 Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview editing versus Aston Villa. The most played fixture in English football. He loves that coming out, don't he? That sound bite. Villa have won two more than Everton in that time and there's been 50 odds. I think Villa have won 76, I think Everton won 74 and there's been 50 odds or something like that. A lot of meetings between the two and a tough, tough game for Everton. Villa have obviously struggled in the last three games but they've won the last two away games. It's going to be a tough game. They've got some good players, some good attacking players at the back there a bit. A bit dubious for me. That's what we've got to try and exploit really. It's going to be a tough game. It's a game we need to be at it from the start and we can't let them get old at the ball because if they do they can't punish it in really good spots. It's going to be tough. Every game until the end of the season it's going to be tough games galore. What's really difficult to think about this one is obviously if you just forget the derby because we could go there and won a hundred games on the run and they could have lost a hundred and they'd still beat us. So forget about that game. The two home games have obviously been very different Arsenal was a team, the top, the best team in the land at the moment scoring goals. So the job was quite clear. Minimize what they're doing, look for a little bit on the counter or off set plays and it was a set play that got us here. The performance was very good and we should have won by more actually. But that was the game plan. Leeds was a different thing because it was a high pressure game because they were by us and Leeds are just horrific. We've been our own outpour, we've been all season, we have been really both David the wayside I've seen the others from for the number of years. So when we overcome that and again we come out the ground going should have been three or four. Everything would have won that four and no one could have said the word. I think if Don plays it, three or four. Or a cheif, we still have something like the cheif. But I think this one's really difficult because obviously if we be fill it, there's four points between the two sides so we can put them in it. They are really, they've got some really good attack and play Leon Bailey. Anyone watches this knows that I really like him. They've got Wendy who likes a goal against us. They've got Catino, they've got Ollie Watkins who scored in his last four games. So they have got a good attack and threat feeler in the field the decent. Yes, it's the back the poor or have been poor. But everything don't score a lot of goals so that's, you know, again this won't be tight. But how do we approach it? Do we approach it in a way that it's like the Arsenal game where we're really wary of the attack and threat they have and see what bits we can pick up? I think this is a real test for your own doubt because, like you said, the two games that we've had at home, one was very easy to plan for. Difficult to stop because the Arsenal's such a good side and Leeds was a slightly different thing and they're not great in the final third. As a prudence, I'm an attempt on goal that they don't target rather. Villa don't do carry that attack and threat so how do you think we approach it? The game will be one in the midfield. I think our midfield's got to be on it again like the way against Arsenal. High pressing, chasing every ball, getting every tackle in because they've got to get there again. They've got a decent midfield like obviously John McGinn and Douglas Louise players like that. Not bad players but I think from our point here we have to treat it. I'd probably say like the Arsenal game really where you might have to give away a bit of the ball sometimes and you are going to be put under pressure at times but you just need to make sure obviously like they did with the full backs probably don't go too much because obviously like you said they've got Bailey, they've got obviously Jacob Ramsey players like that as well. Some good, really good attacking players but I also think we need to make sure if we do get our chances we take them because I don't think it'll be like the Leeds game where Leeds didn't test us really, they had the shot on target. I think these will probably have the chances at the weekend. I think it's just inevitable. So I think we need to make sure the midfielder on top of it and if you get a chance to shoot have a shot as well. So I think because what we've seen last night in the Champions League games, you hit a shot, it can hit someone and go in the goal. I think we've got to start trying a few more shots that we've seen obviously with partners at the weekend with the Giorgioinho shot as well. So I think we've got to try and start testing the goal there a bit more maybe as well because we've probably, not a criticism of probably since Daish has been in, but we're creating chances but we're not really testing goalkeepers. We need to start doing that a bit more like we were discussing before with the shooting on site. If you get a chance, get it off because like we said up front is probably not our strongest. What would you do with the forward position because obviously it doesn't look like Dominic Arthur Lewan will be available again this weekend. Obviously you would have gone on this before. The press conference, so unless there's some kind of change with Dominic's position he probably won't be available at the weekend. So who would you go with? It was Neil Mawpai on Saturday against Leeds. Is it Damari Gray saying this week against Viller, will it be Sims or do you think you'll stick with Mawpai again? I'd probably go with Sims I think given the protection of the felt. I suppose going to Anfield is tough for your first game since it was with Chelsea last season. I was playing the championship etc but it's tough to get thrown into a derby game against Liverpool and the occasion etc. But if you're a good person you've kind of got the protection of the fans there and I think he's a big lad there. You've got obviously Mingz who's a big lad as well. I don't really see Mawpai getting much off them. And Sims, I was quite surprised when he'd come on at the weekend. He was probably a bit quicker than I actually thought. He was a bit sharper than I thought as well. I'd probably start out of Sims but also probably wouldn't be against maybe Damari Gray as well. I'm not a huge Damari Gray fan but I think if you can get the ball in the channels and get your midfielders in the box maybe. That's where you could, that's where Decora and Arnau. The ball down the line is everything and get Gray chasing it and get people in the box really. I've got a funny feeling I might start out of Sims and I think you've got to start with a player who's similar to Dom as well. Because we might not have Dom for what another two, three weeks maybe. I'm not going to clear that long. I think play Sims really until Dom's back. Let's have a look at the side that started when Overleads at the weekend. Do you see any changes in that back four after you call them and call the track offs? Do you expect that back four to stay the same? Nathan Patterson another week's training. Apparently he's going to be in the squad this weekend. Or do you just think the manager will keep what we have from Saturday? I think he'll probably keep it but I wouldn't be surprised to see Patterson maybe come in. I think he might keep the same thing but it wouldn't also surprise me if Patterson come into the squad. Because I think you mentioned before we've got three games in a week haven't we? Eight days isn't it? Eight days. Forrest, Arsenal and now obviously Villa at the weekend. So the squad is going to probably need a bit of a James Garner coming back as well. Players like that might be an opportunity because Villa are a quick army. An old Coleman seems to do better when he plays against quicker players. I imagine Sheamus will stop but it will also surprise me if Patterson come in. Because I think Patterson might actually shoot Dice's way of a full back. I've had a look at a lot of full backs right side especially who've played when he's a barely. And they were always up and down, up and down. I think Patterson's got that energy but he might just go with the same. Sheamus did obviously get the win. He scored as well Tim Dysau. Let's have a look at the Aston Villa side that was beaten four to a home by Arsenal. Cash, Conser, Mings and Moreno. McGinn, Lewis, Cameron and Coutinho and Wendy are off. I mean why does Wokkina? I don't know who he is. What do you think he is? You think he's a new sign on Wokkina? That obviously should have been Wokkins. Is that what it is? Obviously that was Wokkins. Villa there, obviously Emery, we know that he plans meticulously good structures to his team. Very good manager. So obviously he will know this could well be a real tactical battle. It's one thing being a tack and a home and flying a team like Villa do away from home. You do have to be that little bit more cautious and he does like to play to a plan. So this is one of things anywhere the crowd will influence this for Everton. I think it's a huge game. There's a couple of teams playing each other Andy. Saltampton and Leeds and Forest and Westamlam. So those two are the games and there's other. I think Bournemouth have got Man City and Palace have got Liverpool. So Everton, if he could get a victory, could put themselves in a much more comfortable position. And let's be honest. The nine points are the three. I'm going to be unbelievable. Let's be honest, the home games away. That's what's going to save Everton, isn't it? No, you're right mate. It's always been the case for every manager. Obviously the COVID season with Carla. That was the only one where we were rubbish at home. And good away. I was obviously looking at that lad at left back, is it Moreno. And now he's come off against Darsley. He was the weak link as well in that team. Obviously they brought Luca Dean on. Cos everyone was going down that right side for Arsenal. And he was really, really poor defensively. So hopefully he plays. We know what Luca Dean, obviously we had Dean and he was good for us. But we do know defensively, he's not great, so you can get at him. He's obviously a threat on the other way. Sheaimyson now all about Luca Dean anyway. A Wobie now all about Luca Dean. And vice versa won't he. So there will be some interest in that. I think it'll be, if I'm honest, looking at the game, I think it'll be a one goal game. Maybe like a 2-1 or a 1 mil, something like that. I have a side. Another clean sheet for us. That's the basis to where for Arsenal. One player if we're going to keep a clean sheet, we will have to keep quiet is Olly Watkins. Let's have a look at this. 22 games, seven goals and four assists for Watkins. He's averaging two shots a game. He's a player, I really, really like. I like them at Brentford. Obviously the question mark was can he step up. There was an opportunity actually for Evan to get him in the summer. He fell off Gerard didn't he? He fell off with Stephen Gerard. I don't think Gerard liked him and vice versa. Evan was sniffing around him. He just didn't quite have the money to get that deal done. I think Villa wanted 25s or 30s either being a great sign for Evan. Seven goals is he? Seven goals. He's got four though in the last four games. So he's a breaker echo that he scores again at the weekend. Seems like he's one of his strikers. He shoots that one off front on his own. He works the line really well. He's basically, we had the one you had at the year. With Holgate, didn't he win Villa Bethe? He forced him into an error and he went and put it past the keeper. So we know he's a really good player. And we laughed at Watkins like he said. He likes Bailey for me. I think he's an excellent player. Is he fit Bailey? He's a great striker. I've seen him like he's looked sharp when they're like, they've got good attack and talent. And now he's not being great for Villa, but he's got that bit of ability to just push from nothing. One thing we didn't look at was Watkins. I wonder what his stats are like. I'd say he's got about seven goals maybe in the season. He may be similar to Watkins. No, but it is going to be a difficult game. We know that Villa are a decent side as well. And Emily is just getting things away. It'd be nice to drag another team into it as well. But that's to make them look older children. There's a bunch of teams, isn't it? What is it up to? Probably Palace, you'd say, at the moment? Well, Palace are only on 26, aren't they? A Palace on 26, sir. Everyone on 21, Palace on 26, yeah. Yeah, so if you look at it like that, then if we could get the results. We've got to try and start dragging as many teams into it, if it's possible. So we know Liverpool would have to win a Palace at the weekend and the evidence of when you're talking 3.0 at the end, so I know they're all ifs, but to maybes, but that's what you have to do. And the thing we're pulling Villa into it a little bit is it's not so much I think Villa will get into the relegations zone, but what it is is it means Villa, when they're playing teams around us, I've got to beat them and that obviously benefits us. So that's what you have to do. You have to make it as complicated for the teams as possible. And if evidence to get the 3.0, we then go to Arsenal, which we know is a real tough ask, but then we've got forest on the Sunday and that then becomes just don't lose the game then. Do you know what I mean? It becomes a game where if you get a draw, you go south, you know, we move on. If you win a forest, fantastic. I was actually saying, due to the weekend's results, this game's become probably, I was thinking we could even afford to draw. This may be a couple of weeks ago. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I still look at it and I think if we got a draw and we're taking 7 out of 9 and all that, that's a good attain. If we win, it's fantastic, because I do think they're a good tribe but we've just beaten Arsenal and they're the best. So that's why we're at home. I always fight against everybody. It's got to keep taking the wins off. We got another win at the weekend. I said we needed 7 wins in Daish coming. We got another win at the weekend. You know, you dance at what? Five? Four? Four or a draw, maybe. So that's what you have to look at and go, okay, can we get there quicker? If the quicker you get there wins, you put the space there, the pressure eases and play a bit more football. Just need to start taking our chances when we get there. That's what it is, isn't it? We know we're not great off, but we know that. The goals you'll take, that was 17 goals on me all season, so the goals you'll take, we don't score a lot of goals. But we are having chances. We've got chances against Leeds, even against Liverpool, we've had a couple of opportunities. At some stage, players have got to take responsibility. Kick a ball straight. You know, you're a professional footballer. Okay, you might not have a centre forward who's Ollie Watkins level, or who's a centre forward right now who you're going to be able to play in behind and he runs to him, dinks it in. But they're still professionals. Other teams find goals. As well as Watkins, there's other players in the Premier League who bomb a few score goals. You aren't great. So we have got to take some of the opportunities. But this will be a tough game. But again, it's a home game, and it's a game I think everything can win. These are the games needs to start, yeah. Got to win these games. Much of a threat is Villa will be and he will be. You've got to win the games. These are the ones you're after winning. And Villa will be looking at a congor bethys. And that's the way you play. You know what, you look at it as well. We played them earlier on in the season. They weren't great. We didn't take that chance in the game. We lost that game. The Marey Grae won. He should have just hit it straight away. It was loads of that game. Should have scored. I do believe anyone, like I said, from probably Villa, obviously Palace Dam, can still be dragged into the relegation battle. It's so tight. It's just so tight. Well, let's make it... A bit more. Your phone's even getting involved. Right, let's leave it there then. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Can't ever make it three wins out of three under Sean Dysart, Gwldersen Park. It'll be a tough game. Obviously, we know Villa carry a threat, but it's a big one. Let us know what you think in the comments. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't. I'll see you later.