 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton vs Arsenal at Gwladyswn Park Monday evening. What a treat. What an absolute treat. Is ahead of us. I just can't wait. I really can't wait to get back to Gwladyswn Park because it is the place I love to be on a Monday night at 8 o'clock in December when I could be all, you know, all warm and snug. Surely you want to get back there and erase the memories of this week. I'll be honest. My those memories have been well erased. Well erased. I didn't even have bad memories. It was just more like, it's all the others. It's every day. Can you erase it every day? Every day I've been in Evertonian this year. Can it just all be erased? It's a weird game this isn't it? Because part of me feels like we should be beating Arsenal at home. We did the double over them last season. But then I also think that we're absolutely crap and they are pushing for the top four. And that's what makes me think, oh okay. Because the narrative this weekend, I don't know whether you think it or not, is obviously Arsenal are pushing for the top four. They've just been beaten by Manchester United, which would have took them into the top four. But the chance might be there, depending on West London's result. I look at it and I just think to myself, it's all going to be about Benitez, but it's all going to be also going to be about Arteta. And the narrative will be young up and coming manager given time. He's got them challenging for top four. Everton, old manager, not giving them time on their arses. And it's going to be pushed like that. And obviously it's Monday night in the UK, it's going to be Neville, it's going to be Carragher. It's going to be a really interesting narrative just going into this game. I know that none of that affects the game of 40. But you know what narrative is like now in football, the way narrative works in football, it can really shape what happens before and after the game in terms of how we look at it and what the context is. So it's a strange game and as I say, I think we should be winning this game. It's definitely a game, we can win. But they're on a good run now, I know they've just lost to United, but in general they're on a good run. They had a similar thing at the start of the season, they had a couple of injuries, they had a few injuries and they lost the first three games at the bottom of the league and there was lots of pressure on Michael Arteta. Then he got players back in, he started winning games, he got a scrappy 1-0 win around to Norwich I think it was and went to Burnley the week later and won 1-0 and then that gave them the emphasis then. I think then they beat Sparsing at the North London Derby and then they've just been on a really good run. The beatable, we saw that at Anfield last week, they came to Anfield and they've a feel back to them. Lost the last couple of away games haven't they? It's not like we can beat them, but they do have some really good players and they are playing quite well under Arteta, so the biggest thing for us is us. If everything was going well, or even if we had like Dominic Alvert Llewman, and you know what I mean, it may well be back, if we had those kind of players in and everyone fit then you'd be looking at this going, definitely win this game, we can definitely win this game. We still can't win it, but it'll be a tough game because they are a good shot. The manager's come out in his press conference and he's talked about the amount we run against Liverpool and it's a terrible way, by the way, because I think what he should be saying is the amount of effort we put in against, not running because running to me is on what? You chased after Liverpool all night, well done mate. The effort was there and fans can see the effort. I would say for half an hour against Liverpool, I thought we had the go, we were in the game, obviously mistakes made us out of the game, but I'd be saying if we can have that same kind of intensity, we can get gooders and go and say we're all in this together, which we should be. Then there's an opportunity there to, you know, ask on a good side, you know, they've got good young players, they've got the mix of experience, a Bami Ang as well, they're tough, they've, you know, he's, you can see what he's trying to do and it's got him to a position where they are in the European places now and you can understand what he's trying to do, trying to bring young players in, trying to push out a few of the older fellas, give themselves a good foundation to build on. And actually when you spoke before about them at the beginning of the season, I think it was more like this time last year when they were going through a very tricky spell, weren't they? People were talking about them with relegation and stuff like that and then the second half of the season, they got themselves kind of, I think, actually this calendar year, they've been one of the best teams in the Premier League. So it does show that you can have a bad first half of the season, a team around in the second half of the season, but you've got to have a direction and we're not seeing that, are we? Because it's all right saying when we get Dominic Arvill-Lwm back and when we get Jeri Mina back, but if you were, if we were playing in any kind of particular fashion, that was like, oh, I know against Brentford, but oh, if Dom had been there, tapping that and all, you know, but you know, look, I don't look at everyone like that at the moment. I just look at, well, if you've had the Dom, you'd have the same thing, but you'd have Dom in the side. So you might create a couple more chances. Players do turn teams and games, don't they? You're absolutely right. It's not like we're missing a load of chances and if we had Dominic Arvill-Lwm, we'd be winning all these games. But sometimes those kind of players, they are the key for you. Dominic Arvill-Lwm is key in both penalty areas, don't forget. Great in the air in both boxes. He wins so many challenges in the air. He's quick, he's mobile. All the things Ronddon isn't, you know, Richard Lawson is generally better when Dom's with him because it takes someone to take it off. Jeri Mina's our best centre back. We know that. He just hasn't been available anywhere near the amount of time. But then there are all the things that you can say which give you a little bit of hope that it will turn. But then there's the other side where we haven't won any games. We've won one in ten or something. You can only explain the feet and that away with injuries for so long. You do have to look at the bigger feet and go, what's the manager doing? Like early on, there was a very specific game plan. And we had the corey and it did start to really fall off when the corey went out the side. I don't forget, we'd only lost one game up until the West Ham game because it started this run really. And he got injured in that the first half of that game and I know he completed the game but he was playing the second half of that injury and he's been out since. And the counter attack and fell off because of him really. You know, he's back now, Richard Lawson's back. So we've still got what we had. We just haven't had time but I think lately the manager's just made mistake after mistake for me. You know, it's the other night only playing two in midfield against a very good mid one of best midfields in Europe. Now listen, we might have still been beating four one anyway if we'd have gone three in midfields. But you'll never know. All's I will know is that he wouldn't have had as much space as what we had. No, but we were never going to beat them. We were never going to beat them with two midfields, especially the way Liverpool have a day centre forward drops off. So it was basically four against two, not three against two. And we couldn't get the ball like that. So it was a fundamental mistake and he's made that loads of times. Two in midfield and thinking that the extra attacking man is going to do something for you when it's just nonsense. You've got to look at your team and go, we're not good enough. You know, Arsenal are going to have a lot of the ball against us and we are going to do a lot of running so we'll be happy with that. But again, it probably calls for that extra man in midfield and just say, do you know tonight? And I look at it like this. You've got to stop getting beat. You've got to start getting draws. You've got to start picking up. Every point matters, don't you? Because what's happening is we're losing games and teams behind us are picking up the odd point where we've been losing games. So they're getting closer and closer. Even if you look at knowledge, you look at knowledge and you go, they're picking up points here, there last few weeks. So they've gained points on us. We've got to start picking up those points. And then what happens is you're taking the feet into draws and draws into wins. That's how you do it. For me, on Monday, it's like the spares game. It's like, don't lose this game. Do everything in your power not to lose this game. And it should have been exactly the same on the main side, Dabi. Don't lose this game. But for me, setting up with four attack on plays and not having Delf in your starting line-up is not about, you know, that's where you are. And for a manager who is negative, it's got this system which doesn't work. And it's caught us out big time. And it's put us in a horrendous position. Well, he done it at Brentford last week. You know, he lined up wrong at Brentford, really, and then when he had the opportunity to correct it, not the opportunity to correct it, but when he should have been throwing everything at it for the last 20 minutes by putting strikers on. What did he do? He just let the game, Peter, out against a team that wasn't very good. And it clearly just retreated into their own box to just try and hang on to something. He didn't try to mix it. He didn't try to put people on who were on now. He could have threw the two young lads on. He could have threw caution on or at least put Alice Sims on alongside Rhondda and gone, just get balls into the box and see if he can get on the end or something. And if your manager's throwing everything at it, you can't really question him because you go, you know what, he's doing what we would have all done. He's only playing the hand, he's being dealt with, but he's made mistake after mistake. Wolves away putting Gabamon in, which is fine starting John Fleeb Gabamon. His first game in over two years, but putting him in a two-man midfield with Alan who isn't exactly disciplined. It was just bizarre. I think what he's done is, I think he hasn't adjusted for the players going out the team. Like he's started the season, he's come in and he's gone, this is what I'm going to play. I've got Dominic Arblun on the front. I'm going to play with Charleston and like I've floating 10. I'm going to have Grey on one side. I'm going to have Tansund on the other side. I'm going to have me two centre midfielders who are going to do a job. And that's that and we're going to play and we got success with it early on. The game against Brighton where it worked probably our best performance of the season, where we just sat back, we sat on the edge of the box, said usually I'm going to get through with us today and we're going to hit you on the counter stack and it worked twice. We got a goal in the first half, penalty in the second half. It's never been about five mil, mate. And it worked perfectly. That's it. And it worked, almost worked at Leeds. It's, you know, certainly a way. We were decent at United. We were decent at United. And we were there with Dom or Richie, I don't know. Richie, I don't know. And then what happens? We lose Dom first, you've got to change. And then we lose Decorae. And once we lost it, but once we lost Decorae and we had that runner in midfield who could go through the lines, it was gone. So you've got to make an adjustment. And the adjustment is you have to go to three midfield. Now Decorae's come back, but Decorae will take, seeing him later tonight. He wasn't right against Liverpool. He wasn't right in the Brentford game. He's going to need a little bit of time. And that means putting someone else in there to just help him, help him out. We sure are against Burnley earlier in the season. You know, it was one-one. He put on his right golems in midfield as well. Three Decorae up in the game. Three one. He scored and would have been four one. He was just off. But even like his pass for Grey's goal. It was just freeing him up. And that should have been the blueprint for it. He should have been going, yeah, the three in midfield. They gave us that extra insurance. Arsenal are vibrant. They're full of young lads. They're quick. You've got to be able to match it and compete with it. And if you do it, you can bully them. Oh, it's going to be a tough game. And even like I said, pieces I think they've improved on. You know, you're seeing Gabriel pop up and getting something on it. You know, so it's a tough game. And as I said, they'll be looking at this thinking, well, they'll be thinking we should be beating it. And of course it's another away game for them. But they'll be thinking we should be beating everything. And we've got to make it as hard as we can. You know, we played them last year around the same time. We're just beating Chelsea. And they were, this is when they were in this, the Heeshwell. And we were though, make me. Yeah, we just beat Chelsea. There were some fans in the crowd. It was a live game on a Saturday night. And we made it difficult for them. And we put ourselves about. And people, you know, I think mean, I got the golden just before the half time. But we made it horrible for them. You know, we made it uncomfortable for them. And I think that's what we've got to do on Monday night. We've got to look at and think, right, the way tactics we've been using haven't been working. So let's make it horrible for these. Let's stop these from playing. Let's go back to some old-fashioned way of looking things where it's like the old dogs are war, where you're saying, have a bit of honesty and go, they're not good enough football and wise. So let's just make it hard for them. Run, run round, run our bollocks off, and just make it really uncomfortable. What we did in Liverpool for half an hour, that unsettled them, that made them for half an hour, think, oh God, if these get something off a set piece, it's back to being 2-2. It's back to being 2-2 and then we have to start again then. And they're not saying they're on much way, obviously Liverpool are very good side, and they get the goal by mistake. But that's what we've got to start doing. Got to start going back to basics and going, do you know what? Today we're going to be really hard to beat, we're going to be really hard to break down, and we're going to work harder than you. And I expect this might just be my prejudice, but I always expect an evident team to work harder than Arsenal team. Without a shadow? I don't know why that is. Especially at home with the crowd. At home with the crowd. I always think Arsenal can be affected by the crowd, even though they've got good players, there's no question about that. And also I'll go back to 2016, when again, but then, Arsenal were brilliant, they were amazing, they were on a great run, they were on beaten. They come to Everton when we were in a terrible run, and we beat them 2-1. We beat them 2-1 after we won 1-0 down as well in the game. And they were on a great run. I remember we were doing the Ball Street show and Robbie was coming up, and I was just like, what are you doing, you're going to batter us? And we beat them 2-1, and we got under the skin that night, and the crowd got behind. It was a night game as well, and the crowd got behind. And we just dug in, we just dug in, and we needed a bit of that on Monday. Forget, stop up with all the sub stories about your injuries and all this. This is from, I mean, the club, the players. Go out, and just wear your battles. Get on play back for the fans and for the team. Wear your battles, and like you say, if you can't win it, don't lose it. Sadly, that's the way we've got to approach it at the moment, but it'll be difficult because we are not playing well at all. Some of these players are just, you know, and it's not good enough. But we are beginning to get the team back who says our song is team, especially if me and the players are on Monday. It'll literally be Dom and the Calvert Loom. It'll be the only one missing, so even them excuses are gone out of the door now. So the manager's got to get his team right, and he's got to get the players. Although there are some players who are definitely on the pitching body, I'm not sure they are in mind at the moment. But that's the other thing, isn't it? When you've had a bad run, confidence starts to drop, and players start looking for excuses to point fingers at other people. And that's where we sort of are at the moment. I said this last week about the brimford game. Don't go there and feel sorry for yourself, and I'm afraid some of them did. Some of them went down there and go, oh, I worked you. Oh, it's another defeat. Oh, it's a penalty. Ba, ba, ba. We're not what you need. It's players. And we don't have enough, if we have any, to roll up the sleeves and go, who's going to dig his ar of this? The manager's not going to dig his ar of it. He sends us on the pitch. And we might not like what he tells us to do. But that doesn't mean you don't win your 50-50s. Only those players can dig his ar of this. And I think that's, unfortunately for some people, that's the worry that only these fans can, because a lot of fans don't have any hope for some of these players. The fans, the other night, at times, were noisy and they'd be well with the players on these, and you've got to go back to the well, but there's only so many times you can go back to the well. The crowd will do it, they'll get behind them. The players have got to start making sure they win the battles. It'll be a tough game. And it's tough, listen, if everything don't win, and it's nine games without a win, then they might have a decision to make the board, because you can't just let something keep rolling and rolling. And it isn't all on the manager by the way, but you can't just keep things letting rolling and rolling. So the players, they've got anything. And if they like Benitez or they believe what he's doing, they're going to have to go and get a result. Well, unfortunately, we've said it a million times, some of these players, at one time or another, have made it quite well known on the pitch, if they don't like a manager or not, because they just stop playing. And it's a horrible trait. You see it through football, but it seems to be a bit more... Crazy, isn't it? It's just ridiculous. Obviously, they've got some good young players. Smithrow obviously scored a good goal against Manchester United. He's on a good run, isn't he? Or the guard scored as well. But Saka's probably been near me, man. Some of those stats might be a little bit wrong, because they were done before the Manchester United game. Well, it's 14 appearances, now they've got two goals. Two goals to assist. Javillett's in 1.8 shots a game, 1.6 key passes. He's been their best player on top of his fan. He's pacey, gets up and down. He's got a goal in him. But they've got players like that in the team. They're going to make sure you have to be on your game. I've got to be on the game. You just said that you can't feel sorry for yourself all the time. The manager's got... It's about time he earns some of his money. Stop making stupid mistakes. But the focus will be still on the club on Monday, on the board. I'm sure you said Neville and Carragher. Carragher done a piece last week. Having to go with Farad Mishiri, having to go with Everton's board, I'm sure Neville will. It's been highlighted, there's lots of stuff happening this week. Spotlight will be on us, Farad Mishiri. Apparently he's going to be at the game. And the spotlight will be on us, you know, nationally. Monday night football, Carragher, Neville. You know, they'll be having their say before the game, after the game. And it's not just this and... You can have a bad run, but this is... When bad runs go into December, when you've got all these games, that's when it starts looking very, very serious. Can't say that quick. No, it can. That's what I'm saying. December, this is why a lot of managers got sacked in the last international window, because those teams, so December coming, seeing the amount of games and now it can be make or break. You're in training. In December, we've seen this one, now that ice-gaming. You're training December, by the time you've got out of December. Things look completely different. They've ever...wit to win the next two, which is Arsenal Home Palace, right? At this moment, it seems like there's no chance of that. But if they did, you'd get people talking about qualifying for Europe again. Because they're not that far away from, like, seven. And you've gone through a lot of those, like... Tough games. I know we still got those tough games after, obviously. But we live at Liverpool Arsenal. You know, there's Chelsea in Leicester to come, but... So you look at it that way, perversely, if they don't, because they would lose the two, then you start looking the other end and going, oh my God, we need to do something very quickly. So it can change quickly. It changed last December very quickly. We were on a bit of a...not a great run and end. We had the tremendous run in December and ended up second on Boxing Day, didn't we? So they're going to have to perform. Arsenal, without a win in the last three away games of Heaven, which is the longest run since between 1989 and 1994, he scored 111 Premier League goals against Heaven, which is the only Manchester United that scored more against a single opponent. Heaven have lost six at the last seven Premier League matches. The Toffees haven't gone nine without a win since 1994. And we know what happened that year. We know what happened that year. In his Premier League career, Everett manager Rafa Benitez has seen his side concede more goals against Arsenal than any other in the competition, lovely. Dyma'r ei greu'r sgwp, more Premier League goals than any other toffee player this season. He's got four, while Greu is never netted more than four in the Premier League season. Can't get you first. Pia Emmerich y Bamiang has scored eight goals in nine Premier League games, played on a Monday, brilliant, lovely. Emile Schmiffrow has had a hand in eight goals in his last 11 appearances. So they've got real threats Arsenal, we know that. But I think if it was the other way around... You've also got the world's greatest goalkeeper. Do you have? If it was the other way around in the position to reverse, I think they would expect to win this, even in the tough position, to start showing something to your fans. We've just been battered in the Mayside Derby. There's a lot of anger and criticism around. The club have got to respond, will it be? And the last time we got battered by Liverpool in the Mayside Derby, we came out and beat Chelsea. We did change our manager before that. We did, yeah. But we did beat Chelsea. I mean, it's only Friday. We did beat Chelsea and they even on the code run as well. So there you go. There you go. 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