 Welcome to Toffee TV, it is the match preview Wolves vs Everton, quick team around in the Premier League from the FA Cup and yeah, a tough game, a tough game, we know we will be missing Dominic Harvan Lewin, but Charleston will be a late call, so yeah Baz, we are facing one of those games that we've been sort of dreading where we might not have our forwards. Yeah, very tough game as it is anyway and it's just got tougher by having, potentially having two of our chief players who will get us goals out of the team, obviously we know Dom's not playing so we've lost our top scorer and I'm hoping that Charleston will play and he'll go through the middle as the striker, but we'll have to wait and see, fingers crossed that he comes through training today I think it is and then we can get him in the side because it will be a big blow to lose both of them. Yeah it would be, obviously we didn't have both of them at the weekend against other than him and we saw what that looks like, and that's not it, you know, this entrenching is someone that I think if you can get him, if you can get him service, he knows where the goal is, but you know, we're talking about someone who's going to have to play up front on his own and can't really run the channels, doesn't really occupy centre backs and that means a lot of work for other players and he's not really an ideal backup striker, but you know, as you mentioned there, I think the thought has always been this season that Dom was missing, because Charleston would take that forward role because we've got enough wide men and that might still be the case, I imagine they'll give Charleston to the last minute to be available for this game and hopefully he is, I think the manager said himself if he does play that will mean that, you know, would probably be less, well he actually said would be less dangerous from crosses but maybe more dangerous with the final ball, which is interesting, but we know where Charleston can do that job, we've seen him do that job before, I think it's the job he likes doing as well, like being more in the game, so it's an opportunity for him to do what he wants to do and then players, other players have got to do their jobs, like Sir Hamas or Degas, maybe a Wobby, I've got to come in and obviously provide the balls for Charleston if it is him playing the front. Yeah, definitely, you know, he likes a goal against Wolves, doesn't he, scored four goals I think for Evan against Wolves, scored two goals at home last year when we beat them 3-2, so he is definitely a threat so hopefully he will be fit and then it will be on Hamas and it will be on Alex Wobby to come up with the creativity for him and that'll be through balls because it's not necessarily, well it won't be, the crosses into the box for him to, even though he is good in the air, he's not thomming the Calvert Lumen level is he, so we'll have to look at different ways and hopefully, you know, Luca Dino probably play, I should imagine, as well and if that's the case then we can get some creativity from Lucas as well on that side, but it's going to be a tough game, Wolves are a tough side, David Ogden, best striker as well of course and all him and us, so it's an opportunity for Evan, it's as tough a game as it is in this season, the way results have been and the way Evan has been away from home, we've got to think we can go there and Nick will, but like you say, it will be this. Yeah, it's a quick turnaround as I said for us, you know, obviously playing the 120 minutes on Saturday, it was quite early, obviously Wolves played Friday night, be crystal palace with that sort of goal and you know, as you mentioned there, they know what the level they were obviously last season, which is understandable because they played a lot of football last season and then the quick turn around again meant that, you know, the was always going to tie them out, they may be never going to always get to that level. They've lost one of their best plays through injury and they've lost their other best player through being sold to Liverpool. So again, they were never going to be as strong, but it is a difficult game, you know, their home record is not brilliant. It's just below ours and our way record is good, so I don't think we'll go there fearing them, but it does feel a little bit like without making excuses, like everything is starting to catch up now, not just for us, but for a lot of teams, you know, players will have played, I think Dom is a perfect example of someone who's played through Christmas and is now feeling it and obviously he's picked up a hamster injury, you know, in the red zone, as they say, and I think you're going to find that in the next few weeks. I think we've seen that over the weekend with the FA Cup and stuff is that you're going to find that with a few players. Now, this is when they're going to start to feel it. So just kind of hope we can just what one thing that sort of I look at and think is that in the last few weeks, the way we've we've dug in and the way we've obviously gone into games and and have sat back and soaked up the pressure. I think this is an opportunity to do that. I just wonder whether with whether the personnel will allow that though. And it sounds mad, but because we have got Coleman back and we have got Luka Dean back and we have got Hamas Rodriguez back. It's it does feel like if we try and do that, they're not actually the right personnel to do that. So there will be that interesting balance to see if we try and do that with those players. Yeah, I mean, I don't know whether I don't know how we align up whether Coleman and Dean will play. I imagine I imagine Dean will play, but I think that that could see go through your whole guy playing at right back and Coleman being shoved just to keep a little bit of that solidity. I mean, for all I know we could just go with back with the full the full centre backs again and try to keep it tight and put Luka Dean's shove, but because they might want to give Dean a little bit of time to recover from the hour he played the weekend, 66 minutes, whether they want to give him a little bit of time to recover from that rather than playing game after game. But I will be surprised if you play Coleman and Dean, to be honest, in a back four. I think one of them may be, but I think for us, we've looked better with the four centre backs across the back of late because we've been solid. But I think if you have three centre backs across it and you have Luka Dean breaking forward, you're probably always going to have that cover then. And it makes sense especially if he's going to play Hamers off the right. If you've got someone like a whole guy behind him, you can make sure that we're not done down that side too much. You know what I mean by that? Coleman who's bombing on, what it does is it takes away your running down the right hand side to give Hamers that space. But I think for Everton, solidity in this one is an important one. I think Dean, I'd probably leave Dean out, I think with Roy Ori playing, if he plays, because I do think if you nullify him, I don't think he's the most consistent player in the world, but he does have patience. I just think what I saw from Luka Dean on Saturday was obviously someone who's coming back and needs games, he needs to get back to the level. And I don't really think at this stage of coming back, he really needs to be trying to catch Roy Ori. You know, I don't think that really helps him. And I think that's something, you know, because, you know, it's good you get players back and there is that, you know, you wonder whether having been with him on Saturday whether Luka Dean would have started that game with the manager would have said no, leave it. Give him an hour, it's basically, you know, getting him some match fitness, but it probably would be the right thing now to step him down. Just because he played, you know, it was only Saturday and he will be feeling that hour, because he hasn't played for six, seven weeks. So it might be the right thing to step him down, put Godfrey there and just let him go head to head with Roy Ori, because Roy is fast lad, but Ben Godfrey is a fast lad as well, and a big lad as well. And he's powerful, isn't he? Yeah, and I think, I think, and listen, I'm not making a decision based on let's just nullify, nullify Roy Ori. I'm just making that on all those factors. You know, we know Luka Dean is a great, you know, a great player going forward and, you know, defensively he's good as well, but I just don't, I just, that just to me is a bit, is a mismatch at this stage of Luka Dean coming back. And so, yeah, I'd probably... You could look for maybe Villa Sunday, because then he'll have another week's training. Dub against Wolves, I haven't seen him, and then obviously we play on Sunday against Wolves, but Godfrey and Trio Ori make more sense, because of the aspect and the fact of Godfrey, because he is a big lad and he is quick. You feel like he could probably compete with Trio Ori a little bit better. I mean, Wolves have switched slightly from that back three, with the four at the back. They used a Brighton anyway, they had Samedo, Cody, Sison, Nori is there back four and played the four, two, three, one, and a three-all draw. And we've seen him for years playing three at the back, having me with the wing backs high, obviously. They've had to change that slightly this season, because they've lost Matt Daugherty, who was obviously instrumental in that formation, and they lost Jota, like you said. So they are a couple of players, short of what they have been over the last few years, but still a very tough place to go. I haven't got it. That's why the solidity factor from us probably makes more sense, going there and just can't keep nice and tight. Similar to the way we've played at Leicester, places like that, and then hopefully try to use the Charleston through the middle, get him running off Cody and try to do it that way, try to create something that way. You know, because the point in this one is a good result. While I feel like we can win it, you know, don't lose, you can't win, don't lose. And it's something we didn't do against Westam, which we should have done. You know, we should have hung on for a point, and we didn't. We were disjointed and got caught going or flat out for the winning, without really looking convincing, like we were going to win the game. We got stung, whereas maybe if we had just kept that patience that we did at Sheffield United and just stayed solid, we might have nicked. You know, we might have just ended up with a 0-0 and kept it going, but that's kind of, well, that's not necessarily the mindset I want to see from everything going forward, just at this time and just the way they see it, keep it tight, make it difficult for Wolves and get it. If you come away with a point, it's a good result you move on, because they will be in the home for Europe, in places the same as us. So it's not necessarily a bad result, but it will be a difficult game. But it's a game we can win, because they are fighting on all shoulders. Yeah, and you can see the goals recently as well. You can see a lot of goals, I think there was a 4 against Liverpool and 3 against Brighton. So they can see the goals, they're not... They haven't had a clean sheet in 10 games. No, that's a fact. No, that's a fact, and that should be taken as, you know, certainly that we have a go at them. You know, they're another team, they're not where they want to be, but they're another team that are not that far behind us in terms of points. And we've got Villa coming up, and obviously we've got Leicester as well in a couple of weeks as well, and I think we play West Ham again, don't we? So we're playing teams who are sort of in that pack for the Europa League, and you are right, it's important we don't lose these games. You know, we can't... It'd be great to sit here and say, I'm going to win this, or we've got to throw everyone at them, but that's not how you deal with the season, or you manage the season. Yes, you go into every game individually, and you take it on as an individual thing, but you're absolutely right if you have that idea of... And I think that was the mindset that actually won us the four games in December of. Clean sheet, that's what we start with, and then we turn and they could go. And that's what... I think that should still be the mindset, even though we've got more attacking players on the pit. The attitude should still be of that, because, you know, okay, wins are what get you the top four, but not losing when you've got, when you're already sitting on the points, wasting it on. That's what gets you your up, getting through sticky periods, like January with the mix of Premier League games and FA Cup games and balancing it all out when you're not maybe haven't got your best squad. I mean, that's why there's supposed to be a win to break. That's how you balance it out. You can't win again. Don't lose it. Don't give a rival an opportunity to get an advantage over you. And that's what you're absolutely right about, West Ham. That's one of the things about it was, wasn't just losing. It was losing to a team that actually aren't that far behind us and closed the gap on us. So, like, you know, another, if there was another set of results where they won and we lost, they'd become on the same points. We've got to make sure we're picking up points all the time. So we're not hitting bad runs and... Because that's what it's been this season, hasn't it? It's been a great run, a terrible run, and then another great run. And it's like, let's make sure that we, you know, that we're staying in the positive column rather than, you know, negative when it comes to losses. It's a case of, you know, you have to lose points or, you know, where you've had yourself put yourself in a really good position. The next minute when you lose into these teams that are around you, they catch you up and you start dropping down, whereas keep people away, keep people at arm's length. That's what I'm saying, if you can't win the game, get out with a point and move on. And they haven't made any grand on you and that game's out the way, but it is all mad. I was just looking at this weekend. It was under the assumption that everybody was playing this week. No, the split, the split, some are playing this. No, people play it next week and we're not. Yeah, some are playing, so this is basically, like, the equivalent of the winter break. Is this the winter break? It's just the winter break. So we're playing, yeah, so we're playing, so everyone's playing over the weekend, and I think there's three fixes this week, something like that. And then the rest of them are next week. So this is the equivalent. So we've got no game next week in the lead up to the fourth round of the FA Cup and then we play Leicester on Wednesday. Yeah, so it's, yeah. When the Liverpool playing, I'm just looking, I'll do it. So Liverpool playing Saturday, so no game this week, then Saturday, then Thursday. Yes, yeah, of course. Why wouldn't they be? Why are they giving them, like, anyway. I've just seen Spares games, because Spares and Villar is off there now playing Fulham. Yeah, yeah, they're playing Fulham and we're playing, we're playing Sunday now instead of Saturday into VLSO. Sure, mad. But now, this again, this is a team where we eat each other's rivals for this year, and we're equally battle-hard. We show, don't lose your rivals. That's basically, that's the, that's always been the thing. So we've got to go in it, have a go. I mean, I can give you some depressing stats if you want. No, we're not having depressing stats today. It's COVID regulations, meaning we're not allowed depressing stats. Oh, OK. Yeah, it's one of the protocols that's just been, Governments have just brought it out right now. They've just changed it very quickly. A bit of a U-turn. Normally, they allow depressing stats, but they've done a U-turn and today they will not be allowing depressing stats while we're in our COVID bunkers. OK, fine. What can you do with the government? You can't do anything with the rules. It's government rules. Rules are rules. I can't go outside and I can't give you depressing stats. It's completely out of my hands. With Chris Whitty, it's all said. Did it, yeah, the slide? Did a slide? Did a sliding? No depressing stats. You can't argue it's... Can't argue with slides or signs. There you go. Let's leave it up there, then. There you go. That's us done. There's no thoughts in the comments. This is a quick turn around the game. Yeah, so it's tomorrow and we're recording today. So today means that's Monday. Again, signs. Leave your thoughts in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos, join us over on Patreon where we do live daily shows where you can have your say and we will chat back to you. That's us, yeah? There you go. We do that every single day. The link is down here somewhere. Down here somewhere. There you go. Thanks. See you later.