 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton versus Brighton Hover. Alwyn, can Everton make it seven at seven ahead of the international break and ahead of a Maisie side Derby? Oh my God, it's getting exciting. It is getting exciting. Just have a drink. I thought you were carrying on. Yeah, it is getting exciting. It's been a fantastic start. And then you said it the other day, when you're winning, you just can't wait for them to play again. But it's been a brilliant start. But Saturday it'll be a tough game. There's no question about that. What's Brighton last week against Manchester United? They were very unfortunate to lose the game. They would work five times in that game, so Everton will have to be on top four to beat them. But having said that, it's at home and we're playing very well. And it's a great opportunity for us to go top of the league again, but to keep up that win and run ahead of an international break without a shadow of a doubt. Yeah, you don't look at it, do you? It could be seven wins in a row. It's one game. There's the potential, like you said, to win a home. We'd all expect Everton to beat Brighton at home every season, no matter what. And that's no disrespect to Brighton. That's just something as an Everton and you would think we should be capable of. And in general we do that. They've had a tough start of the season. Chelsea are home and United are home. Newcastle are away, which they've dispatched quite easily. They got beat, obviously, by Manchester United in the Carabao Cup. But I think they'd be quite optimistic with how they've started in terms of performance. As you write last weekend against Manchester United, they played really well at the Woodbury because five times or something like that, it was ridiculous. So, they're a threat. They're clearly a threat. Everton have just got to keep doing what we've been doing, haven't we? And hopefully it will be enough. The confidence right now must be sky-high. But obviously with some of the carlamantuloti, that will be, you know, it'll be confident, but I imagine it won't be arrogant. It'll be all about doing the job going out there. And I think what we've seen saying in the last couple of performances, Crystal Palace away and still on West Ham at home in the League Cup is just not steamrolling teams. Just doing what we need to do, doing enough and grinding it out, changing it to Palace it was a grind. And at times against West Ham, we, you know, certainly when we went down to, when we had the injuries against West Ham, we had to basically rejig the team very, very quickly. But we come through that little, that little period of transition during the game to go on and win it quite comfortably at the end. So there seems to be a little bit of a toughness there as well, doesn't it? Yeah, definitely and a belief in calmness in what they're doing. I think that's a key aspect of it is that the team, even in a bit of adversity against West Ham, were able to come through it. You know, the Charleston restored our lead and went off injured and Allen went off injured. And instead of folding, we then went and added another two goals with them off the pitch, you know, with Alex Iwobi and Abdelai Decori coming on. So I think what he's doing is he managed to refocus the whole squad, re-energise the whole squad in the closed season, the pre-season. Obviously the three players have made a huge difference to us. But the players who have had the club anyway have really stepped up and the players, the lads who are in the team at the moment, they're having to step up to try to force the way into the team. So that creates a healthy, healthy competition. We're confident we're winning games, we're playing well, we're scoring goals. You know, there's another four goals the other night. We look like we can score goals at will, almost. And that has to continue. We'll have to play well at the weekend, like I said before, but right now they're a decent side. OK, they were beating 3-0 around by United in midweek, but, you know, and they're now half of the team. That was the same half of the team that played against United at the weekend, but they'll bring fresh people back into it. We'll have to be wary of them, but we are flying at the minute. And, like you say, I'd be quite confident playing anybody this Saturday because we are playing very well. There'll be moments in the season when we won't be playing as well and you will be a bit nervous about games, but when you're on a good run like we are, and playing the way we are, you just want the games because the team is playing brilliantly at the minute. Yeah, and there's this thing about the Premier League is there's no Gimmies anyway. You know, everyone's going to be tough, you know, obviously when we played West Brom. You know, they give us a really good game and, of course, they went down to 10 men, but they still came out second half and scored and made it very difficult for us. Every game's tough and, certainly, at this stage of the season when there's clubs have got a lot of fresh players, they've got a lot of players available. It's always difficult. The confidence is still there. We haven't gone into the tough days yet, even though we've played a lot of games because of the League Cup and BlackMillars as well. So I just think we have to go and just keep doing what we're doing. And I suppose this is in the time of recording. We don't know what the injury situation is. We probably won't know what the injury situation will be up right to the kick-off. I imagine if there's a chance for Allen and Richard Alisson to start the game, then they'll be given every single chance because they're both so important to the team. But if they're not available, did you see enough against West Ham from other players that they could step in and do a job? Yeah. It'll be a big blow, of course. It will to lose both of those players. They've both been huge in everything we've done so far. Richard Alisson's a key player for us. We know that he's a fantastic footballer. It's his work, his ethic, as well as having that ability to pull some magic out and score a goal from nothing. So he'll be a big miss. But I think Alex O'Wobee come on and did well the other night. O'Wobee's not at that same level. Of course he's not in terms of what Richard Alisson can do. But Alex O'Wobee's a clever footballer and has to play well. And on top of that, you've also got someone like Bernard who can go in there and do a decent job as well. Ideally, on fingers crossed, we've got Richard Alisson available. And hopefully Moise Keane will have overcome his illness and be back on the bench at the weekend to give us that threat from a forward position. Cfab i yn Delf, rhaid i siwb rhaid i mi ddiwrdd o'n wneud. I thought he played quite well against West Ham. And for the game, I feel as though he could go and sit in in that number six role. It's where he played. So we'd have a little bit of it. It's not the same as a land because I think a land's being fantastic for us in the game so far. But Delf can go in and do his job in that midfield. So if as long as you've still got the core in there and you've still got hammers in there. And you know, we could get Richard Alisson fit enough to play or if not a bit of O'Wobee o Bernard. I still feel like we've got enough quality to win the game definitely. But losing Richard Alisson who is a goal threat will be a big blow. There's no question about it. Yeah, it'll be interesting because it is the last game before an international break and obviously if we could get those two players through the game. I think that would be, you know, and then if there is sort of, you know, you can get players through games genuinely as long as it's not a terrible injury. You can manage them through even though it's just like an hour. And then they'll have a couple of weeks break before the next game and, you know, whether the, whether the, I don't even know at this moment whether they've been called up to Brazil have even got a game. I don't even know. I've not heard anything so they could both have a couple of weeks to rest and hopefully that would be enough time for the Mayside Derby. So unless it was, unless it was a really bad, a really bad one, obviously Richard Alisson things got a twist. So they can be if there's a swelling and stuff. Sometimes it's just even getting, you know, your foot in a boot can be a problem. So that's, well, I have to wait and see it for me. I think Richard Alisson is very, very tough on because I don't think anyone else can do the job he does forever. And I really don't, you know, I know we took, we've been talking up. I'm as Rodriguez and I'm amazing as, but I think Richard Alisson on that left hand side just he's so energetic that he works so hard for the team. And I just don't think we've got anyone like that. Alan has been absolutely fantastic for us. Could we do with him without one game? Well, possibly so that you mentioned there, Delph. Delph had a decent game against West Ham. And if he can, if he can, I don't think he would do the same job as Alan, but I think on the ball, he, you know, he does want to move it forward. He does want to get it forward. I don't think, as I said, I don't think he does the same job, which might restrict the fullbacks a little bit if you haven't got him in there. We'll have to wait and see. It'll be a blow if either is out for the game. Yeah, of course it will. You've got a team that's playing very well, winning, scoring loads of goals. Everyone knows the jobs. Everyone's, they just fitted in brilliantly because the good players, of course, it'll be a blow, but it's an opportunity, isn't it? It's an opportunity for Fabian Delph of Alan's out to stake a claim and to show that he can do a job for everyone, or he can certainly fill in and be an important squad member. Because at the minute, we've not seen anything of him since he signed in the city really, have we? So it's, you know, an opportunity for him, but fingers crossed both of them. It's some outfit and we can take the pity in this one, but there is players who can come in if not. Well, ultimately injuries happen and injuries and suspensions will happen during the season and people lose form and things like that. So these things are going to happen. Of course they're going to happen and it's how you deal with those with not having the players. Of course you don't want two, three, four at a time. You don't even want a couple, really, but they will happen. So the team's absolutely flying at the moment and with someone like Dominic Cavillun up front in the form he's in. You mentioned he's been called up for England as well. The form he's in, the confidence he's showing, the work rate, the different types of goals he's getting as well. Brighton will be very, very wary of him, won't he? Yeah, you'd have to be. You're coming up to a game and there's a lad who's eight goals in five games this season, consecutive hat-tricks in goodness and home games. You've got to be wary of him, scored a game at the weekend at Palace. You've got to look out for him and Dominic's being strong and quick enough to cause these issues and it gets easier if Britialis isn't in the side as well because they have to worry about him, so it frees them up. But when you've got a player like Hamas Rodriguez in your team as well, he can open games up from nowhere. I think it'll be a tough game for Everton, I said it last week, Watson, Brighton, it'd be a tough game. I thought they were very unlucky and united and the way they line up, they can cause you real issues. Have you got the line up there? I will put the line up on the screen right now. So this is how they lined up last week against Manchester United, so obviously Webster, Lewis Duncan, Ben White in a back three. They played basically, it is a three, four, three. Lanty has been fantastic since coming in at that right wing back, so he's a real threat. But it'll be interesting him against Leucadine at the weekend. Soli Mart was brilliant against Manchester United. They found a lot of space on that back post, which you haven't left to be wary of. That's not, especially with Hamas on the right, he doesn't tend to track back as much as Britialis does, so we will have to be wary of that. And then obviously Trossard floats anywhere along that front three and then he got Maupai and Connelly, who is known to Evertonians for a dive. Been a massive diver. Yeah, yeah, huge diver, but he's a live wire, but Maupai's a good little player as well. I was really impressed with Salzatti last week. I thought he was really good against United and obviously we know all about Adam Lalana. They're there as well, so it's going to be a tough game. They've got good players, but then Everton have got excellent players. So as tough a game as it can, it will be. I've no doubt about that. It's a game that I feel Everton. It'll be interesting as well from the other side of it as well, just from our point of view. We talk about the injuries there, but also the condition inside the things as well. You know, Thomas Rodriguez played in 90 minutes against West Ham United. You know, people have always mentioned, haven't they, since we saw him about injuries and his fitness levels and all this kind of thing. It'll be interesting to see going from the Wednesday night to the Saturday after playing 90 minutes, what he's like as being our key man as well. Because he'll be so important on the ball for us, open up the space. I mean, obviously, listen, the likes of Michael Keane, the likes of Dominic Harvenloon, no issues with at all. Decorae only played 15, 20 minutes. Andi Gomez wasn't even involved. Seamus Coleman came on for, what, 50 minutes? Played an hour. So he should be okay with that as well. So that to me is the interesting fact that this Ham is Rodriguez just seeing what he's got. But the manager will have known. The manager, okay, the manager probably would have liked maybe even more when he's played 70 minutes Wednesday or whatever. But they'll know what his levels are and knowing that it's, you know, it's how much it catches up with you in the season, isn't it? Rather than just two games, because you would imagine he'd be able to play a couple of games and then have a couple of weeks off. So it shouldn't be too much of an issue. No, isn't he going with Columbia though, haven't they got qualifiers, I think. But if it was a league game he'd have been playing, we said it before. So he's in good form and good health at the moment and that's all you want. Brighton are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League away games. Three wins and five draws they've had. They've won three of the last four on the road. So they're obviously the dangerous. They're averaging 14.7 shots a game in the league this season, which is the highest rate in any of the previous Premier League campaigns. And their XG rates, also the highest it's been. It's so obviously big improvement from Potter's side this season. They're brighton that they would work five times in their three to the feet last week. The most the team has done so in a Premier League match since 2003, four season. Everton have had 59 10 plus pass sequences in open play in the Premier League this season. Averaging at 19.7 a game. I think Liverpool have had more last season. They average just 7.7 rank and 11th overall. It's going to be Carlo Antialotti's 100th Premier League game in charge of the weekend. He's won 59 to 19 and lost 21 so far. Only five managers won more of their first 100 in the competition than the Italian. Jose Medino, Pep Guardiola, Pellegrini, Alex Ferguson and Roberto Mantini. And Everton's Dominic Alderloo has scored in each of his three Premier League games this season. The last English player to score in four consecutive games from the Toffees was... Go on. Francis Jefferson. No, there you go, there you go. So there you go. Interesting stuff. Like you say, it's going to be... I think it'll be a good game. I think they had a decent side. They knocked it round well. I think it'll be a tough game for us. But I'd be wrong and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't expecting Everton to win the game. All beer, it'll be a very, very tight game. I could say maybe a 3-2 or something like that for a tough game indeed. Interesting, yeah. I think it's going to be... I think all the games in the Premier League so far have been open for everyone. I think no fans there. I think no everyone fancies it. No one's worried too much now at the moment about home advantage and about playing away. I think Brighton will think they've got nothing to lose. They want to knock everything off their little page that we've created for ourselves this season. And I think it's going to be a very, very open game. And hopefully the luck is with us rather than with Brighton. So there you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments anyway on this one. Are you expecting an Everton victory? 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