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Use the link in the description below to learn more about this. Chelsea, obviously, is a very difficult game after whilst we're in the middle of a very difficult run. It's the last thing you want. You look at the fixtures in December and you look quite cry to yourself and then, you know, it's not what we want, to be honest. You've got to play them sometime, haven't you? It's a tough game coming at the time when we're in a terrible run of form, one win in seven games in the Premier League, not good enough. But the Premier League loves this to us. Loves giving us dreadful December, doesn't it? You know, last year it was the winterest coming, wasn't it? And ironically, last December, okay, the first two games of December were great. We lost to Leicester and Liverpool, but then we played Chelsea and beat them and they were doing really well at that time. I think we drew with Arsenal and we won a couple of games and Carlo Antillotti coming in and we got to the end of December going. Actually, that was all right. It wasn't as bad as we thought. So, you know, we started December with a draw, apparently. And this is a game that is going to obviously pose many different challenges this summer to Burnley, but the players will know all about Chelsea, will know the threat Chelsea carry going in as the big underdogs. We are the underdogs, aren't we? And I think we've done all right in the games with being underdogs this season. Spares in Liverpool. I don't think we were underdogs against Manchester United, because I think everything that was happening with Oligona Solskjaer, it was all the talk coming into the game was about them and them being sacked. But obviously, Spares first day of the season in Liverpool, even though Liverpool, it was a derby, so we're always going to be, but I think this game obviously would genuinely underdogs. Chelsea, you're having a great season. Qualified top, I think, in their group for the Champions League, the third in the Premier League. So, everything is about us trying to stop them. A little bit like it was last season when we played them. Obviously, we've been in a lot worse position. So maybe that'll suit us. I don't know, but we'll have to wait and see what happens. The crowd being back in obviously will make a little bit of a difference, but it's about whether you think the two things at the weekend forever can create a seed mentality, which I think it was easy to do last year. We had Duncan in the dugout, Silver had just been sacked. It was a renewed vigor from the fans. It was like we've all got to get behind Duncan because we're in snow. We're in snow, we're in the bottom three. The manager's gone now. It's a new start. Not quite the same thing. I think we're a better team this year. We've certainly got better players. So it's whether we can create that seed mentality with all of us, but the other thing we'll have to do is we'll have to defend properly. You're up against the team now. The team over there now, outstanding. He's lightening. You've got players like Kai Havett in the Olivier. He's bangin' goals in left-right and centre. You've got even like the Tami Aibb and Ammus on the bench. So they've got top quality players. Pula Sitch is back. We know this, but you know, that's the challenge isn't it? That's the challenge. This is a team now. West Brom have beaten 3-0 at half time and now Chelsea four back and got an injury time equaliser. West Brom, who's struggled. It's got three goals against them. So it'll be a tough game. There's no doubt about it. Chelsea had a big favour for the game, but they haven't got to start producing on the day. We know we've got quality. We've got that front three that can score goals and I think will score goals with the weekend against these. It's weather for me anyway. It's weather we can keep them out. That's the bigger issue and I really hope we don't start with 3-4-3 this week. I'd like to play the 4-3. I don't think we will. I think the manager's late now. From last week, Delph probably was the last throw of the dice and obviously he's injured. So I think we will go back to 4 at the back. What that 4 will be, I'm not really sure. I suppose that's the conundrum for the manager is the 3. Three at the back, he said it was an emergency system. It was an emergency system because of pace in Elmwood and anything. He's got four centre backs. Who can play? Is there an argument this weekend for playing four centre backs or across the back four? It is. Mason Holgate can play right back or left back. I think God 3 will play left back. And God 3 may start at left back. I think they might. I think what that, listen, it's proper negative. But I keep on saying it. No, no. But I keep on saying it. I said it last week. How can you not look at the situation and go, it's dire. We have to be negative. We have to start keeping clean sheets. And if that means the game ends nil nil, so be it. But we've got to start looking to keep clean sheets. Mason Holgate can play right back. Is he going to give you anything going forward? Not massively. Could a woby play right back? The other thing is, do we just go with a woby and go right back? We're playing God 3 at left back like we did for an hour of the game last week. A woby is going to be the one who offers us that offensive nature from the defensive position. Because it means we'll always have three at the back then with God 3 chucking in. I don't know, maybe or maybe it is a case of Holgate at right back. But I don't think it really matters unless we have another real body in midfield. I don't know whether that would be Andy Gomez. I don't know whether that would be a Tom Davis type player who's in there just to break things up. People can be watching this now and saying, Tom Davis. What does it matter? We're going round in circles. I'd ask anyone who's having a go with Tom Davis and say, would you prefer Gilfy Shrigat in in there? Because I wouldn't. Not any chance. We need someone in there who's going to break up the play, who's going to make it hard for the opposition. Someone who's going to, who can get over to filling it right back, who can get over to filling it left back. I think if you had, I think I've said it many times on here. It'd be well documented who had that in midfield at the moment. It'd be Holgate or God 3 because I think they can free the other two. You can't have the playing full back. Yeah, by the way, well, we was right back, I mean. But free the others up. But Tom Davis certainly would be an option if he played the position he did against Brighton and said to him, right, you're the six. So just sit and let the others round and do what they're doing. But you're the six. And I think if you do, I think if Everton, this might sound negative and I would get anybody who's in the comments and goes, that's not how we should be playing. I agree. After spending the money we've spent, we should be able to go toe to toe with these. The reality is we can't. So therefore this weekend. And we're trying to, don't forget, we're also trying to play our way back into a bit of form. But what you could do this, there could be an argument this week for almost going. We're going to have, like, seven defensive minded players. We're putting it all on the front three to do their stuff in the final third. Obviously, then you're banking on someone like the Corey, breaking from the field, of course, you know. But what it would do is... You're playing the counterattack. Exactly. These will, these. I watched them against Leeds at the weekend and they ended up winning three one. But it wasn't comfortable. Leeds gave as good as they get the way they do. But Leeds were defending on the half-way line almost. And they've got Timo Verna who's just lightening. One ball, he's through every time. Everton can't play on it. No. Especially if Meener and Keener playing at centre back. Then, okay, if you do plays, then you think, all right, well, you can take him in there because he's great near, but you've still got to watch his movement. But it means Everton can sit deep, play on the counterattack. Because if I think if we play high up, Timo Verna will kill us all day long with his pace. It's going to be a really tough game. I think we've set unfortunately now, and this is the difficult part, is we've set ourselves a mountain in terms of where do we go from here. Like we've lost the full backs. And without, instead of just dealing with those two positions. For some reason, Karen Tullotti's moving parts around the pitch that I don't think he needed to. He's creating other problems around the pitch which didn't need to. Yes, of course, when we played 4-3-3, he was looking at it thinking, well, if I haven't got Seamus, we're going to be hit. We've seen it in the game against Southampton. We're going to be hit on that, on our right hand side because Hamas Rodriguez isn't coming back. And he's been trying to find a solution to that because we haven't got Seamus coming. So that's something he's created, but by not giving players maybe the chance, by not putting, whether you like it or not, saying to John Joe, well, here you've got ways of one of four, five, six games here. On the other side, saying to Uncuncu, well, Dean's out, so is your chance. Or whoever, or whoever, you would say, Anthony Gordon and Richard Ellison was back and you'd be fair to point that out and say, if Richard Ellison, if result for three games, then it's only fair that Anthony Gordon should have been played for three games, whether him or Bernard. But every game it's like, that didn't work, change it, that didn't work, change it, that didn't work, change it. And it's evolved into something that it should never evolved into because it should have been. We should have adequate replacements to come in. That's why teams like Chelsea are so good because they have adequate replacements. If someone goes out or someone's out of four, someone needs a rest, they can bring players in. And that is the difference between a team like Chelsea and a team like Heaven, unfortunately. There is. So while you're trying to get to that quality that they've got, and they have got quality all over the place, Chelsea, you then need to establish a framework and work with that framework. And I think teams, you've got lesser quality squads are getting better results out of it because they do that. Like Southampton Frag, you know what I'm saying? They had Walcott, how Armstrong came in. Danny Ings went out, he pushed Walcott closer to Tia Adams, kept the shame for me. So they've trust in the players. Well, yeah, but trust in your formation. And I think, listen, I said on the podcast this week, I was wondering whether we could play three at the back the other week. So I'm not going to get on call until Chelsea's back for doing it because it would have been something I would have looked at. But I think we just look more comfortable with Hamers as part of a front three rather than being in the middle. So just create that framework now. And go, yeah. And I would personally, I would put in cwng Cwyn and go, that's your position for six games and then we'll evaluate it. If you're struggling in six games time, we might take your out of it, see whether he can do it. But keep the framework so that if you keep most of the stuff the same, then you can swap one in and one out. And it doesn't affect it as much, I think. Obviously we've been very unlucky out losing both fullbacks who are very important parts of our attacking options. They both are. And that's just the way it is. You're going to get injuries. It's okay. A lot of teams wouldn't lose both of them. It's just the way it is. So we've got to counteract that and he's looking for that. But if you just, I think if we can just establish a way of playing now for the next few weeks and just try to keep the main players in the main positions, keep the spine like we talk about, you know, you couldn't sit here and name the best centre-back partnership. We don't know. We've got four of them. We don't know by necessity now. All four of them might have to play because we haven't got fullbacks. And we've lost people like Delph and quite clearly doesn't trust John Jo. So it's just the key areas. Can we get the back four right? If he's going with the four centre-backs across the back, then in midfield, is it Tom Davis who comes in? Because Alan wants to go and get involved in the game. You can't trust him to sit. It's those little things. I think if we get them right, then we'll know what we're doing. And then it's can we get better at what we're doing? We're at the minute. We're almost looking a little bit like, well, we played three last week and we had them over there and he's now over. It's no coincidence. It looks disjointed and not cohesive. Yeah, there's no consistency. There's no cohesiveness, as you said there. There's no continuity. It just feels a lot of the time like it's coming off the cuff and the manager's searching for, almost like he's searching for to see if things will happen on the pitch rather than did you do that to a manager? No, no, no. Famously like Tim Kale was discovered because I had a necessity where his best position was. No, I appreciate that. That can happen in games. That can happen. It's just. Someone plays and you go, no, he's that good there. Yeah, and maybe that's what you, I mean. Maybe a woe will become the tack and riper. No, maybe he will. He'll have to get up and down that wing. He did though, didn't he? Who's to know? Because what you've got to look at as well with these is Ben Shillwell very good going forward. So obviously a woe will be, you know, it'd be one of them, but then if you've got Mason Holgate to say right back, is he going to threaten Shillwell where a woe will be would because he runs at him. No, possibly, yeah. Sometimes having an attack on full back means that you're pushing them back. Otherwise you're saying, right, we'll defend and we'll just try to beat you on the bridge. Well, I suppose one advantage is there will be fans in the ground. There'll be 2,000 fans in the ground, Gladys Street and top balcony. And I suppose that gives, that removes that little bit of neutralness that has almost been created with home guards. There is, there's no fans in here. So there's no, you know, no, it's just a game, isn't it? And the best team wins. But maybe with the 2,000 in there, it just gives that little added something that has been missing. Because at the end of the day, it's fine saying 2,000 fans can make a lot of noise in an empty ground. They fill the silence at the end of the day. Yeah, yeah. So if they don't need that push, second half shooting towards the Gladys Street, you know, who's to say that's just that little bit of something we need? When you look at it, they're not going to be intimidated by 2,000 fans Chelsea. So I don't know, it's not going to be like normal goodlison. And certainly like it was just over a year ago when Duncan was in charge for that game. So what it does do is it can give our players a boost who might need it, you know what I mean? If you're struggling or if you feel like it'll give you that. Because playing now in front of 2,000 is probably like playing in front of 20,000. When you're having been playing in front of crowds. So that, you know, hopefully the Blues who are there can make some noise, you know? And even things just do appreciating. Have a shot and it's clapping or you get a call. The little things that add to the game and for Chelsea it'll be getting used to that defending against that as well. So this isn't the pros and you've got to go out and do it. But it's an opportunity. If Everton could beat them and they've only lost one game so it's not, you know, it looks like a long shot at the minute. But I do believe Everton's got plays who can win the game definitely. Chelsea, if both teams played the full, potentially you'd expect Chelsea to win. But Everton, where to win? We'd be two points behind. In my eyes, they're looking like a really strong team. They've had a great start. Me, looking at Everton, now we're like faltering a little bit. And yet if we were to win at the weekend and we're two points behind Chelsea. You'd be like, we actually are. We said it before, if our defeats would have been spaced out. We'd be saying, we're doing all right. We're in the home for you. More like if our wins had been spaced out. That's another way to look at it. If we'd have amassed this amount of points over the period of time, you know, more space, you'd be looking and going, we're doing all right here. We're in, at the moment we're in the home for a European place. You know, we'll see what happens. Just to bring the mood down. Some of the stats. Everton won the last two Premier League home games against Chelsea. Good stuff. Last time he won three in a row was 2010 to 2012. Chelsea have kept six clean sheets in their last eight Premier League games against Everton. They've lost the two they've conceded in. It's good, isn't it? Everton boss Calamante lotty took charge of 76 Premier League games with Chelsea from 2009 to 2011. Averaging 2.0, 7 points per game. Corom boss Frank Lampard played in the 60 of those 76 matches, scoring 32 goals in that time. Chelsea won two of their last 15 away Premier League games against fellow ever-present side in the competition. Everton have lost their last two Premier League home games. They've not lost three in a row since March 2016 under Roberto, wasn't it? Chelsea have kept the clean sheets in each of their last three away games, as many as they had in their previous 35 away games. Managers previous, no swerve. That one, because I don't like it. In his first five Premier League games this season, Evans, Hammers, Rodriguez was involved in six goals, three goals and three assists, and created on average 3.2 chances, paying 90 minutes. He's not registered the single goal involvement in his subsequent five games. Still averaging 2.1 chances created the game. And that again, Dominic Calvert-Lewan is the Premier League's top scorer, 11 goals in 11 games, just too few of them netted in 36 games last season. Just on that Hammers thing before we finish, there's been some debate this week. Basically, Gabi Agbonohor and people like that. Some fellas should play for Villa. Shane is being found out on different things. Obviously, it's talking about the pair. I think I read after three games, Agbonohor was Shane, he's the best player in the Premier League, now he's being found out. That's coincided with an injury and with the team being disjointed. But on Saturday, and just looking at those numbers there, it shows what he does actually bring to the Everton team. So, he's still averaging over two chances created per game. When he was at his peak there, it's saying in the opening four or five games, it was three chances per game. It just shows that even without him sprinting up and down. I think you said he's made the second most tackles in our team anyway. That's what he brings to you, doesn't he? And against Saturday will be key to getting him on the ball, won't it? Because stats can be interpreted anyway, they won't, can't they? And he's a great believer in using the right stats. At the end of the day last week, gilffy Sigarton just told Pokeshit's fate, Hamas Rodigus has just got himself an assist. And I've got three points. So, you can use stats anyway you want to. The fella at the end of the day, it's also like you look at stats of other people, depends what you interpret Hamas Rodigus to be as well. To me, he's a, you know, you've got to say he's a winger. Chances he creates would be probably more than adequate or what he's involved in would be more than adequate. So when you start him, he doesn't do this when he's playing in the centre or he doesn't track back enough or he doesn't because he's not that thing, he's a player who plays in his own role and I think we have to pull plays around in there to protect him because that one last week for gilffy Sigarton, no-one else does that in our team, no-one else can do that. Yes, with Charleston, you can get to the barline and put crosses across or whatever, but you've got to have that mix, haven't you? And whenever that shame is coming, and we said it loads of times, Hamas Rodigus was absolutely fine. Just very quickly then, so we'd have an extra man in midfield this week because that's what we've done, we're someone who can do a bit of both. Would you play a wobie or would you play Mason Holgate? I don't know and I'd say why because I just don't know what a wobie can... It's like Godfrey on the other side. It was Godfrey good because he knew what his job was for an awy. He knew that and the play he was up against wasn't as fast as him and he didn't have a trick, so therefore it was easy for Ben Goffy. Now, was it the same for a wobie? Did barely really attack on that side or was the player coming inside trying to nullify our centre midfield? Did a wobie have just the ability to go and do what he wants? Can he do that against top opposition? Can he get up and down? It could be we could be sitting there going, oh my God, this just hasn't worked, he's all over the place. Or we could be sitting there going, oh my God, we may have found something here. This could be the solution in the short term. A wobie could play that position and all comes down to... At the end of the day, it'll come down to, can he play on the right hand side? Yes, he can. And can he get, can that extra play in the midfield go over and cover? So say it was Tom Davis, can Tom Davis go over and get over and become that right back when a wobie's too far up the pitch? Or can he come over and help him when a wobie's on the back foot? And that's what it comes down to for me. That's what other teams do. That's what we've done in the past when we had wingers flying forward. MacArthur and Barry should do that. We had Colman and Baines flying forward. Exactly. Interesting. So he's got... Carlo's got key decisions and things that have been taken out of his hands, but I think what we'd all like to see is maybe if a team getting nailed back and playing every week and like you said, a framework where we know what we're going in, playing 4-3-3, three in midfield who are going to do all the running and go from there. Do you go? There is no your thought in the comments you agree to disagree with. Anything we've spoke about? Let us know your thoughts on the full back positions and midfield positions. Whatever it is, let us know. Make sure to check out the link in the description if you want to know more about that. You'll see us on the flipside. I'm going to the other side. I'm very lucky. I was showing off the ball at the time. I was very, very lucky. It's lucky to draw. Does this mean you won't be in any other ball? No, I'll be putting in for every ball. I think the club will swerf you after this. I think really what the club needs to do is the 3,000 you get on and you're gone in until. That would be fair, but they're not doing that. That would be fair, but they're not doing that. I'll be kicking off. Big turn. That's scandalous. No, but imagine if someone gets two games on, he'll scan to me. Absolutely scandalous. But that's just my thing. They will be getting told. There you go. Thanks for watching. Come on boys. Subscribe. And if you want daily live videos, join us on Patreon. See you later.