 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the match preview, Everton away to West Ham United at the London Stadium this coming Saturday. Battle for mid-table supremacy in the Premier League. West Ham currently on 42 points, Everton on 40 points. Tell you what, both trying to get over that 43. Target, we all set for ourselves. I just feel like if we can get over 43 points or 43 points at this stage, it's all looking good. Good for what? I'm trying to build it up, effectively the race for 7th is still on for both of course it is. If there's a race, it's more like a slow walk. West Ham are 2 points behind Wolves and 7th having a 4 point behind Wolves in 11th. That's an opportunity in itself to keep the pressure on them. Wolves and Woff are both in the FA Cup so their minds might be slightly distracted. This is an opportunity for both teams, I think it's a winnable game for both teams at the weekend so it's going to be a tough game. We've not been great at the London Stadium have we, we only played there. Got me there last season, 3-0, 0 season before them. So their game that we played there, we haven't won yet and we hope them to show. We win at the weekend, it's one of each since they moved there. West Ham on a decent run of form at home, they really won the last three games at home. First time they've done that since they've been there. Obviously the last time out, fantastic comeback against Huddersfield, 3-1 there and ended up winning the game 4-3. Something that I've thought or seen about West Ham is that they've got goals in them haven't they? I mean you can see goals but they've got goals in them and obviously that always gives you the chance. Of course I mean, Hananda's who I thought was a good sign and West Ham got, thought he'd scored a lot of goals for them and he hasn't done as well as I thought he would but he's got goals for them and you know he got the importance. He didn't last time out against Huddersfield equaliser and a winner so he's someone you've always got to watch. You've got to look out for an out of it, scored in midweek for the, you know, for Austria so. You know they've got danger as players, I mean Phillie Manderson's been fantastic all season, he's another real threat. I don't think they've grated the back as Huddersfield displayed last time out. So that's obviously what you're looking at but then again they'll be saying the same thing about everyone. You know, that my danger's just going forward but you can get at them and obviously Everton, you know, we're going to be missing. Yerry Meane it looks like we'll be missing Luka Deane as well for this game so you know we'll have to bring. Kateryum will come back in which is fine, he's played most of the games anyway and then Leighton Baines. But I think in terms of Everton with Baines it's obviously a massive blow to lose Luka Deane, he's been fantastic this season for us. Didn't have a great game again, in fact probably the worst game he had this season was West Ham, you know. But I think with Baines coming in, I think this game suits Baines because Everton, the attacking owners will be on West Ham. So I think he can play a more reserved game Baines and we know that he's comfortable on the board and he's been hard in front of them who's a fantastic little player. So I think Everton might be covered this weekend, I don't think they'll feel the full effects of Luka Deane being out because Baines is a natural fit to come in there. Yeah I mean, who's to say Yerry Meane would have started anyway with Kateryum being available for this game? I do feel that, I do feel that Meane offensively anyway on set pieces is so much more of a threat and opens the door for other players. And I think that'll be a miss certainly away from home when you really, you know, a set piece goal can change your game massively. Deane as you've already mentioned, I don't know, I'd like to have seen those two together because I think there's such a good threat. I know what you're saying, you look at Newcastle and look how well they played in that game and how they add the way they move off each other. I don't know whether, I mean, Baines can still play that role because actually he doesn't have to be lightning and he's intelligent enough. It's whether he can get back on the other side, get back defensively, that's a worry, but it depends how we go into the game. I mean, Seamus Coleman played for Ireland against Georgia and I believe he played very, very well and coming off the back of the performance against Chelsea. So that's a big boost, hasn't it? A big boost that will have that side and Rich Arleson, I think, started on the right for Brazil as well. So he played a couple of games so that's another threat. It's just, you know, it's where he continues with Dom, which I imagine he would, although Trentos has scored a couple of international goals. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. I think for me, the whole thing with the Baines thing is, we're kind of like talking like as if Baines has come up. And Baines has been an amazing left-back for us and still has offered, he's still a good footballer. So I've got no worries about him at the weekend, I think he's a good player. I think he still adds that quality with his left foot. I don't think there's too much of a drop-off with Dean in terms of the quality with the left foot. I think the only thing is, like you say, Luka's obviously able to do to get up and down the relentlessness. But if Baines has reserved him, worry about it. I think having Bernard in front of you helps because you give it an ill-kill. If Foyre works hard, he keeps it, he buys you some time and Baines can then get up and join him. I think you're right with Coleman and Rich Arleson having good breaks for their international teams. Coming off the back of Chelsea, the goal certainly against Chelsea will have helped Rich Arleson and then he's played there for Brazil on the right-hand side. So I think it's okay, I think we go into this one. We've got to go after them. If we sit back and let Westlam come on to us, that's where they'll be dangerous because obviously like we said before, there are people like Andy Carroll who's not great but he's a handful. He'll be, you know, he can exploit that weakness certainly on set pieces. Of course he can, you know. Declan Rice's teams are doing well for them obviously. They're doing well for England as well. Yeah, he's doing alright for England. I wouldn't say they've got a balance but they've got dangerous players. I mean compared to what they were last season, I think I read the other day they were 25 or 30% better than they were last season. So this season has been an improvement for them and you know they seem to be settling into that home ground which obviously for them is a big push point but you know they are where they are and there's no reason why we can't go there and threaten them and the fact that they're at home and that could help, you know, that's certainly I think could help us playing in the counter-attack. It's just more how we deal with it and you know coming off the back of the last away game, the Newcastle game I thought we controlled that game for 60 minutes and then we felt a bit. I'm just wondering now whether because we've got the 40 points and maybe that worry is all gone that players can just relax now and play a bit more football because we've seen, you know, a Cardiff once we've got the goal and at Newcastle for an hour being 2-0 up, you know, we played some lovely football once we were relaxed and it's when, you know, it didn't happen at Cardiff but it happened to me before we'd scored. We played, you know, calm and relaxed in the help of football. Newcastle till they scored their goal, we were playing some nice football. It's just about managing the game and hopefully again from the Chelsea game being 2-0 up and just going, you know what, just not kill the game but the manager made the right subs and players made the right decisions and we just, we got through it and I just hope there's a bit of that on Saturday because this team going towards the end of the season now to the end of the season has got to learn how to be itself. It's got to and it's also got to learn in adversity, i.e. when you can see the goal how to cope properly. You know, it's great, we're fully switched on at 0-0 or at 1-0 or 2-0, but you know, when it's 0 we defend properly against Liverpool, we were, we were at it for the whole 90 minutes defending, you know, yes the keepers had to make up for a good save but we were at it, Chelsea at home, we were concentrating and throwing ourselves in the way and we were doing that at Newcastle until we conceded and it was like once that goal went in, everything went out the door we've seen that a few times with everything, it's like you still keep doing the things you were doing at 0 even if you concede 1, just if it's 1, make sure there's no more defend properly and it's about managing the game and that's one criticism I would level at the manager or certainly at the players is that you need to learn to stay, keep with the game plan even if you concede a goal because, you know, if we'd have done that at Newcastle and done it properly we'd have still won the game and that's the thing is that you're not going to win every game to nil, it's not going to happen so you have to be able to think well if they score we'll get 2 if they get 2 we'll get 3 but we'll defend properly you've got to work yourself back into game 2 you know, whether you're leading, whether you're getting beat, whatever if there's a period of pressure, you can't just all crumble you've got to go, you've got to go right now we have a back to the wall situation and then we play out of that it can't just be, ah, you know, like it certainly wasn't Newcastle just set everything on fire that you've done well you know, if the opposition, if you're winning 2 nil like we were there in the opposition score you hope the manager will respond by making you know, if he makes a sub, it's a sub that is helpful helpful not what that problem is but the players also have to take these possibilities no, no, no, we're going to move on to the players but the players are the real ones that are on the pitch they have to, have to say hang on, we're alright here, we're doing alright if we can, I think the biggest problem for everything is you know, I see your time says does anybody, when we're under the course or when we're, or even when things are going right for us and that's when it's most important does anyone on the pitch understand what the threat is you know what I mean, and say, lads you know what's happening, so-and-so is getting the ball and he's beating all of us, so why, like if we start doubling up on him, or someone go over to the manager and just say, listen, he's a threat and he can't deal with it, so can we make a change that eliminates him because you know what, Premier League teams have a couple of good players in them most of them, everyone below the top six and everyone else is a much of a muchness and a lot of the teams, if you can stop that one player then you can stop the team and it's about our players at times just going he's the problem, can someone switch on start dealing with that thing but we don't, we all tend to just go and that's why I think we do at times and we've seen it early on in the season we've seen it in different parts of the season with the set pieces conceding goals but everyone's just doing their own thing and it leads to no one talking no one communicating and I know we spoke about leadership all the time but this is just going, this is establishing going that's the problem right there let's start dealing with that if you even have to boot someone on the halfway line if it stops the game, if it breaks up what could suddenly happen or if we have the ball on the halfway line and we're losing it cheaply someone's got to be, hey, you can't be doing that you can't be doing that would you play Gomez and Garner still or would you bring Snadlam back in? No, I play Gomez and Garner because I think as a three sorry, those two with Sigurdson I don't think there's a, I don't I don't think there's a, I think we've got the 40 points do we really want to go to West Ham thinking, right, we need to be negative I think we go there positive because we just won the last game and say, well Gomez is as good as any of your fielders so why not play him Snidland's there for for that X or something but I don't think you need to go in to get I mean look Snidland's there for the last 20 when Gomez fizzles out when there's 10 games left are we really going to approach any of them in that spirit now Gomez isn't like a if anyone, if I was I mean I wouldn't but if I was going to leave anyone out I'd probably leave Sigurdson out I mean I wouldn't but you know what I mean he's the most luxury out of three isn't he exactly, but he's still but he's still so important to the way we play can't lose 13 goals from our team no I know you're right I'm just saying you couldn't do that even though there'll be times and I've done it where you go what is he providing he's not even in the game but he's got the thing is he can come up with something a goal from nowhere or he's in the right place Sigurdson is the kind of player that you don't always appreciate by watching the game from the stands if that makes sense sometimes you need to watch the game for a couple of years because you could almost watch the game like it was like a pro zone thing like it's not it's not an ideal way to watch football if you want to be part of it but from a tactical point of view it's fantastic and I think Sigurdson is one of those players that if you just watch him and watch where he actually brings we know because we've seen the stats because when you know when you look at people's assists and things like that and you go it's like some kind of P&R P&R is the classic case and you've got three assists this season and it's like well hang on how many opportunities do you create that people missed or how much did he link it all together I think because I do the stats after the games and stuff is that sometimes he has 11 touches in the game and that's shocking listen I watched him for France against Franco the night he's done well but he'll pop up with a goal and in our team that doesn't score tons of goals this is the top score of it so we have to play anyway so it's irrelevant but I know what you're saying if the one was going to miss out for a more defensive style then maybe it would be him but obviously quite clearly he's going to play you just mentioned Dominic Alderlun there he scored again for the 21s he was sub and this week the friendly against Germany came on but he's doing really well isn't he he's a player who's growing into into that role I'm not sure if he's still at the level we would need him to be in terms of chasing trying to finish higher up but he's going on the right path isn't he for me what Dom is doing is at the moment is what people have asked him to do he doesn't do it every week he doesn't do it in all the games but I think what we're starting to see is is encouraging signs because he's playing more games he's starting to understand the position we spoke to GameSharp Andy Gale last week GameSharp was absolutely right what he said he doesn't have enough what's the word aggression in this game and he's absolutely right he doesn't always go and chase lost causes for the sake of just making making life difficult or knocking it out for a throw or whatever or coming off him he doesn't do that enough he doesn't think he fully appreciates and it's not that he's lazy just it's hard when you're playing up front he's got to learn the nuances of playing up front on your own because he's never going to be I don't think he's ever going to be in the season's like that ever because I just don't see the instinct that you would see with like a lakaku but you can work at the other part that can get you goals and then that's what we're starting to see I just don't see enough tapping from him so that's what I would be saying to him about if you were coaching him you'd be saying get yourself in and around the penalty spot as often as you can because you'll get opportunities it's chicken and egg isn't it or some any evident striker would probably say there's not enough opportunities so I don't make that run because I'm never expecting it and then the wingers or whoever will say if you were there I'd give you the ball it is something we've got to make those runs because primarily he's there to put the ball in the net but it's difficult isn't it when you're playing up front on your own because primarily actually you're not there to put the ball in the net as weirdly as that is for the for the Sigurdsons and for the Rechalesons that's where we've gone as teams now we don't naturally play with a proper split striker and then that's the problem Sigurdsons doesn't get really close to it but when he does like we've seen last week in the Chelsea game it's really beneficial and when he did it Sigurdsons did it against Bournemouth it was really beneficial when he got closer in the second half so maybe the whole team too just push up a little bit more and trust each other a little bit more Dom's got a long way to go let's not kid ourselves but he's going in the right direction that's all you can ask for him and I think in the summer we've got to be looking pacing and I think I don't really care what anyone anyone else even the highest of the high people think we need another striker well we do we need two and I'd be annoyed if we didn't go out and get somebody to help him out I mean the idea when we've mentioned it before is something like Sigurdsons obviously he's coming at the end of his contact Chelsea don't know if he's going to sign another one listen I know how hard it would be to sign him I know there'll be a lot of people trying to get him he's just become the third highest goalscorer in French football he's the kind of player I know West Ham have been linked with Jekyll 33 he'd be another one you'd be looking at I mean don't get me wrong he'd be on big money and I don't imagine everyone would go from because he is 33 maybe he was 30 but he's like the kind of player that you'd go imagine what Dom had laying because who's Dom laying enough I know you've got Duncan Ferguson there he's coach but who's he actually laying enough that every day again I would refer back to what Andy Gray said and Graeme Sharp Andy Gray when I come in I just went over and had a chance and you know do this do that he could do things I couldn't do I could do things he couldn't do and it worked and we little things you know do this do that that's all really beneficial and I don't know if Dom's got that from anyone at the club because if you're Shingt Olson you can't exactly be going over to Dom on the Carvement Loom and he's playing ahead of you you can't because you don't want to I mean he isn't established he's far from established in the Premier League and who else have we got we've got nobody else so Dom's not laying enough anybody on the pitch and that's a big problem okay LaCarque was at the club but are they the same kind of striker no they're not but then again you might necessarily buy the same type of striker we've been linked with a young French striker this week who's all about the variation movement so we brought him in a different profile but is it worrying that Dom on the Carvement Loom is our most experienced Premier League striker you say that out loud that already tells you the problems Dom's facing as a centre forward that's why I'm saying I've got two I'll be getting two in the summer I'll get three because I think I know we scored a couple of goals this week for Shingt Olson and he's obviously it's the can he get in those areas enough given the pace of this game I don't know whether he does or not you do know he doesn't but I think if he given chances he would score goals but we don't make the kind of chances that he needs because we play one off front so therefore then potentially we'll be shipping him out in the summer cargo we'll be shipping him back to take a sugar matting in the summer so therefore you need another striker just to cover him because Niash went out on loan to Cardiff so you'd be looking and going one maybe two coming in to help Dom and then you've got to choose your three that's fair the complication Shingt Olson isn't going to leave unless someone's coming in someone will come in for them if someone's coming into the club you're not selling Shingt Olson but I think we'll get one maybe two but I think the thing with that then is it'd be great if that was the situation if you've got a different profile so if you've got what you're doing you've got this young French kid who's pacey and can get about the pit because that gives you options also there's the Hemmy on your curie thing you can play through the middle you can play out wide so you're trying to strengthen a squad that's it but it's all of that will help Dom even the competition will help Dom so we have to battle together and their profile might be slightly different but that's how we get the best Shingt Olson what Dom needs is the run of games of course it's a shame really that he wasn't it's a shame he wasn't in the England squad we should have been at the end of the day probably should have been striker wise England are alright I think it'd be nice if Southgate looked at him you know why I call him up because even just being with the England squad for a few days and being around some like Harry Kane and just seeing what he does and just elevating himself and being like Dom the Captain being the full England squad that I think it would elevate Dom to maybe just go up a little bit because at times I think that aggression comes from not being cocky enough because I do think he's a very genuine lad and I think aggression at times just comes from being that little bit not overly confident confidence in yourself just a little bit cocky not pick for cocky but you can see why pick for it is a little bit like that because confidence wise it probably just keeps you up there ready to go and I think that's what Dom just needs a little bit but it's how do you get that because he's probably very humble kid he's like well I've done not in the game and that's great because sometimes he goes too far and these junks think they've done loads but I just think he needs that it's not self-belief by any means because I think he's got self-belief I think he knows he's a good player it's just that I belong where he probably still feels he's got a lot to prove which he has, of course he has but you know what I mean just that I am confident boost and it's you know and the reason why I would say he probably should have been called up is because he's done it regularly for England squads 21 score the win in the welch of final for the 20's show Dom needs for me if he's not scoring he just needs to make sure that he's getting assist if he's not getting assist he's doing something like against Chelsea against Chelsea he made it hard for the sense of he was in the face he was jumping into them he was closing down he was sliding he didn't really do that against Liverpool I think van Dijk started off dominating them and he ended up trying to play on Robertson which is fine but I I slightly disagree I thought he had a good game against Liverpool because I think what he did was intelligent I think he gave van Dijk a very comfortable afternoon but that's because he left them didn't help us but that's not his fault if you're playing one off front what are you supposed to do if you're the striker and you end up on the wing and next stand the next of your winger what he did was very deliberate what he did was you're just talking about off angled passes to try and win it against Robertson but that's what he did what he didn't do what he did do against Chelsea which was he made it difficult for Dijk to but I think in that game he was told to be out wide it was clear that he was told to be out wide for those angled passes and it was I'm talking about angled passes I'm talking about making it difficult but he hasn't got that's what I'm saying he was told to play on Robertson and I think he did that deliberately and I think that's where intelligent wise that game van Dijk was head and shoulders better than anyone on the pitch of course he was he made the decision that it was better to play off that side and maybe allowed the space for plays to come forward didn't necessarily work but if he's been instructed to do that and he's made that decision to do that then what can you do the lads made the decision I don't think he had a poor game he just chose where as maybe the Chelsea players he thought well I can get in their faces but no I don't think it's confidence I think it's times you've just got to know so is it belief if you know because if you're a centre forward you then goes on the wing and there's no one replacing you then you put in your team the point is that it's deliberate van Dijk was winning everything so why do you persist doing something so you just let van Dijk keep on winning the ball who's winning it anyway he was literally winning it anyway so what was he doing when van Dijk was winning it anyway he was gone wide so he was jumping with van Dijk but why did he bit him in the balls of van Dijk what did he wear anyway so you know Dom had gone on to a matter he'd have been there wouldn't he well exactly and he wasn't winning them and then he was pulling he won a few against Rebs oh he won loads against them and what did we get from him well that's not his fault is he well the tactic was wrong then it was silver then isn't it well did silver say that he had to do that do you know that well if that's the tactic then that'll come from the manager everything comes from the manager I'm not talking about the aerial balls I'm talking about making it difficult for the two centre backs which he didn't do against Liverpool but that's difficult though and he's made the decision it's not difficult it's not difficult to make the centre backs know that they're in the game of football the ball is not going up there is he so Dom was just running aimless passes to him or it was out wide it wasn't from where I was sat on the half way line that wasn't what happened it might have looked different in this season it didn't happen if they got won any pass for me it's pointless trying to go up against somebody that has got the beaten of you every time you've got to change and I thought in that game Dom tried to change that's fine I disagree it didn't work because at the end of the day he won against all the others and no one else joined in because that's the way we played we played a lot more reserved but against Chelsea in second half we pushed up and when you've got men around Dom I think that helps him because he's not at that level yet I'm not saying if he went up against Van Dijk he'd beat him but when they had the ball on the floor he didn't make it difficult for them and he did against Chelsea it's no one now isn't it it's having that aggression that's what we just spoke about it's about having that aggression I thought against Liverpool he tried to play on the full back at times because he knew he could do him in the air it was clear that it was a tactic because every time Pickford got the ball he just aimed it over there again just to go back to my point I'm not talking about when Pickford was launching balls I'm talking about this general play in this general play he didn't make it difficult which is exactly what Graeme Sharp said but that's the only time we got the ball forward though was when Pickford was diagonally when we were playing it long it's Pickford all the time because every time he had to give the defenders the ball they just gave it back to Pickford and he just does the same thing anyway so I just thought he was feeding off scraps and came off Van Dijk because he knew it was pointless or if he thought Van Dijk was going to win it he was jumping into Van Dijk so I just thought he was feeding off scraps into the basket and I thought Chelsea second half when we started laying into getting higher up the pitch it suited him because he needs players around him I don't know why we played one off from but we will continue to we've played it for years it's mad because it's mad Martin has carried it on it's not like unless it's written in stone somewhere we can only play once like it isn't it he did it because he had Kale didn't he yeah he had there was a reason wasn't he but then maybe the man of the things will shake it in and I know but he's got to be tighter and when he does go tighter he gets goals or way better let's have a look at some of the stats ahead of the game West Ham have won their last two games against Everton in the Premier League one more than they've managed in the previous 19 against Everton I'm not reading that one it's the 63rd season in which West Ham and Everton have faced each other in league competition and the Hammers are looking to complete only their fourth ever double over the Toffees West Ham unbeaten in their last six home games they're winning three and drawing three well West Ham haven't lost any of their last 17 Premier League games in which they've scored at least once since the three of us are Arsenal Everton are winless in their last 10 Premier League games played in London since we beat Palace 1-0 when Colman scored it's outrageous, three draws, seven defeats West Ham manage Manwell Pellegrini has faced Newcastle eight times next Everton the most off without losing he's drawn one five and drawn two it does Everton manage Michael Silver is winless nine matches in London and West Ham striker Javier Fernandez have scored all of his 52 goals in the Premier League from inside the penalty area only Tim Kale has scored he's got 56 and scored more in the competition history incredible so basically Fernandez is what we know a penalty box striker like you said before they've got real attack and threat Everton have got attack and threat so you would put if you were a better man or you were trying to make a prediction if you put money on the being goals I don't think neither defence is brilliant so it might be who defends the best of the weekend for the worst but all that being said this is a game that you will look at and go this is winnable, the tough winnable game for Everton hopefully whether Everton go out and do it is another thing I think both teams are very similar you're not sure what you're going to get from either of them box of chocolates not like any box of chocolates I've ever had because you always have the thing in them have you ever had a box of chocolates that you didn't know Bob Demwon's attack you brought in that attack you were nice but you didn't know what they were what if you've got like a nut allergy so you can't can you that's literally that could kill you any of those people are dappled if they had a nut allergy what did he know what chocolate was he getting box of chocolates he's handing them out what if he had nuts in them did he just lose the thing he said I don't know clearly there's no nut allergies in the southern states of America in those days there you go so it's a man made thing belief I don't know I didn't like the film there you go let's just go to the London stadium get the win get back on the bus with the three points box of chocolates silver will be made leave a thought in the comments on the game or box of chocolates without any instructions we'll see you later box of chocolates without any instructions there's no instructions surely there's flavours