 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the match preview, Brighton, Hove, Alwyn versus Everton at the Amac Stadium. Monday. An opportunity for Everton to win a game of football. It feels so long since Everton won a game of football. It feels so long, but if we're going to do it, we're more likely to do it at an away ground than we had at Gothersham Park. We basically forgot what it feels like to win a game of football and I totally forgot what it feels like to win a game of football comfortably. That's not happening. But again, Brighton beat a tough game in a little bit of form and now they've got beat by Manchester United at the weekend, but they are in a little bit of form. They've started scoring goals, I think. I think that's the main thing they've started. I think they've been playing well, passing the ball around well. When they came to Gothersham Park, I thought they played well, put us under a lot of pressure in terms of ball retention. Recently, I think they've just started adding goals to the game, so this one's not to be taken lightly. No, no, they're a good football and side. They're a good football and side, but like you said, they're fine a third, they're not grating. Of late, they've scored a few goals, which has gotten points, but it is what it is with us, isn't it? We're better away from home. It's as simple as that. We've lost three away games all season. It was just for whatever reason, I still can't put my finger on it. We've just seen to be a better side away than what we are at home in. I don't know, it's weird, but you've got more confidence going into it. Well, I certainly have more confidence playing away from home than I have at Gothersham. I don't know whether the players have got that. I don't know whether it's a mental block now at home where it's like you feel under pressure because of the result of being so bad where it's away. It's like, well, we know what we've got to do, just keep these out there. Whether it's the fact that there is the pressure if there's no emphasis on us whatsoever away from home, so we can just do our job and we score goals and stuff. Whether it's at Gothersham internally, there's that pressure of whether we should be the team that's on the front foot. I don't know whether it's that, but we're definitely being better away from home. This represents a good chance, actually, because I think all those factors you mentioned there play into an opportunity for three points. They like to keep the ball, which gives us the opportunity to sit back and soak up the pressure and hit them on the break. Like, yeah, 30%. Like we did at Gothersham Park almost where it's a Gothersham we did exactly the same, I think. Sailing in the second half, we let them have a lot of the ball and then hit them on the counter-attack, and obviously that day, scoring four goals and hammered their digas, obviously you've got a couple of goals that day, and it worked to a tee, really. And just hoping we can have something similar on Monday because, again, this is another one. And we spoke about it, the Palace game. This is another one where you look at the league table and think, if you've got anything about you, you've got to go to a Brighton and you've got to beat them. It's not even, you know, I know they've been playing better recently and picked up some results, but the thing with the fact is, it's not even a case of like, if you want to, games are running out now. We've got to start winning games. We've got to start winning games and whether it's this game or the Spades game or the Arsenal game, we've got to start winning games. We need to win probably five games of the nine. So you look at this game and think, well, this has got to be three points. You've got to go there and do a job. You've got to be good in front of goal, make chances and be good at the back. And we've seen that, that we can do that in a way games. We've been, and it is that thing, like you said, it's almost like that muscle memory of, we've done this before, so therefore we can do it again. And we do have that thing at all, where it's the opposite, where it's the navel starter, where people start to, you know, if they get chances, they've missed chances obviously against Palace and not making much, many chances. We're away, we've seen to have a formula and it's working. And hopefully it'll work on Monday. Yeah, I mean, we were better against Palace. We had a lot of chances and on another day we'd have beat them comfortably because, you know, to miss six big chances in a game is quite difficult to do, but Evan managed it quite comfortably the other night. So, you know, hopefully we can, the man has to say that after a game that you've got to get those points somewhere else. We've blown the points tonight, we've got to make it up with winning somewhere else. So you look at the league and right now they've got football side, but they're near the bottom of the table. And if you're trying to get into Europe, you're trying to get points, you've, they're the teams you have to go to try to beat them. You know, after that, we've got Arsenal and Tottenham or Tottenham and Arsenal, and they're two teams that are around us, so they're difficult games as it is. So there's nine games to go, and Evan have got to try that, just the five, six wins in them nine games. It's going to be difficult, no question about it, but like we've said before, we seem to find more joy away from goodness and so we've got to look at this game as a game that we can win. And the way Brighton's set up as well, I just wonder if Evan will set up similar to the way we did against Palace, because Brighton played three at the back, and obviously Evan played three at the back the other day. If you look at Brighton's line-up from the last game out there, they, you know, the three-fourth, one-two really, which is something you spoke about with Evan maybe the other day, but, you know, they've got Sanchez and Golden and they've got a back three, Ben White, Lewis, Duncan, Veltman, Pascal Grosch, Llanet, Bishumarum, you know, a lot of people like to look off, and Jacob Muldett, and then behind, Trossard, behind Maupai, and Danny Welbech, who has started to score goals now, has certainly scored against United in the last week. So, Evan might line up exactly the same way as we did against Palace, just so it's like-for-like with them. And, you know, we had Thomas off, Domin and the Charles and the other day, and it worked a three for us. You know, he was in the game, and he ended up with a 93% pass completion and created two chances and scored a goal. You know, when he's in them areas, he's absolutely key. So, it'll be interesting to see what the manager does, whether Ben Goffrey comes back in, because obviously Maupai is quite niffy, you know, and he's got good movements, and whether Goffrey comes in instead of Michael Cain, and you leave me in there in the middle, and you have Holgate either side, but I'd be leaving Coleman in, because I thought Coleman was very good the other day. And I think playing, I think we said that way with the three, allows Coleman to get up and down a bit more, because the emphasis isn't on him having to do 90 yards once he's starting higher up the pitch. So, I think this could be a gain that everything just go life-for-life with Brighton. I think Mundi showed having that wit on the right-hand side. We've been crying out for it. We've been talking about it all season in one way or another, one form or another, whether it's, you know, whether it's been missing Chamber's Coleman, where Hammer's was best position is, or whatever. The simple fact is, we need wit on both sides, and it does... Alex O'Obi doesn't cut it. Simply the fact that it's not what we need. It's not a winger. He's someone who's a number 10 who plays that wide, where we've got one of them. Oh, we did have one of them in Hammer's. He played obviously centre in Crystal Palace. We need wit on both sides. We've seen the goal we scored. It comes, starts on the left, and it's retained on the right. The ball back to Hans Rodriguez. We have to have wit on both sides. It's got to be the number one priority for the summer, is getting someone from that right-hand side. That's why Sheamus Coleman now. We bemoan the fact that he got took off in the game against Crystal Palace for me when I far too early. But I imagine the manager is thinking, I'm trying to manage him so we can use him because he really... This is really poor on Everton's behalf, by the way, is that he's the only player who can play in that position. He's the only player you can offer wit on the right-hand side, and that is really, really sad to say that. A club that's supposed to be trying to compete with to get into Europe has one player who can play wide on the right, and it's Sheamus Coleman who's a right back and he's into his 30s. It's woeful. It is poor management. I'm not levelling that a call, I mean overall. It is poor management. Poor recruitment. We've got a management, and as we've said a few times, we've got nine games to go. Only two of them will likely be midweek games, the Villa game, Sheffield United game. The rest will be satty to satty. Whatever it is. A week between them. Monday to Friday, actually. Next week, isn't it? He's got to be managed, because he is the only person. Like any team, you've got to have different ways of playing, and what we were finding with Mason Holgate was yet we were looking more solid, but we weren't getting up the picture, and obviously with Hamas Rosigus out as well. And it was paying the detriment to a Wobie who also needs someone going on the outside of him. So he's got to play for me. And he's, you know, I think, you've got two players on both sides, two wide men. Obviously they're not wingers, but two wide men. It suddenly opens the pitch up, and it allows Hamas Rosigus, then, to be able to move round a little bit freer. And if that means playing three at the back, then we do that. And I think Ben Godfrey has to come out, because I don't think Michael Keane can play in a three. I don't think he's good enough to play in a three. I think he likes to play in a two. I think he likes to be playing, and he's a good defender in that. But I think once you start shaking her up and changing things, I think Michael Keane starts to look a little bit susceptible. And then it's probably one of the reasons why England have decided to drop him is because they want to play a three. Ben Godfrey's more comfortable in that. I think he can get away with things because of his pace. Mason Holgate looks more comfortable. I think he's clearly our best defender. Clearly our best defender. So that would be my start of three, and I think if we've got changes on one side and look at the other, we should have the ability to play it like we did the other night. If you look at Brighton's last five results now on the screen, he lost 1-0 at West Brom, lost 2-1 around to Leicester. Then he had that big win, like win at Southampton, he won 2-1, beat Newcastle around 3-0, and then lost away at Manchester United. So what two wins and three defeats on the last five games, so it's one or the other with them. I think for Everton, it represents a good opportunity to go and get them three points and get some momentum ahead of the Spades game. Like we said, it's not going to be easy. What I'd like to see, and the man has just kind of said that he expects Alan to be fit for the Brighton game. I mean, I'd just put him in with Tom Davies, especially if we're playing three and you've got James Rodriguez in front, then I think them too. Because the emphasis really for them will be be busy, but make sure you're sitting and we can get the rest of our plays then we can almost have five in attack. I think can't we? I think they're the two I'd go for clearly because they're Tom. Tom will sit, we know Tom will sit and he does, he can do that job and there's not much more required of him then. And obviously we've seen, I think we've seen in the game against Burnley's that he wasn't playing in the sitting role he was playing. Tom Davies has got, he's a footballer who can do certain things but he can't do certain other things and I thought that night he calls them out a little bit. So for me he sits and it allows Alan then. Well the two of them just sit and just take it in turns and it'll be more Alan obviously but that to me allows a lot more cover than having Gomez or obviously Guilfee Sigarton in there like we saw it against Palace. I mean that's, don't think that's for a large part of that game for what? 70 minutes, 65 minutes of the game against Palace. The midfield was Tom Davies, Guilfee Sigarton and Hamasod Rhaeges as a triangle. So defensively there was a lot on Tom and James Cullmer played his part in that by the way as well coming in field at times. But for me it'd have to be Alan and Tom Davies and just let everyone else. Then James Cullmer can go and Luca Deane can go further forward Hamasod Rhaeges or Guilfee Sigarton. You're almost having this. It's almost five or front then isn't it? Because if you get James Bormannon and Luca Deane Bormannon you've got Hamas in the front soup then you're covered, you're well covered. And also if you're playing counterattack which we most likely will be then those two can just sit and just do their jobs and allow the other plays to go forward and that's what we did when we played them our own. We nicked the ball, the corey and we went so quickly and obviously allowed us to get the third and fourth goals on the second half and it really did play into our stance that day. I think we just need something similar a difficult game because they do like to have the ball it is surprising when you see the chances they missed a bit of the West Brom game when they got beat 1-0 and some of the chances they missed some of the opportunities they created they do look like a team that if they took the chances could easily finish mid table like a crystal palace kind of position no problem they're not a team that you look at and go these are rubbish or these are conceding loads of goals they're not the biggest problem is they don't score enough goals but they don't have then the game becomes too open and they allow the opposition to score that's exactly what it is I mean we're going there obviously brightening on beating the home three Premier League home games against that in fact we haven't won there since 1983 the home team the home side have won six to the seven meetings two ok I'm not going to say that one obviously the draw was when Wayne Rooney scored and then we missed Mr Sitter after it if you remember we should have really won it Brightening have won two of their last five Premier League home games as many as they had done in their previous 23 it's proved doesn't it you know I mean last season we were at Brightening last season wasn't it we had Michael Silver and we were two on and the game was comfortable it was easy for us and then the referee gave a penalty that never was and we ended up losing again we should never have done so you know that's ever lost the last Premier League game which was the away game to Chelsea and it was the first ending a run of nine games without defeat on the road which brought seven wins and two draws which is a great form isn't it Brightening have dropped more points from winning positions than any other side in the Premier League just mad Everton have scored a league high 12 head of goals in the Premier League this season while Brightening have conceded the highest proportion of head of goals crosses loads of set pieces get the ball in the box and hopefully won fours to Dom and he takes his chance Dom and the Calvert Llewyn 14 goals have been involved in more Premier League goals this season than Hammers who has six goals and four assists however eight of those have come at Goddison Park and we know Danny Weldech has been involved in more goals against Everton than any other Premier League team so we'll have to watch out for him but we said it before this is a game that Everton would look at or any team we were trying against the other would look at a team at the bottom regardless of how good or not they are and just go well this is a game that we feel that we have to win because you said before we're running out of games now it's like now it's like you've got to start winning because if you don't win you can forget your trolley because it will be too much ground to make up so go there get a positive result then you start feeling confident again and Heather Spears are home in Arsenal away and who knows if they could win the next and we've done this before this season by the way we've had to run a dozen games and then all of a sudden we won four on the run and we dragged ourselves back into it and win and run together again who knows where it could take us but that's what we've got to do there you go don't forget make sure to check out Toffy Picks if you have already signed up make sure you get your answers in ahead of this game £500 prize pot £250 to the winner we had a winner last week one person won £250 so well done to them you just have to answer 12 questions on this game what you think is going to happen dead easy go to ToffyPicks.com if you haven't signed up already please do there's a little notification in the corner over there QD, well QD became the first out and out winner £250 season C is applied don't forget play responsibly you must be over 18 but it is free it is free don't forget that so make sure you're playing there there'll be a little thing in the corner as I said so make sure you play that there'll be a link down here as well where in it where playing it the building down here for that video where we play it and show you how you play it and show you what questions we've got don't forget to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already we're heading towards that 50,000 subscriber mark trying to get there we've just passed 25 million views so thank you for that but now we're heading for the 50,000 subs so make sure you subscribe if you haven't already join us on Patreon for daily live videos and exclusive videos see you next time