 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. There is actual games of football to talk about. It feels like ages since we've spoken about football. Don't we suppose it wasn't? No, well-cared. That's the one we kept in mind. I know we played West Ham a couple of weeks ago, but so much has happened in between. It just feels like ages and we've actually got game of football with nothing else to talk about, no new manager to talk about, no new players to talk about. New what? Which? New what? Players. Oh, okay. Was there a window? What other people get? What other people get? We get called. I've seen a tremendous sweep before that said even Exeter City outspent us in the January transfer market. Duncan brought 11 new players in the Forest Green did for Duncan. Everyone was having fun about us. Fair play. Fair play to you. All resources as well. Couldn't even get him a club. Sean Dice's first game at Everton Football Club. Couldn't have been a tougher game. Oh, can't be a tougher master home. Half 12 kickoff. So we're very much isolated as well. There's nothing else going on to distract people. Live on TV. Do you know what? I actually think this is the best start. Really. I know that sounds weird. But he's obviously had all this week to try and instill his new tactics, maybe a new formation, whatever it is. And I think it's not a bad place to start going up against someone like Arsenal. Because if it was someone like Villar or Leeds or someone that we are looking to beat, because we were desperate for the points obviously, you'd be like, I think this would be a lot of tension, but going up against Arsenal, quite relaxed about the thing. For everyone else, they'll think, well, it's Arsenal versus Everton. Arsenal comfortable win. And I'm thinking, well, you know what? Number one, no expectation on us. No expectation on the manager. So send them out there and try and do your job in obviously tough circumstances. Yeah, I understand what you're saying obviously. It's a hugely difficult game there. You've only lost one game of 40 all season in the Premier League, the top of the league, the scoring goals. There's a number of threats in the team. I don't think we can look at it as a free hit as such. I've seen, I've heard that phrase used a couple of times, by other people or granted, not other times. But I understand what you mean. I understand the point is that we're playing against the best team in the country right now. So therefore, most people will have a stand as a defeat. And I guess for Sean Dyche, it'll be, well, let's see what you made of them. Let's make it difficult. Obviously, if it was at the end, it'd just be like, we go, but it's up to us to make it tough for Arsenal. And we've got it. The record of Godderson's not very good. You know, we've beat them under Arsenal. I don't think he's done three years or whatever. We beat them anyway the last few years of Godderson. So, you know, the crowd will be up for it. Back to manager, like they will. You're back to players. And it is an opportunity. If those players run the bollocks off and put the effort in, the crowd will stay with them. We're not going to be able to make any mistakes because these will punish you. And you've just got to make it as uncomfortable as you can on Arsenal. They play to their full ability, I imagine they'll beat us. But this is football. And we've, you know, sometimes you win these games you don't expect to. And that's up to us. But I think bit more important, not more importantly, but one thing you are looking for as a Blue knows this weekend is something back from the team. Something that they've took on, what Sean Dyche and his coaching team have said. There's a structure that clearly hasn't been there for a while. And if we see that, I think that might give Evertonians a little bit of heart moving forward. The last thing, we are only one winner, 14th place. So it's not like the dead and buried. Lest that I've got 18 points in the 14th. So I have a money climb off the bottom today. I know it's a big if, by the way. I'll tell you what though, you know, you're talking there about, you know, this is what. Every year we've played Arsenal, you know, we played them the day Artheta was appointed. It was Duncan Ferguson in the nil nil. You know, the season after it was Carlo Ancelotti in the 2-1 win. I think it was in Covid. And then we go to Rafa Benitez in a 2-1 win. Frank Lampard never even faced him, a gooderson did he? I don't think so. So we're on to another manager now, a gooderson. So, you know, we have won the last couple against them, which is good. Yeah, you just hope you want to see something, you want to have a bit of belief, you want to take a bit of positivity. You know, you hope that points, of course, but there has to be something, hasn't it? The manager's got to show us something on the day. And obviously we've seen photos this week of them training and clearly some of them look like he's putting them through the rig. Obviously talk of them doing the bleep test and some of them, you know, looking like they're being pushed further and they're being pushed. And to me that's fantastic, because what that tells me is there's more there. There's more to come from these players that they weren't fit enough. And if they're not fit enough, then they've got another level in them. And if they've got another level in them, then I'm hoping that means that we can pick up more wins and stay in the Premier League, which is what it's all about. Come Saturday, it'd be really interesting, really, really interesting to see that our team dynamic, how we set up, who we play. And maybe, you know, there is a couple of strange inclusions, how he's come up with that idea, you know, whether he's done the bleep test and decided what I'm playing you over him because of the fitness of the team. But let's just have a look at Frank Lampard's last Everton team against West Ham. I mean, there's the team right there. What do you think could be different for the side on Saturday, you know, shown by his first game? I think he, I mean, he may well play 3-5-2. He was having a look the other day as his laugh, you know, was lying up to Bernie, what he used. He did use three centre backs, but it wasn't very often. It's generally 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2. I think he said that a lot of times, 4-4-2. 4-4-1-1 becomes 4-4-2 out of possession anyway. So, from that team there, you could see a situation where James Coleman come out the side and Ben Goff replay that right back. And then, obviously, they'd have a decision to make them with the centre backs. Does he ever mean to come out? Is it kind of Cody and Tarkovsky or is one of them out? And it's mean of the Tarkovsky. I think Arsenal, all about movement, there's no big physical centre forward. Backing in is that you've got, you know, people running through. So we're going to have to be very disciplined. Oh, the guard, fabulous footballer. But you've got the threat of Sakha, you've got Martin Elly in the wide areas. And I think that's why I think Goffrey in one of those wide areas and it might be that he tries to take out Sakha as in taking out Mark Sakha because he's the piece and he's direct. Martin Elly's clever, he's quick as well, by the way, clever. So he may do that and then try and block them in field off with four. See, I could see a situation where it's a 4-4-1-1 and your one is someone like Alex O'Woby because he can't drop into the midfield and make it. So it becomes almost a 4-5-1 at a time, but we have to get men forward. I might be absolutely nonsense. You might well play 4-4-2 and it's Ella, Simms and Domin. It's two big target men and we go direct. But we've got to make sure that Arsenal aren't able to play through us easily. If they play through us through the theatres, they say easily, we'll be in trouble. We saw that with Brighton in January, early in January. The structure of the Cyfrancklamp I put out that night, there was gaps everywhere. That was when having four at the back, having just had three or five at the back of the city. There was too many gaps and Brighton just played through us somewhere on the edge of our box and I don't think we can do that with Arsenal. So I think maybe a 4-4-1-1. But it'll be interesting because the biggest area where we've got choices centre back and that's why sometimes the three at the back. See, I think you'll stick to a four at the back because it's not like three at the back is our preferred tried and tested thing. That's what Lampard went to as a default because it meant five at the back. So I don't think that's on naturally. We've been at our best decision when we've played four at the back. So I think you'll go to because that's what he wants and I think that's what he'll move forward with. What does he do further on then? I don't know, I mean it's interesting. Because you haven't got naturally what, we'd have like, could you say like a Wobie, Brighton, McNeill left? But I could see them going with what you're suggesting of. Trying to almost saying to a Wobie you play as a split striker or maybe Malpie plays in that. No, actually I don't think he will play. The reason why I don't think he'll play Grey Day is I think he requires that player to drop in as a midfielder and I don't think Grey's got the confidence to do that. And he wants wide players and I think he'll ask Grey, maybe McNeill or maybe a Wobie to get chalk on the boots as they say. I just think that actually in his team, that second striker is a massive position for him. They have to drop in, they have to become, they have to cover, they have to cut off passing lanes for the defenders and I don't think that, unless you can get something out of Grey and almost say listen, if you don't play in this position you ain't playing in this team so I need you to work hard. Because I think what tends to happen with certainly the wide players and the Grey's being guilty of this the way they've been playing in a three or front is it's really easy for them to go missing. And I think that position and maybe the discipline, you might see another side of Grey but I don't know whether this game is going to be like, well this is it from now on in terms of personal. I do think in terms of the style, I think it will be getting bedded in in this game certainly the game and I'm feel. We've been saying before, who knows? Who knows? You know, we don't want to be in the target man. Who's to say he doesn't say, no actually, I'm going to utilise Ella Sims as my target man and Dominic Arvillun is a really intelligent player and he's going to be the one who splits, he's going to be the one who drops off. You know, who knows, at this point we're just guessing because let's be honest, we can't sit here with real confidence and say well he plays in that position and he plays in that position because they're amazing. You know, there's not that many positions on the pitch. I think Onan and Ghana will be the two in the middle but even he might come in and look at Ghana and go, I don't think you're up for this. I don't think you're fit enough. I don't think you're disciplined. It's really hard at the moment isn't it? I think you'll play then too as like a double pivot sat and I think to change Ghana will be the interest moment when he's fully fit what he does, what does he plays on the right side of midfield about tucking in and does he have his other one. We'll have to see because we are just guessing right now because we don't know what's going to happen. Let's have a look at the Arsenal team from the last game. I think Thomas Party's got a bit of a knock so he might be injured. Who might play in that role because that's sort of the position he looked at and obviously they play with three up front and there's a lot of movement in this. Sac is obviously fantastic. Kettie is on fire at the moment. I'm not nearly on the other side, it's got brilliant pace and they're just a really fluid team even if you look at like Ben White he's supposed to be a centre back playing right back just gives him that little bit of stability the centre backs have been fantastic but one play that you wanted to have a little look at was out of the guard Let's have a little look at his numbers. There you go, 18 games from the field, 8 goals, 5 assists and the average is 2.7 shots per game and did score in this game last season because there's no one left in me and he's been a fantastic acquisition from Real Madrid. What's really frustrating is that we're off of the midfield on the anti-lots the undernard over it and Arsenal, soch am is being fabulous for Arsenal the captain now is brilliant so fair play to him and he is someone, because he's so intelligent on the ball he's someone I've got to have to look at and that's why that person in the split-strike role is going to be really important because they do have three players and you know, obviously if he's the one who comes in he knows the Premier League and all that but he is someone who just passes it and passes it so maybe someone will sit on him, not split-strike and then on the other hand go on and they'll have to match up with Shacka and Oedegard It looks like a real tough task for your opening game but it's an opportunity, isn't it Evan? I've got to look at it as an opportunity we know what we've got now and there's no distractions this game is always mad with managers they don't forget Arsenal with the team that last time he won a good and he beat us 5-2 and that was Ronald Coeven's last game he was shocked the next day so there's always been something on managers you know Rafa Benitez last year he got a stay of execution by beating Arsenal and it's now Sean Diter's first game and like you said before anti-alot he was announced so there's always seems to be and I guess it's just indicative of what's gone on at Everton Arsenal is always mad with managers but this is an opportunity for Everton players of the weekend to go and show the manager that they want to play and they've got to buy into what he wants and Sean Diter's got that experience that we've done this many times with Burnley of these are a better team like how do we upset these and like you said before both teams played to the best of their ability you'd expect Arsenal and Diter on the coaches on YouTube saying these are the games where you have to work extra hard you have to be more disciplined you've got to have that realisation that you're not going to have a lot of the ball you know that before you start and everyone has to do the job and stick to it and that's the hardest part being switched on for the entire game but that's what he'll have been drilling into the more weekend Everton did this on the call though they had most of the ball Liverpool away we were just happy he just had them tactically you do this you do this you do this they'll have the ball constantly do your jobs Everton 12 away games in that season because that's what they did they just stuck to the game plan so a lot of these players or some of these players that have done it on the call there's gaps like there have been under Lampard Arsenal run away with it there you go obviously tough opening for Sean Daish but there you go you've got to play them the crowd will be in some respects it's a good job because if Frank Lampard would have still been in charge especially if the wind would have played down the way it would have been even flatter because the new manager you do get that new manager bounce let's hope so there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one do you think we can get anything out of the game on Saturday against Arsenal let's be positive first game for Sean Daish let's get there to be loud and back to plays on the pitch and back to manager thanks for watching make sure to give this video a like on toffeeTV premiered link is in the description and the QR code will be on the screen very shortly see you later