are unbelievable in how fast they are and their ability. But you've still got a lot of bang-a-vid centre backs who, all right, they're decent in the air and they can smell the danger a little bit. What they don't want to do is get in a foot race because they just simply won't have the pace against someone like Dom and they don't have the ability to, and that's where you can draw those little files out of them or you can work them and then, you know, you get that situation where one might be told to mark them and then good centre forwards will start working the other one then and that means both of them getting moved around and once you start moving them around, centre backs hate that. Seeing that with Michael Keane recently, you know, he's won in a massive example of like a centre back who hates being moved around and we saw it against Leicester the amount of times he turned his back. Once you turn your back as a centre back, you're gone, you're done, you're done because that gives that split second. And I just don't think we've got anyone like Dom and a Carmelun. I think it's been proven in the last few games. There's just nobody like him. And again, that falls on the football club. I wasn't not going to point fingers and go, well, that's not Mopai. It's not, and the only other option is a young kid. And then maybe you've got a Damari Grey who's got the pace and maybe can start probing the areas behind the centre backs where they don't want to go also. But then that relies on him making good runs and the likes of Alex, so, well, we fine. And I'm so, for me, I think we've got to get Dom into this game no matter what. I think if he fit and he can get round and he'll go, I can give you an hour, then you've got just two games left. Unless he's like, can't move. I just think we're in a position now where you've just got to go, you can have a rest all summer. It's just too big. No, and we've spoke a lot before in the past about Carl Lathlawan's being rushed back. He's been mismanaged and that is true if it's the middle of the season. But right now, there's no benefit to keeping him wrapped in cotton wool the seasons over in a week's time. Let's hope it is, you know what I mean? Let's hope it is. Let's hope that's what they were doing last week, you know, calculated guess. Listen, if the manager decided to tune in against Manchester City, that it was... He wasn't coming back. Listen, I have no, by the way, I have no issue with that. I tune in with that at that time. I have no issue with that against Manchester City. I have no issue with the manager going, see, I start playing and I need to throw the last two games. Come and sit down, mate. You are not, you are not even, even attempting, attempting. Because, yeah, it's Manchester City. They are one of the best clubs in the world, you know. You can sit there and go, ah, to disgrace, we give that game off. It was already given. It was already given up. So, let's just have a little look at Wolves' big, man, Neves, there he is. Game's 33, goal's 66-1. Yeah, he's a top player and there's a lot of talk about him leaving Wolves as well. You know, he, I think he could play for the top side. He's got so much ability. And it is, you mentioned it before, those moments, he's the kind of player you can create a moment in a game. And you think sometimes you've got control of a game and then some good players, you know, can just create that little moment where you're like where did that come from? And it just changes the whole pattern of a game. Well, we can play well for an extended period and defend well and not let them have chances, but Ruben Neves is the type of player. If you get to half chance to do something, whether that's a shuffle and distance, or to play a brilliant ball in behind from a tight angle, he is capable of doing that. And that's why I keep mentioning being switched on, denying those moments, recognising that any time he is on the ball, that can result in danger for us. And that doesn't mean, you know, every time he's got the ball at his feet, sprinting at him. Listen, he's part of the team, he can't really single them out, but what I do think is, let's just look at our team from last week. What I do think is, that means that the likes of someone like Mason Holgy can't play in a position like left back. He has to, he has to ride to bring it. If Michael Enco is available, great. If he's not, I'd be tempted. I mean, if it wasn't Wolves, I'd be tempted to go three at the back and win Caudi back, but of course, Caudi can't play. See, the thing is, I'd be more tempted to play Dwight MacNeill at left back than I would anybody else just filling in there. I really would because the kid understands playing on the left hand side and is that to get back and defend so much. And I think we've got someone like the Marey Graves, you could maybe put in front of them or even a Wolverine put Grail on the other side. You have to have for players, like a players you understand what they're up against and what we saw on Sunday with Mason Holgy, even though he's a centre back. And people think, well he's a defender, he should be able to do that. Playing as full back on the side that you don't favour when you're having played loads of games and you are up against Marys and Walker continually to make that run. It's not easy and I think you've got to look at the situation and go, you can't just throw a play and then go and do a job for us. No, because defending at left back isn't the same as defending at centre back. People think being a full back just means okay. So what you're doing when you're defending is you've got a winger running at you and it's one on one. That's just a scenario that happens and it's not that. Especially against Man City with the ability on the ball, the passing angles that he creates, that's not how it works. I don't blame Daish for putting him in because we didn't make a link or way in fit and obviously Ben Agrae is just there. Well he's done it as well, isn't he? No other option so I understand it but it didn't work and I'd never thought being in a position where and praying for Michael Lenco to be available. I think he's enough for one we could really benefit from having in the team. Just off that awareness. It's balanced though isn't it and he can defend and when you're playing counter-attack football sometimes you need that defensive stability to allow the players to all just get on with their jobs. I think the problem with the last game is the city game is maybe if Michael Lenco had been injured early in the week they could have trained and worked in a three and a Cody in there. But because it happened in the last session and everything's already set out and all the team instructions. It's got to find the best fit. You've got to, you are literally just going, well what am I going to do? And he thought Mason Hogg he could do the job and he sadly couldn't. He just couldn't because he was up against world-class players like the manager might look at this week and go well he's not up against those world-class players like he was up against world-class players last week. I don't know, we'll have to wait and see. I think as well another player would be worried about even though he doesn't start every week is Adam Treyore. If he brings him off the bench you know what he is. He's very not well round to put it that way. Well he is in the bicep area. Physically he's very round in a good way. But I think he's another player that you can't switch off against because you need to time your runs perfectly because you need to set off before he does. And he's another player where you can't wait for him to do something and then react and think, oh god he's going, I better go as well because he's already passed you. That would be a worry. Alex Wobby does have a habit of doing that by the way of going. Was he gone or better go then? I should probably get going. Yeah rather than being switched on to it. But listen it's a big big game, a big big game that evidently I've got to get something out of. And you know even if it's a, I mean we're all desperate for a win. If we get a point and other results go our way and it keeps us in control for next week then. But we obviously won't know that till the weekends finish and that's more agonising over the Saturday Sunday and the Monday show. But then I think a lot of people will be doing as agonising it anyway. It most likely will be going down to the last day you'd imagine. Which is going to make next week just absolutely horrendous. Yeah there you go. If you're going the game there's been an instruction put out for everyone to get in their arth to and everyone to wear blue. They want to make the atmosphere of the game unbelievable. So do with that information what you want. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. Big thanks for Jack joining us. Give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. We want more great videos. Live daily exclusive videos. Join us over on Toffy TV Premier. Links is in the description. And it's come up on the screen in a moment. 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