 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV. It's a match preview, Aston Villa vs Everton. A very tough, first away game for the Toffies travelling down to Villa Park, which is somewhere we just haven't had any joy, have we, since they came back into the Premier League? We don't have much joy there anyway. We've looked at it over the years, we've not won that many games of filler, we've had our moments, but a lot of the times we don't have any good results of filler at all. And since they come back we haven't had good results against them home all the way there. We've been a little bit of a bogie shard in recent times. So it was a tough game going to Villa, it was a tough game. It's not been good times. Obviously we went there for our first away game last season, our second game and obviously we were beaten to one, so we want to try and avoid that this season. But obviously Villa got off to a really bad start of the season going to Newcastle. A lot of buzz about filler, obviously pre-season, have made some really good signings, going up to a club that had obviously had similar. We've got to be 5-1 and conceded a hell of a lot of shots and obviously conceded the goals as well and Newcastle did very well to put the five past them. Yeah, it was a shock result obviously, you'd expect in that game. Not so much a shock result as in Newcastle winning because Newcastle had been very strong around certainly last season, but just the fact that it ended 5-1 was obviously a bigger score lining. Villa were poor on the day defensively, obviously lost Tyrone Wings though to an ACL during the game and he didn't really recover from that properly and allowed Newcastle. This got a couple of good goals, but they'd allowed them running through, almost getting caught so square at the back end, you can't believe it to exploit that, but they'd be looking to bounce back from that because that will hurt. That's unusual isn't it? I mean I was facing the season, you can't always take anything that happens on the first day of the season, it's very much an extension of the pre-season. But Emery, if obviously came in, disjointed Villa side, organised it, got it a lot more defensively solid. So to see them concede five goals on the first game of the season because they've obviously added lots of pace, dynamism in there, but he's obviously got the team to where he wants it. Emery is someone, he's someone I wanted as Evermont manager 10 years ago, but he's obviously someone who's built his reputation and been very, very organised, but he has added that little bit more going forward this summer. Maybe first game of the season, they've just been caught, not quite having the balance and that's something where the weeks and the months and playing more games together starts to gel a little bit more and you find that balance because it's not always easy because you've got a lot of attacking, pacey plays, you all want to go one way, you've got to make them start working the other way as well and getting it so you're not getting overran. Yeah, I mean it's brilliant that that isn't it, it's Villa side, it's all, you know, form, you like it, you've done it, it's your Villa. You get to playing in a certain way. Everyone understands the job, that's what he does, since he went in a filly. He looked a mess under Steven Gerrard, he looked like he was in trouble going all the way. He got in and sort of told you that, you know, he finished the season brilliantly and got into Europe obviously and the attack and talent they've got will always put them in games, but he did sort of defend sort. The first few games of the season people are still finding the feat. We've always said after the first international break is when the season really begins and so from an evident perspective this one might actually be an okay time to play Villa before they have settled down. They obviously got lost one day last week with an ACL and they'll build up to the league and then lose Tyrone Mings with an ACL in the game. It's incredibly unlucky. From our perspective you'd like to think we could take advantage of them not being fully cohesive right now, but they've got a lot of very good players up. Yeah, I mean if an Everton's team isn't where we want it to be, but at least it's going to be similar to what it was last week, maybe adding on Dominic Arnill into it, so at least we've already got what we know where it's there having to make those changes. We've spoke to Luke from the Up the Villa podcast, let's hear from him. Aston Villa v Everton this weekend, really looking forward to the game. I think it's going to be a difficult game for both sides. Aston Villa are going to be looking to bounce back on the absolute horror show at St James's part 5-1. We play quite well in parts, I think the scoreline probably should have been not so bad towards Villa, but we move on. Tyrone Mings getting injured going down with an ACL, Emmy Bwendir a couple of days before we got hit by such bad luck going into that game anyway. Mings leaving that game on a stretcher, which I think emotionally probably hurt the players a little bit as well, so Villa are looking to bounce back. Everton had a decent performance against Fulham, I saw parts of that game, Sam Old Story just needed their shooting boots on, needed a striker, can rinse and repeat that sort of saying, can't you really? Everton are in a decent place under Darcy's, you know what you're going to get defensively saying, difficult to beat, quite physical, decent on set pieces, but like I say, until you get a striker, I think you'll be alright when you get a striker. I'll pin it to you this season to finish 12-13th, which I think would be a decent season. So at Villa Park, I think players to watch out for obviously Ollie Watkins, John McGinn, but our new signing moves to the RB, really exciting, really powerful, looks like he's starting to get a little bit of a partnership with Watkins as well. And I think Aston Villa might just have a little bit too much for Everton, especially at home. I think we've got goals in our side and I just think for Everton to win, you're probably going to have to score two plus goals. It's difficult to maybe see where the goals are going to come from right now, but you'll have a better season than last season. Enjoy the game up at Villa. The goal, thanks to Luke, and that's something we'll be doing more this season on the previews, getting the view of the opposition fans. I mean, listen, I can't go against anything he said. He's absolutely right. The goals are the thing, aren't they? The Everton have been, everyone knows what Everton's issue is. You can play well, lose the game and everyone will go to the goals. It gets highlighted every time and it's something Everton have got to sort out, an art trying to sort out, even as we speak. So that's going to be the hard point, but with the possibility of having Dominic Alvin moving back for Everton, obviously Shaun Dysha has done the press conference and has already spoke about it, that does give us that little bit just extra what we saw last season. We speak about the blighting game as being the one way we've really seen Dominic Alvin clicking. Maybe with Villa having a little bit of an upset in their defence and having to bed in a new centre back, it is an opportunity, isn't it? Absolutely. I mean, it's a big boost to have Dominic Alvin available. We wait and see where the manager starts with him, but that's huge for Everton. Changes the way we play, gives us a focal point, gives us a target when we're putting balls into the box. He frees up all the players because defenders have to look after them. Obviously, they're going off to make a decision as it's going to be Pau Torres that comes in, it probably is. First game and all that, so a chance for them to unsettle him a little bit. Like I said, it changes evidence to him. These are the early parts of this season. It's not ideal the way we do business, that we have to wait. I mean, you hate the fact that the transfer window is still open when the league starts. But for us, what we've got to do is just get through these games again. Last season we were talking like this, and there was five Premier League games gone by the time the window shut, and we'd almost written them all off. Ironically, last season we started with a one-the-long defeat and we lost a villain in the second game, so we're going to have to try to correct that. But in a few weeks' editing, we'll have Dwight McNeill back, you know, top scorer from last season. They'll have Jack Harrison available, Anna Danjum will be fitter. We know that she's another wide player, another centre forward. The attacking options will be much better in a couple of weeks. But right now for this one, Dominic Ardillun being available is huge. Yeah, and the thing about something like having something like Dom on the team as well, it does help the likes of Nathan Patterson, because they don't have to check back and try and do anything clever. You can just whip a ball in the box and he'll try and make something out of it. OK, it doesn't always work as you need more bodies in there, but at least that's an option now, rather than when Mo Pies up front you're looking and if he's the only one in there you're checking back, you're slowing the play down. I think with Dom what we saw last season is when he's on it, and again it's hard because we've had this low with the time, but when he's on it, likes of the Corry will run past them and will support knowing that the ball's going to stick. They're not hesitating because they think well if this doesn't stick I'm going to be caught out. So it is massive to, you know, if he starts or even if he just comes off the bench it gives everyone a lift I think, it gives the fans a lift as well, which is, you know, can be that just that little extra thing to keep you in the game or get you ahead in the game. Yeah, definitely changes the way we play now. Obviously we've had two seasons of being really poor, but that's a lot of that's been born out of the fact we haven't had a proper striker for the two seasons, you know, the seasons before that we had Dom and before that we had Rom. You know what Rom Dom? It was a, we were scot, and he was an issue Rom Dom wasn't he really? So we've always had that focal point, we've had the goals and everything we're doing because we had the player in the team. You're seeing it with Aston Villa, Olly Rockins, you know, when he went on his purple patch after Christmas they flew up that table, you know, remember them coming to Goddus in February? If Everton had a one, there'd have been three points between the two teams and yet on the last day of the season Villa would have been Europe having to win to stay up because they had a centre four. I think that day he'd scored six games on the run, I think it was, when he scored the pen. So you have a centre four with who's there and getting on the end of things, it changes your whole team and we just haven't had that in last season. You know, our strikers got four goals between the three of them, it's embarrassing. So having Dom back it does it changes everything. Let's have a little look at the Everton team that started against Fulham. There you go. I mean, I don't think there's going to be too many changes in that side at all, apart from Dominic Arventham possibly coming in. With what we've got at the moment, I just can't see too many changes. I think Michael Keane will probably continue because I don't think he did, I don't think he did bad at all last week. I think the midfield picked itself and James Garner out wide is someone who can tuck in, especially in an away game and maybe Patterson can go on the outside and that's what I'm saying. If you have got a Dominic Arventham on the front, you can throw a hit in the middle. Something to hit, something to get crosses into, something to hold the ball and then allow the team. And as I said before, on the dice, the away performance hasn't been that bad and you've got to go back to Manchester United again, beat 2-0. And that day we had Ellis Sims playing up front for us and we had actual good chances that day. And he missed the guilty. He had Sims at 0-0 didn't he, put it by. I think the other away defeats were Arsenal and Liverpool. So, you know, he's, you know, in the other games he's done all right. So, eh, let's have a little look at the villa side. Yeah, Martinis, the map back four, obviously cash, concert, mings and Dean. It was last week with expectant Paul Torres to come in there. They've got Bubacar Camarra, I really like him. Douglas Lewis, too tough lad in the field there. Leon Bailey, anyone who watches this knows that I really like him. Anyone who watches this knows that Moussa Diabi, I haven't watched it 100 times. I've been banging on about them to sign them for years, but it's gone to villa. He's an excellent footballer. And obviously Olly Watkins, who could have been an Everton player, had Anthony Gordon moved to Newcastle. Sorry to Chelsea last August when Stephen Jarrah was ready to let him go. So, Watkins was brilliant, but Moussa Diabi tremendous, obviously, the goal on his debut last week as well. Yeah, obviously just come in. Let's have a little look at his numbers, even though there's a small sample size at the moment. Obviously goals 1, XG of 0.28, dribbles 2 out of 2, ground duels 4 out of 8. Passach was the 88% and obviously on that right hand side. A good player, he played a lot of money for. I think I actually said in something we'd done that he was asking that my want to watch for the season. So he's going to be a big player for them this season as they strive not only to get hair up the league, but obviously playing in the European Conference football. They play Hibs next week, I think. Oh, yeah, the whole tournament. Oh, he's gone. I think he's gone. I think he's gone. If only he can get it cohesive and there's no reason why he wouldn't. The only, if you look on the fillet, from an outsider's perspective, the only issue he might have is if there's an injury to all his walk-ins. They haven't got anything underneath. There's no one really, there's still two weeks of the win. No, Grant Miffield ar ddaw, isn't he? I love that, I love it. I think it's brilliant. For me, he needs another four with all his walk-ins. I think if he kept him fit, I think he's got a great chance with Bailey and Diabi. It's not that easy to go and give one in, but I think they can do it. I mean, you made it look really easy. No, why? Cos I think they're better than Westam. Westam won it. I think they've got more attack and prowess than Westam. Westam, maybe, were very solid on the mwys and worked away through it, but I think they've put it this way that I think they'll have got a great chance with it. If they can keep walk-ins fit. Yeah, I think they have. I think they're pre-premiliating their goals in it. Do you take it seriously? They've got a fantastic chance. I think they'll play for and seen it every year in the fight. So, we'll have to wait and see. But there you go, tough trip, as we said, really tough trip, as it is every year, but it'd just be great to get something. Again, two defeats in a row, then going into game at home where everyone's thinking, we've got to win this game. Just be lovely to just get something on Sunday and start the season. Get off the mat and get to start the season. Just go to the full-on. You know, go to the full-on, let them have all the play, all the action and all that, and then just score on a goal on the break and win it one deal. That is the way. 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