 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the match preview, Everton vs Fulham in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup at Gothersham Park, Tuesday night. This one sort of just snuck up on us. We all knew it was there, but we were all just keeping an eye on all the other games and now it's here. It's like, this is actually quite a big game and we could get into a semi-final and we're actually playing well and we're in form and it's a one-off game with Gothersham Park. Jack? Yeah, it's one of our better cup runs in the last few years. You know, home-tigering to side, I think we believe we can beat, I think, if there hadn't been a certain points deduction, there would have been a lot more focus on this within the fanbase. And yeah, you know, if we do get through, there's the potential to draw a lower league side in the semi-final as well. It's potentially massive this and it has gone under the radar, but all focus is on it now and what an opportunity for the team against the team they have lost to earlier in the season, but there was bad luck there. The teams improved since as well. It's a real opportunity for them. No, it is. It is. It's a big game against the team. That to be fair, I've been in decent form of late scoring a lot of goals and all the coming off the back of the 3-0 defeat at Newcastle, but obviously they were down to 10 men for 17 minutes really of that game and obviously him and his is going to miss the game against Devon, which is good. But no, they've been scoring goals and obviously something in them has clicked in the last few weeks as well. You know, they went to Anfield recently and scored 3, but obviously we're beating 4-3. They've been putting the ball in the back of net as I said, 2-5 no wins before the game on Saturday, but obviously they were both home games as well, so it'll be interesting to see how that translates to this game. And out the mindset, I suppose, a one-off game away from home against the team that I find in a foul form, but I find a little bit of form at home as well. Expectations obviously for us will be sky high, where a lot of fans will be listening. I don't think anyone's thinking, oh, this is a walk in the park. It's not like the last one when I played Bane, where a lot of people felt like I think we were comfortably going to beat them because not only were we better than them, but they were going to rest place. I think even though it is a busy period, I think I imagine Fulham will be looking at this thinking, well, it gets us into a semi-final, a two-legged semi-final. We've got to go for everything. You know, is that the way you feel about this game? That you've got to put everything into it because it is a quarter-final of the cup? Yeah, well, we don't often get to these stages up, haven't for a few years, have we? I think the last quarter-final was man United under Ancelotti, they had the lockdown season, so we've got to take this chance, haven't we? It's going to be difficult and Fulham, as we know, have been in good goal scoring form and it's going to be interesting to see how the seven-side responds if they do go a goal behind. I don't want to say ever and haven't faced adversity in recent weeks because they very clearly have, but not much of it has actually been on the pitch. We haven't had to respond to going a goal down and Fulham, yes, missing attacking options, but they do have the potential to get that goal and are we going to bounce back against that? I have faith in them just because the character that's being shown by the seven team in the last few weeks has been great, so I have faith in them to respond positively if they are faced with adversity, but it is a challenge we have and have to face in a while and we do need to have that in mind that we might have to come up against that. I think expectation is a challenge as well, I think expectation from your own fan base is a really interesting challenge to take on because I think obviously in the last few weeks, certainly with the 10-point deduction, we all know we are together in this summer fighting something else, but I think when these moments do arise and you've got an opportunity to take one and push forward and give fans, long-suffering fans, something we haven't had an opportunity to get to for a while, whether it just be a semi-final. If you want to get to the final, you want to win something, obviously you've got to go through a semi-final, it's not just a case of, we want to get to a semi-final. Don't like this thing if you want to have a good cup run, no, I want to win the cup of a month. A good cup run will just bring heartache if you don't get the final thing, but that place is expectation and I wonder how much expectation that place is on the manager in terms of the line-up. Let's just look at the team obviously that beat barely on Saturday. And obviously there was changes going into this game, Paterson came in, Goffy came in, Keane came in, Dwight McNeill going to left wing back. Obviously O'Nan are starting a game for the first time in a while. D'Corey went off injured in this game, so we've got no idea at the moment as we record this because Evan don't do press conferences for the games. So we don't know where he is exactly right now, we don't know where Michel Encoe is right now either because obviously that was a late call with him as well, certainly Friday. So we don't know where they are, we don't know where Ashley Young is, we don't know where Sheamus Coman is. We know Garno will be back, we know Branth White will be back for this game. Obviously if we've got no Michel Encoe and we've got no Ashley Young, does that mean that Dwight McNeill, we continue to trade the back and Dwight McNeill plays left wing back? Does that mean Paterson keeps his place ahead of Sheamus Coman or the Sheamus Coman come back in? And who then goes in for D'Corey? We saw when D'Corey moved a little bit deeper against Newcastle that Jack Harrison moved more centrally, but we had Ashley Young on the right wing, so we can make changes, but the changes aren't available either. So does he risk it? You know, if D'Corey is, let's not say 50-50, but say he's 70-30. Do you risk him? Do you know it's a hamstring injury? Can you risk a hamstring injury? No, and that. The manager said on Saturday night, he said we don't know whether we've gone him off in time as in, you know, he said he was just feeling it. A little bit like Don was feeling, know that he was feeling that he ended up missing the forest game. Does he have to have that one game out with it coming in so quick to make sure that not only is available for Tottenham, but he's available for City and he's available for Wolves, because if you aggravate it, it could be three or four games and three or four games at this time of year. You know, a week or so, or 10 days being out, is four games at this stage of the season. So you know, what do you think he should do with that pressure being there, ever being a quarter final? I wouldn't risk him personally just looking at the season ahead as well. And now it's a massive game and, you know, maybe I'm contradicting myself talking up the game and saying, oh, don't risk your top scorer. But just with it being so close to the Bay and the game where he did go off and it's a muscle injury as well, that I just wouldn't risk him personally because he's so crucial to this side with the goals that he brings. And I do think there's enough in the team to get by for one game missing him. It's when if he does play and he does aggravate it and then without him for three games, that's when I worry about what we've got in the team. But it is interesting to think how we'll shape up, especially if Michelenko is not going to play. I think if we are expecting that we might have to have a bit more of the ball, maybe it's OK, go forward at the back and put the extra man in midfield. And Godfrey goes left back. And unfortunately, it's probably Michael Keane that drops out. But it is interesting, is Shaun Dyche, the type of manager, will change your winning system when he doesn't have to? You know, changing to five at the back was brought on by injuries. Is he going to deviate back from it now he doesn't necessarily have to? And it's worked, I don't know. Yeah, there's so much up in the air and because, as I said, we haven't had any updates. So we don't know where people are. The manager doesn't really, he doesn't really give too much away. He's not really said how far. I mean, he does tell you when players are not playing typically, or he certainly has started to do that at late, when a play is not available, he'll just say it's, you know, I know last year was a little bit more candid when it was Dominic Armand Lewin. But I think this year he's started to be a little bit more honest with the fan base and saying they're not going to make it, he's not going to make it. You know, Shaun, he ruled out Chambers and he ruled out Ashley Young. I think it was too early to rule out Michelinco when they had the press conference. So we'll have to wait and see to see where we are. But I think one affects the other, isn't it? You've asked Ashley Young, if there's no Michelinco, you might want him back at left back. But so then you can't play him at right midfield. So then maybe you can't play Jack Harrison inside. I don't know. He obviously played Dan Dume in that role against Burnley in the last round. They didn't really work. Dan Dume hadn't played enough football at that point. And certainly hasn't played that much since, barely any since. So it's hard to predict what we're going to do, but at least I suppose what Saturday's shown us, we do have this formation up our sleeve. We can't change things around. And maybe, maybe actually, maybe this system of playing three at the back would suit us if we don't have the cori, because then we can bring, then we've got O'nana. He can play alongside a Disagana guy. Then you can have Harrison and Ghana high up in front of those two with McNeill as a left wing back. And, you know, you could pick Michael Keane, you could pick Ben Goffy to go in there with Brant Wheaton. You've got Nathan Patterson who can play right wing back. And that's probably what is best positioned at the moment. So it wouldn't surprise me if he has to make those calls, if he sticks with the three at the back. No, but at least what the Bay in the game has shown is that this manager can make things work even when he doesn't have his preferred first 11. Yeah. I think they've created an atmosphere in the club around the training ground where players can just come in and just maintain and just come in and do a job, because if you work hard, that's after job. So yeah, we're not going to have some key players and then the changes that we have to make because of that is going to fit the scope of the team set up. But it's just about everyone coming in and just working as hard as they can to do that job. And a lot of that is the midfielders because you've got players like James Garner who aren't being played completely in their preferred position, they're having to do the dirty work and that. But like I said, we've got an atmosphere where players are more than willing to do that, because it's all about the team. Yeah, no, it's going to it's going to be an interesting one. As I said, we have got that up our sleeve and we have played already this season in the in the Carable Club as well against Villar as well. So it's not alien to them to play that system. It's just and the two players who come back will help that. And obviously the manager have a big decision. Let's just have a look at Fulham side from the defeat at Newcastle. Obviously they're not going to have human is available who was got the sending off. Obviously Alex, a Wobby former ever play has been in great form of late and they they obviously like playing you know the four four to three one. Not sure they'll play up front for them, but they have a Wobby on one side and they have Harry Wilson on the other side. He was finding his feet in the Premier League. Establish a raise numbers. 17 games, two goals, actually 1.59, three assists and an XA of 1.58. There you go. And you can see obviously Dominique in that right hand side where the heat mat there. I'd have gone for a Wobby there for the staff, but Ned does that job. But Harry Wilson's grown, but I don't really want to talk about him. I want to talk about that as a Wobby. He has seen sort of found his little knee short, his happy place at Fulham. He's scored a few goals. He's got a few assists and he will be a threat, I think, because coming back to Everton, you know, you know, as much as you, you'll, I think you'll know that it didn't work at Everton. It improved, it improved, but it didn't really quite work. There's always still a little bit of need. Yeah, and let's be honest, right? He didn't score goals. He didn't, you know, it's passing. Sorry, his assist wasn't great, even though some of his passing and how he got us up the pitch and all that kind of thing was good and was probably, was probably our best and I don't think the manager wanted to sell him. But the money for the club, obviously, was too much to tear down for a player who had one year on his contract, who didn't look like he was ever going to sign a new contract. It could tear down to be fantastic business, by the way, selling our Wobby, the way that Jack Harrison and James Garner and Dwight McNeill have become regular providers. So it could tear down to be absolutely fantastic business, but he does seem to have found himself at a club that suits him a little bit more than what Everton did. Well, he's a player that we've always known. You should get him in as an exact role and do everything he wants you to do as a team to facilitate him. He's a good player. Yeah. He isn't, yeah, he always could have got more goals and more goal contributions in the Everton team, but he can't perform well and have those little moments that just helped the team in the attack. It was a good deal for both parties because you mentioned the contract situation and the money made it beneficial for Everton. But look, I'm sure he'd love to come and give a performance because, like you said, it didn't really work at Everton, but it's our job to shut him down. It's our job to show Harry Wilson down. And we don't know about the striker situation with suspensions and injuries, but the team who could score goals regardless, I'm sure whoever it is will be a threat and it's Everton's job to shut them down as we've been shutting teams down the last two weeks. Yeah, they'll make chances and listen, it's not all about him and his. Him and his has become a focal point in the last few weeks and start to score some goals. And that is great. We've seen that with Dominic Arvalune. Center forward doesn't always score the goals, but they give you the focal point to allow the team to get up the pitch. And they have been creating a chance, so it's not just the case of, well, there's no him and his or that's it. They've been spreading the goals around. And it will be a tough game. And there is a lot of expectation going into the game. And it's it's it really, I think it's finally balanced. Obviously, us being home gives us the edge, but they've beaten us the last couple of times at Goulderson as well for going so long with them never winning a game at Goulderson Park. You know, they've got they've won the last two. So yeah, it's a tough one, but it's a quarter final level. They've got to be relishing it and the fans have got to be relishing it and hopefully hopefully we can get through whoever we get in the semi final. It doesn't matter. You know, and again, it's just about getting into it and then seeing where you are when it comes around. So and at the moment we we are good, but in good form and we're making things happen. So there you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one. I want the mystic eye and what do you think the lineup is going to be? Who do you think will be in and who do you think will be out? Let us know in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already. You want more great videos. Join us over on Toffee TV Premiered. Link is in the description on the QR code on the screen now. See you later.