 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton vs Manchester United. Good as some park. Everton coming off the back of two defeats. But Manchester United are not in great form, but let's be honest. Lots of rumours about Olegon and Solskjaer. Maybe getting sacked. Maybe Pochettino coming in. Weird cos a year ago, basically this week, Pochettino, all the rumours were there about him getting the sack. I talked to him and we played then that week and obviously drew with him one-one. So it'd be weird if history sort of repeats itself and Pochettino would benefit from it. Big game obviously, always is. But a game I'm certainly not sitting here worried about as such. I feel like we've got enough certainly with players coming back to beat Manchester United on Saturday. Yeah, definitely. They're not in great form themselves. Let's be honest, they've lost 15 in the Premier League. They've just lost in Europe this week as well. And so Everton have got nothing to fear really. We've been poor since the international break, let's be honest. We were excellent before it and we've come back in a draw and two defeats. And we haven't played well in any of the three games I don't think. The derby we were okay but wasn't the level we've been at. And the last few weeks have been poor but there's been mitigating circumstances for that. With players missing and hopefully we're getting them back. But from a United perspective, nothing's really settled down for them. Salsia can seem to get a pattern going that they're all successful but they're all used to. I think a bit of that's probably borne out of maybe they can get a couple of players that he wanted and some and out of Eden-Santiola was one. But had he got enough in the field, defensively had he got enough so. I just don't think it's settled down for them. They've got some fantastic attacking players and that obviously they love his career threat because of them. Yeah, they've got some really talented players, really good players all over the pitch. But as you said there, it hasn't really, I don't know whether he hasn't been able to find a pattern of play where he thought maybe someone like Jadon Sancho was going to come in and create that pattern of play or certainly link it all together but it hasn't happened. And he's got a really good front three. He's got good midfielders like you said. He's got good defenders. He's got a couple of good goalies. But they're very, very strange. And again, can't sit here saying I watch them all the time and I know all the ins and outs of what's been going wrong, Naples. You just feel like sometimes with a manager like Oligon of Southside who's certainly under pressure a lot of the time. You almost feel like players, big players, may look at him and go, we're going to do our own thing today. And I wonder whether that push and pull of who's really in charge can distort a team. You know, we've seen them last week all and play RB Leicester at Old Trafford and won 5-0 in the Champions League. Almost like on that night it was like, yeah, we'll just do what we do and then three or four days later they're playing Arsenal where it's probably more of a tactical battle. They'll make a lot of sense and keep it tight on a knicker goal and that's exactly what they did. And I think when teams come and play in their open with them, that obviously suits their players, they've got. But when teams pose a question and are a little bit more savvy, they just don't seem to have that tactical naus. Certainly at home. The four home games they've lost three in drum wall. Palos beat them first day, didn't he? Yeah. Palos beat them 3-1 wasn't it first day? At Tottenham beat them 6-1 at Old Trafford. And obviously then they drew 0-0 with Chelsea. 1-0 alone to Arsenal. So they've not had a great start at home, but away from home they've won the two away games where teams have come on. Brighton, I watched that game, he massively got out of jail. Brighton hit the bar five times that day or the post on bar five times to put them to bed. And so, you know, they went up to Newcastle on a week and it was tight for a long time and then obviously they forward players, Fernandez I think, Rashford got a goal and then that was it. It was, they blew them up, van Bersachers got a crack in the end. And they beat them 4-1, but it was tight for a long time. So I think you may be right in the tighter games where teams are sitting in and going, well what have you got? They sometimes lose a little bit of frustration in what they're doing and then they get picked off. I don't know, with the forward players they've got Grimwood fantastic, Rashford's fantastic, Marcial on his days incredible. They've also got Cavani, they've got an embarrassment of riches in the final third. Is it just the fact that they're a little bit porous at the bat? I mean, you talk about, you've got Luke Shaw at left back, they've got £80 million centre back in there, van Bersachers £50 million. We know van Bersachers 1v1 is very good, but for some reason, they're not yelling as a 4 and whether it's trying to find the right person to play with McGuire. They tried Lindelof, he was in at the weekend, he tried, I don't know, butchered his name here, Transibi, I think it might be. The young lad, he was seen in PSG and was brilliant against Mbappe, but then the other night he was all over the place. So he's looking for a little pat, he's tried Donnie van de Beek in a sixth, he's in eighth really for Ajax and breaking into the box. Matt is just backing to just a little, it looks like he's just trying to find a best 11 and because he has got some really good players that are not performing, it's almost like he's just swinging and opening certain sticks at the moment and maybe that's not the best way. So with all that being said, what do you think are best approaches to the game? Because obviously we're coming off the back of a couple of defeats as well, so the managers were obviously one of us off from this game, but how does he approach it? Because we spoke during the week and we've been thinking if we could get some pace on that backline, then Godfrey, Mason Allgate's not ready yet, I don't think, but the way to shake Towson rose last week, then who knows. Come back from the dead, who knows, or do you think that maybe for this game we do try and keep it tight at the back in terms of we play deep, instead of trying to play that highline, which will always be dangerous when you've got players like Michael Keane and Jerry Meenard in the backline? Do we sit in a little bit and hope that our better players can get us up the pitch? Anyway, it's a difficult one, because obviously their strength is their fun trick and I just feel if we do leave space behind our backline they'll get opportunities. Yeah, it is a tough one, because you're trying it, you're evident when they're at full strength and we might be close to full strength at the weekend, obviously one of Retialison who's a huge part of our best 11, but all the indications are that they're hoping to have Hamers back, James Coleman back, look at the end of the change and suspension. Straight away there's three of our best players back in the team and Ben Goffrey looks like we might be fit again and so the squad will be a lot stronger than it was the last couple of weeks. But we played Liverpool and we've got the best front three in the country and we played our normal game. We had Keane and Meenard at the back and we had Colm and Colm went off on foot and then Robbie stopped us and in that game the difference was we had Retialison so it didn't matter we were playing on the counter so the key position on the whole pitch might actually be who plays on the left for this, Everton May tried to draw United in and then get Colm and then Dean on the counter and if we can supply them he'll score goals. Hamers is a massive threat to them massive threat because of his ability to pass. Again, I want to see Decore being the one who breaks into the... because I really think he could be a match winner for now. The way we played them last week I thought we got it wrong. I understand he puts them there to cover John Joe Kenny but I honestly think Hamers could have played there because Hamers sat as deep as Decore and let Decore be the one breaking into the box. So I think the key is obviously to state the obvious that Hamers is the dominant all but loon but I actually think the match winner for Everton could actually be Abdelai Decore. We spoke about it last week after the Newcastle game. It is the role of those three midfielders obviously we know two of those three are going to be it's going to be Decore, it's going to be Alan but it's what roles... we know what Alan's going to do he's going to sit in front of the back four now it's whether he says to a Delf you sit alongside them and let Decore be the one who pushes on to take a little bit of not take a little bit of not take the defensive responsibility off them just loosen it up a little bit and just say you've got the ability to just go join up with it. We've seen it when we played Brighton and we were playing on the counter attack and he was winning that first ball high up the pitch and then we were away then. So I think we've just got to tinker with that and obviously that's an area where we've spoken about it loads or the Blues have spoken about it loads that is an opening for our team and I think we hope that that's where Jean-Filippe Gabbamyn comes back and whenever he's ready that will be his position he'll be the extra body next to Alan the one who can press allowing maybe Decore to press a little bit higher or vice just do both of them do that job whatever just allowing Alan to just do what he needs to do and take responsibility away because we don't want to see Alan moving around we just want to see the plays you've got the energy, you've got the legs and I don't think anyone we've tried they're quite yet, Gomez was good early on but we've seen that a few weeks, I don't know we don't know, don't know what's going on with him I don't even think he's going to be fifth for this year No, probably not but you've mentioned though that hopefully James Coleman's back, hopefully Luca Dean's back and there's your back four, you've got your back four back Jordan Pickford will be back probably because the manager said he will be and then like you said hopefully it'll be as close to full strength as we can get without with Charleston and who would you go on the left then I'd probably I'd probably for this game probably would give Anthony Gordon as much as I've tried to hold him back in my own way and try and downplay the expectations I probably would give him a go in this game just simply because Luca Dean's back and Luca Dean has got enough experience to take care of that lad while you're playing in the game and there's other players about the pitch because when Hamas Roddie comes back and James Coleman comes back then you're using your right and your left and it's not all all on one person or on one side of the pitch and I think that takes the spotlight off Gordon to just maybe go and do his job and I think that's something we suffered with last week but generally only going down the left it would have been a lot I think for Gordon and Konku and the manager's got his reasons and that's it so I probably would just say for this game Gordon's got an opportunity for me anyway and obviously we can get the ball into the box Dom's always a threat we've got more of the squad coming back it's more competition healthy competition and then I don't actually mind because I think that's when he can change a game that's obviously not what he wants to do what he wants to do he wants to start a game but he's not being good enough starting a game and that's the difference really isn't it? We've got to try and get after them we've got to give them something to worry about and I think if... I think Anthony Gordon just for this game you know that Jarlison is available again after this weekend you know suspensions up so Anthony Gordon comes in for this game and we have an unknown quantity for them and he can be that surprise element he would be up against Wamba Sachar who is a very good one we want but you want someone who's worrying about having to run the other way but you want someone like Bernard who's going to come back and say Luke of Deane coming back helps that left because it means if you're playing we tried a will be there against Southampton it didn't work after the first 20 minutes he disappeared and then Bernard come on in the second half and Anthony Gordon and we ended up with those three over that side and it wasn't great but I just think in general Luke of Deane provides us with so much attacking options that you want someone to occupy the player in whether it's Bernard who slows the game down and comes inside and then Deane can go on the outside or whether they think now let's get Gordon who will also run beyond them because it'll give them something to think about going that way because we've got to try to pull Wamba Sachar out of position to free up the area for Luke of Deane to cross the ball in for Dominic Alvertley and listen they've got the same sort of issue as such but they play with a proper front three as well so it's not like they're down the line on the midfield it's come over and if Hamers is switching the play quickly enough you're going to catch them out that's the beauty of what he does I think it's his first game back because after his suspension he's been playing in Jorah but he hasn't played in the Premier League since his centre off against Tottenham so we've got that to contend with but it's a game I don't think we should be scared of I don't think we should be frightened anyway the last couple of years last season we were robbed of a win we've seen goals since that prove we've been robbed of a player standing in front of the goalkeeper Gilfee wasn't even standing in front of the goalkeeper the irony of it all the keeper could see everything what was going on year before we beat them 4-0 and apart from Bruno Fernandez coming in and changing the attacking approach of that midfield I don't think that much has changed at Manchester United they seem to be going round in circles obviously people like Rashford are getting better but they seem to be going round in circles without much direction and I think that's what is the frustration for Manchester United fans is that when they see other clubs spending money buying players it's all going in the right way but for them it just seems to be they just seem to be treading water probably like being a slightly better version of us we felt like that we felt exactly the same we spent money in other clubs if you see teams like Leicester and Wolves doing it we spent them why aren't we getting a bit of that United the look to say Manchester United the look and go look at that front 3 they're one of the best front 3s in the Premier League when they're flying all of them they're brilliant aren't they and then why aren't we doing better and the thing about it is I do think they've got a very good side I'm not damn playing them at all I'll go back to what I was saying before I think all he's going to the south guys is in bodies Manchester United when he comes to the crunch you look at him and he's got an idea of what's really he needs a better number 2 maybe I think he'll be gone there's too much talk about pot of team when you've got to play when you've got to manage that sat there who people rate very highly this is a fella who don't forget it looked like Manchester United wanted last summer and I think he said he wouldn't go so they give it to Salsia and then obviously a couple of months later he was sacked but then Salsia had done well and ended up finishing in the Champions League spots finited last season it also feels like enough time has passed that people have forgotten what happened to Patti Tino at Tottenham don't want to be going after the manager state after he's got sacked that's not going to look good last now when you start the recency bias has gone well I suppose he might be a perfect fifth from Manchester United he might not be, we don't know but he's a young enough coach and he's got a lot of gravitas in the game where people are looking go he'd be a good fifth for them I just think we need to just make sure we cut out those stupid mistakes that we've seen in the last couple of weeks and if we're at the highest level we can be even without the Charleston that we'll I think we'll be alright and then it's a flip of a coin I think we'll get chances and I think we'll create chances and then it's a flip of a coin and see how it ends up I think the difference this season with everything is obviously because the Charleston is not playing it's a little bit different but in general the midfield is better just in general than last season when we played United last season Gomez played didn't he actually like you said we don't okay but Bruno Fernandez was brilliant that day but we should have won the game we were robbed because all the teams were being given it and we've got a better midfield Luchadine's playing as well as he has been anyway and now we've got Hamas Rodriguez who's fantastic and we've got Dominic Alvedlun who's absolutely brilliant he goes so far in the Premier League 11 in everything and a goal for England so he's flying so we can cause them real issues for me it's just we've got to be tight at the back we need to start keeping some clean sheets we really do and if we get out of this one with the clean sheet we'll have done well because these have got real quality but it's a game we can win Palace went there and beaten 3-1 at Old Trafford and things like that so they are not unbeatable 15th in the Premier League for a reason and my depression stat thing isn't working so that's good so the way they are for a reason because they haven't quite yelled I'm quite sure Manchester United won't finish but at the moment it's a good sign to get them because they're not firing all cylinders so do you go? let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one of your confidence if you're a United fan what's going on if you're at home you're terrible and you've come off a bit of an embarrassing defeat in the Champions League so very strange times at Manchester United at the moment but for evidence about getting our players back hoping that they all go in and do the job as they've been doing prior to the two defeats that we've just had and hopefully Hamers is back on form Seamus Coleman stays fit Luca Deans doing a job and Dominic Cavallun gets on the score sheet and the rest will take care of itself and make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos make sure you join us on Patreon there's going to be a link just here 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