 Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the match preview in the Castle United versus Everton, midweek fixture and a tough game. We always make it tough more than anything, but this is a tough game. They've had a good start of the season in general, had a decent little one of form being put on the ball in the back of the net, although we didn't get many united. Basically, it should be the model we are looking at, going from an absolutely dreadful team to a half decent team that can put the ball on the back of the net. I think we're halfway there, just that last bit, putting the ball on the back of the net, which we seem to be struggling with, but this will be a tough game. Yeah, it's a massively tough game. They've had a good year here, haven't they? Let's be honest. They've done business in January and they ultimately kept them up, you know, they were struggling, and they started the season in a similar fashion. Strong defensively, which you wouldn't really associate any house teams with, but he's done well, you know, since he's gone in there. And they've added some quality in that midfield in Bruno Gameres, and then obviously Alexander Aser, who's injured at the moment, but he's a good sign of Fordham. He can keep Calum Wilson fit. He'll always go goals, so he's done well. He's done well. Be a really tough game. Yeah, he obviously got through the period of Christmas when they got both, obviously brought new players in, and I had the two of it in the summer with a lot of good functional players. And as you said, they're a little bit of a class with Bruno Gameres coming in and Aser coming in, and it's gelled well, I think. I think that's what they did in January by the players they needed, and they just gelled really well. They've backed that up with decent signings in the summer, and obviously at home they've made that a fortress, obviously a real good feeling there at the moment, obviously on the back of the takeover. And they're a dangerous side. I think they're not at this stage anywhere near being an amazing football team, but they're working on like them with those little extra bits of class, and someone like Calum Wilson up front who's always a danger. It just allows them to be on the front foot, and obviously if you can stop the ball going at the other end as well, then it always gives you a chance. Well, di twch, Nick Pope, didn't he in the summer, and obviously he's a dependable keeper. He's a good goalie di twch, and he's got Sven Bottman in as well, he's a good defender. And that's been the basis from a caring stripper who's coming in and transferring in down January has been excellent for them. Well, you've got Calum Wilson up front so you can put the ball on the net. It's what it is, isn't it? You can be nice and solid. And if you've got someone at the top end of the pitch putting the ball on the back of the net for you, that's the recipe in the Premier League, certainly for getting you. It's a win. You've got a lot of the bits, right? But we haven't got the top end of the pitch, right? We've had no Dominic Alvalun coming back. I think that's part of the iron, isn't it? Before the players came in, they signed. I think they did have the attacking players there already. They just couldn't keep clean sheets, and the midfield was quite lightweight, but they had Calum Wilson, the armarons as well, the Maximons as well. Jacob Murphy. They were there, but they were losing games, but they would score in them. Now they've got a solid back line in the midfield. It's added to it, and confidence has grown. Obviously recently we've seen armarons starting to score a few more goals. There just seems to be a lot more confidence. I think they're fit aside as well. They're staying games a lot later into games. Joel Linton, they've got him playing the midfield now, getting a real tune out of. It's been like a perfect storm, really, since the new owners come in. There's a lot more positivity, and we're seeing that on the pitch. As you mentioned there, I've seen them in games this season, like the Wolves game, where Wolves really should have seen them off. They had a goal this large, because of VAR as well in that game, but they stayed in the game, and they've got a late equaliser. It's just those little results that I think has kept the momentum going. Obviously they went to Fulham a couple of weeks ago, and Fulham got to play a sense off. They got right at them and ended up scoring four. Following week they played a decent Brentford team, but five passed them. I think it's that momentum during games, which has got them going. Old Trafford obviously was a close game. Joel Linton's hit the post a couple of times. This is a tough game, but obviously the last time we played them was at Goulderson Park. We got the 1-0 win, and take confidence from that, take heart from that, that we can beat them. I think in general our record is not that bad against them up at St James's Park in recent times. I think we've definitely won three or four times in the last seven or eight. They've won David a few wins, I think they've won the last two haven't they there. We know what it's like, it's a tough intimidating place. We saw it last season. The atmosphere got them over the line against us last season, when they needed that win, they got it. We had enough chances that night to get up now. We took the lead. We also had two big defensive injuries as well. Two big injuries, so while they are a strong side, it'll be a tough game, and they look at it as a good opportunity to carry on the win and run. We shouldn't be fearful going there. I think we'll get opportunities against them. It's whether we can take them, we have two huge opportunities against Spares, and miss both of them, and then ultimately pay the price. But we've got to be, you know, they're a good side, they're a strong team, so it's going to be another difficult game for us, but at some stage we've got to stop fearing the opposition and go and just play the game. If they were coming to goodness in roles, they wouldn't think they'd be fearing us. They'd be thinking we can have a good go here, and that's the way it is. There's five points between the two teams. We've been frustrated in the last couple of weeks. They've had good results. That's the difference right now. I don't fear them as such. I just think that. I look at what they've got, and thinking the final third, they've got more going on than we've got going on. That's ultimately the thing, isn't it? In those key moments, can you put a ball in the back of the net? I'd be more inclined to say for them, yes, and more inclined to say for those, no. I think defensively we're pretty similar. It's just in the final third, and that's where we are. Obviously at home with the crowd and everything, we've got to make sure that we don't fall into the... Cos last season it was even match game, and I think just little things in the second half started to slip, started to make stupid little mistakes. I don't think they happened. I think it was the other way around. The athletes got carried by the crowd that night. You've got to go there defensively. We've been good this season. Let's not suddenly forget that. I think we'll be like that most games just because of the kind of defenders we've now got. Let's keep the mistakes out. Cos they are individual mistakes. I know three of them have actually been in midfield, and obviously Pickford with the one on Saturday, and also we're now the goal against Manchester United. You can keep the mistakes out, and it is a very even game, and it does come down to who grabs the chances. It's one of them grants those three teams as part. I guess we have it when it's at its best, where the crowd can create panic because the volume goes up. It's also a grant that's similar to others, where you can get them frustrated a little bit. It's happening less and less there, because they're on a feel-good factor, but I've seen them this season against maybe Crystal Palace, you know, Bournemouth, even though it was Palace that they were dropped against, one that they should have had a penalty. But you can't, but what don't us last season was we allowed the crowd to take the game away from us. Do you think that comes from as well, though? I think Newcastle fans know this season that they're going to be absolutely fine, and there's that. You're looking at it and saying, every game is going to be tough, but they've got that little bit of inner confidence now, that they are looking to finish maybe seventh, let's say. They're not worrying about that other side of things, that maybe when you're at home and the crowd allows things to sort of creep in, because I still think we've got that. I still think we're very, very fearful of what happened last season, so therefore, when you're playing, you don't have that confidence, the doubt starts to creep in, and you either go quiet because you're not fully confident, and I think for them, I think their fans now are like, we're going to be fine this season, in fact, we're going to be pushing on, and I think everything for them is like, we've got loads of money, we're going to spend, and therefore, we're going to just add and add, and we're only going to get better, and that just creates that confidence of whoever we're playing, we're going to beat them, and if we don't, alright, but we're going to be fine this season. They've got no worry for the first time on whether they think they're going to be top seventh. I think they do think that. They do get carried away. I'm sure they will get there, but just right now, I don't know, we've only been thinking we're in the top half, no problem, and that does count. We've had that up until last season for years, and you're looking at it, you're looking at it, you go, we need to beat it. It's when the crossover for them, what happened with us is that, if you don't do it, how frustrated you start getting, we made it difficult for ourselves by getting frustrated because we were in the size we wanted to be. But when you're in that position where you know you'll win more home games than not, which they're in now, you do relax a little bit, and it's how you balance that for us. If you're going to get better as a team, you've got to be able to go to these places and grind out results. They've just gone to Old Trafford, which isn't as intimidating as St James's Park, despite having 25 or more people in it. Newcastle might farm on us, but they went there and played in a bigger arena and battled out and scrapped it, and United have missed a few shitters at the end, but they had chances as well. I think they were on the field, they were beating in the 97th minute, or whatever it was, just by goalkeeping. You've got a habit of doing that on May's He's Had. With... Yeah, well, you know. They also came back against us later on on May's He's Had a couple of years ago, in tune, and I've got to do it also. So it's a game that Everton can win. It's also a game Everton could easily lose. It's going to be a tough one. It's a stable cut there, Newcastle's side, that they played against United. So, I mean, obviously, you look at the back line. It's very... It's very workman-like, again. There's nothing, you know, amazing about it. They all know the job stuff. I mean, playing left back is quite interesting because of the size of them. Joel Linton and obviously long staff, given the more defensive side and Bruno Gomerys, who obviously had a little bit of class. But up front, you look at the front three and I do really like Wilson, I always have. But again, Murphy and Gomeron, the more... It's workman-like. You know, they've got a little bit of something. Don't get me wrong, they've got a little bit of something going there. And Gomeron's got all against Fulham, it's absolutely fantastic. But Wilson just gives that threat, doesn't he? He's got a bit on it. And I know the injuries have cost him, but he really does... Oh, he's a good Premier East, right? He'll get into it again because he always does. It's what's happened throughout his career otherwise, without, you know, he wouldn't be at Newcastle. He'd be higher up, I think. When he was at Bournemouth, it was the same. United were looking at him and things like that. And then he got the injury and then another injury and that was it, it ruined him. If you did at Newcastle fan, you'd be frustrated because when he's fit, he's a real threat. And he'll be a real threat the other night. Let's just have a look at Gomeron's numbers as well. Obviously this was someone who really impressed us when he was in MLS at Lantern. It took a while to settle in terms of, I think, his actual style. I think he... He wasn't quite up to the Premier League level, so therefore it was more like an awakening, like doing the doggies, but now maybe a little bit more is coming out. Ten games, four goals, no assists, shots for games, 2.2. Maybe we've seen a little bit more of that play that was at Lantern as seen now rather than the play we've seen for maybe the last couple of years. He was more of the player who would just work hard and do all the doggie work. Yeah. It's record wasn't Greek. He got his first goal in six months or something and he followed it up nicely. He's got hard work on play and he's a talented footballer in terms of touch is good and I think the Newcastle fans do like him because he works so hard. We've had the same kind of player who gets the goals and works hard, he loved them. So he's doing well. I mean his goal of full on the other week was fantastic. He's got the talent. It's bridging the gap, isn't it? But it's all physical the Premier League. He's a slight player but he's got hard work. Obviously, he's had that ground in the MLS as well. He's one to look out for and Jacob Murphy on the other side has always been someone who has threatened to be a top player and has never really done it. He looks great sometimes and other times you wonder how he's a footballer. We've got plenty of that. Oh, we've got loads of them. Cos it's that consistency which carries you through. We've seen him fit. I've seen him beat tremendous in games and you go, wow, cos he's quick and he can get your goals. He's doing really well and he has got the thing out of it. Let's just have a look at our team, the first spares. Obviously we played five against spares which was fine. Five at the back was fine I think for the first 20 odd minutes or certainly into the second half. Did you think we would have been back to four at the back for this? I think so. Obviously Anthony Gordon's back as well. I think Dwight McNeill will drop out. I think he'll go to four at the back. I think it'll be four, three, three. I think Gordon will be Gordon Malpine Gray will be the front three. You know it's James Garner there's a shout for him to come into midfield whether he'd say it's Richard Garner and change that up a little bit and maybe have Garner for the last half an hour depending on how the game is someone to come in but I don't know that that'll be his call. I think Gordon will come back because it'll be a habit and we'll try to play on the counter. Gordon's played his best football away from home as he's gone at Leeds as he's gone at Brentford he has been great to go to somewhere that's where he is a threat. He is a now baller but again it's it feels interesting because it's a Garner guy don't it's that easy to go to Stacey three you can't play three games in a week but maybe you can but maybe that manager just has to have a little bit of an eye on the last half an hour and now we've changed things down maybe getting James Garner a bit because you can see with the two little Camusers I've had from James Garner so far you can see where he's got but something a little bit different from the other three in there he's a player who likes to get older the ball and actually what's interesting is we know Frank likes Lewis Wellington and likes that style of player who'll take the ball off the back four and then start moving it Lewis Wellington's not at that level yet clearly but he's brought a player in who's similar and I just I wonder whether there will be a time and opportunities where he'll go I want you to play the ball through the third someone who's comfortable on the ball someone who can get it give it get it back and then start moving as forward and maybe take a little bit of that responsibility off a Wobie so a Wobie can be more in the final third to be more of a number 10 to knit things together higher up the pitch because again that's something where you look at the goal which goes against West Ham the way it got knitted together and got it to the edge of the box I haven't really seen us do that since ok maybe a Wobie's goal against Manchester United but I haven't seen that kind of football but not enough of it anyway no to get us up the pitch going through the centre of the park rather than relying on the width that hasn't really been there no and that has got to be we're not doing enough of it like we said the consistency when we do do it at times we have cut through teams but it's been too sporadic and that's no good your patterns of play come from repetition doing it and some teams make it difficult don't get me wrong of course you're not going to sit off on it you do it but you've got to have that idea too often for us but turning reset go back and start again teams like Newcastle who have got the bit of the box will just sit in and go on and play through us and if you're not capable and then spring you so if you're not capable of doing it you're going to get caught with the ball and you'll end up going on, you better go long then but then if you haven't got somebody who can get older they're up front for you we have got to come up with other ways of playing and partners have played 100% but they should be less dead tough yeah it's a tough game always is I've seen changes par let us know your thoughts in the comments anyway are you confident I'll be honest I'll take 4 points from this in palace I'll bite your hand off on those 4 points so let us know your thoughts in the comments are you confident on this one are we looking at a dread the third let us know and let us know what kind of side you'd be looking to play as well tell us in the comments make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already if you want more videos daily live exclusive videos join us over on toffee tv premiere the link is in the description and it'll be coming on the screen in a moment, see you later