 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's a match preview. Everton vs Leeds United. Gullison Park on Saturday evening. Interest in on this, interesting game, cos Leeds obviously come up from the championship and they've had a decent start of the season. They started really, really well. They've tailed off in the last couple of weeks, maybe injury suspensions, that kind of thing started to hit. Obviously with Everton, doing likewise as well, starting off the season really, really well. Obviously back to winning ways on Sunday. It's going to be a very interesting game I think on Saturday. It's a tough game, very tough game. You're right, they started, they were unlucky at Amfield on the opening game in the season, lost to a last minute penalty. 4-3 and showed everyone what they meant, what they were all about. Of 1-3, they're opening nine games. So, good start. Midway up the table there, they were at the 14th, but the one win off 8th place. So, they've done okay. You're right, they've had a couple of bad results of the three games with that a win. A couple of home defeats and stuff. Mark O Bielser, Mario Bielser, is attacking team with his five players off front and all that at times. Make for an interest and watch. Very, very difficult game. Very difficult game. Yeah, they surprised me. Now teams come off on the championship with varying degrees of success, let's be honest. It's mad, obviously we've had wolves who are completely different to everyone else just because they came up. They've had a year basically in the championship as a Premier League team and they've added to that as a structure. Leeds do remind me a little bit of that. Finding the feet in the Premier League, but you can see that what they want to do. The fact that it was the year before, they never got up even though they had the good side. Again, that probably comes down to what Bielser demanded of them more than anything else. I don't know if anyone wants to document on them, but in that document you could see that the amount of injuries they picked up in that season was absolutely incredible. I don't know whether last season they were almost helped by the break with the coronavirus allowing people to settle down a little bit, get those energy levels back for the final games. I suppose that's where they're going to find the toughest season, but you can see the difference between them and the likes of West Brom and Fulham. It is very strange how teams can be point wise, not that far away from each other in the championship because it's not like Leeds ran away with it last season. And yet, when they come to the Premier League, how some teams are completely so much more equipped and have that understanding, and I think that's maybe where the manager like Bielser really helps, to have that real understanding of what it takes to be in the Premier League or the tactics it takes, where there's some teams, you know, we see Norwich, we see West Brom, Fulham, you know, they come up and all that, you know, Sheffield and I did a good job last season. It is strange how some adapt and some don't. Well, he's obviously a very good manager, isn't he, tactically very astute, with good spells in France, Spain, went to Leeds, and you're right, to pick them back up after they got so closely beaten by Darby, weren't they, in the semi-finals of the playoffs. Unbelievable game with Ellen Rode and Darby ended up getting there and they didn't get up themselves with they lost in the final. So, to pick your team back up and when you watch the documentary, you see that they're all flapped up, you get them going again and stayed and got them up last season and they got that momentum. Whether they will continue this through the whole season or whether the second half of the season will be a bit of a slog to try to stay up, it could go two ways with them. If they keep attacking teams like this and catching people out, they could have a very good season. Just look at them and worry a little bit about the quality of depth of the squad, but that's always the case. And you can say that about most teams. Say that about us. Count Phillips is the big place, sitting on top of that back four. His passing ability is absolutely fantastic. You know, I've seen, you sometimes, you know, you're about plays when they're in the championship and you're not sure about them and you know, he obviously, did he play for England before he played, even played in the Premier League? He's definitely played for England. Being in the England squad, he had me before he got into the Premier League. When I started seeing him in the first few games, just that distribution he's got is unbelievable. You know, it allows them to give him the ball and then, you know, when it's short, short range or long range, he can open up the pitch first. And the way they played early on, with such a high press, you know, at times, outnumbering the opposition and defence, you know, being helped by his passing ability was fantastic. Obviously, you add that to what Patrick Manford's done, which, again, really surprised me because I've seen him a few times in the championship and I just thought he looked like one of those players who needed far too many chances to be a good Premier League striker. And he's, you know, but he's, listen, the kids worked hard. He was at Chelsea, he went to Palace, didn't he? He ended up at Middlesbury and now he's at Leeds and he's had a great, he's had a good start at the season. Everything, you know, he's one of those. Everything, it seems to go in at the moment. So we're after, obviously, look out for him on Saturday and make sure we cut the chances down. But there are very, there are very much more than much more than what you said then, coming into that December time, January time. It's going to be interesting how they deal with it. But on the flip side, what I would say is, coming out, coming out of the championship, they'll have been used to playing a lot of games anyway, a lot of midweek games. So it's where they, yes, they'll be used to it, it's where they've got the extra ability if those key players are missing. Yeah, they play 46 games a season in the championship. It is basically, it is Saturday, Tuesday or Saturday Wednesday every week and the use that they will be used to that. But this year is obviously a little bit different. You've had a quick turn around from when the season finished and you're playing against better quality than what you get in the championships on mistakes you're getting punished and hence why they've had a couple of four ones. Because you make mistakes you get punished in this league, in general, most teams have got decent front players who can hear you if you do that and that's what they'll find at the weekend if they make mistakes haven't got players you can punish them. So they'll have to be on it. It is coming up to a big period in the season for both teams. And it will shape the way the season goes. But listen, they've done really well. If you're a Leeds fan, really, the game shall be 17th this season, you can finish a lot higher, which is great. But just to be in the Premier League again next season because then you can build, then you'd have if he stays another year, now we know he's trying to concentrate at the end of the season. But then you can build in the summer and bring in a little bit better quality to get your bearings, then you can go forward from it. But they've done really well. Like you say, it's a dangerous game for Everton because these are the teams that Everton could quite easily win the game, three or four one, but could quite easily lose the game. I think first goal is going to be so important because if we get that first goal and Leeds have to come out, not saying they're not going to come out, they're going to attack and so on. We can start exposing those gaps, but from our point of view, defensively, we've just been such a mess since day one really. The goals we've given up are really, really poor. That's where Leeds will be looking to exploit us, but for us, we moved to a 3-5-2 obviously last week and it'd be interesting to see whether we keep that up, whether there's a change of pace and whether someone like Jerry Meiner comes out and allows Holgate back in. It probably would be Jerry Meiner if it was anyone. With a week of training, building on what we had at Fulham, obviously off the back of only a couple of days' training, and start to figure out how we shut down those massive gaps which seem to open every time a team attacks us, that's got to be the fundamental thing, isn't it? Repetition, repetition, repetition in training, getting used to the system, that means them with fielders as well, where they need to be, and I think that's what it's about now for us. We know we've got goals in us, but it's about shutting it down at the other end and if we could do that, which is not... It's not even like what's funny about everything is. This is not even a case of, you're going to concede goals because you score goals. The two things don't even align, dude. It's like we could easily score all our goals and still have a very tight shape at the back, very easily, and that's hopefully what we start to see, but I look at the league and I think we start keeping clean sheets, we'll pick up wins easily for me. I know that's how it feels anyway. I think what you're saying is for the first time in a few years you can tell this team's got a lot of goals in it, got goals from everywhere. That's how it feels anyway. You've got hammers, you've got the core, you've got his first goal last weekend, but I expect him to score more. You've got the front two, who will get goals in them. He's capable of putting the ball in the net with dangers from free-kick. Sometimes with dangers from set plays. You know, a woe baby plays off the right, maybe way in. We create a lot of chances and we are capable of scoring goals. It's the keeping them out, that's being the issue. It's the clean sheet, which was on day one and we've not done it since. That's got to become a priority at some stage. Because if you can't start becoming... Look at Spears. Spears are built on, not going to go now on the marino and making sure they're tight. If you then can create for Harry Kane and he's going to score or something, he will score, but if you keep it tight at the back they know they can do that. The top of the league by doing it. That's exactly what they're doing. They haven't got to quickly figure that out because teams, they figure that out. Generally do quite well in this league, because all the teams are not on a very solid at the back. And they know that they can make a goal and invariably get them a result. It's not even a a personal thing, is it? It's more of a shape thing. It's more of a team thing. You can't... You can put your fingers at the weekend and go, yeah, Harry Kane should have done better or Michael Kane should have done better. Look at where the goals come from as well. Fulham's penalty. It's a simple one-two. It's a runner coming from midfield playing a simple one-two. You stop the goal, you stop the free frame for the second goal. They scored. Once Luchman goes past Dean, you've got players that are still standing around. It's not just one. Two centre backs are doing the same thing. Exactly, they're in wrong positions. The core is on the goal side. The player eventually scores. No-one's taking responsibility and I think that's a big thing as well. People have got to start taking responsibility. We've seen this against Man United as well where it was like, well, is that mine, man? It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Go and get them, go and get them. And if someone doesn't, someone should be there telling them that they should be doing it. And I think that's where, as a whole team, we've got to get better. Where it's not just if you can see the goal, it's not just the old head down. Got to keep clean sheets. Got to get blocks in. Got to be solid. Got to cut the pattern lines off. Too often, we'll sit off the team and let them pick us off. It's got to be coherent and hopefully cohesive. And hopefully this week, with the work, hopefully they'll do the work or week and it will be because, like I said before, these are dangerous. But there are teams that are also minus three in the goal so they're not exactly great at the back themselves. No, they had a nil nil byr Arsle at the weekend but could have gone either. I know leads with a better team but Arsle did have a couple of opportunities finished the game at 10 then. We will get chances at the weekend. They will as well. So it's a case of who defends the best, I guess. But there's like you say, there's goals in this heaven side. Of that we've got no doubt about. We'll score goals. Can we keep them out? It's the biggest thing and it's a dangerous game but it's a game that they've ever won. You know, we're on 19 points on Saturday night. We're going into a period then where there's a lot of games quickly and if you can keep get a bit of momentum going you start putting points on the board. We could be in a great position then going into the new year. Obviously you've got to deliver on that by getting results but what it does is it just pulls us close to everybody. Four points off the top of the league so these are in the bottom half and it's not being disrespectful to leads but evident if they're going to finish in Euro surely you'd look at this game in the bottom half, this has got to be a win because it's a home game. I'll quickly depress every moment just a few of the stats that's all. Leeds won the last meeting between the two teams 2012 and a cup game, the last league that they did against Evans in 2001. Evans have had a clean sheet in the last 10 home games against Leeds. Hang on, the last time we played them we won four nil bass. Exactly, come on, be positive. That does everybody clean sheets in the last 10. I'm just told you Evans have lost their last Premier League home game against United they've not lost two on the run since the year before. When we lost two in Man City and Sheffield United Leeds have 45 shots in their opening four Premier League games this season 11.3 again with a goal scoring rate of 20%. Patrick Bamford scored in all four of Leeds Premier League away games this season in the history of the competition only Terry Omry a Arsenal in 2001 on two has scored in each of his side's first five away games and since 2018 when Lucas Dean joined Everton no defender has created more chances than him. He's had 15 assists creating 159 chances since he joined from a left and he's obviously a chief creator. He created 85 chances of fulham at the weekend so if we can get him and we'll be into this game he can cause Leeds real issues and then it's about getting Richie Dom in the right areas to score but it's rough game but definitely one we can go. You've got to try and keep a clean sheet if we keep a clean sheet we'll win this game if we keep a clean sheet simple as that. So there we go we'll see what happens anyway let us know your thoughts in the comments what are you thinking on this one are you optimistic or are you a little bit worried or you think I've had a bad run now and I'm about to turn it round and push on let us know your thoughts. Give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon where you get exclusive daily videos exclusive live daily videos as well if you want to do it there'll be a link just around here click it, get over there, check it out thanks for watching, we'll see you later