 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is back. It is time for the match preview. Everton vs Wolves, Boxing Day, Goodison Park, Premier League football returns after quite a shambol break. Nobody needed it. Nobody wanted it. What was the point? It's tremendous, to be honest. It's the greatest time of my life. It's tremendous. What a time to be alive. Refreshed us. Refreshed us. Refreshed Everton. It's played through Premier League opponents in the last weekend through one-on-one, so it's refreshed us. We are ready, and we won the Super Sydney Cup. We are ready. We've played four games since the Bournemouth games, and we're undefeated. We can't actually score goals. We can't argue with that. We can't actually score goals. This is just a very difficult one to predict, isn't it? It's just like the first day of the season again. Obviously coming off the back of two very disappointing defeats at Bournemouth, and obviously we needed that break. It'll be hard to know again. It's good that we're at home. We're playing an opponent that is below us in the league, although they have had a competitive game. They played in the league cup this week with a victory, a two-nil victory. But it's going to be a strange one. Isn't it coming back to the pace of the Premier League? Obviously for both teams. It will be different, difficult and different than what. I think it will be different in the starters of the season, because I think the players general fitness will still have maintained a decent level of fitness. I think obviously they haven't played four games in the break. I'm sure Wolves have played a couple of games as well and did have that competitive game the other night in the Carabao Cup show. I think the teams will be ready for it. It's just going to be difficult because certainly Wolves have had a change of manager since the break due to the Lopetagie we decided on them. That's what the pronunciation is coming. I'm not sure if it's Lopetagie. That's what it says. That's what it says. Someone will tell me it's different. I just said that's what happens. Spanish manager is coming. And he's had obviously a few weeks to work with what he wants on his ideas. But Wolves are poor at scoring goals like heaven. So that's really where their issues are. They won two games all season at the bottom of the league. For Everton, a home game against a team at the bottom of the league whether they're in good form, bad form or different form. You can ask for really more than that. Your own crowd. The opportunity to get three massive points which it will be. Or be it, we know that they carry a threat. Rall him in there's got a goal here tonight. We know that he can be a handful on his day and he's still had people like Adam atraiori. A really quick link obviously with Everton throughout the summer transfer window. So they do carry a threat. But I think for them Everton perspective it's got to be looked at as a great opportunity. We know we're going to be without Conacody obviously because he's paid in club. For everyone else, you know, Narnig, Garnig, Pickford. There will be back. There will be no issues there. Dominic Arventlow and it does seem his touching go. I can't imagine he'll be back for the game. I can't really imagine he'll be back to the brightening to be honest. If he doesn't make the bench against Wolves, if he may weld it, for me there's no point even involved in him at City and just leaving for Brighton because with all the will in the world City is going to be able to try and keep them out. There's no point throwing your centre forward if he's not 100% ready to go and keep him out until Brighton. If he doesn't make the Wolves game then you're leaving until Brighton. But this not only has there been a break. It has been an opportunity. It hasn't been for Frank Lampard to step away and have a real good look at what's been going on. What's worked, what hasn't worked. Whether that's a change of system or just a little thinking about what we're doing. I'd like to see his goal put a bit more faith in Oana and put him in the six and say you're going to sit in there and then let Garner do the pressing a little bit more like you're shooting against Crystal Palace. Allow Alex O'Wobeen in to play as the number eight stroke number ten. It's difficult because obviously Mo Pa is not a natural goal scorer and we'll always try and come deep and you haven't got to hide them with Dominic Harvent, do you remember? We've got Nathan Patterson back fit. Obviously took part in Sydney's, took part in the games as well. We've seen no issues there. So he'll be really refreshed and hopefully, you know, we just we see a team that's got a little bit more about it and maybe the pennies to offer some people. Anthony Gordon, we're told it's very close to signing a new contract. Hopefully the pennies to offer him. I hope he's been watching the haircut thinking that's something I would love to have been involved in and maybe if I've shown the talent that other people believe I've got then I could have been on the edges or a little bit closer and I just think too many plays we're going through the motions or too many plays I think before the break thought they were doing well and they weren't almost have built themselves up to look at what I'm doing where there's, I think there's I hope over the break there's been a realisation that they haven't are in a very tricky situation and you shouldn't be relying actually on other people your own personal pride, your own professional pride. You should look at that situation and go we shouldn't need players coming into this club to get as out of this we should be able to get as out of this and hopefully they do because the flipside of that is if someone does come in to get as out of this situation they're going to take your place now I think when you look at it you know what I've said this all the other stuff we've done is that we all know that for us the problems lie outside the club really sorry the solutions lie outside the club in terms of regular goalscores we just simply haven't got the one we've got isn't fit we've got a situation where we haven't played for six weeks and yet we're still going there we don't even know if he's going to be on the back but just for a year now it's been well longer than a year now and it's been a ridiculous situation that our main striker isn't fit it's nonsense you know and we ended up having to patch him up right away through the second half of last season to get him and he only really looked himself in the last couple of games before the season finished and we've done it again so obviously that's what everything needs to be looking at but other people have got to step up and look at teams like Leeds United we've scored double and they haven't got Bamford it's not like Bamford's on like 12, 13 goals they've got lads who've come through the academy and got goals midfield players have got goals defenders haven't done that this season but some of that hasn't gone and we'll all say that he's been underperforming of what we think his level could be he's got a top scorer but he's got three goals but what's been good for him is he's got a hat taken Australia scored against Aston Villa the other day in the friendly decent goal as well to be fair he's got the head of his game up and we've got four last season three for three of them with deflections of them and stuff but he's already got three so he is improving that way can he get more can he come up big in these next few games when we need them Damari Greigot, six or seven last season John Won, two if you include the Carabao Cup so we need him to step up Alex Obowe we normally love to go he's got more than any other opponent he's got three in his last four for everything against them can he come up with something and that's what we're going to need while we do look for the solutions that are outside of the club but again like you just said it was a good opportunity I think what happened in the last week likely or wrongly a couple of our players I'm talking about Omnana had an eye on the World Cup and didn't perform to what he had been doing because when it was getting so close and you were seeing players drop off even Ghana is far drop a little bit when I spoke to Begavitch this week check the interview out he did say because I purposely asked him the question about this he's like you can concentrate on the season now and he said well it was a distraction people could see this thing get out of them and it was whether you were going to or you weren't going to I think it's like any walk of life almost if you've got some you'd wake those 10s to drop off if you've got an eye on something coming up whether it's a holiday or whatever I was going to say it's like you'd equate it to work or school but the last few days at 10 you're a bit like can't be it or if work it's like I'm finishing for Christmas or whatever you mentally you're looking at it in a way of like saying to the players you went for us like Siobh Omnana's first World Cup Ghana might be his last World Cup Pickford in between and there was that idea of maybe they did drop off maybe they didn't go in for that look at the last if you want to look at the last week which was a terrible week forever the less the game started we were shocked we were really poor against less I thought one of the worst performances on the lamp had to be fair against the poor side we only had 10 players by the way you don't count the goal even though the goal was terrible but they comfortably beat us they have got better forward plays not granted but they still comfortably beat us and the two games against Bournemouth if you look at the numbers Bournemouth the post of the league it's dreadful the goals they let in and all of this but up until then everything had been quite competitive and you were looking and going you know what if we get him and him I think we'd be alright this season and then that last week I think made it if you want to just go oh my god this feels like last season all of a sudden we and I wonder if there is a bit of and last week he was just wasn't himself is he thinking we'd seen him with other players but that was the players who weren't going who were thinking I've got this break coming up next week you know it doesn't it almost doesn't matter in a way of subconsciously I mean I don't think anyone crosses the white line and goes I can't be arsed I was just wondering if that did drop into some of Aber cos it probably dropped into other players on the teams I'm just going by us where now like you've just said and what you said to Beggum it's the other day it's not in a way now it's Premier League, Premier League, Premier League FA Cup and that's what it is for us now and that well cup's gone now so for the likes of all now back now I'm the boy just being a well cup playing the well cup I think the disappointment for a lot of people before the break was the fact that we didn't know what we were going to get this season off after the early defeats we started on a decent little run where we picked up draws and then we got put more plays into the squad and we found ourselves a little level where we weren't scoring goals but we weren't conceding goals and we looked tight and we looked like we had a game plan and then that game plan started to unravel and the problem is when it started to unravel where we then looking at the real level for this season and that's always been the hard part putting your finger on what's the real 11 and the simple fact is the real 11 can't score goals can the real 11 go back to maybe nicking a few more goals and also getting tight at the back again and making it difficult for the teams because what led to the fan disappointment or anger what we saw the boom of is going back to that default that we thought we'd just got away from even if it was just we'd moved slightly above it just and we got that resilience of we're not letting soft goals in and then as you just said the Leicester game the two games that would be seven goals against Bournemouth in four and you can't score you couldn't you know a team that had one for five games bounced us twice scoring four and three and suddenly you're like we are porous and actually there aren't no excuses okay on the race game you can make excuses but it was a reserve team versus reserve team and then the other game you've got all your players all your players are playing and you start to make mistakes and that's where the worry seriously comes from is that that team that wasn't conceding that look resilient at that mentality is that that real 11 almost that just short term well they've got to come out in the next few weeks and show us because the next you know three of the next four games you know you're looking at them thinking getting not should be getting but need to get seven points out of those three games at home and get as far away from that bottom part of the tables they can because if they don't then you know what's going to happen we're going to be lingering around and the pressure is on and the pressure is on to get the right players in and we don't want that we obviously we don't want we don't want what we went through last season because not only was it horrendous not number one right just taking a step back and turn you know from the fact of like how it makes you feel and the worry who wants to go to match and watch crap football who wants to go to match and have to deal with that every week and go sit down and go do you know what I can't be bothered and then knowing you like trying to build those atmospheres and can't get the team going but you're walking in going I know today that it's going to be crap who needs that and that's where that's what Evan have got to try and get away from as fast as he can so that's the difficult part now you're right and obviously another thing while it's been off Evan I've appointed Sean Milley who's head of physical performance this while the break's been on so again someone else has to try to get more from walls but he's been at walls but someone who's tried to get trying to get more out of the squad trying to understand the physical performance don't forget all these positions the half of these went with Benitez Benitez called half of them and then the other half he had all went anyway and Kevin Thilwell spent the best part of a year, almost a year trying to piece it all back together and Evan have made big strides in that so hopefully that opportunity to step away from the fire that was going on around for that last week for Frank Lamp for the Cnyll Joe Edwards and the like Paul Clements actually called he'd been able to step back what actually is going on we need to do this, we need to do that have a look at the physical performance, get everyone up to speed do this slightly different I'm not you I hope you just put your own on the back alongside Ghana and as almost then two's are double six and as a will be floating in front like we've seen against Crystal Palace even though Dom won't be there that framework works better for me and Maupai you also got a goal against Phil the other day and got one in Australia confidence is up a little bit cos like his get goals it makes you feel better obviously get him in and around the box do the more of getting wide and getting crosses in do the thing I asked Frank Lamp what could we do when we interviewed him have some more shots and crosses do all of that and put Wolves in the press Evan and Wolves are just looking before the Everton since Lampar took over failed to score in 13 games and Wolves have failed to score in 14 games in that period very good in putting the ball on the back of the net but for us we've just got a hope we can be nice and compact and then take the opportunities when they come away and then if you do that what it does is it cos Everton will we'll all have a pop of them and rightly show what's happened but Everton will be trying to work on forward players to come in and try and help and what you can do what the team can do for the fans and for everything is get them winning he's that like real panic if Evan could win against Wolves we go to city home this is a little bit of a free hit we've had a great win the other day we've got two more home games in the league coming up cos three of our next four are good isn't that you know Wolves brightening Southampton the great opportunity for Evan to get nine points of being credible but certainly seven a great opportunity cos that's where we'll get out of trouble and January if Evan could do it could look totally different for us it is a big if and I understand that and there'll be people who are going we can't, I know, I get it but we after almost feel like it's a refresh and go don might be on the bench on Boxing Day I imagine Tom Cannon will and he should be the kid in the safe at the moment really does quite your Isaac Price will be on there as well with a couple of midfielders that were unavailable so you know hopefully the reset will be just that and we can't start by it in the ground against Wolves no absolutely and you need that you need to go into you need to go into Boxing Day go into that game and come out of it thinking I can't wait for the next one I haven't missed this but that's what it is I'm looking forward to the Brighton game and hopefully hopefully we've seen sign one thing I really hope for is they've been working on set pieces attacking set pieces because that's a huge part of the game that we could work using and use for our benefit and noticed with the the athletic have done a thing noticed that Alex Naylor were coming as a set piece analyst and specialist we have been much better defensively so we hope that this six weeks because the games haven't been this unless they've been able to look at doing something a bit different than just tossing a ball just on that I mean for this game obviously there is no kind of code so who do we go for see that if everyone was fully at 100% it'd be Gary Minaf for me because he's a threat in both Boxers and we're not and I think Tarkov I get the mobility side but I think Wolves don't have like apart from my dad I'm a triori he's leaving you for dead and the back he plays as more of a target he's not leaving you for dead so I would probably go with Gary but if Ben Goffry has played a few games for the 21 training every day looks nice and sharp and he might want that insurance with Ben Goffry the back with the pace and having next to Tarky and do it that way but I think it's a tough one because I think Mina Mina is more likely to affect the gaming if Gary Goffry at left back is a triori place or just because of that with a bit of the pace I'm not sure we don't know, Michael Enco is a good defender but he'd have to sit deeper wouldn't he because obviously triori is the threat on the counter and again the man that is Spanish triori is playing for Spain so he might be using where he wasn't getting used by Lars was he so it's one of the and the one player we need to look out for is to play well against Devon and we're going to have to be all over him is of course Ruben Nevers let's just have a look he's played 14 games so immediately he'd be our top scorer no assists and the average is 1.9 shots that's the thing, his passing range is tremendous and he's dangerous outside the box he was brilliant against those last season last season he just dominated the game he sat in front of the back four and everything just went through it was a brilliant example of how you played that role but one thing we've got to watch out for him because again this is one of our things we love to do is let people shoot and if you let him shoot and we've also got a couple more if you let them shoot they've got the ability he's got the ability to put it in the back of the net from distance and we, you know, Frank Lambert said this he's got no problem letting people shoot but we saw it again let's see what happens because there's a lot of talent out there from distance I know we've been relying on the blocks and Jordan Pickford but that's something we've got to get hold of we've got to stop teams having so many shots against us because there is players with the ability and it's as simple as that we've got to stop that but he's a great player and if we let him dictate the game but you almost have a wobby following him round because he tends to drop he becomes almost it depends what the new manager does with the system but what was happening when Lars went to the fore he was dropping in and making the third centre back in and trying to play I just wonder if they'll do that it's hard to know isn't it because with them having a new manager it's hard to know what he's going to go with but I think for us you've got to put pressure on that it might even be Ghana coming out and coming on him and letting them down that shit or out of possession Malpie let the centre back have what you shit on them you did anyway so now listen like you said before it's the bottom of the league I'm sure they'll have an upsaim with the new manager but let's make sure it isn't against us get this three points make everybody feel that much more comfortable and start the upwards trajectory because they've got to inject some positivity into the club as fast as they can they've got to get people back on board as fast as they can and don't let that thing of going like well have you been doing for six weeks you've had a big break there and now listen some of it was in Australia some of it was people charging the batteries and the Gordon Palant he was out in Dubai working with a private personal trainer whatever it was Evertonians better see an upsaim because if we don't then you know the next we've got three out of four at home and I think I know we've got United away in the cup and some of the Premier League we can really give ourselves a good springboard with the next three on games we trust everyone will be out with we're not good enough to go we'll beat them and we'll beat them but each one represents a good opportunity put it this way and rather have three out of four around in a way that's our opportunity to really put some points on the board there you go that is not your thoughts in the comments Premier League football is back Everton are back I hope so that is not your thoughts on the game don't forget to give this video a like subscribe if you 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