 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the final word. Blackpool to Everton for our third pre-season game so far, and our first win, our first goals. Thanks to Evan, travelled all that way to America, not so a goal. But go to Blackpool and get four. Good stuff, good stuff. Yeah, did something run out after what we saw in America, and what we saw on Wednesday in Minnesota United. Straight away we thought this was going to be a tough game because of obviously what had happened in America and jumping on a plane and stuff and getting home. They're only a week to lay seas and start, so thought it was going to be a very tough game. But Evan started really, really well and looked like they were at it but looked like the managers sent them out to make up for what had happened in the week. Yeah, really good performance, considering it was pre-season, it was due late. We had witnessed a shocking performance really in Minnesota. To get home and to put in a performance like that was good. It is against the championship side, but they are six days from their season starting. Before that, I fancied Blackpool, just bit on the basis that chance to get Premier League scalp, we were in the best position. But the players really applied themselves well obviously, no Dominic Alderloo, no Domari Gray, both missing with slight injuries. But Evan went out and took the initiative immediately and settled into the game straight away and scored a great goal after six minutes. The two full backs linking up, one wing backs linking up, Gray Cross and Nathan Patterson, a lovely volley from Michalenko. The perfect start I think for Frank Llanpard and he went on from there. Yeah, obviously you mentioned the two full, the two wing backs, he's playing three at the backing in, Tarkaski, Ynni Mina and then Godfrey. Well this is how we lined up with Neddle, just put it up there for us to just have a quick look. That's just shed there, those three, the three main ones, and then Patterson, Michalenko, higher up and then the Corry and Davis in a double pivot with Andy Gordon, Deli in London, higher up the pitch. A change from what we've seen in Minnesota wasn't it, where we played four at the back. Yeah, and I think that, certainly that formation at the back certainly, I think suitors a lot better, I think that are three strongest centre backs. The wing backs have to play the wing backs I think, or certainly to get them, I think Michalenko obviously can play the left back we've seen that. Patterson, I think he's going to take a little bit more time to become a traditional right back, defend them wise anyway, I think he's the strongest defender in the world. And obviously his ability more is at the other end of the pitch, attacking and stuff. And obviously our defensive record last season was pretty poor, so having that extra centre back in there does help. So it'll be interesting to see whether we do start that way when it comes down to Chelsea. And then obviously in the midfield we've got Alan to come back in there, but it's going to be interesting, the front area of the pitch, because you look at the way we started there and no down we're going there. But then do we put Delhi closer to down, or whoever's playing in the front, or as a number 10 or just someone playing off them? That's going to be an interesting thing as we go forward. Do we have three real centre midfielders, with someone like a Wobby pushing through? It does create some interesting scenarios of how we're going to line up. Yeah, because I don't think, certainly with the two we had yesterday, if it's Davies and Dacori, and Dacori's fine in terms of mobility and getting around the pitch, I think Tom likes to sit more as a traditional six and just play from there, albeit he did break well. So score out in the second goal after the run down and avoided the offside, maybe. The lines didn't give it, so we played on and Davies done well going in there. And I said, it's a make it sooner. I think in the Premier League you've got to have someone who's always aware of where you're at defensively. So, if everything is going to play like that, it gives you a big question mark to whether we play with a traditional winger in there as well. And then, therefore, we put on the graphic with Davies starting off the left hand side and Anthony Gordon off the right. I always feel Davies better centrely running off Tom. But maybe the manager has looked it away where he thinks he can pick the bits up around them and come from the left and make them run into the box and then keep Anthony Gordon out by. But I would like Evan to go with a three in the field. And that might mean Anthony Gordon plays more gentle at times as someone breaking from midfield. But it would need a specialist midfielder in there, I think, someone who isn't, for me, they're not at the club at the moment. The other positions can be battled out between the Corae and Allen to see who else, or a Wobie to see who else partners, someone in there. And then, if we find room then for a Wobie or Anthony Gordon breaking from midfield. Cos I just think with two in there against Premier League sides, I think Evan finds it difficult. And then with three in, you can make it difficult to play through and I think it gets you in the game. And it also allows you the outboard to Dominic Alvalumin with Deli running off on that way. So playing lampart has got a little bit of thinking to do. Yeah, cos I think the teams who play the three at the back best, they get the ball into the centre midfield and they use it well, allowing the wing backs to get high then. And then they tend to find that ball to get it wide and then they've got numbers on the edge of the box, they want numbers in the box. And that's the way you want those, for me, again, that extra centre midfielder. So you've got someone who can sit and then the two in front of the one who are going to keep the ball and use it well. And as you said, I don't think we've quite got that pace in there yet. I do think, as I said, I think the centre backs and the wing backs are the right players. I just think they make up that midfield. They make up the midfield, they're not quite there for any formation yet. That's where we desperately need of players. Someone who can come in and create a score. I mean, let's be honest, we need lots at the moment. We need lots of positions filled. The squad needs building out massively. There is something we're all well aware of, keenly aware of. We need those players. But I think obviously what we did, she was sitting into the second half of this game, we've seen what Deli Alley has had in his locker for the early part of his career, the ability to ghost into the box. And he got a couple. His first one was a tap in, and the other one was a passers-in-get-to-the-ball in, and he sweeps it in. And that's what his trademark has always been, and it does ask that question now. Can the manager use him as off Dominic Arvalun? Does he become that kind of player? So it's almost like two off-front, or up-front at times. Does the manager think he's got enough in his locker after not playing that much the back half of the season? Because this was a player who played in the Champions League and big games for England. There's got to be something there we can still tap into. Otherwise, what's the point? Because he's not someone so far we've seen that can link up the play or pick up the ball and run. For me, he's got to be that player who's busy in the box, and if you're getting the ball into the box with Dominic Arvalun, he's got to be other players, and he's someone for me. I think you can still do damage if he's given a run of games. Yeah, he has almost got to become like Tim Kail, in a way, the way he was used, which is off the striker and buzzing about. Because he does come alive in the penalty area. We saw that. We saw the opportunity arise and he was there to take it twice. That's what you need, even if you've missed that, you're only on the spot if you like that kind of striker or that kind of forward player who gets on the end of things. Dominic Arvalun is a different type. He's back to goal, he'll hold it up, he wins it as he's very strong in the air. He likes balls across the front of him and he can get himself on the end of it. But if he's competing, you need someone who's in and around him. And I think Delhi is perfect for that, making those runs. I also think he can play as your striker as well. I really do. I think just his natural finish and his natural instinct takes him into areas where you'd want your centre forward to be, and I think he can do that as well. For everything to thrive. I will be playing him off then. Do you think he's the natural replacement with Charleston as we sit here now? He doesn't get back and pick the ball up from other people, but what I mean by that is that when you look at some of the goals which Charleston scored later on in the season, you know, it looked like the second goal against Crystal Palace where he makes it out of nothing because he's in the box. And it's scruffy, but he's the second striker in there. The focus might all be on Dom, but he does something a little bit different. And it's not through brilliant skill, it's through just the will of wanting to do it. Do you think he could be just that player who occupies other players and allows, so when we're getting balls in there for Dom, things will drop in there and he can be the one making on the end of it? Yeah, I think in terms of putting the ball in the net, he can. But he obviously is a different player than Charleston. He's not someone who's going to run up and down that line the way that he did and travel with the ball for us and isn't out ball at times. But certainly if you play him up with Dom, then he's somebody who does come alive in the penalty area and Dom's competing for things and he's picking the bits up. You know, he's decent in the air as well. Good height. So, if the foreback, so by getting balls in, then him and Dom are going to have a loom in attack in them. You'll get goals off that. Just depends exactly on the man that he wants to play. Really, whether it's a 4-3-3 and then you put him in the 10 into him in the field and have him breaking again from that centre area if you're using wide plays. If you go with the three, then for me he has to be the one of the two strikers. And certainly that's where you're going to get most out of him. Can he play back in midfield with the other two? Possibly. You've got to have two busy players in there with him. So that he can be the one who is someone who gets on the ball a little bit. We saw at times in this game go footwork on himself out of trouble a few times, link the play up a little bit. We need more of that from him. But the goals will do in the well to go because it's nice to just get that confidence. I missed an absolutely guilty chance in Minnesota. It was harder to miss. So the next game he's come back with a brace. Certainly the second one, he was a good move and good balling from Patys near post, flittering, goal. So I think he can be a big player for Evan if we can just get the other bits of the team. It's going to be interesting. I think obviously Friday we'll get more of an indication of how we are going to play. We've seen in America we saw us trying to play out from the back and build up the play. But we weren't keeping hold of the ball long enough and then we were hit then by the opposition too quickly in both games. In Minnesota they just break the ball from the field and then break on us. We were all over the place and it would be interesting to see what we do. I just thought in this game I thought the way we played was a lot more the way I think more suited to the players we've got Tarkowski with those quick diagonals through to Patyson and springing the opposition and don't get me wrong in the Premier League he's not going to have that time and space to hit those balls and Patyson's not going to have that time and space. But it is an outboard that is something we saw actually Mason Hoggate doing towards the back end of last season switching the play quickly. I just think as we sit here now that we're a lot more suited to that than trying to play out the back. I understand you can't just give up on your principles I understand that and when it's pre-season you're allowed to go out there and see what you've got and see who is capable of or if there is someone capable of being in midfield taking the ball I just don't think we have that player I really don't I don't think we've got that kind of player who takes the ball on the half team and then can get us going and if it means if it means compromising then you compromise we saw that back into the season as I said Frank Llanparth that's a Frank Llanparth we were going away from home we were getting smashed everywhere because we were trying to play away that this team is incapable of doing and sadly you don't get that time to do something straight away you can transition in it we were working on every day playing a shape and way and transitioning as we were going so you get a hybrid system as you go forward sometimes go short sometimes go long it doesn't have to be one or the other I just think that for me right now the default should be a little bit more let's be quicker and that's not bang it to Dominic Arvalu when he's playing the front it's being a little bit cleverer and getting those diagonals out of the wing back telling to get high and be ready so it will be interesting I think we'll find out more as I said on Friday which way we are looking to go but without those players as I said on the side of caution as we get going this season it has got to be a hybrid system definitely I think there's a time to play absolutely there is and there's a time to just go longer and pick the bits up and if you're playing against a team we're all over you so if you cheat the ball off the centre back in the field then chances are you're going to make mistakes so maybe maybe knock it long and catch them out and give them something to think about but if you're up against a team letting you have the ball then use the ball well then I think we did have a reliance on it too much one way when Fran coming it was too much of a change and now players weren't good enough to do it the minute teams pressed us we lost the ball panach in the minute we played a little bit more and let's be a little bit more direct or a bit cuter we got results because we were playing in there in the final third and that's what we have to do we've looked a lot better playing that way yesterday I know we still tried to blink it up we did play some nice football we didn't have Dominic Halberloo in there of course so it will be interesting when he's in the team one area I can say will be the set pieces it's clearly something we've still got to work on we conceded two goals one mistake from Jordan Pickford a bit of poor goalkeeping but the other was a corner we've got to make sure that we conceded against Arsenal off a set piece then we conceded one against Minnesota we've certainly dated the bar off one for sure and then at the weekend we've led another one so that's something that the coaching staff have got to be working on I've just let the piece today that's actually cool taking on that role now so that he's got to get his work cut off with that and make sure that we're tighter from set play we certainly don't react quick enough on the set pieces but it's still not something where you are absolutely confident on it of course when the player is like Dominic playing and yet he's being on the pitch it's not something you necessarily worry about as much but it's got to be a unit hasn't it you can't just take one player out and disintegrate or two players out it's the only one who plays in it and we just don't seem to react quick enough when set pieces come in, we just get caught and the one we conceded yesterday from currently it's a dead simple head and it's poor where's the player in front of him getting it up in random luxury and just letting him walk behind him and just dead sitting very disappointing the first goals it's a decent effort a goal pick the getter all wrong he gets all those mistakes out of his system before the season starts but yeah it's a poor one it's a poor one so it was just glad to have a win it was just glad to get a win after a disappointing start of the pre-season we're going to have to work harder than other teams this season I think for me you've got to anyway haven't you you've got to work harder to win our games that has to start now, you have to see that I think we saw a little bit more of that yesterday I think we started well when we were in Minnesota and then missed a couple of opportunities and then the sharpness and confidence took over once they got a goal but yesterday that didn't happen and even coming out second half being 2-1 we went and got a third and they got a goal and then we went and got the way the game swung sent out a good a good message I think to everybody that they were on it and we're on to the next one it's the reaction from conceding the goals that's important too often we sure are against Arsenal the other week 1 became 2 we sure are against Minnesota 1 became 2 very quickly became 3 and that's something that they've got to get out of system they've got to get that resilience where if they can see the goal you're just like calm it down you're not going to keep clean sheets all the time so it can't be every time you go behind you start to worry that the segment is coming and that's it the game plans out the window you've got to learn that resilience I don't know how you do it I think you've just got to come through it as a team to go I think you characterise you need leaders and I think certainly with the likes of Errimino and James Hockhouse they're leaders you've seen that already you need more leaders on the pitch and Jordan Pickford captain the side now it seems you just need more of that on the pitch and less less sort of individuals out there and characters and I think we're getting a few more of them into the team you could do with a couple more but you need less individuals and more characters and more people who are playing for the team and I think if that happens then they understand then what it's all about these players all of these players basically have just come through something at the end of last season they understand how important it is and now it's time to make sure that doesn't happen again and if you've got the right values and the working hard hopefully it shouldn't happen again now you've had that little bit of experience at the back then and get someone in midfield then hopefully that doesn't happen again and we just we'll win enough games through working hard in the opposition I'd like to think anyway no there's enough quality in this squad for evidence to be fine excuse me the asshorten a couple of areas absolutely they need another football player that can get goals they need one at least in midfield but there's enough quality to stay away from danger this season if you cut out the errors and we have doubled the errors everybody had last season we had got a look after the injuries as the manager said more robust this season players are going to be available so do everything you can to make sure that's happening players have got to perform better than they did last season no half seasons or quarter seasons be consistent you do that you'll be okay you look at them and think give that back five together work on it if you can add another couple you'll be alright and that's all you can offer and build something but this was a positive result after two very disappointing performances in America so key ever on Friday and then the real stuff starts so they want to win Friday night final pre-season game it looks like unless they can squeeze one more in and it'll be important that they get the winner to keep momentum going a couple of defeats follow it with a couple of wins feel good going into that what is it obviously a very tough first game of the season against Chelsea but we've beat them before and I'm sure we can again it 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