 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, Everton vs Manchester United, Carabao Cup, quarter-final, it's where all the big teams are. If you're not in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup, then you're just not a big club. That's why I'm concerned. It's just not. If you're not, you're messing about, you know the trophies that no-one cares about. Cos we're not in it. Simple as that. Yeah, but before we start, let's pay off on that. Big thanks to E-Toro for sponsoring Toffy TV. E-Toro sponsored a number of Premier League clubs, including Everton. The best thing about the E-Toro app is that they offer a copy-trader feature. And what it means is you can copy top-perform traders as they trade stocks and commodities. And you can do the same by doing it. It means you don't have to learn or know too much about it at the start. You can just copy them and the trades that they make automatically go into your portfolio. Dead easy. Best way to do it. Laying off the experts. Why wouldn't you? 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And with those in the form waiting as well, it's suddenly become a very, very interesting contest and I don't know whether it's going to be who puts out more face-teamers or what, that's going to get this, take this game. Yeah, it's going to be dead interesting because they are in good form away from home. They don't very well all season away from home, haven't they? Obviously, they've had that six tubes up in the lead as well now or all trafford to throw in the mix. And every time it seems all he's going to salsias on his last legs, he's going to win and run again and win a few games. So it's been interesting watching the way their results have been, but I mean, they've had two away draws in the Carabao Cup already and be looting 3-0 and be brighting 3-0, both away. So, you know, it just goes on with all the other results in the league where they've won most of the away games on them. But it will be interesting because they played a lot of games, obviously with the Champions League as well. How high on their priority list is the Carabao Cup? Is he going to go with full strength to just keep momentum going? Yeah, I mean, that's an interesting one there actually because obviously you look at the league table. Man, it's just you know, you've got a game in hand and you could go to second with them when they're gaming in hand. I think it's a villar, I think. So they are at the moment in such a good way. You look at everyone else and obviously man, you've had to have been through this already this season where everyone else has been in a few games that may be losing a couple and they've been on a good run and you do wonder, don't you, what is that priority for them? Of course, do you want to win a trophy and get that first trophy and it is something like the League Cup. It can be huge for a club like Manchester United for some of the colleague on the south side to get Manchester United going. Whereas for us, we know it's huge. We want to get into that semi-finer. We desperately need a trophy in any way. So it is interesting where they look at it and think with all these games we've come on up, this isn't a priority, so we'll play some of the squad players. But even then, it's still a tough task because I just think the way they play, the way they play on the counter-attack, it does make it a very interesting tie because the last few games obviously, we sat back and allowed teams to come on to us and I've stopped that counter-attack. You looked away and played against Leicester where we just completely nullified their counter-attack by not putting any space. It'll just be interesting to see whether we do that again and who comes in for us to do that or whether we're going to throw everything into this because we won it. Look at United. He lost. We're tombly and sure. Look like they're both out of the game with injuries from the weekend. So the manager will be mindful of that, especially if the Premier League is there. If they're looking at it thinking like you just have, you win that game and I'm a second, you know, we're in the right positions. The Leacup might be like number four on the list, you know, after you know, because the Europa League should be hide and you win that, you're back in the Champions League. It's a safeguard against, you know, not getting in the top four but I'm sure Shalshia will want to finish in the top four again. Do you think though, going back to what you just said there, do you think though from Manchester United, the fact that they are in the Europa League and the drop-off in quality from the Champions League, see they might look at it second after the season and think like they've live up earlier in the Champions League where you've got to have your best team and we're in the Europa League where number one, is it huge that we win that trophy? Maybe not now. Do we need to put our best team out? No. So we save our best team for the league and see they might look at it thinking, we could maybe cat Liverpool, if they drop a couple of games because they're putting everything into the Champions League. And that's where I think we'll over Christmas, that's where the accumulation of those points, the three games in a week that you're having. Exactly where you get those quick points where we've seen ourselves, suddenly, you know, you're in eight times position, you win three games and we've gone up to the top four and they'll be thinking the same thing, you know, if we drop a few points here, suddenly we're back down and I wonder whether that will come into his head when he's putting a team together for this game. Yeah, I mean, I'm a matio'n hen this will be in goal for them on the day he was back at the weekend, hen this will play the other night at the CF United, didn't he show that? He'll probably be in goal and they'll be able to call on like Brandon Williams and I'm sure he'll come in for Luke Sean on our left back and there'll be players in midfield, McTomney, you know, Mattis, you'll probably play, Wan Mattis, they've still got go players. Of course they have. You know, on the front, you'll want to protect the strikers, Rashford and stuff, but they still probably have a gallow and Greenwood will probably play Dan James, so whoever they put out, they've got a good enough squad United that they can mix it up and still have a team that can cause you issues. I doubt they'll like Sir Paul Pogba playing Bruno Fernandez, but you never know. No, they might be on the bench though. They might be sub, but it's going to be, no matter who you like to put out, it's going to be a tough game for Everton. How we approach it, I don't know. I imagine, I imagine Sheamus Coleman will star for Everton, but it's a huge expense. Well, if Sheamus comes in, so if Sheamus comes in, let's say, and Hamas Las Vegas comes in, which I imagine he might do as well, it changes the philosophy, doesn't it then? Not only does it change person, it changes the philosophy of how we're going to play. I imagine Hamas Las Vegas starting on the right-hand side. If he has got Sheamus, then it's not, if they come in back as a pair, that's not too bad then, because you've got, you have got that play that you can get up and down, and it does shift from what we've been doing, of course it does. But I wonder whether, I mean obviously if Tom Davis plays, Tom Davis hasn't played that many games, so if he plays, that's not too bad. Does the core, he plays, does he bless them? Well if he gets booked in this game, he wouldn't miss the Sheffield. But he's like, do you want to rest them for the, she could theoretically, if Coleman come in, and this is mixing it up, you could put Hallgate in midfield, with Davis and put the core on the bench, and still have, you're giving the core a rest on the head of Sheffield, but Mason hasn't played, he's only just three or four games back anyway, so you're wanting to kind of get that fitness. So there's those kind of decisions, but then Yeri Mina hasn't played lots of games in succession on the run, so would he play, could he leave Mina out and put Godfrey at centre back, where Cain and play, Nails and Kung, but then you mess in too much with the team. And you're weakling your side as well, of course you're out, so well, but then again he might look at it and go, will I want him Kung to play? What about some of the Gonzay Gomez, maybe coming in for Guilfee Shigetain? Almost like for life. Like for life, yeah. It will be, it's going to be interesting because I don't know what his priorities are. He might, anti-lots, he might look and go, but two games away from Wembley, we beat United who might and take it as seriously as the Premier League games. I'm not saying United are coming to throw it, of course, on that, but it just might be their number one priority. Where if we beat them, and the game, don't forget the game's done, hook or crook on penalties, whatever, if we beat them, we're in the last four. Still in the quarters, a Stoker against Spades, now of course he'd expect Spades to win, but who knows, can you do with a Stoker A5 on a Tuesday night. There's also Brentford against Newcastle and a No City player Arsenal in the other one, so, you know, it'd be very unlike Evan to beat United and get one of the two weaker teams, I say weaker, but you know, one of the two weaker teams in the semi, but, anti-lots he might go listen, and get through. The semi's a one-off game as well, no two legs. We get a home draw or against anyone at Goulderson. You know, we've got an opportunity to get to Wembley. Yeah, yeah. So, I don't know what he's thinking. It's a lovely, it's a lovely, in a way, it's a lovely predicament, isn't it, to be thinking, to be in the top four going into this game. And again, I say that, not with like that kind of thing of like, within the top four. You know, it's a, it's a nice thing for us. It's a nice position, but it's not, you know, a couple of games a year or day, you know, Spades, Spades, you know, went from top, top tier to bottom tier, lower than London did, faster than London did, you know what I mean, it's, it shows you know, a couple of wins here or there. So, but we've got the points on the board. That's the main thing. We've got a game like this now. We're not all worrying too much about, about the stress and over the table. We're looking forward to games. We're looking forward to the games, you know, after Christmas. And it's, it's just a nice, it's a nice predicament to be in. And it's, it's just, we'll see, we'll see what Carlo really feels. Yeah, it is hard to say, at this moment in time, isn't it? I think with more, maybe with more space in between the games, in a normal season, you're building up to this game. If we, maybe if we'd had not had a midweek game last week, we might have had more than one idea on it. You might, you know. But again, if you just, you might look at it and say, listen, this is a great chance for us. You know, the beaters in the league, the other week, we let ourselves down that day, we should have got a draw. But they were, you know, they were pure, like, had that ice in the veins to kill us off on the counter attack, didn't he? A couple of times, you know, they were ruthless in front of goals. So, it's up to us. You know, we can get ourselves back in here and bloody their nose a little bit and say, look, we can, you know, we just beat these three, we can beat you as well. So I'm not, I'm not looking at it, worried by Manchester United. Although they are a good side, we have got great players. Cos it's a quarter-final, how? Two thousand of our fans will be there. It's a, you know, we've got the opportunity. Hopefully, hopefully, yeah. We've got the opportunity to get into the semi. So, we've been in the quarter as a home last season and we've been up on penalties till last day. You know, let's go one better. Are you expecting, are you expecting anything in the team that might be, you know, a little bit shocking? You know, someone coming into the side, you're like, we're doing the same off-front. Well, no, I'm just thinking, I am actually, I am actually, because it's come off. I think I'll also play. Do you, yeah? I just think because it's come off, because it's come off the back of the Arsenal game and it's not even the fact that it's a league up game. I'm just, it's the fact that it's come off the back of the Arsenal game, three games in a week. I'm just conscious of the fatigue factor of some of our plays and I just wonder whether it might have gone too far. Now for some of the... It wouldn't surprise me if he leaves me in it out and plays whole gate centre back and puts Coleman right back. Okay. I think I'll also play, definitely. And then it's, whether or not he looks at Calvert-Lewin and goes, we'll play with Charleston through the middle to start and we'll play a Wobby and Broderiga's either side or something like that to give Dom a bit of a breather and then say, with half an hour left or whatever, if it's trying to throw you on. And that way, with Charleston, because don't forget he's missed a couple of games with injury and three games suspended as we, one game of injury and three games suspended or whatever. So he hasn't played as many as Dom and that might still give us the threat through the middle or also give us, be able to rest on as well ahead of Chef United and it might be that he does something like that but for all we know, the players might be like, I want to play in this one. This is a great sound first one. Do you know what? A, two best pieces of form this season have come when we've had loads of games. You know, the eighties part of the season and now everyone didn't play in the league cup games. But it's momentum. But that's what I'm saying, it's when we've... Yeah, Michael Keynes played every single game. So he cut a machine. But that's the thing, it's playing really well at the moment. He had the dip a few games ago and he's come back the last few games. Plus, certainly the three that we've won, he's been very good in and I thought he was good at burning. But yeah, I know that people go, you can't play this many games in a week or whatever. So this... I don't know what players can play that same thing. This might be the game where they say to you, he mean, I write it on the bench, you have a breath but you're still shrub. Whole gate, you go and try to chance to get shame as back in the teams or have a look and there's wealth without having the four centre backs across it. So, or he might just go, you know what? Olson and golfer pick for back four stays to shame, the midfield and we might switch maybe hammers in for maybe don't with Rittygone on the front. And that might, because that's still seven or eight, nine of the same team with a couple of players thrown. But it does make a lot more sense, doesn't it? That because we'd shame us in Hammersford Eagles coming back as a pair. That makes a lot more sense for that side. So, straight away, you've got two back into the team. You're freshing it up on that side. So, yeah. And it might, like you just said, the Richarderson going down the centre makes sense to give Don a bit of a breather and get Rittygone through that. Exactly, yeah. And Rittygone, I mean, you'd have to play slightly different. Couldn't play as many long balls but you know, we wouldn't let himself down. You might lose that weight on the other side. I just don't, I just don't, there's going to be a time when you have to pivot back to the way we were trying to play because you've got to find a medium. The only problem with that is just because we've got no allen that puts a huge strain then on your centre midfielders to cover more so, we spoke about it before we went in the three games and we were looking at the Hammersford Eagles position and we were saying, we need another one in the centre midfield, someone who can come in and do that dirty work. So without having allen it puts that more strain on them as well. And I'm not saying that, I'm saying let's have a look in this game. If you can be the fella who shits and we'll have you with Tom Davis and like I said, you can push the call. It's not like I don't want Hammersford Eagles in the team. It's just that we'll have to find a different way of playing which we will anyway because you look at the Sheffield United game, you look at that and think well we can't go there and sit back. We've got to go there and push on and try and get the three points. OK, it'll spin back when we play Man City. But we've got games coming up where it's going to be tiff or tight, you know, West Ham and the Wolves and Villa, these kind of teams where they'll give as good as they get. You have to be on the front foot in those games. So it's, you know, and just using the squad, just refreshing it up. It's going to... People back up to speed as well, isn't it? They're like to shame us. So it's going to be dead interesting but it's a tough game but it's a game we can win. We've just beaten, you know, good sides already this season and I felt we'd let ourselves down a little bit against United last time. Well, I think if we'd been playing the way we'd been playing last year, I think we would have got more out of that game. Now, at least we had our points out of it, wouldn't we? Yeah. I mean, we nearly did the way we played. Anybody did me decoria through opportunities late on to maybe... But they are a good side. I've been impressed with them recently. United's been really impressed with them, the way they've played on their counters. But they gave you a chance. I mean, I watched them again against United and... Chef United, 3-1, an ar y byd. Get a goal and then hand us nas to produce a world in injury time to stop them getting a draw. So you're going to get chances against United. It's whether you can take them and you can keep them on. Even though they will make changes. You know, there's still a threat, Andy. They'll still bring players in who can cause us problems. So it's going to be a tricky game but these are the games you want to view. If you're going to win the trophy. Definitely. You've got to beat big teams. You're on the way there. It's going to be like that. If we won and we got to the semi and we got to a final, you're going to be playing good sides. You've got to have a little bit of luck and you've got to win the game. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Let us know if you think we can get through to the semi-finals of the Carrival Cup. What team should we play? What team would you play for this game? Let us know your thoughts. Positive or negative, whatever. Let us know. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. And if you want more great videos, join us on Patreon. The link will be around here. Have a good Christmas as well. Check out that Itoro offer as well. The link will be in the description. Hopefully we'll all be smiling on Christmas day after we've got through to the semi-final and we're fourth in the table. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be the perfect Christmas as we're all locked in our shits eating whatever animal comes. Head shock. It'll all be good, it'll all be good. There you go. See you later.