 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the final words and it's, it's happy final words. Don't get these two off them do we? Such a convincing three points as well than a card of city. Happy days. Chill now, relax. Chill. No pressure. No pressure on us. Well, no pressure on us though. For this week or just in general? No pressure on this week, no pressure anyway you know. I think that should be the narrative. You're convinced now are you? Convinced. That's all right now. I said we needed to get to that point and I think, I said it in the preview I think that if we got what 11 points ahead of a card then we'd be fine. So and we've done it as early as possible and that's brilliant. Yeah, 17 days off. I didn't necessarily show that in the first maybe half of the game but I thought it's early second half. You could actually say that we'd had a bit of a rest. I thought you could see there was a freshness to the players and you know once obviously the game evolved there was a bit more confidence and a bit more about us. I thought it did show in the first half because I thought we were so rusty in the change of ball playing. Just a little bit sloppy and stuff. I thought we competed well enough and that was fine but just some of our passing a little bit in the first half we could see we were trying to do the right thing and just wasn't quite working. But as you said, as the game went on we grew and the control we had over the game particularly the second half was good because it was very un-evident. A time to be in control but you were always nervous that if you got one obviously it changes the complexion but now overall a good result and a performance that improved as the game went on. Obviously the team news itself was interesting to say the least. Phil Jagielcher coming in I wasn't massively surprised once Silver had said that. I mean there was touch and go and Jags was fit. I suppose in that instance you've got to go with the player who's fit and Jags came in and a part from his face touch which obviously nearly led to Cardiff getting a second minute goal. Luckily enough Luchadim was switched on and allowed to the situation which you know what a lot of players might have been at that early stage of the game or might have just been looking the other way or whatever so luckily. But I thought once that had gone I thought Jags thought he did okay. No he wasn't brilliant then he didn't have to be brilliant but I thought he did okay. It's just that obviously he's getting older and 36 in a league that is unforgiven and a league that's filled with quick players. At times you are going to come up short but as a defender you don't organise that. We looked much better off set pieces with him in the team in terms of defending him. Whether that's just him knowing where to stand or whether he's back and pulling people in or whether that's just being a case of the managers doing a lot of work over the last couple of weeks and the pen he's shot a little bit more with them I don't know. But overall I thought Jags did well. I mean the first minute he does brilliantly to get there in the first place and then he's fallen as he knocks the back pass so he's woefully under it but he didn't you know be in the pro years he didn't let it get to me come back and he had a decent performance. You're saying that about the manager organising things you know but sometimes you just need that voice reminding everyone and I did see him at times telling people where they needed to be from corners and more from long throws. It's almost that one player at times. You've gone through it all in the training pitch and obviously you're in a football situation and suddenly things can go out the way. You just need that one player something that you switch on who remembers all those others and says don't forget you're supposed to be here. I mean he's there because it only takes that one person to be out of position and then especially when you've got I've seen this in games recently where other players have tried to cover for different other players and then suddenly you've got not just one player out of position. You've got two players out of position and it's just a little domino effect and sometimes you just need someone to switch on to go. Now you're there I mean he's there. If we all stay here we're doing our jobs and this is what we spoke about. I'm not saying Jags is the answer. I'm not saying you can't really say last night well it was because of this or because of that but that's all you need sometimes. Jags is being criticised in the plenty of times for not being vocal enough but for me that's something I don't necessarily say. I don't see somebody any of our centre backs just relaying messages. You're there, I'm here. You do that, I do this. Doesn't happen enough and it was nice to see a little bit because that can remind other people that can rub off on people keen. Might start soaking in with keen going oh yeah I'll start telling people then as well so I was happy to see that from them. Well that's what I mean you know that's a big thing that I've brought to Liverpool which is out there and you see other leaders in Premier League teams or teams at the top. It's something companies done at Manchester City. You know Otter Mendy was a liability for a long time and some might say he still is sometimes but he's improved through playing with company. John Stones improved through playing with Vincent Cymru now Stones is the one organising. Sometimes you need that bit of experience editing. I've got three centre backs. I think we all hope yeti be in above be that but we haven't seen enough of him to know whether he is that or he isn't. K2 doesn't seem to get on with his game which is fine and Michael Keane doesn't see that type he just likes to play with someone who does that so he likes to just concentrate on his own game. Maybe that's been a problem for everything this season at the three. The three of our chosen centre backs are all all prepared to play with someone who's a bit more you know lively but one of them is going to have if they're going to be at three and that's a human doing mistake and obviously the Chelsea the Chelsea transfer ban if that was to be upheld might dictate differently but that's what we need one of them to be. We need one of them to be the way Jagielco was last night and just telling and talking people through games. We've seen it years ago through Richard Goff who came in at 38 and just organised us. Dave Watson was still playing when he was 37 and organising people and Alan Stubbs David Weir. When we've had good defenders, Yobo was great but he was better when he was next to Stubbs or Weir because David you just I'll tell you where you need to be. That's important and I think it's something that we haven't necessarily had all season and it's been an issue at times. Yeah I mean you know it was sloppy wasn't it first half it was a sloppy performance. I mean the changes the changes you know I got a message of four o'clock saying Snidlon was playing and I was like fair enough. That's what he's come to the conclusion. James Coleman thought James Coleman had a good game last night. Look back to what we know that he can do which is push right on. I mean James when he starts going down the line stopping and turning back he's almost a waste of a player because he's not a fantastic defender but his real threat is his attacking force and when he's on that side of his game he's still a really big asset to us and he proved that last night. Can he do it against Manchester City? I don't know anymore but you know I've seen a few people going it's only card if we should beat them they're awful. There's a lot of teams we should have beat this season. Others feel beat Wolves last night. Wolves you know Wolves miles better than ever. Now they were on the day but I had eaten in general now they're not but we didn't beat them. So you've got to win the games that are in front of you. Colman made a big difference last night he did because he was back to bombing on and you know he was being dropped. Might have given him a little kick up the arse and make him look at himself you know and hopefully. Where do you think some of those changes have come from because Snydom was in the team which was strange. There was no Tom Davies obviously no goal miss. I mean Tom wasn't even on the bench. But do we know if he's injured or not? No the manager said before the game that he said this is what he said. I'm just going off what he said. He said everything but me and it was a technical decision. I think he said someone else as well but it wasn't Tom. So he said they were all technical decisions. So where do you think that comes from? You know John Joe was on the bench as well. I'm just taking a film the last few weeks we've been doing the man of the match and in the last three games the top two I think in every game was John Joe or Tom. Well listen to manager and I believe he said after the game the team was picked on what he's seen over the last 17 days. So if Tom Davies and John Joe Kenny haven't performed in training and Morgan Snaddle on us then why not play him and Seamus Coleman. You know like I said before Seamus might have just got that bit between his teeth again and gone I've got a fight for my place to get back in that side. We know when Seamus is performing at his level that he's better than John Joe. We know that because John Joe is still learning the game and is he as big a threat to Seamus when attacking wise? Not yet. Seamus had dropped off that side of his game so they thought he deserved to be left off the side but he's obviously battled and he's come back into the team. And the other thing is we've lost the previous three games with John Joe and Tom playing so I'm not saying that they were to blame but what I'm saying is the manager is probably lucky and gone we've lost three games in a week which is what happened. I can't continue with the same. We need to try some difference. And I think what you saw with Snidlin in particular was that okay him and Garner don't know all these ways together but it allowed Garner to play higher up the pitch and be a bit more dynamic on the ball and Snidlin went back to what he faced did when he came into the other side which was just get it and pass it and keep everything moving, keep everything moving and being in it. Don't forget they're a big side he was in it for some plays as well. I thought he played well. I thought he'd quit it himself really well. You look at him and it's like okay. He's a player, he's a player for France. He's been an international. I said it on me on the player ratings. Snidlin's the type of player you only see, you only notice when he's having a bad game if that makes sense because all he does is just keep things ticking over but that's at times what you just need from a player. At times because I think I thought the biggest problem first off was how rushed we, again this has been a big criticism for weeks and weeks is how rushed we looked. So everything is just trying getting things as forward as fast as possible and then you just make a mistake yourself smashing the ball at each other to chest height and incomplete passes in dangerous areas. For me you've got to just build into a game having you slowly and I just thought we give the ball but it's far too much against the poor side. We just kept on giving it back to each other and you expect Devon to just be a little bit better than that. But you know as you said then Rustin has played part. I mean you're saying a poor side but I didn't think they were any worse than the other for the Premier League teams to be honest. I think they're a hard working side so they worked very hard in that first half particularly. They were trying to catch us on the backfuckers they've been playing so they still and they wanted to get out there and show off the off of the name of them on Friday. They wanted a show for the fans and they were leaving the foot in a couple of nasty tackles earlier on. Or your committed tackles, not nasty tackles, committed tackles that led us nowhere in the game but I think what I've been trying to do was play at a quicker tempo to cut them open a little bit and you're right sometimes they were forcing it too much but then other times it was one pass away from being a brilliant move. It was the last pass or it was ritualising doing something without thinking. There was one in the first half where he's holding the ball on the touchline and there's an easy ball battle he could be in and he dinks it between two. When you pop it off and get it back, little things like that but again that could be rustiness and he's young lad as well. We have to remember that just because we paid a lot of money for him and he started and he's played for Brazil, he's 21 in his second season in England. He's going to be a little bit peaky and troffy I think if they're even worse but peaks and troffs for them. But at times I thought we knocked it round well as well. We get into the final third and it's slow and I think this has been commented on loads of times. Everton go through the gears nicely until the final third then we stop and we turn and we pass it back and then a team like Cardiff who were well drilled just fall into their low block and then we're not dynamic enough to break that down. I mean a big problem with that is not having a sense of forward isn't it? It's not having a sense of forward who can move them around enough or get themselves into positions that can hate the opposition enough and that's a big problem if you haven't got someone you can just knock her up to to hold her up to. I mean listen, whether you like him or not you can't, I don't think anyone can argue that's like rondon at Newcastle. Newcastle's form has gone up since he's come back from injury because for them he's a focal point, he's a focal point just getting up the pitch, hold on to the ball and then gives it and you know that at times is all you need. He's the kind of footballer that you look at him and go, he's not for me but at times for what for he's such a good player to just get it up to, he's clever, he knows how to use it and that's the problem, we don't even have one of those kind of players we've got. I thought Dondon well last night. I didn't think he did anything till he swallowed personally. It's that he did what he normally does and you praise him a lot for what he normally does and I didn't think he was any worse last night. I've seen him, I've really games where he's done nothing and you've gone I play well and I'm like what's he done though but last night I thought he occupied that. I think the problem last night was what happened under Romelu Lukaku, he was isolated and then retired. I really like retired but last night I wanted to drag him off after 25 because he runs around. I don't think he can ever say he doesn't put the effort in because he does but there's times. One in the second half he had the ball on and he had to go off and he's like and the lad takes it on and you're like it's a Premier League game, you have a lot of time. And then he's looking up other people saying why didn't you give me a shout. And he was like that in the first half and I've seen a comment on Shoeby on Twitter before and I thought it's right, it's absolutely right. I don't know whether he has the finesse to be a white player and we've seen, it was like chalk and cheese when Bernard come on for that area, someone who's clever on the ball. And I think Ritjarlasen and people won't like it and you might not like it but he's better through the middle. But he's not a centre forward. But I don't understand he's not a centre forward. Is Dom a centre forward? Dom's a centre forward because you can see it but he's a centre forward because of the way he holds himself. I'm not saying he's a brilliant centre forward but I can see he's a centre forward. Well maybe Ritjarlasen is a player who plays with a centre forward. And I can't argue with that but he's a centre forward because when he's got no business with his back to his goal. Nobody likes to run. No I understand that. There's a lot of players like that. And that's where the game... And if you look at, and this is probably half and back probably too long ago, but if you look at the likes of Michael Owen, Michael Owen wasn't great with his back to the ball but he wanted to be on the shoulder. He was on the shoulder and I don't think Ritjarlasen's that kind of centre forward are. I think he's the kind of centre forward that wants to run from deep or a number 10 position. So he's still... I'm not having a go at him but I just don't like his demeanor. The way he walked off the pitch last night was just... That can be two things. That can be either he's pissed off or he's frustrated with his own performance because he hasn't done what he should have done. When we played him at home he was a threat. Right? But he was playing through the middle. Last night he wasn't really a threat. He didn't really do anything did he? Last night he got him in the first half. He got in a couple of times on the right hand side and he made the wrong decision. I think what we've done to him is I think he knew his position on the left early in the season. And he was effective. We were all going great. And then we put him up through the middle because we didn't really have anyone and he done okay through the middle score goals. And then that dried up and then we went to put him back to the left. And I think now he's in a little bit of... he's between the two. He is like so many players in our team. He doesn't have a default setting as I always say. He doesn't have... he doesn't have... There's loads of players in our team who don't have default. There's like no... there's like no one between them. He means like he's not a 7 out of 10. Yeah there's like no one between them at times. He can be absolutely terrible or he can be good. And again he can put that down to you. I've got no problem with that. The manager I suppose he's just got to know because he's got a relationship with them. Got to know when... And listen he dragged them off at fair play. He dragged them off because he needed to be dragged off. And as soon as Benard came on, as you said, you're seeing the difference. But I thought in the first half, I thought we tried to play some nice football. We tried to get shame and we almost got it. He done brilliantly off one. I don't know how he played it. Michael Keane was actually a good ball. But Coleman done superbly well to keep it in. And that was one we got blocked and it was... We had another, you know, Garner had a shot which was travelling and ladded it. I actually thought it did sick. It wasn't blocked by the player in Theo. I had a folly that he should have done better with. And then a half folly where it sat up which was okay. Just didn't have to say it. So I thought we were threatening day ad. What did day ad? They had the chance in the open minutes. It was a very good game of course. But you could see what was happening. There was a nervousness to it wasn't it. We said ourselves it was a big game. Just because results of the weekend had proved it was a big game. Because everybody won. And then you're watching that last night less to score in the first five minutes then Newcastle scored a well. So you're going, everyone's winning. But the real moments of the game quality in the first five minutes. I thought the goal itself, caught them in possession. I think it was a snide and put the ball down the line for Seamus. It's the goal in its simplicity. It's exactly what you want. He pulls it back. Sigurdddon does what he does best. You look at some of the most important things that you've done in the first five minutes. I think it's a good thing. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. You look at most of the goals he scored this season. That's the position he comes in on. That run meeting those kind of crosses. Coming in late from the edge of the box. And again, a big differences. What we've been seeing from the last maybe two or three months is he's had loads of those chances. But he always wants a touch. Where is this one? He just went, no, I'll have that first time. And just rolls it into the corner. And you don't have that time. I've said this before. Could he play up front? I've seen him play up front. He was brilliant at the end up front. Yeah, I mean, he was different that night. He was almost played like a battering round that night. It was a dead wave. What I mean is in terms of calmness in front of goal, he's probably a most calm player. He's a weird one. I mean, listen, it's dead hard. He's got 11, he's got a top scorer. The issue with Guilfee for me is too many games passing by, right? But he scores too many goals for you to leave out because nobody else scores. And that's like with Charleston, isn't it? It's the same, isn't it? As much as you want to say, oh, he's done this and he hasn't done that, but you look at how many goals he's scored. There's a stack on, isn't the first time since the early 2000s. He said that two plays have gone into double figures. That's damning on its own. But, yeah, it was a good ball by Snadl and a great play by Cole and cut it back. And because we had Dom in there as well. Oh, we had Chuck there, right? That's what I'm saying. We had a couple in there. We had a couple in there, which isn't, you know, exactly what you want and what we don't always get in there. But he stroked it in. But he finished it very well. Not just give us that. Just give it a hand, everybody. I think it was a kick in the stomach to them, wasn't it? Because three minutes before our time, they'd probably go in and think, well, you know. Because that was the big thing, you know, and it's the first goal for us. You know, the last few weeks, I mean, that's what's annoying, it's, you look at... He's got it at Wofford. That's what I'm saying. You look at the last few weeks, Wofford, Leicester at home, Sanfanton, Wolves, you're looking and going. If you go one little up instead of them, that can be the difference. We got it luckily enough. I go into half-time there. Come out second half. But again, at all, beginning second half, we just started a little bit slow and it was a little bit, again, just... just forcing it too much instead of just going, well, when they're loved ones, just calm down. And that was what, you know, just before, just around the time, Benad came on, obviously, the chance went off, he stunk the place off. Benad came on. And that's when, for me, we started playing the better football, the best football. And if you look at the goal, the second goal, it's a lovely... not a move as such, but just a lovely period of possession where we just keep the ball for a couple of minutes. And it's almost like slow, slow, slow, quick. And we lost it and we won it back straight away. And you could see people like Gareth and Guilfey, just a little bit... The energy levels were just a little bit higher than they had been in the last few weeks, just having that little bit of rest. I mean, Guilfey was pressing, was brilliant last night, really, really good. And then, you know, one little bit of tricky by Benad, having a bit of papers, and that's... again, that's the difference with Richard, and I think he wastes so much energy on where he uses the ball. I think only once last night did he go down the barline and beat the lad and then the lad put it out for a corner, he blocked it. And you think, and that's all it takes at times, that's selfless running. Benad, Brin, cos he keeps the ball so close to him. And he makes a little touch just before he gets in the box. That just doesn't let it... Defender can't do anything, can't touch him. Keep a get-a-parry on it and Guilfey's brilliant, brilliant finish from around the same place he scored the first. And it's 2-0. And then, once that going in, my God, the calmest that came over, that whole team. And for the rest of the game, it was just pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. That's the whole thing though, isn't it? You shed it there, you get confidence. You get the second goal. Everyone grows again and that confidence comes in. And that's been too many games. This is when... And I understand people, you know, frustrations, and I understand people being not happy with the man that's FA play. The results dictate what goes on there. But when you actually analyse Everton's games, they've lost so many games by the odd goal. And it's, if we'd have gone in from what was better done confidence-wise, and I think, when we got the second goal, we just, that was it then, that was the confidence. And we knew that days would drop a little bit. And we, the players then start relaxing on the ball and they're knocking it in and they're popping it off. I don't, we'd start with the second half, okay. We would just, I mean, the first half, at once days, we had 72% possession, you know, and I think we finished with 67% in the end. So we were totally in control with 430 passes to 120. I think it was what shows you how much of the ball we had. But when Bernard come on because he gives you that instant control when it's knocked to him and he'll drop it. And he's not afraid to just pop it off and get it back and he'll knock it in and get it back. And then they worried about him and then once he faced that manger up, because if you watch when he first gets it, it's very similar to Lester away. He opens his body up as if it's going back and then he drops the shoulder and goes past him. And then you'd write that extra touch just takes him, he can't touch him and he goes like that because he's in the box. Keep it as well because otherwise Don's got a tap in the yard out and he's there to wrap his foot. And it's a great finish with his other foot. And then after that, it's 2-0 and you can hear the Evertonians are singing, it's loud and Bernard's up and you see him buzzing and getting the ball out to him there. They're like that then every time it goes out to him. Garn has started getting on the ball and switching. I thought Garn had a very good game. I thought he's probably one of the match. He's pressing everywhere and he grew as the game. And then all of a sudden Michael Keane striding out with a chain and he's stretching them and kicking them. You know, we took a couple of hefty wax sheamus from just wanting to get it in the iron and look at the end. The old group then you looked at them and you're there in the comedy team and you're like, what a good side have it now. And you're like, where are these, dog? Where are these? Where have these been? To be fair, I think it comes down to a lot of things we've been talking about in the last few weeks. Leadership and confidence. Both, both. And tightness. Both equally, you know, important. Because that's only, I had a look at it, it's only the third time this season. We've been tuning up at least by the 66th minute. Fyllwm, we scored that second goal in the 66th minute up in 3-0. Burnley, obviously, we were 3-0 up in 20 minutes where we shall. So this was only the third time and you could see that because even at 1-0 it was still a little bit like, not, not tentative but it still wasn't flowing but as soon as that second goal went in last night it was just all the things that Silver probably sees on the training pitch every day when there's no pressure and all that, it just started coming out. Just moving the ball freely and not thinking everything we do now has to, has to, you know, end up. I compare the two and people may think I'm taking the piss here for, but we played Man City at home. How they just moved that ball all night and there was no, no panic because to them even at 0-0 they were, they were sad. They were always going to score as far as they were concerned. Where as last night being 2-0 up it was almost like we know we're not going to lose this now. I know, I know there you go but that's what I'm seeing we were 2-0 up and it was like we'll just keep up in the ball round it doesn't matter. We've got the ball so you don't need to force it you don't need to do anything stupid. You know, you keep moving it round there's confidence though isn't it? I don't believe in what you do in it. He's had a couple of weeks they had a few days off and then he's been training and the message will have been the same. So, but how do we, so how do we get that message over to players when it's when it's 0-0? How do we do it? Is that just a, just a centre forward? Do you think? I don't know because it's a confidence thing isn't it? If you believe that when, when we had Cuman and Ron was playing and we went on that run of home games we knew we were going to score every game you go in you started getting into that mode of we'll win today three or four now and there was games when the West Prom it was like they could have gone above us or they could have gone right at that time it was like everyone was dead calm we scored the goals and remember Hull around it was what Michael Silver's had we were 1-0 up and but you just knew it and it ends 4-0 and it was then games where it was like we'll score in a minute and everyone was relaxed and we had this I think in the first bit of the season we were popping it on and you were like we'll get it because Richard Charleson was playing well and gilfin you were thinking we'll get these goals Palace at home 86th minute we scored after and then the 90th and everyone was edgy everyone was like keep doing it and keep doing it and somewhere after the Derby we lost that we lost that patience we lost that it became panic but I think the two home games after it where we didn't win became a city on top and then it just became a thing and there might have been I've run a too many games where it was knock after knock after knock and maybe the reset button's being pressed a little because they've had a couple of weeks to just look at everything maybe they've had more time to go through data or look at incidents or whatever but to keep that calm as you've got to believe in what you're doing and it might be difficult because we now you know we could have done with say Huddersfield at home at the weekend just to build on it right but we've got a Derby and it's a big big game all the pressure's on Liverpool everyone expects Liverpool to beat us all the pressure's on them they know they have to win every single football match they play now till the end of the season and that's a tired impression so what we have to do is go out and make sure we're solid and when we get on the ball do what we did last night and try to do it with a purpose but it's how we can do that all the time can we play that way when we go to Newcastle because they're on a good little run and they'll have the crowd behind can we repeat that a full-on and polish away with which are games which are very winnable for us can we do the same thing I think on the flip side as well it's a lot of those games will come down to a lot of the games before sure you have come down to that nervousness as well from the point of view of conceding from set pieces and things like that and not having because those games you can have a game which you go we're doing alright here to having that niggle and doubt and it felt like to me last night anyway it might have just been me that around the box we were being a little bit more careful not to give away stupid free kicks just to stand there off a little bit just and then double it up at the right time and double it up helps when you've got more energy as well obviously because players can get around and just not giving away those stupid free kicks most of the danger coming in the box last night was from long throws which we dealt with pretty well so if you can eradicate that fear and it's a nil nil and you think we're not going to concede on a stupid set piece so how are they going to break his down because they weren't going to score last night really they shouldn't have scored anyway from anything other than a mistake by us I didn't feel like they had anything in them and they ended up with no shots you've had a couple of nervous moments but you can eradicate those that force shots not on target not on target if you can eradicate those self sabotage moments from day 6 does it's set pieces isn't it set pieces you know we can go back to waltz do the week around the first two goals are set pieces mum's a penalty because you know Bain's woefully dragged them down cos you know he probably doesn't fit and then the second one we get back in the game with a Weldy from Gomez and we give a stupid free kick away Michael Keane dragging the lad down and then we stand still while he gets in it so we've just got ourselves into that game man city we're going into half time done alright set piece, bian Milwell three set pieces three goals that's where it's come from so everyone's using that off of the way set piece alright we clear the face but it's off of set piece it's a corner that we're clearing this score so you're looking at it thinking every set piece we get against us it's a problem last night we made sure we seemed to make sure no one had a free header and what we seemed to do was when it dropped smashed it away and I don't mind that when it drops in your box this dangerous place is their corner smash it away and get your shape because what you do then is you eradicate the rate at which you can see goals and set plays and then confidence builds then so when you do give them away you're confident you can deal with that and that's where it's coming from and you do give them away you're confident you can deal with it because us as fans whenever a team gets a free kick or a corner you go dotty this whereas when you're in the groove and you're playing well and they get a corner it's like come on let's get this out there's no nervousness whereas it perpetuates and this is one of the things the other week and some people didn't like Marko's service reaction to it and I can't remember whether you liked it or you didn't but I liked it when he went stop talking about the set plays because you're making it a thing do you know what I mean and maybe you shouldn't have said that to the media maybe say that to the players but what he was saying was right everyone builds this thing if everything can't defend set plays it gets into our minds as fans so we're nervous it's kind of sheep into the plays no I like the question I think that needs to be asked no but I think I'm talking about that's fine but the question needs to be asked the same way the question needs to be asked to the best ones the other day it's how you handle it I can't deal with that really but it needs to be asked you can't say to someone that was so embarrassing no I know but that's fine I'm saying that question needs to be asked so what you have to do then is to rather keep that so you were rather I've said it many times now about Liverpool the clock first season 21 goals conceded from set plays because it's own and everything else or whatever it was whether it was zone or players didn't understand it they've just got better and better and better now the number one team I think from defend and set plays because he's had to build it over and it's up van Dijk and it's up Robbie Allison to make them better at it so he eradicated that because I remember the first season and even Brendan Rodgers time with them it was like free kick there's a deal conceded because they can't defend it gets into people's minds and it's in our minds now so the more games we have like last night where we've got through it with a clean sheet but out conceding the set play it quietens that down also the players can feel more confident so that's what we have to do we have to cook mistakes out and cook conceding stupid free kicks and corners up and if we do that it's hard to battle because we're in most games in terms of the football but we're getting undone by when the team gets a corner or a free kick it's not like the steamroller does and we're not competing we're competing and the other thing is we have to get better at the other end which I play because we could if I imagine we could make that a weapon for us then where it's not we're no good in either box so I mean I don't know how you correct that other than work work and other than trying to play you've got to have the desire to get your head on this delivery that's coming into the box standing and hoping it falls to you isn't going to cut it you've got to go through players Derek Manfield is here the other week saying I knew I'd probably get a kick in the face but I wanted the score to go so I put myself in areas where it is hence why I've got 15 goals and the only unless I've done it for us many a time I've got to have the desire to get there and I don't think at times our players show enough desire to get on the end quality delivery as well but it can't always be can it because a lot of time a ball comes in I don't know what I mean as a consistent maybe I don't know I mean a lot of the time something can look like a great ball and of course it is a great ball but if you're the player who is posed a b4 and you're at the front and it goes to the back you know what I mean? you know the old but someone's got to be coming on the back to want to get on the end of it as well because they can't all be they can't all be bad deliveries can they? we've got sick to listen we've seen how many times the ball's gone like that off Keane's head and off that off Zoom's head so it isn't of course the deliveries are there it's just that they've got weird shaped heads there's not anything you can do about that but what was good to see was that the confidence the confidence you know what I mean? let's hope that gives us something to build on and I thought that was just so clear that when we went to Nillop it was just like the weight that come off the shoulders and they've got to keep that up it's one game against Cardiff what did he make a world cut? I don't know what can you say? I mean I'm not having a go I am having a go on him but his job is to attack cross shoot and apart from that one volley that he probably should have gone on target should have hit the target I didn't see him really do anything else he had four shots and didn't hit the target with any from around a penalty area and seeing the stats I'm sure it was like he's the only player to have done it this season and something or other to have that many without hitting the target in a game my problem with world cut is I don't walk off the and it's actually what's really unfair is the conversation we've already had with Charleston is you're picking out with Charleston because he is getting on the ball and he is doing things but then I look at world cut and I just go I'm trying to think of things he did in the match and that's hard so you can't think of things to slag him off for because he didn't do anything when you get with Charleston you go he did that, he did that he got course on the ball and super things like that but at least that you're like well he is part of the game and he is trying to do something it's just at the moment it's just not you know it's just not switched on or he's doing stupid things and we've said loads of times how he tries to do the wrong thing in the wrong area decision making you know bad decision making but I'm seriously trying to back me down when did Walker get the ball and face up the full back I can't remember doing it once and that's the that's the problem it's that idea we've heard this loads of times where players players make themselves look busy but actually aren't doing anything and I think that's where you can actually say if I walk out in the entire season is that he makes himself look very busy but he doesn't do anything and is it a time for a position change for them we said this last week he was 29.30 29, yeah he's another player that this team just doesn't seem to suit because probably because he's shameless or or whoever's playing they like to push forward it doesn't give much base for him to what he wants so maybe that needs to go like that a little bit it's why I'd like to see three at the back is so those wing backs the full backs has to become wing backs and that you're with and we can do like that we can go like that up front and then we can get two up front and maybe that would suit Walkout a little bit more he's not in the game enough he's just not in it so it's hard to criticise that and he hasn't got he hasn't he's not another one who isn't finessed on the ball is he it bounces away he's someone who's he's all ballistics isn't he he's all getting out the feet knocking and run he's not going to face someone up usability he's not Bernard is he so or Adam Ola Luckman who will go both ways with the ball so I think when he's wide and he's not in the game you have to ask yourself the question what is he there for he's not trying to get in right on the back and we saw the one when Garner pops it off and he bollies it that's what he should be doing all the time give and go knock it in and go and he should be trying to find them doesn't happen because he doesn't get on the ball enough I think a big problem with us one of our big problems is we're supposed to be playing 4-3-3 but our two wide forwards and I used the word forward loosely a Charleston was in our half and that's what made it more frustrating so he's not he's probably frustrating going why am I so deep why aren't I further forward why aren't the full back stand positions higher up the pitch therefore his stand position and again that might come down to confidence how far the full backs think they're willing to go whereas when everything's flowing you've got a midfielder dropping in the teams working in sync your full backs are higher so naturally those players are higher but Charleston's probably fuming all the time cos he's probably thinking why am I picking the ball up in my own half and trying to take people on and Wolcott's probably in the same boat a little bit he's probably so deep that he's like where have I got to go if I go up I'm not getting the ball I said this dude a week I can't remember what game it was it might have been the Leicester game loads of times he got on the last defender and one of our midfielder's got the ball and I've seen him loads of times going like that and not once did anyone just put the ball over the top so if you're a footballer and you want to be in set you want to be part of the game what are you naturally going to do you're going to go looking for the ball aren't you were you ruining the way I started cos he always wanted to be on the ball so every time you play the front you just kept on dropping and dropping and they just got their defence and that's what one of the adjustments we need to make is we need to start pushing the full backs is high up so after the game you look like a heatmap or something of those starting maps and you go look where that full backs are they're just there that's easy with three centre backs isn't it cos you can get up the pitch higher but a lot of teams you'd probably look at a lot of teams full backs ones who've probably got a lot more energy than maybe Seamus has got cos you are up and down and that's when 4-3-3 that's why it's become such a preferred thing for people is because in the old days you obviously had 4-4-2 and your full backs never went anywhere and your right midfield and left midfield just did that old day but you knew you could just whip it in if your full backs are starting higher then you have got three up front but we don't really seem to have that and that's a big problem we've seen to have for a long time look at how many times have we seen having no luck when in this first season picking the ball up just inside our half or just inside their half and then it's like what am I going to do with it now I've got to be four players he's not the fastest player with the ball so that's something that needs to change and you're right with three that could change and then you could have another centre forward on the pitch I just don't think that the way, I think in the beginning of the season it was fine cos we were all confidence beats pushing up the player player out of the pitch but as soon as you start losing a few games you start thinking negatively so you're dropping and you're dropping in look at Dean, how many times have you seen him get forward recently like properly living on the edge of their box first half this season the way he was living this now we're now but I suppose that is also dictated by Keane and Jack Elke being centre back everything plays its part of course it does you want your back four or your centre backs you want them having pace and everyone to be confident and your full backs we're so altitude that but again that's confidence isn't it and that only comes through winning that tenth win of the season that's like wasn't it and you're looking and going cos they have won enough games of football win enough games of football you're questioning everything you're questioning what you're being told by the manager you're questioning your team mate you think am I doing the right thing why are we playing this way, what are you doing when you're in sync you don't question anything just do your job and this is why this is why it's so important to have the team and not just 11 players because you can get the best 11 players but if they don't connect properly and that play doesn't do that things that's why in the first season when Barry and McCarty sat in that move field and every time the full back went forward one of them just went left or one of them went right it worked so well there was a real symmetry to the way we played and then when McCarty got injured that was all lost because it was like well who got no one did that job and you can have plays where equally is good but their mindset might not necessarily be when he goes forward I drop back they might just go follow the ball follow the ball again that's all part of the process though isn't it and this again comes back to your manager who's looking at it and going well this is how I want us to play but the reality is I ain't got these players and it's going to take me there's lots of things that I'm looking at but listen to you know we've won three in it away from home which is a big thing absolute garnet just absolutely magnificent confidence personified great ball away from Coleman getting it out of there garnet takes it on the chest up the leg comes in and pops it through his legs runs round them with ease strides away from him and a lovely little weight for a fella that can't pass lovely little weight above with the outside of the foot Dom doing what I think he should be doing more stretching there back for runs away and when he took the touch Dom they were never getting anywhere near him it's a great finish it's a goal purely fashioned out of confidence because if it's nil nil garn around popping it through his legs you know what I mean Dom probably is thinking he's not even making the run pass because he's thinking if that's nil nil Dom's thinking no no what he's thinking is I can't get off the side here because if I get off side and it's blown and they get the ball back this game's finishing nil nil so again everything is dictated by where you are when teams are not confident they don't think about things you do everything instinctively and that goal was pure instinct garnet ain't making that pass either because he's going to dig it on it and by the time he plays the pass Dom's going to be offside everything just flowed in that moment and that's what the best teams do because even if you're a man's city and you do that and he's offside you're always thinking we're going to get one more chance even though this is the 19th minute I remember when Man United we're at the very very best and you go into the 19th minute and they didn't just go let's launch it they just go keep playing football because this is how we know we will get through we believe in our ability and that goal was pure confidence brilliant finish by Dom and that's confidence for him it's another goal so it's like I've scored an, alright it was 2-0 and that was the icing on the cake but that's what Rom did and very good at it, put the icing on the cake put the cherry on the top and get yourself another goal scored another goal scored a different type of goal didn't he scoring from outside the box and if he does that, if he makes those runs he's quick, he can put defenders in trouble but that's where you need and it is this is the criticism that Guilfee can have because he's almost it's weird his position but there's not many times that he's striding away from plays but don't you think a lot of that comes from as well the fact that we've had three centre forwards this season who all are slightly different so how does Guilfee build that relationship with the centre forward that this is where we spoke about it on the preview didn't we about Wolcott, if you had Wolcott up front with that pace Guilfee would always know and then it's down to Wolcott to keep himself on side but then Guilfee would always know that pass would be on, always but if he if he does something instinctive like that or even, you know, and then suddenly he goes oh, it's Jeng Towson he ain't getting that he ain't getting that on a skit it's brilliant but in behind Towson couldn't get there and it was like a great ball if he'd have been down more or if he'd have been Wolcott or maybe even Rathialyson he'd have got there because it was that good a pass but, you know, we've seen it with Rathialyson's pass to Towson in the city game at Wondell you know, it would have been the other way around he'd have got there before Edison because Towson almost got there Wolcott had definitely beaten Edison to it you're right with that so that, I suppose, what the man is he has to make that call now does he just say this and bombs ass like and out till the summer but that's the thing now isn't it I mean, listen I'd like to think after last night's when that we've got enough I hate saying these I think now we've got enough points to go fine, we've reached the the fresh old you know, you think about that and you think, right it's all about how many points we get now how many points we can finish with beaten last year is totem now, isn't it so what do we finish on last year? 40 now so 30 more 30 more points 5 wins 5 wins, right saying that's the target isn't it and you go out there and play with the freedom to get those 5 wins because you're only going to win those 5 games that's what we know about this team I said when we've done the preview and I think I said this to you even off the thing that I've got the belief we could have won 6 of the last 11 games I've really got that belief and we've won one of them already can we win 5 of the next 10? well on paper we can beat Arsenal around Chelsea are a brilliant, we could beat them we've got a derby which might throw up but we could win, we could win full them away we could win 3 home games and win 2 away games 3 home games and 3 away games Bailey, Arsenal, Chelsea let's just say one was Sunday of course and then you've got Newcastle, Palace full them Westam away so there's no reason why listen, it's as I said it's confidence, it's all about confidence or if we were to win Sunday then suddenly you're like fucking hell, we can beat anyone we can beat anyone but you won't think that because why not? I'm just hoping that Cardiff is like the bookends so the first time we played them was the beginning, after that was the beginning of the bad spell start with Liverpool and Cardiff winning last night beating Cardiff last night was the end of that and then we go and play Liverpool again beat them and then Newcastle we played after Liverpool and we beat them and then you know not asking for miracles but well I mean look it, Huddersfield Huddersfield's last win was Wolzer and they won out Wolzer they haven't won since and then they just beat Wolzer out I don't know if you were Wolzer and you're just on the double Huddersfield on the double over here it's mad though isn't it, that shows you that we've set up what we've said and I've said on your Wolzer Barcelona thing Joe by the way that they're a decent side but they're having the season of their lives they're having a horrendous season, there's four points in it so everyone above us everyone next to us and a little bit below, we're all the same we can all win one we can lose the next, that's the way it is and that's why the top six are where they are because most weeks they can win where all like that are interchangeable we could still finish sixth, fifteenth but we could also finish seventh because I think I think I said the other week that we've become a one-win and four team so let's get it at least a one-win and three team and then maybe get it one and two, one and half that's what you have to do, you build on it you're as good as your last game so we just won three in it so we're good and we're confident so we go into a game that's almost like a it's not a free game because it's a dabby but all the presses on Liverpool they have to win they've gone with the title for us, our fans don't like it a bit of course they will because they haven't had much to shout about this season and this lot, it means a lot to the opposition so our fans will be magnificent on Sunday and whatever it has to do is start from the basis of almost like, and I hate myself for saying this but almost like a Sam Allardyce mentality of don't get beat, first and foremost I'm sorry, I thought you were going to say, if free Brentos if free Brentos and don't have any shots no, don't get beat no super mistakes, if Liverpool has a score on Sunday they have to win it with a great goal over ever nothing silly or cheap from us and if we do that as the game goes on and the crowd, they'll get edgir yn edgir then you take it into the next game then you go to Newcastle and you look at that it seems we've got left we could finish the season alright but something was said last night and it's right this now with this win now our thinking should be switching to next season it should be the preparation for next season can we finish decently and start preparing for next season and identifying what players we need so that we hit the ground run next season and we don't have another one like this where it's been good, terrible different all over the club we have one where we can see where we're going with it and everyone can get on board cos at the minute there's still too many variables isn't it but just taking it last night it was a good win and it was a workman like performance to win 3-0 got the job done and fans there as well two days off all that the ones you made of course John Blaine he's had a great few things a great few things every day you go that is what you thought in the comments is it just what are you thinking cos there are no lousy if we go on a Tory card if it's someone off so let us know what do we need to do to do that every week were you impressed with us once we got the second goal and calmed it down is that the real evidence no thank you for watching don't forget if you haven't subscribed please do click the bell for the later give us a like this video if you're watching it on YouTube and if you want more videos join us on Patreon we'll see you later