 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the start of the 11 Everton vs Manchester City. In the Premier League, tough game, tough game Manchester City coming back after being crowned world club champions, whatever that means. Yeah, so it's going to be obviously going to be a very tough game, but Everton are in good form, obviously getting beat by Tottenham in our last game but we played really, really well. Manchester City being in a little bit of poor form in terms of the Premier League and coming off the back of a 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace a couple of weeks ago now, wasn't it? Obviously no game for them at the weekend, as I said, being a part of our club world championship. So very, very interesting game and I think it's going to require every single Everton player to be disciplined, very tactically disciplined and that is obviously why I've picked the team. I've picked for this game. Some of the places are because simply we have to them because we've got no other players, but there are a couple of options from the bench, bit like the way on Saturday against Bears, but we are short at the moment. It would be nice to get a couple back for this as well, but we'll have to wait and see. In goal, Jordan Pickford, bit of criticism of him from Saturday due to the second goal. It is one of those ones, isn't it? A goalie pushes that and it's out of danger, pushes it wide, pushes it slightly more central and causing problems. That's just the way it is. I'm not going to have a goal and he's been superb and obviously he starts in goal. At right back it is Nathan Patterson. Possibility that we could have Seamus Coleman, could have Ashley Young maybe back available for the bench for this game, but Patterson I thought actually did quite well, bit against Tottenham, bit of a shaky start. He really did target our full backs early on, or simply that's just the way he played anyway, but I thought he grew in the game and did well. So he started right back on the other side, Michael Encoe, obviously he retained against Tottenham, he will continue and hopefully having those 90 minutes under his belt will be at it again for this game because he was in excellent form before the Tottenham game and hopefully that continues. The two centre backs James Tarkowski and Bram Threath, obviously they are our best too and yeah I thought again and I thought he did okay against the space. Tarkowski could have done better for the first goal or should have done better for their first goal, but so be it, so be it. But obviously that's pretty much as close to our normal back four, you could swap any of the right backs out really and I think the other three picked themselves but you could swap any of the right backs. Into the midfield this is where it's become a little bit interesting because obviously players out injured. Start in the middle of the park, was okay against space, was brilliant, was okay, but obviously playing more games, getting back into it after his injury is good, it's what we need because we're running out of plays desperately. Alongside him, Andre Golmes, who obviously scored at space and was excellent for the time he was on the pitch, absolutely brilliant. But it's one game isn't it and it's a different kettle of fish against Manchester City, I think when he came on against space there was a bit more freedom in the middle of the park, Spares were leaving a lot more spaces and he was using it really well and played really well and scored the goal, but it'll be a lot different against Manchester City. I think people should just temper their expectations a little bit. We've got no Abdelai Dacore, we've got no Adisagana Gay for this game, so it's not ideal that Andre Golmes started this game. It wasn't ideal that he played for so long on Saturday and he'll be suffering a little bit from that and that's why it's not ideal that he starts in his game. But he probably will have to start unless we rejig the formation completely and go through at the back. I don't know, maybe we will do that, I don't know. But Andre Golmes starting then hopefully continues where he left off, but he'll have to be very disciplined. I think the difference and I think a lot of people noticed this and mentioned this was he wasn't like the last man in the midfield against Tottenham where sometimes he can be the last man before the defence and people can get past them really easily. That seems to be what it used to be like anyway. That wasn't his job on Saturday and if he does start hopefully that's not again. You've got Oana for that protection in front of the back four. In and around then you've got James Garn who I thought played really well against Tottenham and very unlucky. He hit the post in the second half at the shot side in the first half and pressed from the front and although he can't quite take that Abdelai Dacore, he was better playing that position than he was against Fulham getting more used to it. Pressing from the front is really important as well, making the opposition make mistakes. But again going to have to be a lot more disciplined in this game. That again is the reasons why I've picked the rest of the team. Jack Harrison on the right didn't think he had a particularly good game against Spares but I think his positional discipline is really important. Dan Jumer obviously looked gold off the bench against Spares but I just don't think he's got the discipline to play the first hour against Manchester City where you're trying to create a foothold in the game. I think that's something that Jack Harrison's done and Simon on the side Dwight McNeill he'll do exactly the same thing. You could have Dwight McNeill on the right and you could have Dan Jumer on the left side. I just think that the manager will be looking at Dan Jumer for the last 20 minutes of the game and saying go on, go on do with that again. What you did against Spares, go on create problems. Obviously Dan Jumer was really unlucky not to get any cars in the last minute. The ball hit the other side of the bar and half of it going over the line and hitting the goalkeeper's knee. Another time that goes in so he was really unlucky with that. I put there the two and for the same reasons I'm picking Dominic Arvill on the new and up front. Again, what I'm playing against, against Spares but I think we'll need that discipline up front. We'll need that positional, that ability, that out ball going long, getting as out of giving it, just going long and creating different options and is a real threat I think is more what we'd be looking for. Beto, yet you can play down the channels. I just worried that the likes of someone like Walker will take care of that a lot easier than maybe they will Dominic Arvill in the air and then bring another plays into the game. This one we're waiting to see. The manager might have other ideas and might have formulated a plan that means that he's going to get round that. That's my start on 11. As I said, you've got the likes of Dan Jumer, you've got the likes of Beto who can come on for this game. Hopefully, the likes of James Cormoran and Ashley Young are backing the squad and on the bench and we can utilise them because we need every play we can get at the moment. We've obviously got this game, we've got the game on Saturday against Wolves and then Thursday against Crystal Palace and then obviously it starts to calm down a little bit then and get back to normality but those games obviously come hot on the heels of playing Spares and playing for them. The squad is being tested, we all know it would at this time of year but as long as the players keep giving that effort and the discipline and keep playing the way they've been playing then I don't think we can have any kind of argument about the situation at the moment. So there you go, let me know your thoughts in the comments on this team. Who would you go for against Manchester City? Make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already. We haven't done a match preview for this game because obviously with the tight schedule over Christmas but let me know your thoughts on this game in the comments as well. And there you go, thanks for watching, see you later.