 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's my three talking points from Baltimore's four Everton one in the Carabao Cup. Horrible night for Everton. Yeah, I've really listened. Done this so many times after these games, the Carabao Cup games and just whatever it is I don't know. Tonight, even though I thought it'd be a difficult game, I didn't expect a four-one defeat. A newbie of tight game, obviously the lack of goals is a real thing and we're going to his side. He was doing alright, doing quite well actually, considering you haven't come up and spent tons of money, changed the manager, Gary O'Neill has done a good job. I knew it'd be a really difficult game for us tonight and it proved that way. It proved that way really, although obviously the goals, the first couple of goals were four tuweters. It's at the other end that the real issue is. I thought this was difficult to pick three things out to talk about without just ranting. The first thing I'm going to say is the Carabao Cup. We have been cast in this competition someone has put a hex on us years ago in this competition. I don't know what it is, I don't know how we remove it, but whatever happens we always end up out the competition in some way. You can go back to 1977 and play in Villa three times and losing. The Mil Cup in 84, Alan Hansen having a game of basketball on the line. Just keep going to the amount of games we've lost against lower league teams and games where Everton had just haven't turned up and been beaten. The odd time we've done alright and it got to semi, we've met top teams like your Chelsea's, your Manchester City's. It just isn't a happy cup for us, no matter what we do. A lot of times we've changed our line up, which I think most managers would do. It never really works, Everton never really make that many changes. Certainly in a game that we may do it against the league one side or something. Even on those occasions at times we've come up short. We never had able really to do it in the Premier League and get away. Certainly not away from Goddison Park. Tonight you see 11 changes and you kind of go okay, let's see what happens then and you give the goals away we did. For whatever reason there's been an awful, awful competition for us. We seem to get worse in it, not better so tonight was one of them. I think we just literally can find that in the history books and try again next year and hope there's a year. There's a lot of talk of teams in Europe not playing in it and you think that'll give us a better chance of maybe winning it. We've just been battered by Bournemouth, no disrespect to them but they'll be happy probably like we will now to still be in this division next season. Not a great night, not a great competition for us and I don't know what else to say. The second thing is I guess the squad players lad to being on the periphery. Obviously it was an opportunity tonight to get Mason Holgate and Yeri Mina some minutes after injury. They'll be better for playing some minutes. Yeri Mina played the full game which he hasn't been able to do that often enough for Evan. Mason Holgate obviously substituted early in the second half. Michael Keane hasn't played for a while and he was in Begavitch. So it's given lads the opportunity to get minutes under the belt. What I would say is I don't think anyone who starts most weeks will be concerned about what they saw from players tonight for whatever reason. It's always going to be a difficult one because you've made 11 changes. How do you expect it to be fluid? But what you do expect is a little bit of direction. You expect a little bit of dynamism from the people who are coming in. You want people to come in and really try to prove a point. Did enough players kind of do that tonight? Was there a reason? Was it just not happening for them tonight? But following on from the disappointments of Saturday and Saturday was a really poor performance by our first team players. Like really poor. This is another kick in the Nether regions tonight. You want to see something from those players who may be saying give me a go then. If we're not scoring enough goals near Maupai. Dominic Albert Lew and we don't know whether he's going to be available Saturday. Maupai's not played enough lately so a chance for him to get in. Did he do enough? Not really. Saying that we can create anything for him either. Anthony Gordon's been in and out of late. Did he do enough tonight? He's had better games than he did tonight. He was lucky to be fair. In my opinion he should have been sent off in the second half. It was a naughty tackle. He'd have got sent off in the Premier League for that absolutely if there had been BAR. You know when other players did he do enough? I think probably the one who will probably benefit the most from that. All of you made a mistake for the fourth goal was Paterson. He did some bright moments but did look a little bit rusty as well. I guess get that out of your system. I agree some positive bits but probably not enough. That'll be the disappointment I imagine for Frank Lampard as well. He'll have been looking and hoping that people put a marker down for him. He isn't really, I don't think so. I think a lot of those will have to be disappointed tonight with their display. Finally, again, broken record time from me and I apologise. But it's the forward situation. The final third is so important for teams. It's vitally important. You have to be almost perfect defensively if you light up front. I haven't a very light up front. We know that. Especially with Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Dominic Calvert-Lewin being not fit and not fully firing. I have just talked about Neil Maupai. I haven't played a lot of games but he's not banging goals in. We know without being harsh on him. He wasn't a really big goal scorer for Brighton. He's come in and we're hoping that he can be for us. But he's not all of a sudden going to turn into a 20-goal of season striker. And he certainly isn't if we ain't going to create chances for him. And again, I just look at that and think, can we simplify the game? Can we just get wide and put crosses in at the golden? Put a decent one in in the first half. We just never got across the front post. But if players know that he's going to do that five or six times a game, they can make that run in the hope that when he gets in those areas, he can put it in there. And we just don't have goals in the team. And if you don't have goals in the team, like I said before, you've got to be perfect. And that, we can't do that. We're going to have to. We haven't got right now the opportunity to change front players. We haven't got the opportunity to bring more goals into the squad. We can't do that until January. So what we have to do is almost play the percentages by doing that. What I mean by that is get more bodies in the penalty area. I've seen Borma tonight who are on the great side and that wasn't their first team. But yet when they come with us, they got bodies in the box, which meant it was difficult for us at times. We didn't do that. You know, when they scored the second goal, there's three or four of their players in the penalty area ready to put it in. That was us. We might have had one, two maximum. And that's an issue. And the manager has to come up with a way and the coaching staff have to come up with a way to commit more bodies. Into the box. Therefore, by numbers, we might get more opportunities by simply having more bodies in the box. Because we haven't got the individuals right now that are going to create something and put it in the back of the net for us at a key moment. You know, we see flashes of it. Dymari Greys, because a brilliant goal tonight, but there's just not enough of that. And there's not enough. And we can't really have a goal at Dymari Greif. He doesn't get 15 goals because he's never done that in his career. So what we need from him when he's playing. Simple fire game. Get wide, get across in. Get shot and put lots of crosses in. Let's get bodies on the end of it. Same with Anthony Gordon. We same with Dwight McNeill when he comes on. Get balls into that box. Get shots away. It's the only way we're going to do it. Then in January, we hope that we bring another centre forward in. We hope we bring another winger in who's got goals in him. Someone like Martin Terrier would be fantastic from France. He cost 25 million or something like that. If you could get him out of there because I know that is a more difficult one, but that's what we're going to have to do. We don't have to bring people in who are used to scoring goals. Because there just isn't enough in this team. There's hardly any goals in it. You can work hard. You can have nice structures. We can keep it tight defensively. We ain't got anything at the other end of the pitch. Lads who are going to put the ball in on a regular basis. We're going to struggle. And that will be the thing that keeps everything towards the lower end of the league. Rather than making it more comfortable towards the mid to upper part of the Premier League. And that's the task that Evan has sized with coming into January. I know I've said that a few times and I apologise. But it's every game and it's really frustrating the life out of me. So, there you go. There are my three things. I'm sorry if I've bored you. What are all the other reaction videos? Thanks for watching. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't and enjoy the rest of your night. See you later.