 Hello, welcome to the match preview to Newcastle United versus Everton Tuesday night at St James Park. When you're not in great form, it isn't a game I'm looking forward to, I'll be honest. But, as with football, you've got the opportunity to put the last game to bed by getting a positive result in this one. But, Paird, this will be a tough, probably as tough a game as we can have right now, just because they just come back. It's tremendous. 3-1 down to win 4-3. Did they lose about 30 players in the game, but great win 4-3? Yeah, I think when it was, when they were getting B-3-1 on Saturday and you see the players going off, you're thinking, this is a, what if this couldn't be a better time to play Newcastle? But then obviously they got the game back to 4-3 using their super sub. And then suddenly you just think this team that were playing, you can understand why they've had the rise that they have, because they believe in themselves, and at St James Park the fans are believing them as well. They have a good attitude about them, and when really West Ham should have took the game away from them. They've come back and they've won it, and a couple of subs that were forced on them have turned out to be brilliant. And it just feels like a game, which is, yeah, it feels like one of those. You just said there that you want to play safe away, but I'll admit I don't really want to play this game. I don't really want to have to go there a couple of days after absolute piss poor performance and result of Bormiff, and see you haven't go somewhere where being a bit of a slog recently. It's not inspiring me, I'll have to admit it. It's not a game that's inspiring me. Yeah, it's been tough, hasn't it? We started to have a couple of good results up at St James Park, and then, but since the takeover, I think they've won both of them having a 3-1 and 1-0 last year. In both games, actually, we don't know right in both of them in spells, but I watched them on Saturday and listened to injuries have decimated them, and at 3-1 I thought West Ham were really comfortable, and then, like you said, Newcastle brought their Super Sub on Calvin Phillips in a West Ham sheet, and they did the game change on its head, and Newcastle got the just rewards for flying forward, and it's what the crowd expected at St James Park, and when you get on that wave of attack after attack with the crowd, it's a very difficult place to go, hadn't you, Golden? Who, fortunately for us, will be missing, was instrumental in them getting back in the game, and then Harvey Barnes, a player who I've always liked, had work, get goals, comes on and scores key goals for them, and as they come front, tremendous player, and even though they were behind, they were still flying forward at the weekend, and that's what they've gone on. Eddie Howe has had his critics, but he's created a team that does attack, and when you put that with the belief from the fans as well, it makes St James Park a really tough place to go, and we're in absolutely horrific form, and like I said before, probably couldn't ask for it. I mean, you could, you could be gone to City or Amfield or the Emirates, but this is, for us, looking in the way game, this is up there with them in terms of you looking at it and going, it's tough game this now, okay, they keep getting injuries, and they lost the shells at the weekend, Alma Ron come on as a sub and had to go off injured, and at one stage, you could see the Newcastle fans just sat there with their hands on their head thinking, another one. Oh, it's a good time to play ever now to suggest even when you've got injuries. Yeah, and that, I mean, obviously we played Newcastle at Gouldersun, and when they were having similar issues, although certainly, a lot of the players were really jaded, and it was a stage of the season where they weren't coping that much with fatigue factor, and they do have a lot of injuries, just looking in the shells, living a mental, Alma Ron, Bopman, Miley, Wilson, Joel Linton, Pope, Tcipia, obviously Gordon, his suspender as well, and you should look at that and think, we've got a great opportunity. It's more the attitude, isn't it? Everton's attitude has to change for this game. You know, it's, we have to go there. And when I say, believe we can win, that means driving forward, throwing everything at Newcastle. Obviously, not abandoning your defensive responsibilities, but doing both, that's what good sides can do, and I'm not saying we're a good side, but that's what good sides do. They have almost like a basketball nature about the way they play. They're going forward as a team and they get back as a team. And I think that's what saved Newcastle quite well, is that they have the ability to do that. And they actually look worse when they just have to defend. They look like a team that is about going forward and is about being on the front foot. And obviously we never have that feeling about us because we're not set up in that way. But there has to be an element of not just throwing caution to the wind, but going, we're going to set up here where everyone's going to be up and down and not going to neglect both duties. We're going to go up and down and we're going to fly at them and then we're going to get back as a team, we're going to get forward as a team. And I know that's difficult when it's been the same 13, 14 plays all season, but when you look at the players that we've just spoke about there, that Newcastle and Mission, that's what they'll do and they'll go, we'll throw caution to the wind. And they can see the three against West Ham, but have won it by scoring four. And obviously we're not that kind of team. But if you go somewhere like Newcastle, you know you're going to have to become a little bit like that if you're going to win. I can't imagine we're going to keep a clean sheet in this game. I just can't for the life of me and that's not me being negative. I just look at Newcastle and think they'll score goals. And that means we're going to obviously have to score goals. So you've got to throw caution to the wind at times and to do that? We're going to have to do something different, that's for sure. I think if we go there and just try to hang on, we eventually will come on the stuff. They're still going to have Harvey Barnes, they're still going to have Isaac, they're still going to have even Matthew on the right who flies up there. They're still going to have those players, aren't they? They're going to have players breaking from midfields. You've got Bruno Gameres, you know, it can be interesting. If we look at the Newcastle side here, this is from the weekend, isn't it? We'll obviously do brafcaringol. Llyframentol a Shells, they both seem like they're going to be out. Shells is definitely out. Shells is out, absolutely. Llyframentol is doubtful. Then midfield you've got, you know, Longstaff, Gameres, Joe Willich. In midfield you like to get forward and then may be Isaac and it was Gordon, but I imagine it'll be Harvey Barnes in for Gordon. So another hard-working player and a player who gets goals as he proved at the weekend. So we're going to have our way cut out. I want to see the manager change the way we play in this game. I want to see three at the back. People will be screaming at it. I think it doesn't work for us. Well, four, four, one, one doesn't work. Let's have a look. This is how Evan lined up at the weekend. She was calling it right back. Tarkovsky brand, the way God 3. I don't own Anna, James Garn and Dwight McNeill at the Red Accord. I don't want to call the loon. Well, we know the manager kind of said in his press conference afterwards that Michelin could be available for Tuesday. But I would go with three at the back here. I'd have better on Dominic Alvarloon because Newcastle haven't got the full back four, of course. They haven't, you know, they've got injuries. Let's see if we can stretch it a little bit by putting in two strikers who can knock them about a little bit. Let's play, you know. Dwight McNeill maybe is a left wing back. Let's have Patterson in the right wing back or if not James Coleman will get him higher up the pitch. Tuesday three centre back. If it's Goffrey with Tarky and Brantwick or if it's Michelenko. Goffrey, Michelenko. You know, probably be Goffrey with the pace. In midfield, I'd have a drixur gan a gei. I'd have a duo on Anna and Adelaide Acore. You know, you could even put James, if you want James Garner in there, he could even be the right wing back. And then have Beto and Dom and let's try to take the game to Newcastle. It still means that you can have five defenders in there and with on Anna you've got six. But it means you're also carrying a threat because I think if we just turn up and go four, four, one, one again and do the same thing again, aren't we just waiting to be beaten? Because like you've just said, it's unlikely we'll keep a clean sheet. It's not. Absolute that we won't. Of course it isn't, but it's unlikely we've not. You know, we've been poor lately. We're letting in currently two goals a game. I think the average is over the last half of a dozen games. These do fly forward. In Isaac, they've got a real goal scorer and they've got a clever striker and with the crowd and everything, it's a difficult place to play. We have to carry a threat. Looting went there and scored four goals and still didn't win the game. But they had to score four goals to get something out of it. West Ham were three-one up with 20 minutes left and got beat. You know, other teams were being up there and being beaten three-nil. Whoever it was, someone got beat three full-on music. Or Wolters, it was, who'd been doing quite well when they got beat three-nil. Newcastle scored goals at St James' Park and wherever, and if there's a win again, I think we've got to score at least two goals and in a four, four, one, one, I just don't see us scoring more than one goal if we score at all. So I'd like the manager to go, lads, this ain't working. We're changing it up for this one. And we're going to try to see if we can get at these because they are struggling numerically at the back with 50 defenders and stuff and see what we get out of it. And at least then, if he changes it up and tries something different, at least we can say he's looking for some kind of solutions. I think if we just rock up again with the four, four, one, one and wait to get beaten then we'll have lost 50% of our games if we lose the game and we'll have eight games left in which we have to win in my opinion, 50% of them to stay up. It puts, obviously puts so much pressure on the home games, which when you look at them I'm not massively confident because the games that we have to go at them and take the game to the team we're playing against. We all need the points. The problem again with this game is, you know, one day preparation where there's, and that's not, you know, the manager will look at that and go well if I keep playing the way we're playing that's fine because we don't have to do much. That's where I think we've missed the trick when we were away, you know, why not look at other formations and say right but these two next away games are actually we're going to set up a tree at the back and we're going to work on that for a week while we're away and then when people come back from international duty everyone knows what they're doing and we can work on a shape with the plays we've got while the others are away but they'll know what we're looking to do for the next two games and stick to it because it hasn't been working and I think that's the biggest frustration is it's not working and you can't change the personnel there's no, you know, Dan Dukman might be back on the bench for this game or he might leave until Saturday but who else is there? Okay, Idrissa Ghanagai for James Ghanag Beto for Dom it's like, you know, possibly come back in left back it's all a much of a muchness it's not it's not actually doing anything it's just moving the chairs you know, hand on the you know, the deck chairs on the tights that's what it feels like at the moment and I think that I don't know whether this manager is capable of doing it I think it's his biggest issue is that he finds a way of playing and feels like it's just if you keep doing it it'll suddenly suddenly work, you know like a cock's broken twice you know, it's right twice a day when it's broken isn't it so I I apologise to anyone watching this if I come across feeling looking negative or feeling negative but that's just the way I feel at the moment I look at a game like this after playing Bormiff and literally not laying a glove on them and thinking going to St James's Park is if we don't change the way we do things then we're in for a very very tough night and for a lot of people it could be the store that breaks the camel's back for a lot of people I've seen a lot of people's attitude to change over the last couple of days and you know I think listen it's a tough game everything can go up there and win course they can, new castle then we just named the plays they've got out that'll be a good side it's just on its own let's not let's not make light of that this is an opportunity for everything the problem is with a team that doesn't know how to win to quote Searned I just wear his back at him it's a team that's forgotten how to win a game of football and this is why I think he has to change it I think if we just do what we're doing it's not like we're having tons of great chances of missing them all it's not like we're having tons of great chances we had said in a temporary goal of the weekend against a team who he looked that bothered and I just looking and the goal we got the goalkeepers dropped it and Beto stuck it in me just go for it in the right place the right time keep going but we have got to do something different whether we will I don't know we might just think like you just one day is pre we'll just stick with what we kind of know the problem is every game it goes by the pressure cranks up to that barely home game and while that's a game Everton can win it's also a dangerous game because a lot of people will be like we'll win on Saturday at home to Bernie second to bottom we'll beat them they're a team that flies at you and they have chances and if you're not prepared for that it can catch you cold and Everton have got to absolutely be prepared for it but this game first like I said the game you can win also a game that we could get battered in because these do fly forward and they score a lot of goals and it doesn't matter to understand that who the person else seems to be or front they still seem to score that's the truth culture culture within the club isn't it culture that has changed since the new owners coming and Eddie Howe coming it's the culture of this is how we play forget that and it's what we need at our club whether people like it or not what would you say to people who say well you're asking for this and we've got it that's how she would like to play 4-4-1-1 defensive it will come right because that's what he's always it will not come right it doesn't matter what anyone says it will not come right he's a limited manager so it can't come right it just can't come right a manager will get you to a certain stage and then he can't take you any further and his stage is like fifth from bottom and he's can't have this argument I think a lot of people will be happy with fifth but what I mean is that that's fifth at bottom at best it can't go any further it's why Newcastle changed the cycle of what they did and they give it to Eddie Howe a lot of people said he wasn't a good manager when he was at Bournemouth I think people go through have to go through a period where they're leaning and I think he's bearing the fruit of that I still think he made mistakes when he played in the season he should have rested more plays around that time to get themselves into the Champions League to have a better second half of the season but he's bought players in and have a freedom and an ability and obviously he played a lot of money for them and that's fine if you've got the money then spend it but the attitude that they've brought into the club is exactly what needs to happen at Everton you know Steve Bruce was very much was like what we've got in show and dice whether people want to admit it or not there'll be a lot of people out there who don't want to admit it these are old style managers who feel like the way safe the way we've done things is the way things were and they don't and the main thing is that personally I don't even advocate for going out and getting a hot young manager out advocate for someone like David Moyes who for me is is safe but a better version is safe because we're not for as a club as we are I don't think we're there yet anywhere near ready to sort of be ready to find that next level because we're not because even the baseline of our players and Newcastle what I find really interesting about Newcastle is a lot of the players who were around when they were really bad are still there but they absolutely pull up all the because they're playing in a different way as well that's what I'm saying maybe for this for these next few games the manager could try to give us that little bit extra go three at the back get two centre forwards up there the thing what you've got then is if you go with a three five two and listen to that haven't historically been great playing for you at the back and I get that and I get all the reasons why people would be like oh no I don't like it but we have to remember Frank Lampard went to but it was five at the back essentially wasn't it to get results that came us up at the end of that season and I think if you put Beto next to Dom and then you've all show got Dan Jume to go up there or a Chimity to go up there if one of them is flagging with 15 minutes to go you're still getting two bodies up there you're getting a ball forward we don't play triangles through midfield we don't use your bodies midfield and get it and we don't get cut through teams so we're better playing percentage don't you think there's almost like this attitude of and I think this does come from the manager and it's like even though he hasn't been at is that long it's almost like in some of our heads or some people's heads is that if we went to Newcastle and we flew forward and we can see the goals and lost because we went there and flew forward but the proof has been in the last three months that by not flying forward we sat back and concede the goals and losing games but it's almost like imprinted on them on our heads is that the manager keeps talking about we'll get it right, it'll come right what we do will come right and I think that does rub off on you that if we did people would go and say it's old if we just kept our shape and state that would never have happened and yet it's like we watch the opposite of that every single week it's so it is weird and you even feel like yourself might need to be a little bit more cautious but we've watched ourselves be cautious we went to Bournemouth on Saturday a game that was there for the taking and we were cautious and we still lost the game we got nothing out of it, four of it and it's like nothing works even though we haven't actually tried to be to play in the front foot because Pearson and I don't believe this manager knows how to do that I don't think he's got the skill set I think his skill set was to come into the club that was sinking was to grab old, make us defensively stable and win games by nicking goals that's great but I think now it isn't working it hasn't worked for three months and the reason it isn't working is because we can't score goals and it's been the evidence since day one and since day one when people have gone it's the XG, it doesn't pay you back XG or whatever you want to say doesn't pay you back if you can't put the whiting in the goal oh yeah lovely that's bats of whiting it doesn't matter it's not a it's not a given thing you actually have to play but the quality of our chances isn't good like at the weekend we lost the XG anyway and yet our XG was only as high as it was because Beto was in the middle of the goal with no goalkeeper there we didn't have anything the quality of chances we don't create good quality chances if we were creating three or four good quality chances per game then you'd go at some stage we'll stick the ball on the man of the net but that's not what we're doing surely is an attack inside if you play he's an attack inside and again Newcastle have showed this loads of times and I think they showed it on Saturday is if you play with an attitude that we will score more goals than you and I think this is an attitude that we're starting to see more and more on the Premier League even though Man City and Arsenal show you different is an attitude of we will score more goals than you I think we might have a league champions this season who absolutely showed that whether people want to wear that or not I think that will come to fruition and there's a lot of teams in the Premier League now we'll just score more goals than you it's not about defending them by the way but it's this attitude of if we can see we'll go and score maybe Martinis was 10 years ahead of his time I don't know but there is that attitude and I think the problem is when you're playing teams you have that attitude and when you defend we'll just attack football rightly or wrongly has moved on and everyone forgets people talk about Man City they're generally the best defensive team but they're the best defensive team because they spend most of the time on the edge of your box Arsenal have proved it this year they're better at both ends than City this year I think they're better at both ends than Liverpool Liverpool basically can see every game Liverpool are wide open and if Brighton had just taken a bit more care they might have taken a game away from them but then Liverpool missed a host of chances which will and they've got the ball team they've got much better plays than us but I just think if you cut your options down by going well we're just keeping defensive structure and then hope Tom gets on the end Tom McCall the loom gets on the end that's alright if you're front 3 are guaranteed to get your double figures each you've got three front lads you can put the ball in the net regularly then you might be able to get away with that it might show that but where a team that doesn't score goals you score 30 Premier League goals in 29 Premier League matches which is utterly abysmal with just over a goal again and yet right now we can see an average of two goals per game so you know someone said to me it's not very good, we can't score and we can't keep a clean sheet so we're going one way which is down and I'm not quite sure I'm there yet but I'm certainly worried and I think if I'm shown that I look and just think the best thing for us to do is get more bodies in the box because if there's more people in the box who can score we might actually score some goals but I keep saying to you there's no reason in the world why six players shouldn't attack and keep four back we can see that on a counter attack with four defenders because hardly anyone breaks with more than four forwards so it's 1v1 all over the pitch a lot of time I said to you before at that Liverpool breaking game they were actually playing almost 1v1 or 2v2 break your goal, we've got to win the game we're going to win the game because of this look at United the other week when they beat Liverpool 4-3 in the cup Liverpool had a corner in the 120th minute and yet everyone went 2v2 so when United broke it was 2v2 and they won the game and that was evident when they had four back off the corner they went now we're going 2v2 and OK Liverpool lost the game United won the game because they were brave and they went forward and United aren't great they got battered at Brentford the other night took the lead and Brentford scored in the 99th minute whatever it was they're still playing forward we've got it in my opinion we're going into a section of nine games we ain't... Everton carry on with 4-4-1-1 in my opinion and I haven't said this in the three years I think we'll get relegated and I've not thought we would go down when Frank coming I didn't think we'd go down with Sean Dykes last season but if we carry on just chaining on the same stuff I don't know how we win I think we'll need to win four matches to stay up and I don't know I think we'll get the game without putting an extra attacker up there and giving the team an option of more goals You're right because at the end of the day one of the two things we try and do which is defend we don't have a way of attacking other than set pieces we haven't even decided and that's what's terrifying is that we haven't even decided to have a style of play the style of play was acori ac once acori stop doing anything in the team it's just not far this far once he went out he's been abysmal so if that's our style of play it means massively looking at it because it just doesn't work and we are within a mission and go if we went to Newcastle and got anything it would be a start wouldn't it Well absolutely I mean Newcastle have won five at the last seven against us they won the last three own games against us which is as many as they had in the previous ten six of Evans last seven Premier League goals against Newcastle have been scored in the final 15 minutes of the game Newcastle have lost two of the three midweek Premier League games this season though but Evans have won just one of their last eight midweek games which was one of the three they won over Newcastle Evans have won this in the last 12 the last time we had this run was October and November 1957 so yeah I mean you know the goals Newcastle have just looking there at the league table you know they they win they know they can close that gap and Manchester United the game but they play win lose Newcastle have won 13 and lost 12 only to know four you know where we've lost if we were to lose tomorrow we'd have lost 50% of our game that's why I think the manager you know the coaching staff after look at this and go we need to do something different cos we keep doing the same things and it's not getting us results so let's have a go do everything I said this about other managers throw everything at it and if it's still not good enough you leave the football club and you go you know what I done everything I tried everything and I couldn't do that and I just couldn't get what I needed now's the time for Sean Dyson throw everything at it and for me cos we can't score goals you'd be putting two strikers better come on it's your turn is last three throw them up there with Dom why not just go for it and see what see what what I don't mean go for it and play bloody two 35 but have the option have two up there play the W go back go back just win that the WI won just win the bleeding game listen it's a tough fix to you forever and there he is but Newcastle have got a lot out so we may well get you know this is a good opportunity for us but you know let us know what you think in the comment section we try to be positive but it's hardling you are you've got to go back to December the 16th for the last time ever won a game of football and it's April and it's April of April and April bleeding Fools day today we're filming this but it's April it's ridiculous it's ridiculous and just there there it's 1957 the last time you have to go back to find ever the 13 games we've also win let's hope that that changes let us know what you think in the comment section below give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't thanks for watching see you later