 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is. Review Everton versus West Bromwich Albion at Gullison Park. A chance for Everton to start the season with back-to-back victories. And also a league cup one in the middle. Big chance, big chance for Everton, I think. To do nothing else, don't mention what could happen if they win. We don't discuss such things. But, yeah, real opportunity for Everton to lay down a market early in the season. Yeah, definitely. West Bromwich Albion, newly promoted. I think the thing is, you go to Spairs, which is a tough game, and you win the game. You've got to back it up with a home victory the week later. You know, we haven't won. It was well documented. Too many of those away games against teams. You've finished at the top end of the league, so it's been a while. 40 games. But, if you do get that victory, you have to make sure your next home game that you get the win. And I think if Everton can win, then it will have been a great week for us. I think it will just set the tempo for the season, I think. I think, in the past, we've had a good result, and I've never won it. Not never, because obviously we have, but like in recent years, we haven't really ever been able to follow it up with another solid result, which really gets the value out of that away win. And I think if we do this week, it'll be a big thing. Because I think you've had those checklists in the season, so get your first away win out of the way quickly. Now, can we get our first home win this season, out of the way quickly? And if we can do that, it'll have been a great start for the moment. Ultimately, if Everton have got any ambitions, and we say this every year, but if Everton have got any ambitions of finishing European places, these are the games you have to win. These are the games you have to win these games all season. Home and away, rarely. It's a newly promoted team. We haven't brought a lot of players in. We haven't had much time. So obviously that goes against them. We've seen them last week playing Leicester, trying to dig in, trying to make it tougher Leicester. They went for a 4-5-1. Listen, it worked for a good hour. Leicester got a goal, then a couple of penalties. So it's not going to be easy to break down this West Brom side. Everton are going to have to show a little bit more guile. The papers are on them. Everything is on us as the home side. But as a side, we've got better players, we've got Premier League players, we've got international players to take the game to them. That comes at a different pressure from last week. Yes, we went to Spazen. It wasn't like we played on the counter-attack or anything. We kept the ball, but it's going to be up to us to open them up. That, as I said, will have to show another side of us. Those clean-cut chances are going to have to be taken. That's what sides who tend to finish in Europe do as well. Those European spaces, they'll take those chances to come along. So I think we have to show, like you've just said, something a little bit more than what we have in previous years. We've not seen last few years having great records against teams we've been promoted. Or teams we've been relegated ultimately in that season as well. So we have to be happy on Saturday. And I think the atmosphere amongst the players now and certainly from Carlo on to a lot of years, you've had your chance back in the last season. Give players a chance in the league cup who were on the edges of the squad. This has now got to be professional. We've got a, you know, with Sainans, like Hamza-Drigues, D'Corey, and Allen, we've got a midfield that can open these teams up, dominate possession. It has to be about taking those chances, full stock. The domin you just said there, you know, in recent years, we haven't done that. We'll have it, and they're actually winless in the last four home meetings with newly promoted sides. Before that, we've won 10 on the run against them. So it's shown that the last, you know, last season, two of our home defeats last season with Norwich and Bournemouth, I think it relegated. You know, it's simply not good enough. So in fact, it was the last home defeat with Norwich, and to lot he took over. We didn't lose a home game in 11 until the last day of the season with Bournemouth, he went down. So that is something we have to correct this weekend and there's no question about that. I mean, West Brom, like you said, he stayed in the game against Leicester at the weekend for an hour. But, you know, Slaven, Slavenbill had gone with a, almost a 5-4-1 formation for the opening day, possibly thinking let's just get off to an unbeaten start and, you know, did that 35% possession at home against Leicester. I know Rodgers tries to dominate possession but they don't always do it, much more like a mid thing. So, you're right, we're going to be, having had large, large periods of the game of Tottenham at the weekend dominating and it only really flipped in the last 15 when we ran out of British team. Those players will have all had another week of fitness. Obviously, we were able to rest 10 of them in the Salford game, only Michael Keane played the two. So, you know, I expect Everton to be on the front foot, really, from the way it goes. One of the things that we'll have to do is, these will probably come with a bit of a low block and we're going to have to get the goal first and make them come out a little bit. And we were very good against space. We've got to be able to take our chances, simple as that, you know, Rytialas and Ryan the goalie and Sky and it. None of that this weekend, you know, we need him to have his shooting boots on without a shadow of a doubt. But like you say, you know, West Brom will come, probably try and nick a point. And it's up to Everton. Yeah, the emphasis is always on us, isn't it? When you're playing home, the emphasis is on us, they'll come, they'll come. Like you said, low block, set pieces and things like that. And it's up to us to show them no encouragement. In any game, an early goal can change the way, you know, can change the way the style of the team plays. The team plays early, isn't it? I think we have to be brave. I think we have to have a, you know, get in their faces, have a real goal, let them, it's different because there's no crowd there, of course. There's no crowd, so it's different. Players have had, you know, nearly a week's rest. As you mentioned, Michael Keane was the only starter, Lucas Dean come on, but really didn't have to do much. And you've got some bombing up on that. No, no, and West Brom were the same. They changed all their, they had a win in the week against Harragith. They did, they changed all their players as well, so it's the same for them. They'll have been working all week for this game. I think this is where, you know, we've got this game and we've got Palace next week and we've got Brighton coming up, head of the Maisie side Derby. These are the games where this team has to establish itself. It's great, like you said before, it's great going to Spare's first game of the season and getting a victory, but it is all about consistency. It's about consistency of performance and then hopefully consistency of result comes following that. With one, one game, you know, it doesn't mean anything. Until we get six or seven games in and then we have a little look at it and go, well, what have we done so far? So, let's hope Saturday minds are on it. Again, our players train, those set of players train in four this weekend and hopefully we can get a positive result. You're looking at Everton's start till the first international break, which is after Brighton, and you're looking at it last week, Saturday. You're going, okay, we've got Spare's away tough game. You've got West Brom Palace and Brighton before the break. You're looking at, well, can we get a point at Spare's and can we win those three or certainly win the two home games and get a point at Palace and finish the first block of four games with eight, nine points maybe. Well, we've won the first one. So now we've got three games that I think Everton are going to try to get into the top six. They need seven points from nine at least out of them. If we're going to challenge for the European spot, teams like Arsenal will be looking at that block of games and go nine points. You would because they want to be up there less there. Probably if you look at them and go seven to nine points out of the next three, same with Wolff, same with Manchester United, same with Tottenham. So if we're going to be talked about in that same conversation with those teams, then it's about being able. Now, you can't look too far ahead. Of course we can't look ahead and go, we beat these and then we'll go to Palace and win there, we'll rank Brighton at home and then etc. You can't look like that, it's what's in front of you. What's in front of us is West Bronside. We've just lost the first league game this season and had a moral boost and victory in the week. It's now they're coming to go. They'll come and try and dig in and get a point. And we've got to show that our quality, because we've got better players than them. That's the way it is. It's not being disrespectful to them. We simply have. And it's a case of us now being able to prove it. It's not going to be an easy game by any stretch of the imagination. So we have to go out and show our quality. We proved it to Tottenham on Sunday when maybe we caught them a little bit by surprise how good we were. They've had a week, but it's really about getting... When we get them and we're pushing them back, it's about taking our opportunities. Because let's be honest, we could have ended at that space getting 3-0 winners at the weekend. We missed good chances at 1-0, good chances to kill it. So this weekend, we're not always going to get away with that. You know, we might be 1-0 up in a game and miss chances in the opposition. Get a corner then. I remember, in fact, I remember the last time Brewerch Brombythus of Gwldersen. I think it was the most attempt we'd had to go in the Premier League. 35 attempts, I think it was. And they had two. We got beat 1-0. He scored off a corner earlier on. And we batted them all day and we couldn't score. And that's how games can go. So we have to come out against these, push them onto the back foot, get in front and show no mercy. And the big thing for me in terms of going forward is it's about creating something. It's about creating an order around the football team where you go there and you're already worried. You don't look at a game going. I wouldn't get up mad at this today. You look at it so that people are looking at everything going or again going back to the old tough place to go when they are at this place to go. Whether there's fans there or not. And that simply comes from having a good side. And as I said, it's one game. So, hopefully Alan D'Corey, Hamas Ardigas, they've had a week of training. And a week fitter. And hopefully we see them more done. We didn't have to use Dom on Wednesday. We didn't have to use Rathialyson on Wednesday. So they'll be fresh. Luca Dean cwm on and play with his flip-flops on. But didn't have to bomb up and down. It was just where he was. Michael Keane was very good. We were in under pressure. So we weren't chasing things constantly. So they were okay. Jobham picked the good performance. The Totten's had a week off. So the players had. Shame is calling. So they're all there. The freshness will be there. Some of the lads you played with might be on the bench and they'll want another little bit of it. So we have to look at it like you've just said. Can we get out? Can we have a quick start? Can we get them chasing the game early on and then look to pick them off as well? Hopefully. And that's what it's about. The team is good. To be honest. Last year's team would have been good enough to beat them. I'm not saying it would have done. It would have been good enough too. And it's about proving it. It would be really nice in a game like this to see Hamid Radrigus get a goal with Nick get off the mark in a game like this. Or create a goal. Just get the first hit. Get the marker down straight away. Playing the goodness in park, first game, goodness in park. Just getting that little thing. We want teams. You've just said it there. We want teams to go. I've got to have it in the way next week. To have a game to go and have a lot of the ball. And expect to come to goodness and expect not to win. Essentially. I'm not saying any team can go win anywhere. It depends on the game. But you go to the game with trepidation. And I think at times we do have that. Our home record tells you that we did. But last year we had Norwich City at home. And they had Munaway and they were dreffel. We weren't switched on. And they beat us sooner. And then we kind of made sure that didn't happen again. Until Bournemouth last game this season. I know they needed something and we didn't. But even so, their quality wasn't as good as Evans. And they beat us. So we've got to go out. I'm sure the man will be saying, Listen, this is a great opportunity to sit six points after your opening two games. And you know, have another week before we go to Palace. All right, we'll have this football game in between. But in terms of the league, nicely spaced out. We've got another game next Saturday. We've won the opening two games. Let's build from there. And players buy into that then. I'm going to do the facts because I know that last week you would be moamed it, but we won. So there you go. West Brom have won two of the last 12 games at Godderson. Against no side of West Brom kept more clean cheating of Premier League than Everton. Everton's Sunderland. Incredible. Done the Everton win this in the last four against promoted teams. And if Everton were to win on Saturday, it'd be the first time since the 2012-13 season. We've won back-to-back the opening two Premier League games when we beat United and Aston Villa, wasn't it? I'm not doing that one because that's just pushing it too far. I'm not doing that one either. Hamers Rodríguez created five chances on his Premier League debut last week, the most by a debutant in the competition since Alexi Sánchez. Since the start of last season, Dominic Calvert-Lewin is Everton's highest goal scorer in the Premier League. Ooh, not good enough though. While Lucas Deane provided more assist than any other player at the club eight, these two players combined for Everton's win. And Everton's Theo Walcott scored a hat-trick against West Brom in the Premier League in May 2015 for Arsenal. He's failed to net in each of his six appearances against them since. So, if he gets any time, he's due a goal. Sounds very Theo with that, doesn't it? Very, very good. Yeah. Three points. Let's keep the good feeling going and build into this season. Because... You know. We want to... I hope you'll have a lovely weekend after this weekend, every week. Yeah, there you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Are you confident? You think we can make it back-to-back Premier League wins to start the season? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Don't forget to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos, live daily videos, join us on page and the link is in the description. See you later.