 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the instant match reaction, Brentford won, Everton won, if you'd offered me a point before the game I probably would have took it, but I'm disappointed we never won that game, I must be honest, I am disappointed just because being 1-0 up, I thought we were good in the first half. And to see the Marey Grey miss a 1-on-1 like he did left me really really frustrated. Did we deserve a win? No, they hit the bar in the post and had lots of chances, we did ride our luck so I will say that, not like we massively deserve to win the game, but I am disappointed we didn't win the game because I thought we were handling most of the big men, the big players, I thought we were dealing with a lot of the crosses in the box which is ironic because that's what we've conceded off. I just thought second half we just got deeper and deeper and taking on and on and off and not making subs quick enough of costars with also a really big bad piece of defending from Alex Owoby being on the wrong side of the goal scorer and not being on it, but listen we started, they started the brighter of the teams, they had the shock quite early on. But I thought we got into our shape really well and I thought the Crossfield ball was really working for us, we were really getting opportunities out of it that we weren't making the most of and then obviously we got the opportunity with the goal which Anthony Gordon finished really really well, I thought he actually took a touch too many but he finished it off brilliantly and I thought we were, listen they've had moments, obviously the one they hit the post from earlier on was a good shot but then there was the one, then there was the one where obviously Patterson, I don't know what he was trying to do, Patterson got caught trying to let the ball bounce over his head or something and they've put the ball in and they've hit the post and then the lad should have scored the rebound. We've rode that look massively, don't get me wrong but I still think we should have won the game because it won the look with 20 minutes to go or even with 10 minutes to go. I think you should have the ability to change the game and I think don't think we did that today, going in 1-0 was good but we came out second half and we just dropped deeper and deeper and all I did was get the foot on the ball, get the balls into the box, keep putting the pressure on, hit the bar with one and one couple just going wide and wanting to whoop his arm in the box, you think that's a penalty. But the subs for me, oh no I'm going off, I can understand why he's gone off of course, I can understand why he's gone off, it's fair start in the Premier League, I can understand why he's gone off but him going off was a big moment because he'd been playing well, he put a great ball through to Damari Gray which, listen Damari Gray should be hitting the target, it's as simple as that, you can talk about what defenders have done wrong or what the managers done wrong but in a split second he's got the opportunity to make it 2-0 and kill the game off and he doesn't, for some reason he takes another touch which all our players love doing by the way, all our players love taking an extra touch instead of just shooting first time, he takes a second touch or a touch too many sorry and the defenders got an opportunity to block him and it's so poor, it's so poor, just hit the target, listen if the keeper saves it he saves it but hit the target and he can't even get a shot off and that's a maze appalling, that's a maze absolutely appalling when we talk about our players and we talk about how the level they are, that right there is the level of not being able to get a shot off one on one, not being able to control a ball into the box and get a shot off, so that was a huge moment, that should have put us 2-0 up whether we deserved it or not and we didn't deserve to win today, no one saying we deserve to win, what I'm saying is that 1-0 up with an opportunity like that, listen how many times has that happened to us or how many times you see teams go away and go have they got away with that there have they done that and it's those big moments and it's that moment's cost us there but as I said I think the subs have cost us as well, I think Oana going off and being replaced by Tom Davis we were robbed of some real genuine height as well on the set pieces, I can't sit here and say, I can't sit here and say that I'm fuming a that sub, they know more than I know in terms of how fit he was so I'm not I can't fume at that one but we were just about to bring we were just about to bring on Rondon and I just couldn't understand why it had taken so long, this is a fella who played last week you know for two starts and played an hour last week in the Premier League, why can't he play 20 minutes in an away game and just give us something to aim the ball at because again it all you could see was they would just go higher and higher up the pitch in their centre backs were allowed to come out and the midfielder could get on the ball higher and all our players would just just drop in deeper and deeper and deeper whereas in the first half then we always had a focal point we always had someone to aim at over the top and that just led them on to have more and more of the ball and it's a poor goal listen it is a really really poor goal and Wobby is completely on the wrong side of the lad who scores and doesn't even know he's there it's it is it is and defensively today we were very very shaky and I think this idea of that we're really good defensively is a bit of a myth actually and I think you've seen that today the numbers don't back up that way good defensively and the numbers in the first three in the first three games say that we are one of the worst teams defensively in the Premier League regardless of how many goals we've conceded the stats don't back that up the stats say we're in the bottom two or three for that and I think you've seen that today played out there was a lot of nerves and there was no one sitting in front of them to do the job but as I said that for me I think we should have won the game I think we should have won the game I think we should have we should have had someone on there to brought someone on a little bit earlier to give us a focal point McNeil's certainly not the answer in that in that position and towards the game Damari Gray and Anthony Govan just faded more and more out of the game as they were being asked to do have some defensive shape you need an out ball I've said this I've always said this and I'll always say only the best teams can get away with not having a centre forward but it's very but I'm following looking at the Man City score today and if they didn't have a centre forward they would have got beat today they've brought the centre forward and he's going to bang them at Attrick today to get them over the line that's what a centre forward does and it doesn't matter whether a brilliant centre forward or a terrible centre forward you need to have shape and a discipline and an out ball and that's hopefully what Mopai will bring us while we haven't got Dominic Arvind living and I do wonder whether he'd been whether he had been available to sign today even if he'd come off of that bench for the last 20 minutes what a difference that would have made for us and what a difference that will make going forward for us so that is there but again you know how many points have we dropped now because we didn't get a centre forward in earlier you know it's it's another to me it's another two and I know people will say and I've seen it in the comments there or we could have got beat four one we could have got beaten four one but how many times do you're playing games where you where well you see games where a team gets battered but they get the first goal and then they go and get the second goal and win the game it doesn't matter what could have happened in terms of the opposition we had we had an opportunity we had a tactic and yes we rolled our luck we had a tactic there to to get us something and and that one break away and then not having someone to come on light on the game for me is really really cost us getting getting three points today I'm a hugely needed three points maybe not a desired three points but a hugely needed three points so I am I am disappointed we haven't got we haven't got the three points but Brent Brentford are a good side they are they're strong and the lads who play up front for them and always a handful so yeah as I said I can't say it's what I want what I would say is maybe one positive and maybe we'll look at this later on in the season is that that point today might was probably a game last season we would have lost I'd imagine that's a game we would have lost that either we would have conceded earlier or we wouldn't have scored because obviously we did lose that game last season we've got something out of the game and I think while we're still in this transitional period you've got to take those positives that's a point more than we ate last season against Brentford you know we were beaten twice by Brentford last season so that's a point more than we got last season but this is a big week obviously we've got leads on Tuesday which will be a big game and it'll be you know Mopai I imagine will be available but you can see and they've been beaten today you can see with you can see the difference just having a forward on just having a forward on the pitch and taking the pressure off your back for it's just huge it's just huge again we've played another game today without a centre forward and it's just so important we've brought one in now Dolm is probably two or three weeks away you know Arsenal maybe off the bench or the West Ham game and it's just a big week it's a big week the points this and the points tally is is is is appalling two from 12 is appalling totally appreciate that totally appreciate that and and but I I did see signs today that there is there is a team in there that can compete with obviously not the teams at the top I mean let's put it this way boomer if I've gone and beaten I've got beaten they nine nil you know I've beaten beaten been beaten nine nil by a team that I didn't want to game this season um that's that's a team that'll be relegated you watch that evidence team and I they don't they don't scream at me they're gonna be relegated what they scream at me is that they need players players to come in from outside and players to come back from injury and of course we've got another injury today Mission Hallgate um things and and then obviously things are going to have to be changed aren't the owner I'm not he's not going to be changed but he's going to get more games is he going to get are we going to bring someone in this week like a garner to go in alongside them the points tally is very very poor I appreciate that but this time last year we had you know a billion points tally and look at that ended up I can I can I can understand what Frank Lampard's trying to do whether he does it or not is a completely different thing and I do appreciate that as well but the reason why we've only got two points is quite obvious no striker and that is on the club don't get me wrong that is hugely on the club that's on the club for not bringing a striker on that's on the club for not bringing signing Mopai on Wednesday and making sure that he got through a work payment in time to play today you know all those things are on the football club it's as simple as that you know it is going to take what I would say is this is not the this is not the evident team that Frank Lampard wants so I I do sort of look at it and think well I will judge them when the transfer windows over the problem is is that we've got Leeds Liverpool and Arsenal's our next three games and they are they you know you look at those games and think well after those games we might have another 1.3 if we are hugely lucky and that is massively concerning and I do appreciate that so it's difficult it is difficult but listen it's a point today um this you know we had we had seven seven shots on target which is quite disappointing that we only scored one goal you know seven shots um that's something that needs to be addressed from a point of view if you're shooting seven times in at the target you've got to score more than one goal that has to happen that just has to happen um so yeah as I said I'm disappointed that we never won just from the point of we were in a great position two in the game we were in an absolutely brilliant position two in the game and we haven't and that's disappointing so so there you go right I will leave it there I will be back for my player ratings in a little bit bars will have his videos out as well very very shortly um yeah we're back at it on me Tuesday so it's not it's not not too long to wait for the next game there you go so we'll be back on Monday to do the final word don't forget as well um yeah so make sure you check out all the other videos thanks for watching and we'll see you later