 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Brentford versus Everton at the G-Tec stadium, a place we have not won yet, that's correct, that is correct, factually correct, we started, factually correct. Obviously we ain't great at Griffin Park either in all fairness over, and we played there probably about twice but we were rubbish. There you go, obviously we got to draw there last season but tough game, Brentford had a good side, they've got a great model as a football club and once again I've started the season pretty well, only one defeat last game out against Newcastle, obviously only one win as well so far good win against Fulham but this will be a difficult game only. Yeah, really tough game, really like Brentford like Thomas Frank and even without Ivan Tony they still look capable of scoring goals and it'll be a battle for Everton because the way they play the game is exciting, they fly forward, there's not one way they do things and like I said Thomas Frank's built a side there that is everything. Everyone has a tough game every time you play them and that's a difficult place to go because we've proven you know we lost the first year we went there and but we got a good draw last season and to be honest last season we should have won there, we had opportunities Anthony Gordon put us 1-0 up and then, and with them I had a great. And Michael Eng called both mission presentable chances to go 2-0 up before they equalised late on off a corner and but if you offered me it now I'd take a point on Saturday. They always strike me as a very brave team, a team that just goes for it you know regardless I watched the first game they played against Spaces and it's such a ding dong it was there was always confidence that he could score in the game and you get that feeling all the time that they're going to get something and even a couple weeks ago when they played Bournemouth obviously I think they went behind 2-1 quite late on but always that belief in the goal they scored was fantastic, like a fantastic equaliser and it really really laid on. You just feel like the players and the fans they're all on the same page you know they're at a place where as a football club we'd absolutely love to be there's so much unity you know when I know that I know it's it they've come you know through the league and through the leagues even but there's so much unity there are everyone's on the same page and that I think for me that takes the pressure off it I think when they first came into the Premier League it was almost a case of well we're happy to be here but as it grew and as you know with the new stage. With a very calm manager and very calm ownership model and the way they do things that unity is just growing and I don't know whether the expectations have grown in the fan base but if you go back like 18 months ago when they broke Christian Ericsson and that sort of like just that sort of just like changed everything like like actually we are here and we are here to stay and we're going to have a go that grew into last season. Which is a good season and obviously the beginning of the season and you just look at them now and you don't look at them as a club and feel like oh they're one of the teams who could possibly reflect my relegation they just the way they do things and as you mentioned before even without Ivan Tony I think a lot of people thought he would be going to struggle without Ivan Tony taking those goals off the side but obviously they're not as good as what they could be but they're going along really nicely. Yeah you just did the nail on the head for a team that has come through the league. The first year they were struggling till they got Ericsson they were sliding a little bit and wobbling a little bit and he come in and picked them up brilliant and they ended up comfortably staying up really and then last season they were excellent and told me they got 20 goals which is brilliant. And you look at them now and you think they're more likely to be in the hump for Europe being football than they are to be playing with the relegation where that plays out they have only won one game so far so you could argue they are missing Tony's goals that might have took a couple of games away from the opposition. But they're in every game they battle and scrap in every game and they lost last week to Newcastle with a penalty decision that's been discussed you know looked a very harsh penalty that they lost two last week and that's a tough place to go Newcastle but they were right in that one so. I think he's done brilliantly. I think this was a club that if base peaked out interest when we were doing the radio when Matthew Benham got involved and he wanted to do everything with data and we were wondering what is this, what's going on with this fella, he's just going to use data, money balls, style, cut it away, football and all that. And I actually think if Brighton wouldn't have done so well in terms of fliffing players the way they have done, Brentford would be getting the hell of a lot more positive press than what they get now. I think they've almost. I haven't gone under the radar because I think people do appreciate what they've done but I do think Brighton operating the way they've done and having so much success with that has kind of like took the spotlight off Brentford. And Thomas Frank, I mean he was on Sky Sport on Monday night wasn't he, on the day with Gary Neve and Jamie Carragher and speaking, you know they were interviewing him about different things. Just the way he speaks, the way he talks, the way he wants to evaluate, he wants to get better, he's got a mentor and then you put that with how they buy players and develop players. You know Ollie Watkins who's turned it up for Billy, ex-Brentford, you know you've got Ivan Toney, you've had fellas you've scored goals, you've got Neil Mopey now. Now but in full seriousness, they're absolutely brilliant, I listen to Ivan Toney on a podcast that I've ever seen you out talking about the culture that has been instilled around Brentford by Thomas Frank and everyone buys into it. And give it to Neil on the yet before everyone seems like they're on the same page and when you've got that, you're going in one way, you're only going in one direction. Yeah obviously Brighton are a couple easy head of the mardi so it will be interesting but as I said very calm, very calm outlook on things and even like in the summer you know losing Ray, there's no drama it's just get the money on with it, get the next one in and move on, get the one we scouted and move on. Let's just have a good day team from the game they played against Newcastle which was a very even game. Obviously Rico Henry there, he's out for the rest of the season which will be a major blow for them, he's fantastic and I thought he did really well against us a couple of years ago. Hickey on the other side of course is taking Nathan Patterson's place in the Scotland squad, we know he's a good player, no one to get Aaron Hickey before. Yeah, no guard, really good in the centre, Nathan Collins and Ben Mee, Ben Mee certainly a very good experience goalkeeper and the two are from Whiston and Bumall who have taken the place. Let's just have a little look at the numbers for Bumall. Five games, four goals, 4.14 xg, left foot goals four and a minute per game, 90, 90. Yeah, there you go and obviously put Donald down the right hand side so Michael and Cole, it's going to have, and Branthwy going to have their, well this is what he does, he cuts in, he likes to cut in in Bumall and get it on to that left foot and he's a real threat. Again on that, on the podcast Ivan Tony's talking about giving him confidence and being able to tell on him how good he is because he doesn't quite believe in himself, Tony's saying well, he's given some confidence there because he started off brilliantly, you know he's xg, he's slightly underperforming it, he's got 4.14 xg, he's got four goals but realistically he's right, bang on what he should be doing and he's a handful wiser, he's a handful we know that and he's freshing it up, he's got options as well. So, no garter player I really like in the midfield for them, he just keeps everything ticking over as well and this is a tough, tough game for Evan, you know we haven't won a game yet. Sean Dyche, the pressure is on because it's got to be on. I don't think Evan have won two of the last 16 Premier League games which is abysmal, absolutely abysmal, so no wonder the pressure's on the man and you're no wonder there's them stories that Graham Potter's being linked and other things. Well for Sean Dyche to calm all that down and quieten it all, he's got to get the team to go and get a result here and then we obviously then in terms of the Premier League we have two home games on the run after that but we've got to hit the villar as well so from our perspective it's a difficult place to go but we've got to do our best to hang on in there and listen, if we click we've got players who are a threat at the other end better, getting better, you know we'll be getting better. Better each game just by playing more Premier League games, Dominic Albert Lums fitting available again, Dwight McNeill's back now, we missed him in the opening few weeks, Dan Jum has got a couple of goals in his last three. So we have got threats at the other end that the argument this weekend for all the things Sean Dyche has to get right this weekend is the energy in the side and it might be Nathan Patterson comes back in for young. And the midfield, he's got to get that midfield make-up right and that might be taking Decory out and putting the James Garner in there or taking, I don't think he can take Garner out but if he is going to have Decory in there he's got to do more than he did last week, he's the one who breaks into the box, he didn't have a single attempt to goal last week so that's something everyone's got to look at. That's just a look at the evident team from last week's defeat. Be interesting to see obviously he's got Dominic Albert Lums, he could possibly play from the start, would he take that risk and we get away between midfield? To instead of the three sorry, when you look at that midfield sometimes you think you're probably good because you missed it out. He was asked about playing through a front and he said I like playing through a front and that's something we can do it so I'm sure the manager will try that at some stage. It'd be interesting because it'd be interesting whether he, Ashley Young continues playing at right back, obviously he played there against Arsenal, whether he brings back Paterson, Michelin Co plays at left back, I'm sure he will. Jack Harrison's not quite ready, is he a possibility maybe for midweek against Ville to give him some minutes there? Do you not think he'll be on the bench Harrison? I don't think he's fit fit, he's obviously not fit fit. Well it's really interesting because Brentford in the five games have in four of those have used five subs so they really do use the squad and that's something that obviously we haven't seen at evident and maybe we're obviously not quite there yet so that could be an integral part of the game. Thomas Frankoff, he trusts his team, he trusts his squad, he knows he's got a more balanced squad than ever to have. If we've got players, yes we've got players like Paterson and possibly Dominic Harvill-Lewin who can come on, James Garnett, but who's after that? Shemitty, well he hasn't looked quite ready yet, you haven't got it Jack Harrison, maybe on the bench and if you have is he fit enough to come onto the pitch. So they have said they've got a lot more balance in their squad and I suppose for evident that's the level we've got to get ourselves back to by having those players available who aren't quite there yet. So be interested to see with that whether that's something Thomas Frankff approaches again, knowing almost that evident a very reluctant, so Sean Dice is very reluctant to make that many subs in the game. We don't really have the balance in our, we have centre backs and we have full backs and we don't have too many options in my field obviously with Donbac we've got a bit more going up front now so that'll be an interesting part as well. They haven't won a home as well so they'll be desperate for there but hey we haven't won away so you know it all balances out, someone's got to give. So yeah it's a very tough game and it's a very, it's a sticky spell for the manager because he knows he's got this game, he's got the Villa game and he's got two huge home games that let's be honest he needs to take six points out of because one minute it's the start of the season, the next minute you've had the first quarter of the season and if you haven't got the points on the board it's tough. You're darned there for the rest of the season. It's a difficult game but you know what, just because they're not flying fully right now it's an opportunity for Everton to maybe catch them and home and we beat them last time we played them. For me it's all about rolling up the sleeves and putting a performance that gets us a result and you know we saw the Villa how quickly we fell apart. Do you know what I mean? It's like we can't afford that to happen again because these are a good side as we said and they've got a couple lads up front there who are tidy players and can put the ball in the back of the net and we've got to make sure we cut out all those silly mistakes and be you know, we've got to be organised but be more than organised. Last week we were organised and we only conceded one goal that's great but you've got to be organised and have a little bit more about it. You've got to have an effect of game haven't you? You can't just rely on set pieces which have been abysmal anyway. I mean that might be one of the first things I'd do is maybe have a look at taking. Don't let Ashley Young take but give Dwight MacNeill the opportunity again. I mean he scored for me last season so why not. Yeah it's going to be a very tough game so let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one obviously half five on Saturday. It's not ideal. So let us know your thoughts, your fancies. 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