 Welcome to Toffy TV, here is the Match Preview Everton versus Aston Villa, in what I imagine is a doubleheader, because I have no idea when the other game was actually running out of days. I literally, we worked it out yesterday when there's only really two times in the calendar it can be, it's either the week after this one or if the wolves game gets moved that weekend. So, because Villa have got the midweek games as well, so maybe they will just say shatty listen using Sunday League rules today. It's a doubleheader when it takes you all six points. And now a game and then turn round and off you go. So it feels weird that this is the first time we've played Villa in like, you know, nearly basically a year of the season, I know it's not a year, but you know, we played them right at the end of last season. And it just seems weird that this is the first time and obviously we're playing them again whenever we decide, but most win game, most win game. Is that phrase again? It is, but that's, that's, that's, they're all most wins aren't they? You know, they're all, I think Luca Deane said a couple of weeks ago, they're all cup finals. You know, if we want to get into Europe, we need to win all the games, so every game is a must win game now. You know, we've got what six games left and we probably will be saying they need to win three to get to that 60 point mark, which I've, you know, heralded for a while. But if we want Europe, it's probably going to have to be four out of six. And when you look at the fixtures and you see like Manchester City away as one of them doesn't leave much room for that. So Villa at home on a Saturday night when they're not in a particularly great run, gives us an opportunity. And hopefully after last week's win at Arsenal, you know, I know the performance wasn't great, but hopefully that renewed the spirit within the players because I suppose we've seen it this time last year, didn't we? We went into space, we got beaten from that moment on. You could feel players basically this season was ebbing away, flip-flops on. Whereas hopefully, you know, players are still training hard. They still know there's something there because there is still something there. You look at the table and you can, you know, we're not that far away. The teams above us, no one's really pulling away as such. You know, you've got the likes of Chelsea. You've got the distraction of the Champions League as well. Liverpool are, you know, they've drawn the last couple of games with late goals against them. West Ham got beaten there last game and Spazie. So, you know, this will be a fantastic opportunity and again, you know, I think we must win. When we must win anyway, these are the kind of games we'll look at on paper and go, got to be beaten as to Villa at home. Yeah, to Villa, Villa, what's seven points behind us, aren't they? So, it's, again, it's that thing we had with Arsenal last week where they, you want to keep those teams below you. For Everton, we've, us and Villa have obviously got the game in hand. With six points behind Chelsea, we're fourth, but we've got a game in hand. Whether fourth or a little bit too far away, probably. But, you know, everybody else, there's West Ham Liverpool, Tottenham and us. It's exciting for the three, it's going to be three places now, isn't it, for Yorra? If the other teams above us had Villa there on, you'd be looking and thinking, you'd probably just slightly favour those teams over Villa. That's not saying Villa ran a good try because they are and have done well this season. It's only the form in the last kind of eight games that's seen them drop away a little bit because they've been up there all season. And you've got a few injuries as well, obviously. No, Jack Grealish says a game being out or is out rather. So, from our perspective looking at it, it's a game. We said last week going to Arsenal, if we beat Arsenal, you know, everything goes on Villa and then if we beat Villa, it'll all go on to West Ham next week. And that's the way it is at this date of season. And if you just said to the players, you know, half a dozen games to go, do you want every game to mean something? I'm sure every one of them will have said, yeah, because that's what you do as footballers. You want to be involved with the business end of the season. Antielotti said last week, didn't he, in his press conference, said if you'd have offered me this position at the start of the season, fighting for Europe in football with seven games as it was last week to go. It had took it all day long. And that's what we said last week, we need five wins, some seven, and we got one, so now it's four from six. And the home games forever in our home form, we've won one home game since December the 20th, which is horrific. So I'd like to think we'll correct that with our last three home games. We should have beat Spares, we didn't. We should have beat Palace, we can't do the same with Villa. Yeah, the form at home has been better, the performance has been better, sorry, not the form, but the performances have been better. You're right there, what you've just said there, so you get to this stage of the season and you want every game to be much win. I mean, you don't want to be in a position where you're at the bottom of the table, obviously every game is much win. But you want to be in and around the top areas and if you think about it like that, that's what the season is supposed to be. The season is supposed to be when you get five, six games left. You want every game to be much win, you want something to be on it because if there wasn't then you wouldn't be competing. You know, I know people look at it and every week, I know we make a joke and I've seen it on TV as well, people like to Jamie Callagher and Kevin Campbell told him I had a couple weeks ago and go now, this one's a must win and that one was a must win, but that's what you want. Surely that's the essence of football, surely you want this to be something on the game so that you know that it's important because you've got an opportunity to do something. If you were in the top four now, every game would be a must win because you're either trying to, you know, if you were going for the title or you were trying to stay in the top four, well we're trying to get in Europe one way or another. So you want that and that's, it's can the players deal with that pressure and if they can't deal with that pressure then we need a new place because that's the whole top and bottom of football is can you ride those games out? Can you get through them? Can you get the result? Well like you said, Friday we got a result at the Emirates when we desperately needed one. When it was that case, you've got to get something and you see that, you know, that's what drives teams to win titles and trophies of any sort is can you do it? Can you get over that line? Can you just make sure you do it? And we haven't been very good at it, let's be honest, the amount of times we've said this game coming up to massive for us and then we could go this position or that position and we always seem to let ourselves down. We've got to start breaking through that. Well, what I'd say is going into this game as well is that I feel like we're still playing within ourselves so I feel like there's more to come from Dominic Alvalun I feel like the Cialison just isn't hitting any kind of form and you're hoping that if they do click then we can fulfill it a better and we can have a strong final six game because us as fans we're not in the ground so it all feels a bit rubbish anyway it's a bit like a TV sport and I'm asking if we have nothing to play for as well and people are just going to switch off there's nothing there so as Evertonings you just said absolutely right we've let ourselves down a lot of times we've got ourselves in this position but we want to be in this don't we isn't this what you want for your team you want your team to play important games you want your team to be going right to the end every season yeah it'd be great from a naf point of view we've had 20 points clearing and within Europe now and you'd go oh yeah you know we might finish fifth but we don't it doesn't matter because within Europe yeah okay that's alright because you're nice and calm you can plan for next season but football is about competition competition is about those big games and those big games can you overcome and can you win that we've been on the other end when we've had big games in the last god knows how many years you know we've lost two semi-finals in the last ten years you know we've nearly got the in fact the last 11 12 years we've lost a cup final and two semi-finals haven't we and well three semi-finals if you include the carabao so we've had big moments where it might have gone the other way for us but we've also had too many seasons where this game would have meant nothing now six games to go and we're all like just chalk another one off because I can't get this season done and dusted we felt like that a little bit about watching it but a few people have said to me over the last couple of weeks and they're right it's that forget about the performances performances don't mean anything it's just literally a point gathering exercise now we're not in the ground so we can't influence it every team is kind of crap when you watch it everyone's playing football isn't great because players haven't had there's been a lot of games there's been no rest really for them it's been a weird time to play football they're not invigorated because there's not crowd there so it's just a case of can you a massive enough points where as when we get back in the stadium and it looks like there might be 10,000 of us backing by Wolves in the next season it looks like everything's going away as we can be backing stadiums then it means something again because then you feel like you can play your part in it again so when we get back in the stadium let's actually have things to go for European football whether it's whether we're playing a team from Armenia in the whatever they're doing and they turn up with fellas who are electricians and other ones who drive the bus and all that great we want that we could be higher up the chart who knows you could finish fifth it's there we win our game in amber we're in with everybody else but the only way we're still in those conversations is by winning this kind of game this will be a tough game it's not going to be a good side if we win we go over in four points of us but if we win this game then to me will be another another team that are overtaking us anyway because then it would be 10 points with four games to go it would be too much of a thing for Bill to make that ground up that's how I'm looking at it at the moment get the win, keep on matching them points and see where it puts us but it's got to come with this weekend it's going to be a legal result at the Emirates last week yeah I think as you said the games haven't been great and I think that's been coming obvious now a lot of people how poor the games have been so I think you won it all you're saying here it's points gathering you do want to have some kind of control over the game you don't have to play well in terms of free thrown football but you want to have some kind of control over the game it's still got something everything I'd like to see something like some version of that where we get some control I'd love to just see us put a team to bed do you know what I mean we haven't done that all season have we barely so I'd love to just see us put a team to bed I really would but as you mentioned they're not in great form they're one and eight they've obviously not been in the side I mean they've obviously got other good players Ollie Watkins has had a really good season Ross Bach is fit again Ross Bach is fit obviously he had a good start this season John McGinn is it he's come back he's done really very well Matt is in goal he's got bits and try already he's got good players that are good side Dean Smith's done a good job then I'm glad they've left them as well cos there's all of that there's this thing isn't there with this thing with teams that come back up and it's if they're not amazing they get rid of the manager and they're now jackering them with eight minutes away from being relegated last season and they stuck with Smith and rightly so as well I think he's done a good job and they've had a good season alright even if they finish where they were you'd look and go well last season they were 17th and this season they're 11th so that's progress they'll go and get another couple in in the summer can they build again a fantastic club with amazing history brilliant history they've had a little bit of a yo-yo time but they're coming back which is good the most played fixture in English football the 250th game between these two clubs two big great clubs playing in the top level but from our perspective we've got to take advantage that they haven't got to resigate they haven't got Jack realist this weekend Morgan Sampson is out as well they haven't got him all of the big players who might make a difference for them and now evidently without the core and without the ban on without the core we'd have loved to see the ban on me and this because I would think it would have been ideal but it's an opportunity for us now to try to to try to just build on like I said build on that victory last week because if you put two wins together in this league it makes a huge difference would you have a little run and now alright we're unbeaten in our last four but three of them are draws a little run together for the end of the season like we have done all season a good run a bad run a good you know if we can string one together now this has been the perfect time to string one together getting we've got plays back as well over the last week as well so you're nearly you know you mentioned it probably only the corey and then there's an outside chance he might be back you know in a couple of weeks so it's only got a bigger ban on then isn't it yeah so if we can listen I know you can pick up injuries whenever but if they're all fighting fifth into the team that gives the manager the kind of headaches you want and that's having more plays what would you do with the back just very briefly for what would you do with the back four this week because obviously we went to Arsenal we played Holygate in golf three days now Michael Keane I'm assuming was out of rail or anything I'd probably go with the ring would you go back to the last couple of games I'd probably go back to a three and get James Coleman higher and get James Coleman higher again because they do like that at home try to get him behind try to get Hamas Rodigus more on the ball because you take out an on to your gomen sort of gilfy sigurtyn you're not losing loads in there are you so I'd probably take out one of them and bring the three back and introduce me in the back into the side and that give us I think that helps us with more attacking options I think I understand why you did at Arsenal just to get more get more men in the midfield but in a in a attacking sense it didn't really work did it but it kept us solid well yeah but we know we've thought we've once had away games and the majority at the time and now we've had we won a few early on in the scene but the majority at the time it's three playing that system isn't it but what these will do is these will come on in Avago and I think that can only help for us I think that can only work I don't think they will sit back I don't think the team knows how to sit back and they'll come and have a go at us and I think that will help us in the way we want to play you know as you mentioned our way performances are our best performances so but I think we have to I think Carlo has to which I think he has done in the last two games he's just let them off the leash a little bit and use whatever stench you've got and do you think that's playing three at the back and getting shame as common as high as he can because you know he's a great asset to the team when he's in the tacky mood yeah Everton failed to win out the Premier League against Villar last season for the first time that had happened since 2011-12 this will be the 250th meeting Everton have won 76 Villar have won 74 almost doesn't know how tight it's been Aston Villar have won more games and scored more goals in the Premier League against Everton than any other team we've got a few of them haven't we it's because we're one of the only consistent teams this is the latest first meeting between Suicide and the English soft flight since 1978 1987-88 when Luton and Forrest's first game against each other was on May the 13th Everton have won just one of their last nine home league games I mean that to me in my memory is like one of the worst it is but I understand why how does reason there's a caveat isn't there let's be honest Everton have lost seven home games this season the trophies only lost more in the 38 game season in 1996-97 and 2015-16 when they lost eight Aston Villar lost just four of their first 14 Premier League games this season finished in 2020 in fifth place since the turn of the year they've lost nine in 18 games 12 of Everton's 44 Premier League goals this season the highest ratio I mean my Aston Villar have conceded the highest share of headed goals get the ball in the box but no keeper has kept more clean away sheets away clean sheets than Martin has this season he's had eight clean sheets only four keepers have kept more Shack of Hyslop Pettitech and Ellison so we know he's a good goalkeeper what's really mad is Arsenal which was really mad but Villar saw that opportunity and he's got a good keeper tough game but one we've got to win definitely one we've got to win by hook or by crocker make sure you do your toffee picks ahead of this game it is the game is somewhat at a regular time it's not eight o'clock on exactly the length but you know what I mean so make sure you do your toffee picks whether that's before the game 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