 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the match preview Crystal Palace vs Everton. This video is sponsored by One Football. One Football's app makes it easier to find all the latest scores, stats and latest news all in one place. To download the One Football app, click the link in the description. Crystal Palace away, Baz. Tough game. Tough. It's never easy. It's one of those places that you would always go, it's never easy. But Crystal Palace have only won four games this season at home. They have second-waste home record in the Premier League, only worse than, well, only better rather than Huddersfield who've won two. But very good away from home, which is being why they're comfortably safe in the Premier League. It'll be a really, really tough game in the forward place. They've got obviously makes it very difficult. Christian Bentech has scored his first goal in about 15 years of the weekend against Arsenal. So it's going to be a tough game for Everton. And falls into the bracket, I suppose, of we'll know more about the squad after, you know, then you probably lay more again this weekend than he learned, sorry, last weekend against Manchester United. Yeah, I mean, for us. We're going in the home for obviously for seven plays. For me, I think, well, a minimum for me is six points from the remaining three games. Absolute minimum. So Saturday is an opportunity, I think, especially with their home record and the form we've been in at home, to try and get three of those points before we play barely next Friday night. So we've got to be going there confidence and we confident that if we put in a performance like we have been at home, then we've got a good chance of winning this game. But if we turn up like we did at Craven Cottage, then Crystal Palace will beat us because they're good enough to beat us if we play like we did a full. Yeah, definitely. I think I think anybody in Crystal Palace is under 15s or beat us if we turn up like we did a full. We had a really, really poor afternoon of full. I mean, nobody turned up and it was one of those games. Who knows if we'd scored the first goal, maybe the things would have been different. But Fulham got the three points they deserved that day and we had to lick our wounds a little bit and we recovered really well obviously last weekend against United, battered United. The key now for that. We need a performance like we saw at West Ham. This reminds me a little bit of going into the West Ham game where I was looking and thinking, tricky game. They've got plays that can hurt you. Can we get the first goal and build on it? That day we went out from the first whistle. We were all over them and we scored at the four minutes K-2 with the other and we didn't look back in that game. We should have scored five or six that day, really. So this will be similar to me. Again, it'll be about, in my opinion, getting us getting the first goal. I think if we can get the first goal, we can build from it. You mentioned in one of the shows we've done this week about us never coming from behind after the next thing we have to do. But I hope Saturday is in the case of that. I hope we go out, score the first, the second and the third and get big win. Because I'm like you, I was looking. I've been doing that little thing. Me, looking at everybody's fixtures. I haven't actually been doing that. Well, last night it was, really. Just had a look because when I thought Wofford had a better Southampton and obviously Shane Long's got the quickest ever Premier League goal. So you start looking at games because that, for me, was a given for Wofford and they ended up equalising in injury times. So, you know, I can see Wofford getting about 54 points. I can see Wolves getting about 53. I think Leicester will only get 50. I think they'll only get a couple of draws under the feet. So, forever, and if they could get, you know, we could win Saturday, then the incentive there, then Burnley at home, beat them. And then, you know, in my opinion, I think that'll be enough to get us into the Europa League. And then obviously we go, we go to Tottenham on the last day and they could have a Champions League final to prepare for. I mean, Shane, you've got to do your part, haven't you? You know, Evan, I've got to do their part, haven't you? Do you want to finish seven plays? We've got to win for me to, we've got to get 55 points at least. So, regardless of what anyone else does. And also, I mean, you know, it's two winnable games there. You want to finish the season on a high point. You want to finish it with confidence. And also, the way we're playing, the way we have been playing in the majority of the games recently, suggests that that should be the way we play on Saturday. But then you can't help but look back at a phone. You can't help but look back at the last 30 minutes against Newcastle, Westam, we were very, very, very good. And that's the problem, isn't it? For as good as we've been at home, the away form is still one of the problems. You know, we still... I mean, the last four away games, we've won 50% of them, which is quite a lot, really, for evidently, because we haven't got a great... We've only won five away games all season. So, two of them have come in the last four away games. We should have won at Newcastle. And like I said, we didn't need to have a thing of fuller. But these games, these are the games, aren't they, where you look at them and go, well, we should... These have only won four games at home. They've obviously... I think Palace, one of Palace's big problems all season is, they can't put the ball in the back of the net. And when they do score, well, I'm just saying that as it is, when they do score, it tends to be from penalties, because they've got eight million penalties this season, or set pieces. And the set pieces or the penalties come from Zaha, because he's so dangerous, because he's so strong on the ball. And he is... I mean, listen, when he comes to Goodison, I thought he made a bit of a fool of himself, because his antics were... And I've heard this from other people. His antics were pathetic, because he does get fouled a lot, because he's such a good player. And I... And he's a brilliant player. I hold my hands up to that. He's a very, very good player. But his antics at times border on petulance. And I know, listen, he got sent off at Southampton, and he shouldn't have been sent off at Southampton. What happened to him there was a disgrace. And I've seen other things of him, like, oh, this field. And I don't subscribe to this thing of, oh, well, you should be, you know, you see it as a positive, people are kicking you. I don't see that. But at Goodison, when we played them, when we beat them, I just thought on that day, he was trying to get things that just weren't fouls. And what were fouls he was getting? And you know, he's a very difficult character. And if they hold on to him, then fair play to them. I don't know if they will, because he said he wants to champion his league football. But if they do fair play to him, because he's a local lad and he comes through with Crystal Palace. But he's obviously the main danger on Saturday, because he can create so much. And as I said, the likes of set pieces and penalties. He's so good at winning that kind of thing. And they've been big things that have changed games. I mean, couple of weeks ago, they went to Newcastle, won it with a penalty. And we've seen that. We've seen that at Goodison. They've got a penalty, fortunately, Pickford saved it on the day and we went on and won the game 2-0. But he obviously is the one we've got to look out for. Yeah, he's a massive threat, isn't he? He's the chief supplier and winner of penalties for them. And that's been enough, because they are quite a solid side. That sometimes is enough to decide the game. So we've got to be on our metal rally at the weekend and know that he goes down, given the opportunity, so don't give him the opportunity. He's a very, very good player, and it's difficult. And he will foul him because he's full of tricks. So he will draw some fouls. We've got to be clever with him. And, you know, I'm just looking at them, they've scored 14 goals in 17 games at Sellers Park. But only conceded 20. So they don't let loads of goals in either of them. But they don't score. I think that's been a frustration of Palace fans that I've seen through social media. There's a couple out of follow. And their main criticism this season has been that Roy Watson doesn't let them off the leash enough. He doesn't just he doesn't say to go out and play. He's very, you know, he has a style. Of course. And some of them are saying, well, you know what? We've got a good enough team. Maybe we'll let it go a little bit. We could, you know, we don't concede loads. And that'll be the danger, I think, in this game now is that they're obviously not going to be relegated. They went to the Emirates last week and got a good win. Brilliant win. Yeah, brilliant win. And maybe now, maybe with only a couple of home games left, Roy Hodgson might say to them, go out and express yourself, go out and play. But I wonder whether, if he does say that, that might play into our hands because, listen, not if we play like we did a full one. But if they are on it, that might help our counter attack if we're on it. Well, we're a counter attacking team, aren't we? You know, that's the way we play. And it was noticeable on Sunday when we got two in a row. If you looked at the percentages and the passes and stuff in the first half, evidently dominated, more possession, more attempts, more passes. In the second half, they give the ball up to United. United have 55% of the ball second half. And more passes than us. So what we did second half was shot back and hit them on the breaking. We scored two, we could have another five. So that's where we are very, very dangerous if you give us that. You know, even a full on the other week, we didn't play very well at all. We were dreadful. But we had so many counter attacking opportunities and it was the wrong ball or we took the wrong pass or whatever. We didn't take care of it either. Didn't take care of it. We were very careful and we cut them open. You know, and that's what we'll be looking to do with the weekend. I mean, these are average in less than a point a game at home. You know, so it's there forever and it'll be tough. I mean, compared their home form with their away form, they've got the sixth best away record in the Premier League. They've won eight away games in the Premier League scoring 20, 29 goals. And that shows their account of the second side as well. And they've gone to places like, you know, they batted Leicester, which led to their manager. They went to Man City in one. One, three, one at City. Got B4, three at Anfield, but wouldn't have done if they keep up with the thrown three in the net. They obviously beat Arsenal, you know, so they are a good side. And that's the thing, isn't it? They had a counter attack inside and we had a counter attack inside. It'll be a funny one because it'll be almost like, well, then you have the ball, no, you have the ball. But quite clearly, they can or haven't been able to reproduce their away form. They've won eight away. They've scored 29 goals away from home and only conceded 28. But you pay that to 14 goals at home. So when the owners are on them, then obviously not as good. I think a lot of that maybe got to do with, you know, the plays in the middle. Obviously the centre forward has been a problem for them. You mentioned before that Ben Tech hasn't scored many goals. I wonder as well, the middle of the park as well, they're sort of a bit more of a combative style, don't they? Players like James MacArthur. I think if we can pickpocket those kind of players and win the ball, high up the pitch, or press them high up the pitch so that, you know, they turn over a lot of the ball, that's where we'll be strong. That's where we've got to get the ball into those wide areas then, to the Charleston, to Bernard, with the full backs overlapping. Of course, listen, they've got decent full backs themselves, Van Arndhold and Wambersacke on the other side. So they've got decent full backs themselves, so they could do that to us. But I think if we can pickpocket that middle of the park by pressing them high, and that's on us then to be adventurous. And I just think when we play full-on, that's what we win. We win adventures. The back four of the weekend was Wambersacke, Martin Kelly, Scott Dan and Joel Ward. That's the defence that went to Arsenal. Max Mayer, Koyati, Milojevic and MacArthur, I think, Ben Teichens, off-front. That back four by Wambersacke is fantastic. The other three, average players. Joel Ward, for me, is a better right back, but obviously Wambersacke is brilliant. So they can be good at it. Going in and seeing goal. No, they had, you know, go out. He would have been watching the history channel wouldn't he? He would have, trying to learn about that. Research, never a research. The sub, Hennessy Van Arnold, Reader Weld, remember him, there's a link for Everton, there's a Q-meme, there's Andross Tarns, there's Bakery Schachow, and you, and Mitchie Batcheway, were sub, so they're benches quite strong. I mean, Batcheway, if he comes into the team, he's, I mean, I don't know whether he'll change the team, but Batcheway, obviously, he's a danger to look out for him. And as we said, Sir Hart Tarnsons is one of those players that, on his day, can just produce something fantastic, but obviously he hasn't got that consistency. Otherwise, you know, he'd still be out of Tottenham or something like that. But I look at that middle of the park, and I do think that if we can, if we, you know, I think Ghana would be massive in this game. I imagine it'll play snarling again. I don't think he'll change the side. There'd be, what, how could you, and why would you? But I think those two in the middle of the parks, Ghana, winning a lot of the ball, get into, and this is, again, this is where Sigarton's going to be massive in this game for me. I mean, I thought it was a brilliant description of him on matchday two, the other day, saying he's the brain to the team. He, if he gets older, the ball, and he can dictate. But then you need Bernard, and then you need the Charleston to be on it, and you need those full backs. And there has to be ambition. And Dom and the Cavalins are going to have to put a shift in, because he's up against two tough centre-backs there. Regardless of what you say about their football and military, they're the kind of centre-backs that will give Dom, you know, Are we on Norwegian again? Exactly. They'll give Dom a tough game. And he'll have to bring in his other skills there, and that's where you'll see whether he's got it physically back to goal, whether he can bingo the play. When he's up against those kind of players, but it's a different challenge, and that's the interesting thing. It's great playing at home, and you're playing the top six teams, and you feel like the manager's got something on them, because they have to come out and play. But when you're playing teams, Christmas parties might be a little bit different, because I think they will try and play. But when you play teams, and the onus is on you as the side, and people are looking at you, because you've beaten Manchester United 4-0 the week before, then that's where, and I think we've spoken about this before, that's where you look at the team and you say, great, that's great, but this is a different challenge now, and can you rise to this challenge? Because we did a video earlier in the week for Patreon, talking about what can we do to close that gap to try and get, and it's a consistency of going to away games, playing against Crystal Palatres, Fulham's, whoever, and going there, and playing the same way. All right, put your imprint on it. Results are not, don't always follow. But if you don't at least play that same way, then you're never going to get those. But I mean, in general, I think we have played, particularly since the break, we have. Fulham was an anomaly, really. If you look at the game since the break, Fulham is the standout nightmare game. We lost at Newcastle, but for 65 minutes at Newcastle, we were very good. Don't forget, even a 2-1 at Newcastle, Dom almost scored, and the Charleston should have scored when it bounced off a shin. So we still had opportunities, we just caved in a little bit due to long balls into our box. Other than that, we have played that way, we played that way at West Ham, we played the way Cardiff, so we tried to, since he's got his team. Obviously Saturday, there's a bit of a doubt over the Charleston, so I'm not going to know until he does his pre-match press conference whether the Charleston is fit or not, you know, with the rib injury. I haven't heard too much on it, so I'm hoping that it'll settle down. I think Luchadine's fine. I think he said that and he made just an impact injury, so I think he's fine. But if everybody's fit, then you'd expect the same team. And the Charleston can cause these lots of problems, his power and his pace, and Seamus Coleman. Obviously, Juan Bersacha is very, very good, but he'll have his way cut out with Bernard, because Bernard is really tricky on the ball, and, you know, he'll come inside and then it'll be the reverse ball to Luchadine, so it'll be interesting to see. We do use the left side more than we use the right side, but sometimes that can flip over, and for Fulham away, we use the right side more than the left, which was Matt. So obviously, you know, it'll be interesting to see if we can stretch them that way, but it's going to be difficult, and Ben Secher will be a bit more confident on the goal, so obviously Michael Keane, will have to look after him, okay, two minutes or whatever takes you on. I think they generally play a 4-4-1-1, don't do hard drops in, and that's where he's a threat. But you're right, you know, if we are to continue, to try to improve and get better, and we want to crack the top six or whatever it is, we want to start finishing as high up that league as we possibly can, it'll be going to places like Crystal Palace, where it's a tough game, they're a good side, and being able to get something, they beat them. Basically, that's what it's about, isn't it? If you talk about going to a team that's got the second-waste home record in the Premier League, then you have to look at that and think we need to win this game, you know? And if we've got any aspirations of finishing 7th and trying to get a European place, well, it's not even... I mean, for me, it's all about trying to get, you know, 50, 55 points. Listen, we get... If we ended up with 55 points, it's six points less than when we qualified for the Champions League, you know, and we've had the season where we're all a bit like that for months, but it's all about putting points on the board. If we can get 50, 55 points, you know, we got 49, didn't be last season, so we've equaled that as it stands, we've got three games to go. So if we get 59, 55 points, you know, and who knows, it might be a bit better than that. You never, ever know, because, you know, we don't know what the Spades game is going to be like, but if we did, then at least you could look back and go, right, have we improved from last season? Yes, we have. Did we play better football? Have we got better players? Everything's moving in the right direction, okay? The position wise and the table, I do believe if we get 55, we'll finish 7th, but if we finish 8th or whatever, people might look and go, well, you were 8th last year, but yeah, but this, this, this, and this is better, and we're going in the right direction. So that's what we have to do. We said a few weeks ago we were asked on Peyton, you know, what's a successful season now? It's not, I wouldn't call it a successful season, but what is an improvement is more points on the board. Exactly, yeah. And that's what it's about now, isn't it? Yeah, so let's hope three points on that. That'll be nice. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. 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