 Welcome to Toffey TV, it is the match preview. Chelsea vs Everton on a Monday night. Monday night football, Jonach rubbish, isn't it? It's the first thing I get rid of. It's not great. If I had an opportunity to reform football. It's not great, is it? If you work for, you know, I've retired, so it's better for me, but you've got people taking the afternoon off and probably the morning off the day after. Anyone who gets a coach is going to get on, what, three in the morning or something. And, you know, you either stay over or drive there and back in the day because trains aren't very helpful, blah, blah, blah, blah. And still 3,000, whatever it is, at the Stamford Bridge these days, never bands will rock up, won't they? And they say that football without fans is nothing. No, it's just an excuse, isn't it? It's just an excuse for the cardigan and Neville to do. The NFL's fault? Yeah, well, you've said this a few times. They're just copying a model, that works, right? I don't know. Do they publish the readily, all the viewing figures and stuff? It'd be interesting to know if Monday night football actually does good numbers. I don't know whether it does or it doesn't. It doesn't seem to be really a consideration because just because of the way football works in this country and you're buying packages, so it's not, they don't seem to do that anymore. Streaming and all that, they don't really care about ratings. They've got your money in it, whether you watch it or not, it doesn't really matter. Oh, right. But it would be interesting. Well, it might not matter to Premier League, but it must matter to the broadcast, the right holders, unless they pre-sell the advertiser, so they're not bothered either. So then the only people that are worried are the advertisers about whether they're getting enough bang for their buck. And if they conclude no, and the pyramid comes down on it, are there cards, pack of cards? No, we can talk about it all the time. We can talk about getting trains on, coaches, all the rest of it. But there is a game, obviously Monday night, everything seems... Ages ago it'll seem even longer by the time we get to this game, everything coming off the back of a win. Chelsea coming off the back of a 2-2 draw or a cheffield united. But more importantly for them, last time they played at home, they beat Manchester United, 4-3 in an absolute topsy-tape game. But Chelsea just goals, isn't it? Every time they played, they scored. Both ends, yeah. They've beaten teams 3-2, they've had a couple of 2-2 draws recently. You've got a chance to score goals against Chelsea. Considering that we can't score goals, but we can keep clean sheets. And they can't keep clean sheets and they can score goals. I have no idea where this game is going, because it's... No. I don't know. Last year, 2-2, we were 2-1 down with 10 minutes to go. Whatever it was, Ella Sims comes on, scores a goal. You feel there's a chance there, don't you? You do, and I think, well, I certainly, and I guess other fans have as well. Even prior to today's news that perhaps they got illness in the camp and obviously they've got some long-term injuries as well. But you still felt something in your water that said we might get something out of this one. So it'll all stand and fall. I have these chats with bars about... My preview period starts when I know what the team is. So there's only an hour of it. It'll either raise or lower my spirits, really. So it depends on what the manager sets out to do. His MO is to set out to get a draw, isn't it, really? Yeah, it does that in most away games. It's not wrong with it. No, the other side of it is. The last away game in Newcastle United, we put under quite a lot of pressure, but it's not like we got battered and we held our own and we got a point. We went to Brighton recently and was in the lead so deep into injury time and then they scored a goal. In Man United, we had loads of opportunities but give up stupid penalties. So it's not like we've been terrible. We're always in games. Yeah, we're always in games. Sometimes whether we think we are or we're not. We are always in games in Premier League. This is a weird one because it falls weird because we've got three home games in a week after this. And I think everyone's setting up to think they're the big games. But there's definitely something for us in this game. I think so. I think so. Clearly I'd settle for a draw but a win would be mega, wouldn't it? A win would be absolute mega. And you can't actually say no chance. You can't say no chance. There are games. I know Baz would have said it. Newcastle, we're going to lose there. Well, we didn't. So let's just rock up, play the team. They've got loads of good players. Cole Palmer is just outstanding for them this season. But they lead goals. And the manager is under some pressure. And let's just be solid and see what happens. They're currently ninth in the Premier League. And by the time this game comes around, Brighton, Wolves, Bournemouth have all got an opportunity to go above or certainly get on the same point system. That's right. So it's not like they're absolutely flying anything. Sometimes you do play a game like this. And I haven't won this since 1995. Paul Ryde, that was the last person to score. Just tell that song in here. And it's not me singing it. Paul Ryde, that was the last person to score a win and goal against them. We've only ever beaten them once in the Premier League away. There are all those things. But if you play the game rather than play the badge, there is a massive opportunity to get something. And that's the key. That's exactly the key. Play the team. Obviously play the game itself. But if we rock up with that mentality, and most of these players weren't bloody born then. So they can't worry about it too much. But I just think the manager gets them in the right mindset and we should get something out of it. Chelsea, of course, have got some really good players. Cole Palmer will just have a look at it. He's having an awesome season. 27 games, 16 goals, XJ of 12.5, 9 assists. 25 goal involvements. XJ is 6.6 and you can see there a lot of red on that right hand side. So, I mean, fortunately for us, Michal Encol will be the player who will probably be having to deal with him. And what we've seen so far this season is Michal Encol has done really, really well when he's been asked to go up against someone who's an opponent's best player. Who's rinsed him this season? Nobody. Nobody rinsed him. So, let's see. No, he'll be, I think for me, I mean, he is there. I mean, he scores a lot of penalties, so they do get a lot of penalties. The last presumably why is, is actual goals is greater than the XJ. Albeit, the XJ for pens would be high, would be 0.75 or 0.77. But he's overachieving, isn't he, in that sense? So he's having a standout season. Is there a main man, isn't he? He is there a main man and they've got a lot of talent. That's the strange thing about it. They have got a lot of talent in the team. We'll just have a little look at team, obviously, from the last game out. They've got the likes of Nicholas Jackson playing up front. Conor Gallagher, Col Parme, Meduchy, Fernandez, Casidau. One of the most expensive midfields ever assembled. And this is shocking amount of money, isn't it? Yeah, and yet they've done really nothing. Tiago Silver coming back with a little bit of experience next to Celebe, and they had Petovic in goal. And they have got the likes on the bench, the likes of Mildrich Stalen, who obviously... I think he's one of the ones that's ill, isn't he? Yeah, he's had obviously a talk of the able. But it's so weird. They've just got such a weird collection of players. Conor Gallagher, who's done it against us in the past, when he's been playing at, like, when he was at Palace. And they're just not a real team. And it's so weird. A collective of individuals. And when we played them at Gullison, you know, on that day, we just felt like we ground them down. And once we got the first goal, and you know, they had a lot of the ball that day, and he kept it really well. But they just had no end product. And again, that's another thing you seem to see with them is because they don't have that target. And I'm from that unbelievable striker. They have a lot of the ball, but they tend not to do loads. When they need to be clinical, even though you score a lot of goals, when they need to be absolutely clinical, finish games off, it just doesn't seem to be there. They like a lot. There's a fair number of Premier League teams, isn't there, who have classic. They look pretty sharp up to the last third, you know. And then they don't have that finisher. A number of tidy teams. And they're one of them. And just that they'd cost a hell of a lot more money to assemble than too much any other squad. I honestly don't know what to expect from them, other than they'll create chances. And if you give them opportunities, they'll score goals. There's some quality players there, that's why. I mean, you know, the team he's just shown, though, and we've got heatmaps or anything, because Palmer, although he's shown almost like in a 10-roll there, spent a lot of time on the right in that game. Hence, Michelenko will not get rinsed by him, hopefully. Hopefully, yeah. But maybe they'll change that where he plays. No, he does move around. That was his general area for the entire season. But he obviously does favour sort of being on the right-hand side a little bit more. He doesn't play right-wing, we know that. No, he's not a winger. And, you know, we're seeing him corner-gallem. You can see, I remember the last game, he wasn't in the game as much as you would hope your main man to be, though, was he? It's almost like he was doing as he was told by the manager, stay out there, wide-ish. But he's probably only second to Tony, if you give a penalty away, to go. Well, when they took the penalties off him, Stalen, which was well... I mean, I seen it last week, actually, was it the United Game, when they tried to take the penalty off him again, it was like, what are you doing? Like, want to do the plays, came up with. Stalen took it off him, didn't he? In the Leicester game. The guy scores virtually every penalty he takes, and then someone who's out of form and needs a goal says, I'm having this. It was crazy that he'd do that. And again, maybe that shows a little bit of the... which else he may be going wrong a little bit, that they haven't got the leadership to say, this guy scores all the penalties and probably our best player. Why is anybody trying to take the penalty? It's surely 101, though, isn't it? You know, we decide before the game starts who the penalty taker is. But what they've got, as you say, is one player who's the main man and then older player, more experienced, like, say Sterling saying, I'm having this. And the mentality isn't there for parmins as they go away. Or indeed for the captain to rock up. Don't know who's captain that day and say, whoa, remember, he takes them because he's the best penalty taker. So there's a bit of... it's not dysfunction, is it? Or it's dysfunction with a small D where they're not all aligned and it's not necessarily for the team. To put that on the manager then? To have the iron face, he should have control. He should be the one saying, this kid takes our penalties because he doesn't miss. On the pitch, the captain has to enforce it. But we've seen it in our team, that that doesn't always happen. Captain's thing, I toss the coin, I have a look. I choose ends. Bigger personality as no-one wants to rock the ball. Let's have a little look. This is obviously evidence team from the last game. There might be changes to Dominic Arwenllun that's been feeling his hamstring a little bit. And they're going to be awfully sensitive to him. The manager said it's almost the case of he knows his body, he knows when he has to sit out to train and he knows when it's best for him. And this was, by the way, in a press conference on a Thursday ahead of the game. He said James Garner had a noch. He didn't seem too concerned, did he? No, no. He basically said everyone should be fine. O'n ar y bach, he said Dan Joom is going to have a bounce game. So he'll get on the grass of Drisser. Obviously he's had the birth of a child, so he'll be sorted. He said everyone should be alright, but I suppose the main one will be Dominic Arwenllun, whether he's willing to risk him knowing that maybe if he gets through this game, leaves him out because he has got better. I want them for the home games. And then you've got that week. So what do you do? We've been rotating them anyway. So maybe we do put better in for this game. Leave Dom. See how the game goes and then maybe bring Dom on if we need them. I think so. That's what I do. Because better is a handful, isn't it? In an unstructured sort of way. And if Dominic isn't exactly feeling tip-top, don't risk him. Those home games are the ones that matter. I think we saw it last season at Wolsey, obviously played a bit of a risk to play him, getting him, and then he missed the last game of the season. If you've got three games in a week at home, and you might not be able to cope with all three anyway. Yeah, exactly. Obviously he'll know better than anybody else. I think there's a lot of feeling at the moment. He's finally scored and he's suddenly got a knock. He won't want to miss it because of that. But I think he's clever enough to play him. Those three games are huge. And it's not like this game isn't huge. But we do have another centre forward. And if he starts on the bench and it allows better to play, then it might be the best thing. And who knows how the game goes. It goes well, you might need to bring them on. It goes terrible. You might need to bring them on. So that's an interesting one. But the midfield's going to be interesting one again, because last week Gomez played and he did all right. He plays every week. You know, you've got, obviously, the core is not in great form. I mean, how, what would you do in terms of, like, assuming that the players are all fit, right? As in the manager's comfortable with them. Then, you know, address that and Amadou comes straight back in for me. And who goes out then? Because obviously James Garner, obviously the core, he loves the core because of the role he plays. He does love the core, but my jury has long since been out and it's never shown any sign of coming back about Gomez, right? I mean, Gomez is a fabulous player. You know, good vision, good passing ability, but off the ball does very little to nothing. Yeah. He's always got a foul in him, he doesn't care where he is on the pitch to do silly things. So that perhaps doesn't appeal to this manager. I don't know how much of Dacori's, you know, being off the pace a bit. He's been doing Ramadan and stuff, but I think Ramadan finished Monday Tuesday, didn't it? So hopefully he's started to re-energise himself. So try and go with his best start on 11. But also we have Ashley Young in there as well. No. See, wouldn't know it's weird, right? I don't, I don't, like, with Ashley Young, I don't like jump and just go, no, he's terrible. I don't think he's terrible. No, but I do actually see the value in Ashley Young. Please explain then. Because I do think actually he has been a solid squad player for the nothing player. No, that's... A solid's good. Jack Harrison has been poor of late. And people have been going, how can we play Jack Harrison? And then he comes in and it's like, well, how do you play him? At home, at Gary, I don't see the value, but in away games. I don't develop my castle. Because you've started now. But probably the reason I have... Not a downer. I'm concerned when he's in the team. Is because of what I see away from home. Because his recovery isn't great. He is more about trying to tell people where to go and stuff. Rather than actually doing it himself. All the players love doing that. Of course they do, yeah. And I see him as a player who shouldn't be starting. Right? Now when you then say Jack Harrison, maybe the alternative. And part of the problem we have is that because the manager just can't get his head around Nathan Patterson, you reduce some of your opportunities to perhaps our Patterson with Coleman in front or whatever. So James Garnham, I just have to find himself on the right. In front of Seamus. If he wants to play. I don't think you're not going to play. And Arna is going to walk straight back in. Right? The manager likes McNeill on the left. So that's going to be a given. So you're really into who gets the other place first alongside Amadou. And it has to be kind of gay. It has to be. And then you say well what do I deal with James Garnham? If I want him in the team, then I can't have Ashley Young. If I want Ashley Young in the team, James Garnham ends up on the bench. And then it's a decision on Decori then. It's not an inspiring list. And then there's a decision about Decori about fitness levels. Because for me he'll have to play his way through it I think. And if he comes back into form for the next two or three or four games then it could make a big difference to the team. Oh yeah, that's the thing with Decori. But if he's not quite right in himself then you end up putting Gomez there don't you? No, Decori. See I don't think Gomez will start in this game in any way, in any shape or form. So you end up with a team picking itself don't you? I don't know because I don't even know if Sheamus Cullman will play right back. That's the thing at the moment. I have no real idea of what the manager is sort of settling on. I don't see my look at it and go right back because they've got pace on the left hand side. You're moving the deck chairs round on the Titanic rather than actually making any mad tactical decisions. And that's where I feel. And how to stand and play it and you're taking them off the side. See for me I disagree, he should start every game but I'm not sure he'll start. That's why I'm saying those two almost become burst on the sheet type of thing. And then you just make decisions round the others. But you just introduced another one because he doesn't care where he plays Godfrey. He puts them in doesn't he? So if you end up with Godfrey at right back then you've got Cullman as an option in front of him. Seamus doesn't get rinsed either. I think he left Godfrey out on Sati because he felt like we needed to win and have another defensive play. So you think he's a full, sorry, a weight game type? Yeah, I'd be honest that this moment I know I've got no idea what team will pick. I really don't. I don't know what I'll pick for myself. Don't worry about this, we don't know. Five PSR results, you can do all the logic but then something from left field appears. All I know is that there's a real opportunity to get something out of this game. I think so, we agree on that. And that's where the manager has got to earn his money basically. Pick a team that he feels won't concede but can win the game and that's the most difficult thing for an evident team isn't it? To find the balance. It's like last week at home he said he engineered or whatever a horrible win or whatever he said it was. Ugly on it. Ugly whatever it was. Keep it tight. I suppose once a team goes over the line there's nothing the manager can do without two pieces and stuff and we were fortunate last week but it's difficult isn't it? This is the difficult side of being the ever manager is finding that balance because it's so... You can't be you can't be just going cold because the manager can say look at Newcastle, it sets us up to be tight we can see the goal we stay tight and we go back into it football that's what happens if we'd been gungo we could have been too... So you join the ugly stuff together with references to Newcastle what about he just says forget Dukuri unless he's top tip top clearly Gomez might become a contribution liability and then you're to 4-5-1 one man isolated up front type stuff aren't you and some of those players where thinking it's A maybe both of them get to play flood the midfield 3 solid midfielders and all guys around them who've got good work ethic But I can't see them moving away from Dukuri it's been as linchpin and again it's that thing of he'll give us something in both boxes and try and stop them from scoring and set pieces and maybe help us score set pieces so it's a really interesting one it's not like everyone's fighting for the position we're sitting here going God he's as bad as him and he's been rubbish so why are we moaning at him cos he's the only player you can take his place it is really really it's what happens when you haven't got a great squad sadly sadly but there you go we don't know an hour before kickoff or a bit more than an hour of your man I don't know what you've got out of this match preview cos I'm more confused now than I was when I started I'm more confused about what Everton's 11 is going to be I know what people have got from me it's not just them who are confused it's everybody no it is I've seen people moaning about certain players last week but you asked for them to be replaced and this is who they've been replaced by and that's just where Everton are as a football club at the moment some players seem better when they're not in the team it's as simple as that everyone wants Nathan Patterson in team but he's not going to be in the team so you don't even talk about him so you don't even talk about him and Ben are both injured he's not going to get a sniff as he and even then it'll be behind actually young and then you could talk about sit here all day and talk about changing the formation but you know the manager's not going to change the formation so it's a pretty point to having that conversation it's just you're filling up time so there you go Monday night playing goal then let us know your thoughts obviously we've got to suffer the weekend, you can't even have a quiet weekend cos you've got to suffer well you can if you can switch off the weather's supposed to be half decent isn't it before it gets a bit cool again next Monday onwards get out there people ignore the Saturday games results wise just Honol 10K for me running the tunnel Monday batting on Sunday I'm aiming for half nine in the morning I'm not running my best runs at half nine in the morning so come on what's your best run then at 10K best is 55 sub hour then I can sleep walks up so come tell us next week then I will 55 something is 55 something for a 10K no prep at all then are you starting at half nine 50K cycle at half nine and I'll go off far too fast and hang in there cos my times have all been I've been doing too casual they've all been 77 minutes if anyone's a new bright in about half 10 on Sunday morning you'll might see me Sunday Sunday at half nine starting Liverpool through the tunnel then along well there's the competitive bit then a record breaking 50K for me and then you have to go for your best then on Sunday morning I don't know how we're going for my best you're ready you've put the miles in you've put the miles in just not sure not sure about it I have nine in the morning that's not don't do my best tell yourself it's half eleven then I can't tell my body it's half eleven I just can't we'll see what happens anyway there you go we'll see what happens on Monday night all the reaction afterwards on the channel so don't forget if you want more great videos join us over on toffy tv premier the link is in the description you get all your videos from podcasts with no advert on and daily exclusives live exclusive every single day including great shows with John all the time in there the link is in the description