 Welcome to Toffey TV, this is the match preview. Southampton versus Everton at St Mary's. Primarilyg football is back and this is, this is the big chunk now innit, before the break for the Whale Corp. It stops again. And obviously it's obviously important to start it well. We finished before the international break well. Obviously 1-0 win, but Southampton always always well. I say always the last 10 years since they came back to the Premier League. It's been a tricky game as there are only two wins in that time. The last one was a 2-1 win with the Charleston getting the winner. I was there. A 3-0 win under Roberto Martínez, a fine performance in the green kit. But we struggled, we struggled of late. So how are you seeing this game, Baz? Yeah, another tough game. We've lost seven of the last nine at St Mary's, or seven after the last nine at St Mary's rather. So it has been a kind place for us to go. But Everton are on a good run at the moment, you know, six games unbeaten in all competitions. We've had two clean sheets in the last two games that we've played. And that'll be something that we're looking to build on. So I'm dancing one there first down game last time at St Mary's against Chelsea and that all win. So it'll be tough. It'll be a tough game. I've gone in a slightly different direction this season, with young bang, younger players and stuff. The man has to keep all the tea items obviously evident. We're very interested in him. But for us it's a case of, you know, can we just keep this run going? Keep it nice and tight at one end. Can we nicks up on the break at the other, hopefully? We'll have Dominic Alvedlun backing the squad for that one. There'll be a big boost, obviously Malpie getting the win the last time, which is really good for us and for him. But it'll be better to have Dominic Alvedlun as well, obviously, then it gives you some more options in the final third. Yeah, because obviously we've got got players missing. It'd be nice to have Don Bach, nice little extra boost, someone coming off the bench. Obviously he was close for the West Ham game, but subsequently found out here there's a groin issue, so it'll be interesting to find out whether he can play. We've got obviously got Jordan Pickfield who's been, who missed the last game, would have obviously missed the Arsenal game if it had happened. So it'll be interesting to find out where he is at the moment. I think for us there's a continuity to the side, obviously, which with the injury to Nathan Paterson, obviously he's going to be missing for up to six weeks, let's just say. It's just knocking another place out, isn't it, where you want to just keep that team as together as possible. Let's just have a look at the side that took West Ham on. So obviously Begavitch in goal, that had Paterson at right back. Do you see many changes in that side ahead of this game? I think obviously if Jordan Pickford is back, he will play as good as Begavitch did in the last game. I think Pickford will play. Obviously Seamus Coleman will come in for Nathan Paterson. I imagine at right back. And then everybody else, no, I wouldn't touch the rest of it. Even if Dominic Alder Llewman's fit wouldn't make any difference to me. I think it's, having them on the bench is really, would be really good news. For us, like I said before, Neil Mawpai 100% deserves a start in place after getting the win the last time out. He's brilliant. Took his goal brilliantly rather than work hard. So now I wouldn't I wouldn't be making any changes other than like I said, Pickford has to play. He's been in soft form. He's got to play if he's fit. And obviously Seamus is in through necessity. So even if Everton would have had a full strength squad, which we don't know what that is, but if he would have had a full strength squad, I wouldn't have been making any changes anyway. Because when you look at it, where are you making those changes really? There's only, I think there's only really Dominic Alder Llewman who you could argue would get into that side over Neil Mawpai, but then Mawpai's done, I think he's done really well last two games. So then is it a case of do we move, say, Anthony Gordon out the side from Mawpai to play wide? Well, that's changing a little bit of the way you're doing things. And obviously we'd like Anthony Gordon to get more goals and get more assists. Of course, he would. He had an assist in midweek for the under-21s for Conor Gallagher's goal with to doing the world a good. And then you have, you know, the likes of James Garner who come in on deadline day. We've not seen him yet. He was sub last time out against West Ham. He went away with the under-21s and he played a little bit of the first game. He played 70 odd minutes against Germany. He didn't even the second game. He did really well. So, you know, he's potentially knocking on the door, but then are you very splitting up in midfield three, which looks quite good at the moment. Yeah, but going back to James Coleman though, I think, you know, it makes sense he started the game. He is the back-up right back. He played most of last season. Okay, yeah, he got injuries and we had to cope with that in the directs of John Joe Kenny at the filming there. But he is the back-up right back. And it's right that he should play otherwise, you know, a very different people, you know, mentioning changing players out of position and moving things round. But you want to keep that continuity, don't you? You want to keep what has been aside for the last five or six games, which has grown to the point of winning against West Ham. You've got to keep as much as that as possible. And I think, yes, we're going to miss, we're going to miss Nathan Paterson and we don't have anyone else who can fill in that space. So, with Seamus coming in, with Connor Cody and James Harkowski next to him and Michael Encode, then you've got, you know, you've got the continuity there. You've got Garner in midfield as well, which will help Seamus coming on that side as well. And, you know, for me, that's the point of when people talk about having a squad and bringing players in. And that's why you should always look to improve and then knock down the fellas in that place. And then, if they have to come in as the back-up, then that's, you know, that's what happens. Seamus Coleman is the perfect back-up right now. He's got all the experience he's, you know, he knows, knows the job. And yeah, he's not going to be quite Nathan Paterson. He isn't going to be, you know, he isn't, he might not give you that little thing that Paterson had certainly, you know, West Ham, the last ditch saving tackle to get you over the line and things like that. But you have to adjust accordingly, don't you? You have to, you have to change the little things in your game and there's no point thrown out, you know, the baby with the backwater. You've got to look at the situation and, right, well, we have to adjust. This guy is our back-up right back now. He's got bags of experience. He goes in and he does a job and we have to use all that experience. So, for me, you know, he goes in on satty, you know, Brainy had 15 minutes for Ireland over the weekend. Okay, I'd like, would have liked them to have a little bit more. But, you know, he's fresh coming off the back of an injury, you know, you know, he'll work hard, he trains hard and we have to get on with it. Shea, he's still a good defender, still a good one-v-one. Yeah, he's not going to be the same as Paterson. He's not going to be raving nothing down that right-hand side all day. But then again, it's not like Nathan Paterson has been scoring goals and getting assists. So, like, we're taking a big chunk of that out the side. What we're getting is someone who will do his job at right back. It will be slightly different, of course, it will. You know, Paterson is the switch sometimes, isn't he, with the balls over the top. I'm not going to say shea can't join in every now and again, but it will be more focused on making sure we're tight at the back. So, I'm not, it's not ideal because Paterson is the youth, it's the energy, that's what we want to see about Shea. I've seen a lot of people, you know, talking about games, as if he's awful, as if he's, you know, Cucamartina levels or something. He's a good defender, he's coming to the end, he knows he's coming to the end, he's just stupid. But he's still a good sub, he's a good addition, he's a good squad player to have right now. And then, I'm adding Stanley Mills will be on the bench to back him up. You take it week by week, don't you? You know, we know Paterson is going to be out. You take it week by week, you see what happens, you know, Mason Holgate, you know, could be back in the next few weeks as well. Possibly, I don't know how close he is, he was supposed to be on similar trajectories yet he mean, and yet he mean is apparently back in the next 10 days according to self-American media. So, there could be a case that Mason Holgate comes back, and then he's an option as well. If needed, if needed, but for now I think Shane was coming, just goes in, fills the role, and silly for another way game where you're just trying to keep that, trying to have that clean sheet again, and allowing players like, you know, in front of them, haven't they gone or, or they might be great to do what they're going to do. So, if I ever can get a clean sheet at the weekend then, I think if I want to win, 100% I want to go for the win. But if we come away with a draw then you just keep this season's about building and building and obstacles that are coming your way, finding solutions for them so that the team builds up and they can be knocked down this challenge and I'll can be knocked down that challenge. We had to tighten up. Last season we were just porous. Goals were flying in everywhere, set pieces were flying in everywhere. We had nothing at the top end once the charlots and the dom were injured. So, we were already starting to gain basically a goal now, and then no, and we didn't have anything in it. Hence why we had one win in 40. This season obviously Frank Lampard and the coaching staff have decided let's do it. Very much what David Moyes would do it, is let's start from a solid base. It's all fair and it's what the top sides have always done. Get your defence right and then everything else comes with it. Okay, we haven't got the resources or the top teams in the final third but if you're keeping clean sheets then at least you're getting the points over the game. This is there for the, don't get me wrong, all that being said this game is here for the taking. These aren't great. They're a tough game because they will win. They'll feel like they can win, of course they will, but so we should be going there now and thinking, we know we're going to be in it. Can we get something? It's tricky because it's obviously coming off the back of an international break as well and there's less preparation time. You haven't got much time with the plays, you've got to travel and it makes it a little bit tricky but that's why I'm saying my continuity is so important going into these games. Not changing too much, just putting a, if a player's out put a replacement player in, don't start mixing too much and the same if Dom's available, you know, put that, if he is available put him on the bench, you know, let him come off the bench and obviously he's missed a lot of football anyway so it wouldn't be right to, I don't think to just stick him straight into the team but you know, keep that continuity, that got us three points in the last game anyway and I think that's what saved us well in the last few games having a settled, settled team. Yeah, everyone knows the jobs then, don't they? I don't think Dominic, even if he's fit, he's Dominic Alvaluam is not starting anyway but it's good to have him on the bench. You start looking at the bench then and going, we've got options in the field, we've got options in the final third, we've got, you know, plays on the bench at the back as well so we're well covered there. Then are you staying in the game long enough to go, let's actually go and win it with Dom, let's save Dom, can Nick or something, can have it and get a couple of goals up anyway and then can we drive it out? It's all of those things, the Ffrancland part of things to try and bring in. Like you said before, these will be tough because they are, it's a tricky place to go but they're not Manchester City or Liverpool or a game like that where it's, you know that it's going to be a real tough afternoon for you. It can be, you know, when you think back to, I think it's Ffrancland part, like second away game something last season wasn't it and we went there and we just didn't perform. The first half was okay until Alan got booked and once he got booked he couldn't tackle and that was it then Southampton got a grip of it and then we had the goldish so I did me just after the break which Dom, which would have been nice but it didn't quite pan out like that and they ended up winning the game but it was tight for a long time in that game. You know we've got a goldish express ourselves, can we get in front and ask questions of them then that's the big thing and then once you're asking questions of them I think a large part of last season when we played there was the midfield wasn't he just mentioned Alan, Alan gets a stupid booking on that free line but then also Gomez was so slow in the game and you know he was awful and you know you look at the make-up of those positions now it's completely different so well let's have a little look at Southampton's team there, obviously last time I got beat 1-0 by Aston Villa. Yeah, a lot of... Well they brought in like Bizzuna, a lot of oysters, you know, you should go goalie, you know, you should go keeper and we know that, we know Carl Walker Peters is very active up and down man like he's on the side isn't he but I think Salasiu is decent as he is, could be gore, definitely, Tia Adams, someone who hasn't been very interested in it, a lot of energy from them. And War Prowers is obviously any seple you give away around the box and corners with him is always a threat, you know, always a threat so we'll have to do that. They're a very hard work inside aren't they, they give everything, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and obviously they, you mentioned before Tia Adams, someone who's been, who is linked with Evan, let's just have a look at his numbers. So six games, two goals, no assist, 1.8 shots per game, got the winning goals at least I was thinking in that winning, really, you know, someone Evan obviously looked at, someone who runs the channel as well, someone who's, it's not massive physical presence but I do think he's come on in the last couple of years, added to that playing games for Scotland as well and he has come on since the Bolton from Birmingham and, you know, he brings other plays into the game as well, you know, he's not a massive goal scorer but he brings other plays into the game and can be that danger and obviously with that movement and obviously we'll have three players at the back who, you know, who are touching 30 or over 30, it's, there's a little bit lack of pace and he'll, he'll try and exploit that and he, as I said, you know, you've got to be careful because if he does win the likes of the set pieces as well, War Prowers is, it's, you know, it's just someone to keep an eye on. Definitely, I mean, Evan a Defendant, very deep, obviously with the delight these three with Conagog, we didn't try a cough sheep but that's fine because we're not giving a lot of spacing behind. It's not like we've been done over the top time and time again, have we? We've had a couple of issues with Brentford and I think we've, we've sort, kind of sorted that by the time we went to, you know, we went to Leeds a few days later so we haven't left loads of spacing behind. Not having that recovery pace of Ben Goffrey, obviously you can't do it. But those two lads at the heart of the defence, about 29, you know, you're touching the 30, that's, they're still 29, youthful 29s. They're experienced, James Coleman, very experienced, so this is why I think if Jordan Pickford's back as well, just with his kicking and things like that and his communication, I think that helps. But Saltampton will be a handful, you know, Tia Adams is a, is a hard working centre forward. He's a lad who scored obviously 20 odd goals for Birmingham. Saltampton, so he couldn't score a face. He's won a gap in the Premier League in the Championship but last couple of years he's got more durable. He's a handful, he's won eight or ten goals a season. Like Maupai, you know, that done really well in the Championship. Adam Armstrong's another one Saltampton have got scored against Chelsea last time out. He's another one, done very well in the Championship, but Blackburn hasn't really translated it into the Premier League. They'd scored against Devon last season, a good listen. But they've got players, listen, they've got players you can hate you, but we've got players you can hate. Do you think, do you think Frank Lampard, as we go forward, has, and maybe start with this game, has to start looking at, at those places gone on the bench as well, you know, just seeing, just seeing James Garner playing for the under 21s, decent performance for England 2130, decent performance, good on the ball, shot, set pieces. Do you think someone like that, the manager has to maybe start looking a little bit more just during the games because I think so far we've seen, we've seen quite reluctant when you look at the bench you can understand why. But he's getting more of a shape of a squad that he wants. Do you think he has to start maybe trusting those players a little bit more to just get a little bit extra? Yeah, because you substitute can win games, the matter is sometimes. It's key and I understand the certain aspects of it. You look and say, for argument say, Alex Awalby's running all over the pitch, he's on the bench, Alan has been in the past. He's like to be put in and he's not the same, can't run up and down or Tom Davis is good as Tom Davis has done at times this season, he's not Alex Awalby. But now Evan have got Adelaide Decori on the bench who maybe doesn't use the ball as well but he gets it on the pitch earlier well. James Garner has got a different skill set, he's someone who set pieces as dangerous, good passer of the ball, mobile, so he's another choice. So all of a sudden you've got two lads sat on the bench, you could actually play an arm with the field, that's an option. Then you'll have Dominic Alvert Llewyn hopefully there, so you go on this mobile being in this game or, you know, as Anthony Gordon in this game is he doing enough? Anthony Gordon's had two poor games, the last two games for Evan, but then he's going to go and assist for England with a given confidence. So the manager does have to look at the bench and think, where can we win this game? If the 11 on the pitch aren't doing it, he's gone and after it, and it might just be confidence with him the more he gets of those first choice players back, you know, whenever they've had eight injuries already this season to players who would play. It's a lot, you know, and a lot of them have been in games. The more of those he gets back when he's got genuine options on the bench, then of course you have to use them because everybody else is. Now Pep Guardiola, Jürgen Kloddeidol, panach about taking a player off, he's really good. We've had two in the past because it felt like we've had 11 players and the subs are just nowhere enable. He's starting to get players you, but you could argue, you could fight to get in that team over someone else. So you might see a situation and I don't really like doing this, but there might be a situation where he looks and thinks, Anthony Gordon's not on this today. I'm going to push Alex O'Woby there because he can do it and I'm going to put James Gardner on for argue and say to get on the ball a little bit. I don't really want that to happen because I want O'Woby to stick with a position, but someone like Alex O'Woby does give you. I mean, in fact, against West Ameddon, Alex O'Woby, when I played a bit higher up and I'd be like the core, I come on. So there is those options as short term solutions within a game and I think once we get to January, they'll be looking to bring it forward on the winger anyway, so to give them even more. I'd be an interest in option money because obviously someone like James Gardner, the set pieces, what we've seen from him so far in the forest and stuff, that can be an option as well. So it'll be interesting. I think he does have to start as we move forward. I haven't trust in his plays because a lot of them are his plays now, so that'll be an interesting one going forward, but it's a tough game. I don't know, it just always seems a tough game playing them. So expecting nothing less and as you said before, if we can get a clean sheet out of it, then we'll start from that. And I think that to me, that's got to be at the moment what we're looking for. I think a big part of that for me in this game is first 20 minutes, get all the, you know, not played for a couple of weeks, get all the little, because we've seen this against Westam, because we haven't played for a couple of weeks, it was just we were a little bit open as well. So let's get through the first 20 minutes, settle everyone down and then hopefully, you know, go forward. Let's hope the AARs work on properly this year. You know, should have been given a penalty in the first two or three minutes last year. Well, yeah, the handball. No, I think you're right. Can we just grind a few results out there over the next few weeks? I'm happy with that. We need to add quality final third. I think everyone watching this, every blue watching this will agree and say, yeah, we need another winger who could get on the end of things, you know. Cude, this has been one Cody Gach postcode for Holland in midweek, so another kind of one, he was linked with both of these teams. Southampton actually had a bid for him. So someone like that in January, but just right now, just keep nicking results, build the confidence, be a little bit more expansive and then the goals will come. And then that's when you then start becoming a team, where you look at any game and think we can go there and get a result, because we're nice and solid, we're competitive, but you're right, opening 20, don't give them any encouragement, get on top of it and hopefully we'll come out victorious. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. Is there someone else you'd like to see it right back, let us know. We're not doing any stats now. 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