 Welcome to ToffeeTV, and here's the player ratings, Everton won Arsenal near a fantastic, what a win, what a win, like in that whole game I was so calm and never really got worried at all during the game, at all, at all, what a lovely sense of peace, I had during that game it was fantastic, brilliant win. Really good occasion today, I think the fans illustrated how important they are today and also that you can protest peacefully and you can go out there and give the whole team the support they needed. And I think that was a really, really important part of today was showing that, showing that. I've just been listening to Alan Stubbs actually talking before the game on the coverage on BT and saying, it sounds like he's been reading my tweets actually. And he said, there's been a lot of nonsense said about the fans and also he said, he also mentioned what Dice had said in the press conference about the fans, they've got to be with us. And yeah, I thought that was interesting because the fans were always going to be with them and they were always going to be with the team, no matter what. Team put it in today, proper good event performance, shown Dice got us organised. But what I really liked about today was that we were aggressive and we were still trying to push on to grab a second goal rather than just sit back and wait for them to get some chances. Which is something, there was a lot of bravery today, a lot of bravery out there, which is hugely important. Going after them, even when you're 1-0 up, going after them to get another goal. That has not been seen for a long while, it hasn't been seen on the Frank Lampard for a while. In fact, it was probably one of the reasons why he got the sack, going up 1-0 against Walls, going up 1-0 against Southampton. And it also makes a mockery of, again, fans criticising, fans being criticised for wanting the team to go forward, not being happy with players just passing it round the back. Again, proving, fans know what they're talking about, proving that when you 1-0 up you shouldn't sit on it, you should be going after more goals. And I think we did that today and obviously we didn't score a second goal, but it was huge that we just kept the aggression going. Maybe he's played in a slightly different way, but yeah, it was really, really big performance to that and that set the standard. I mean, that's the best performance of the season, well better than the Crystal Palace game. Because Crystal Palace I thought on the day just didn't even have a midfield. I said that then and I'm saying it now. They didn't have a midfield that day and we just walked through them, it was dead easy. Today was backs against the wall type of game, but we didn't necessarily play like we had backs in the wall. I thought we were quite comfortable for a lot of the game. I thought our shape was really good. And it meant they struggled, we forced them wide and then dealt with the crosses. And the good thing about today is a lot of people will have a lot of different manner of the matches and that's really important, getting back to what team performances are like. So a huge, huge, huge performance and today we were united. Well, okay, at least not everyone will have been involved in the protest and all that kind of thing, but that's fine. That's up to them. That's up to them. But once everyone was in the stadium, then we were all together when we were all united and that's what everyone said that was going to happen. That was what everyone said was going to happen and you listen to the doom, mongers. And this is why I keep on saying about people saying, well, Everton fans being toxic. And I hate the fact that other Evertonians playing to this and actually bans my head out. I don't mind if it will. I do mind journalists saying it, but journalists who don't cover it and haven't got a clue what bans my adult is when other Evertonians say, oh, it's the fans, it's the fans this, it's the fans that. It's never the fans. The fans just voiced their opinion on what they see in front of them. Fans know more than anybody else knows about this football club, including the people who run it. And when other Evertonians say, oh, it's toxic, it's terrible, it's this fan, it's that fan or it's this. It's bollocks and it bans my head out more than anything does in connected to Evan. It really, really, really does. It really, really does. This idea that Evan fans are going to go to match and want to be disappointed and want to just sit there and moan. It's absolute nonsense. It really is. It really is. And it's important that what is important is on a day like today when Evan have done really, really well that they get praised massively and they will get praised massively. Because as I said a lot, there could have been a lot of different, could have been a lot of different manner of the matches today and that's what's important. But let's get into it anyway. Jordan Pickford didn't have to make loads of saves, quite untroubled in the first half. Obviously a lot of his kicking was a lot different today, a lot more long ball. Not as many short balls to his centre backs and to his defenders. He made one thing good save when we were 1-0 up and pushing one out. But he didn't have to do loads to be honest. He didn't have to do loads at all. So I've given him a 7 and a half. He's quite a calm and influence. Again, not an erratic and he hasn't done anything erratic for a while to be fair. So pretty, pretty standard day for Jordan Pickford today. Obviously four at the back, Seamus Coleman. I thought again, led by example of being a captain. He done really, really well to stop them. Because at times our full backs were narrow. We stayed narrow and then the two full backs got out of the wire plays and I thought he both did that really well today. Seamus was putting in some good crosses as well. And defended really, really well the time. So I've given him an 8. Again, captain's performance. Michael Ngo, again good performance. Again, not necessarily getting as high up the pitch as Seamus Coleman. But maybe that's just not going to be a part of his game at all. Again, I think when he's given a job to do like this, he's a better defender when he's given a job to do like he was given today. We've seen that against the likes of Salah. I think when there's a lot of movement around him, I think that's maybe when he can become unstuck. I think the job he had today was made simpler for him because it was trying to stop the man he had. And he done a really good job to him to be fair. Again, that kind of way of playing probably just suits him. And he defended well. I've given him a 7.5 just because he just didn't get as forward as Seamus Coleman. The two centre backs, Conor Cody. Some big, I think he kicked that one off the line, didn't he? In the first half to keep it at 0-0 which was massively important. At times, yeah, at times does he sort of come out of his position a little bit too easy. I think, yeah, early on in the game it looked like that. But again, him and Tarkowski settled down and I think they are the best partnership. He may not be a better defender than me, but I think the partnership can be built on. I think they have their own strengths and weaknesses that complement each other. They both play a lot of games. They don't think he either missed the game by Conor Cody against Wolves. Obviously because he was on loan and I think they've missed the game. So that's a massive importance as well because I think in the last couple of years, how many different combinations we've gone through as centre backs. So important to have that consistency as well. So I've given Conor Cody 8-8. James Tarkowski, I've given him a 9. Obviously he got the winning goal, first-ever goal, isn't it? So huge moment for him. A goal built in barely. He just wanted it more. I've just been watching him again there. Oda Garter trying to block him off, but he just wanted it more. He kept his eye on the ball. It was actually quite a simple header really. It was really good balling actually from McNeill. Put it sort of right under the... I don't know whether he looked at the goal. I don't think the goalie is amazing at dealing with crosses. So maybe that's why they were trying to put those same balls in. And listen, I come onto McNeill, but obviously Tarkowski's worked with. Sean Dice before. And if he knows there's a strength in there from set pieces, then he's going to go for it. It was a lovely goal. But he played really well. Again, heart on the sleeve performance, getting Zed in everywhere. That's what the centre backs did. I think today they were just giving him more protection, if I'm honest as well, which really helped them out as well. They were defending. There was a lot of nicking the ball rather than blocking the ball. I think in the last few games we've been... In a lot of games this season they've been defending by putting blocks in and stuff. I think today there was a lot more just like nicking the ball and doing what you... Because once we were getting forced and then widened feeling the box, so I thought they defended both of them and defended brilliantly. The midfield, obviously the midfield, it was again back to a three, but it was the first time we've seen this three of Ghana, Decora and Onane. I thought Ghana looked like the Ghana Revolta. They're getting round the pitch knowing he had a couple of players in there with them. That way, doing the same job. Obviously when a woby's in there, he obviously plays more as an eight. But I thought Ghana just got the ball and gave the ball. Just kept on appearing, nicking the ball, getting it and giving it. I thought he had the... Probably his best game of the season I'd imagine. They'd be interesting with the actual numbers back that up, but it felt like he was everywhere. So I've given him an eighth. Decora, I thought was brilliant. That's Decora's best gaming and everything she had. For a very long time. For a very, very long time. And considering this was a guy who'd fallen out with Frank Lampard and had been pushing for maybe a move out of the club, he was magnificent today, Decora. And I think the way we... The way either Decora would go or Onane would go and almost be the second... Not the second sight, but you know what I mean. At times, it worked really well. And I just thought Decora... Speaking of that, I asked him off after the game. Joel from the five YouTube channel. And he was just like... God, he was like a mix of Paul Pogba and... I can't remember what else he said, but he was everywhere. He was just all over the pitch. Nicking the ball and then running with the ball and keeping it dead, dead simple. So I've given Decora an eight as well. He was superb today. And Onane, I think we saw, again, another big game from Onane today. Really should have had an assist to his name. Dom should have really got the tapping, that running the first half, carrying the ball, opening those legs up. Again, he was all over the place today, you know. Decora is a little bit more to the right and Onane is a little bit more to the left on the heat map. And Ghana's just everywhere. And that sums it up. If you look at the heat maps of the three players, they're covering the whole pitch, those three players. There was so much industry from them today. Decora probably getting into the box a little bit more than the other two, only just, I think, from Onane. But Onane was brilliant today. I've given him an eight and a half. He was just everywhere, everywhere. And again, just showing... He really, really settled down as a player in the last month. Since the World Cup, he's massively settled down. I know there was a question mark before he went to the World Cup about me, you know, just in general. Just in general. But I think he's massively settled down. I think he's been the best performer since the World Cup. I know that hasn't been that difficult, but I think he's been a standout performer, I thought, again, today. It's probably a lot of people's man of the match today. For Tarkovsky, because he was the match winner. And obviously he defended well, but he probably was a lot of people's man of the match. He's just keeping it nice and simple, just nicking the ball. And when you look at those three midfielders, those three midfielders could get a lot of joy. And I know, you know, Listener now, I know he's being a standout in there this season, but for what we actually need against what? I know we can have a few good games, and it can be, yeah, he's done well today. You know, he's done well, and he's done this, and he's done that. But if we've come off the game and we've lost it, then what's the point? And maybe a woby. And I'll come on to a woby next. Maybe just, I mean, for the sake of the team, you get those three in there, and you've got a lot of energy in there, a lot of energy. And all right, maybe they're not as technical as other midfielders. You know, maybe they haven't got as many strokes of ball round, like they had the older guards, and then you could see the different kinds of passes he was trying to create, a lot of discouraged passes, but it needs most, isn't it? It needs most time. It's not a time for digging about. It's not a time for saying, well, I've got loads of assists or whatever. It's a time for rolling up the sleeves, digging in and outweaking the opposition. And I just thought those three today would own Anna being probably the best of the three, just, I thought that again. They give you a little platform to show, oh, you look at them and go, right? What's going to work? What's going to change? Where's going to be the change from the last manager? And I thought that midfield three showed a massive difference to me. I mean, it was a massive difference all over, just the energy levels, but the midfield was excellent. Onto a woby, solid hard-working game. Never really had huge moments in it, but again, put a real shift in. I'd like to see his crossing, because he's going to be doing a lot of it. I'd like to see his crossing improve where he's just getting them into the box with a bit of pace on them. I think he's got a technique when he crosses that he's trying to be clever and put a little bit of, like, whip on it. And it normally doesn't get past the first man, so I'd like to see him just get his foot behind the ball and rock at some crosses into the box. Because again, that was another thing we were seeing today, when plays were getting wired, we were getting men in the box. That hasn't been there. I think in the last game against West Ham, I think we had something like 38 crosses or something into the box, but every time we had a crossing, there was only Dominic Avalon in there. You need to mix it up. You need more numbers in there. Give him a seven and a half, as I said. I think he was pretty solid today. Wicked his bollocks off like everyone else. He's a team player, a Woby. That's the one thing I would say that has come out of the Frank Lampard era at Everton is that a Woby now looks part of the setup, doesn't he? I mean, whether that's enough to get him a new contract, I don't know, but he looks part of, like, he'll work hard for the team. Whereas before that, he looked like someone who wasn't quite, he was on the outside rather than on the inside. He worked really hard for the team today. On the other side, Dwight McNeill was the same. They were swapping, and obviously Dwight McNeill got the assist as well. What they were both doing today was chasing lost causes, which just hasn't been happening in the last few weeks or the last few months. Just chasing lost causes, and it doesn't have to make a difference. Actually, this is something that was happening when Frank Lampard came in from Rafa-Vanita's funny enough, so I'm not gonna sit here and go overboard about the whole thing. But it's chasing lost causes. It's chasing a Woby, like, a Woby won the corner that led to the goal by, you know, trying to get across into the box, getting it off the defender. It's those little moments instead of, because what has been happening is, and it's just, like, these minor things in football, by the way, that maybe don't always stand out. Woby had the ball. We have had the tendency to check back and then to start again under Frank Lampard. Whereas today, we were just getting the ball into the box. Got an opportunity to cross, crossing. And it's those little things, I think, that make a difference. If Sean Dice is working the plays and saying, right, push forward, get it wide and get balls into the box, no digging about with it. I want to see the ball into the box. So we get Dominic Avernoon, D'Corey, O'nane in the box and we've got players crossing it from the left and the right. We're going to create opportunities and we should have scored three times in the first half from crosses. So, you know, we couldn't have been three and a half times. We had all the chances in this game. Let's not forget that. It wasn't like we nicked a 1-0, what we did. But you know what I mean? In the first half, we had three massive chances and they had the chances that have been going begging. And I think it's dead important that those little things get noticed, by the way, getting the ball in the box. Okay, you get to defend, you get a corner, score off the corner, score off the corner. That's massive changes because what's been happening? It's been like death by a thousand cuts on the Frank Lampard. It didn't just all horribly go wrong in like a very quick moment. It was like just little things started back up bravery, so then we're not put. Because we aren't brave enough to fill the box with my fielders. So what do we do? We have one man in, the player gets it wide and instead of crossing it, because there's only one man in the box, he goes back and he goes around the edge of the box and then we lose it and then we're not set up and they were getting countered. Look at the goal against Wolves. Look at the free kick that was won against Southampton. Those goals came from losing the ball on the right hand side and it is those little things but you'd better get midfielders into the box and again that's having fit of plays as well by the way. That's having plays that are prepared to commit because they know they can get back. That's having that little bit of extra in their legs. So a Wobie and Dwight MacNeill, I've given Dwight MacNeill seven and a half as well. Both of them kept the shape really well. They kept it nice and simple when there was an opportunity to get it in the box they got it in the box and I think that we're going to see more and more of that because we were just, we were a lot more direct today. There was no dicking around with it at the back. Let's be honest, how good was that? Not seeing us messing around with it at the back with it. There was a couple of times but when it was more like the midfielders getting quite deep and trying to team but hopefully the next week they have another hard work and weekend. We've seen more of this but as I said not quite going to go overboard about it just yet because because, yeah. Basic Trig says great time to join Prem, you'll enjoy the final win. Basic Trig you didn't have to give me a super chat for that mate. You're basically advertising the channel by paying for it. Yeah, so they they worked really hard with that today. So Dwight MacNeill, we want to see more of that. And Dominic Alvaluin I think Dom had more touches today in the first half than he's had for the last few weeks, I think. He he was so much more involved in the game without having to just leg round and not get a touch. And I think that, again, the manager will know. The manager will know that. The manager will know important Dominic Alvaluin, doesn't think right. If I can get him involved in games then that's usually important. There was a lot of long boards to him, of course, but he was winning the Flickons. There was other things. He was coming deep for it. He was getting more involved in the game. And if Dominic Alvaluin is our best player then we better get him more into games of 40. So, and I think he went off just after we scored. He was coming on just before we scored. I think he had a tight hamstring. So they took him off as a precaution because you know he's not. You know he's not going to, you don't want to jinx him. But he was so much more involved today and he had a decent header towards the end of the first half. I don't think he had loads of opportunities, but he was in the game all the time. He was testing the back line. He was getting old of it. He had to stay fit and get sharper and sharper and sharper. And if more balls come into the box like you saw today, the kid will score goals. He will score goals. He should have again the one in the first half, the older one. He should have maybe just read that a little bit earlier. I'm hoping that's something that will come with more fitness and more sharpness. By the way, I don't want to be sitting here every week and saying that. I don't want to be sitting here every week saying, oh another week, another week. You know, we asked to do it, but look at the drop-off when he went off. The drop-off was massive when he went off. Suddenly we weren't competing as physically and we weren't winning those balls and we were letting them get clean headers. And again, this is not Neil Malpire's fault. Everton decided in the summer to buy a player with who hasn't got a body type of Dominic Arville doing. Brian McNulty says, what a great performance today. It felt like a proper Everton display, though. Thanks, Brian. Thanks for the super chat. It did. It felt like real Everton today. That's what real Everton is all about, I think anyway. That's what it's all about. Don't get those days enough. It felt like a bit like the Duncan Ferguson Chelsea game today. All in it together. All fighting for the same thing. And again, I'll repeat it. The fans were magnificent today. Everyone walked in the ground. They were behind the team. And this is where, again, I'm hoping Sean Dice has realised that. That the fans were net. There was no, I said, do the down Twitter. I was called negative for it. Where he said, oh, we just need the fans behind us. There's never any, and Alan Stubbs, Stubbs actually, I said before, he picked this up before the game. There was never any indication that the fans wouldn't be with the team today. Yes, there was a protest. Yes, the fans are unhappy. But they weren't going to take it out on the team. All the managers today. It was never going to happen. And for people again, I don't know where these stories come from. I really don't. As negative as I am sometimes, all people might think I'm negative. Go back and listen to what I said on Sky last week about not wanting the owners there because it would be this distraction to stop others' fans giving everything to the team and to the manager. And I think we did that today. And I love the fact that that happened. I love the fact that that happened just to rub the noses in to some people who believe that the fans are the problem. Because the fans aren't the problem and never will be the problem. Honestly, perfect day. It would be the only way to be more perfect if I was going out to drink non-alcoholic beers all night. That's the only way to be normally missing. Do I have to sit in and have pizza? And what's the mass singer? And also, can I just... I have to just say this. The one in day you want Liverpool to get a result. The one in day you want Liverpool to get a result. You gang of... Anyway, I've given them a 7.75 just to confuse basic dark arts. Who's putting the scores on the screen? 7.75. So, yeah. Malpie, I've given them a 7. No one I liked about Malpie when he come on. He tried to have fights. I liked that. He tried to come on to wind people up. That hasn't been seen since Southampton. So that was huge and important. Let me just have a drink of tea. What people hadn't realised under Frank Lampard is we've become soft. We've become a soft team. Now, I don't know whether that's because of a style of play you want to play or training or whatever. We've become a soft team. And we're not a soft team. We're not a soft club. We're not a soft fan base. We do not want players passing it round and round the back and going over and shaking hands. We want you to run over there and push them one over if they're trying to have a go at the players. We want to see people laughing at the opposition. We want to see people getting in the faces of the opposition. We want to see what we saw in the last minute in injury time or stoppage time. We want to see a little bit of nastiness. We want to see our centre forward, we want to see our centre back having a go. We want to see players backing each other up. That's what we've been into about the little scrap. That's what we want. And then that's what we'll get from it. Show them whether you like them or you don't like them. I love it. I don't want soft everton players. I want hard everton players. I want everton players to back each other up. I want everton players to win the balls on the half way line and someone looks like he's breaking through. We just kick them up in the air and they say they look hard and that's it. That's what I want to see because that's everton to me. That's everton. I grew up with Peter Aid snapping people because he knew when to snap and then putting a dribble in the ball into the box when he knew when to dribble. That's everton to me. Playing around the back. I know that kind of thing and just being soft in general is not everton to me so I was delighted to see that. I know a lot of people probably questioned why Mopai came on him. Maybe not Ella Sims because Mopai is an experienced player and the manager only brought one sub on. He wasn't going to make mass changes because he wanted to keep the shape. So there you go. No, I will not be getting into showing by share cut. I had one of them when I was 15. Never again. There you go. There you go. There you go. Yeah, so that was that. It was a great day. It's a start point. We're still in the bottom three for now. Unless... Well, we could be out of it if West Ham get beat it. Can we? Well, they've got to be 4-0, yeah. But listen, it's a win. We need it. Just give us a little bit of belief and we can go forward with this now and hopefully a bit of positivity and we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens going forward. But there you go. Good win. Good three points. A couple of scraps. All good in my book. There you go. Make sure to check out my glass sheet reactions, loads of stuff in there including basically the glass sheet where I scored because I managed to somehow fill me. And yeah, there's a few videos on that. Check out Baz's videos as well. I've done them by now. I know it took me ages to do this. I was just knackered from the game to be honest. So there you go. So thanks for watching. We'll be back on Monday to do the final words live over on ToffeeTV. Premier, if you're not a Premier member, the link is in the description. And the QR code will be coming up on the screen in just a moment. Have a boss weekend. See yous later.