 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the Match Preview, West Ham United versus Everton, I'm joined by Matthew Barry making his debut on Toffy TV, welcome. West Ham away at the weekend, a fix you that is alright for Everton, Everton West, I'm not going to say any more than that for fear of jinxing anything. But obviously this one's got a little bit more spice with it being David Moyes again at the helm at West Ham in December, there was big rumours that he could be in the Everton dugout and obviously we've got Carlo and Cialotti but a tough game but a game that Everton can win? Yeah I think so, we've always seemed to have done well against West Ham in the past, the thing this time around Moyes being the manager, you think he's going to have him probably fired up that little bit more, he's going to be disappointed that he didn't get the evident job, he probably thought he was there or there about and calling West Ham Everton in his press conference as well, I don't think he's indeed into the fans that much. But it's a fixture we always tend to be alright in. That's it isn't it, you are worried about trying too much because you've got too much evident history in us having me to go over the top. The last time he was West Ham manager we beat them 4-0 at Godderson but the only game he's actually won against Everton since leaving was the one at the London Stadium when he beat us 3-1 the last game of the season when we had someone in our dugout who shall remain nameless. They've done, they've had a little bit of an up turn since he went in so the job they had a good win against Bournemouth be Bournemouth 4-0 and then they got thrown in the FA Cup didn't they but you know last week they lost 1-0 at Sheffield United, almost at the point obviously a goal that's allowed with FA. So he's got them fired up like you say because they've had an injury against the Fabianski which is a big blow for them because he's a good goalie but they have completed the signing of Darren Randolph for 4 million from Middlesbrough. It looks as though Philip Anderson is going to be fit as well which he limped off against Sheffield United and the hope was that from our perspective that he might miss this one when it looks like he's fit. So you've got players you can cause as problems, Hallard as well, he's a good player and Everton will have to be careful with Westam's form of players won't he? Yeah I mean you look at last season when they beat us a gooderson, Philip Anderson was superb, he had the freedom of the left hand side and he was excellent, Lanzini usually turns up against us as well but Fabianski's a massive massive miss for them. But Darren Randolph, I think Jonathan Woodgate said he's the longest medical in history this week so hopefully he's not 100% fit. Yeah well he's lonely just I think he's first right in the sessions there so that's never good. You look at sort of the forward line and Hallard I think he's a very good centre forward and I think where he was up front for Eintracht where he was part of the front three and he played better especially with Jovic. With Jovic off of him but I think Michal Antonio was injured as well so he usually has a good game against us so if he's up front on his own you think that Mina or Keane I think he's going to be Mina probably Carlo said that he's going to rotate. You think he'd be able to look after him but it's the players coming off of him I think that we may have certainly without issues in midfield. Well that's it isn't it. I mean in midfield they'll have, they've played with Noble and Dechlan Wright and they've had other people in there as well. And we're not the most mobile of midfields at the moment because obviously the mission is going and the big miss was obviously gone and we haven't had all season so no point worrying about that but we just haven't got the most mobility in the centre of the park. Do you see him staying with the two that started against Brighton and Guilfeasigas and Tom Dade or do you think maybe Morgan Snidl and they'll come back into his thinking this weekend? I don't think Snidl in well. I think that ship sailed now I think. After I'm feeling absolutely, I don't think the supporters are aware of that to a certain degree. I wouldn't be surprised if Delft came back in. I was going to say Fabian Delft is the one he seems to be. I think the type of player the Noble is. I think you may need somebody who's a little bit more combative than Sigurdsson and I think you need the legs of Tom Davies absolutely 100%. I wouldn't be against Sigurdsson and Davies playing midfield but I think it'd be Delft and Davies. I mean he could do that, he could rotate. Sigurdsson's played a lot of games lately as well as me's been in the team pretty much since Marco Silva got sacked actually. I know he just got in because we had a couple of injuries, Silva had dropped them. He dropped them actually for this game. Didn't he for the reverse fixture he could as he came on and scored his only goal of the season. Currently averaging a goal every 788 minutes so it's not very good. He's got one goal, one assist this season and that for someone who we paid a lot of money for to be a chief goal maker and goal taker. And certainly last season I think he finished with 13 Premier League goals and six assists I think it was. This season he's been way off it so if he is, you know he could be one who he might look at and think well we will go with Delft. We'll go with Delft and Davies and then maybe bring Sigurdsson off the bench with half an hour left to time. You know when the game is slowed down he can have more of an influence so that wouldn't surprise me if he did that. I think you look at the impact that Delft had when he came on against Newcastle where he slowed the game completely down and we took control of it. Again I think Newcastle's midfield is a little bit more combative certainly than what Westhams were sort of the old tempo that. I think the big win for us will be with Bernard being fit and him and Lucadine being back on the left hand side because Lucadine looked himself again. He did and he had a difficult week as well last week. You know we had family bereavement and stuff and he didn't shine for two or three days last week and I think that's why Carlo took him off for the last 10 minutes against Brighton. But you're right he looked a lot more like himself, a bit more like himself with having Bernard in front of him. They were great last season and down here, they were brilliant. And Dean does need that link up play. You know I think it just helps him out. Bernard, we spoke about it certainly on the podcast and we spoke about it in the final where that. Since Antelott he's come in and Bernard's played, he's got him cutting inside, a bit like Insigni does for Napoli. But he's coming in off the wing and creating a problem centrally for teams and because Calvert-Lewan and Retial isn't quite mobile that's given us options. I think I expect Theo Walcott to play with just reading something there. He scored and assisted more goals against Westham than any other club in the Premier League. So sometimes those things work for players that feel good. He hasn't scored or assisted any at the London Stadium yet so we have to change that at the weekend. I expect Walcott to play as well just because I think away from home, even though he does run in straight lines, his pace is a threat isn't it? I suppose if you've got, because Bernard isn't the quickest in transition, he's okay with the ball, he's like when he's running with the ball but he's not a long sprinter. I think if you've got Walcott and you've got Calvert-Lewan and you've got Retial, you can turn the ball over quickly because they are quick and that could be something we can have Westham worried with. The youngness on Westham will be to attack, certainly after the Shefford United game where they're probably going to want a bit of a reaction to that. So they're going to get forward, you're going to be looking for balls probably over the top and there's nothing wrong with hitting the long diagonals. Certainly against them because you've got the pace of Retial-Lewan and Walcott and Calvert-Lewan could almost be a front three in some respect. So that's the thing, they will cause us problems because they've got plays in attacking areas that can cause your problems. Lanzini snog-crashed normally as a decent game against us, we've got a good set of balls especially, I remember them scoring one for Hull against us a few years ago. So we'll have to be wary of that but it's a game you look at and think with Everton, even putting your up a side and I don't see why we should. It's a very real possibility with four points off the European places but even if you put that to one side and said a top eight finish, these are the kind of games where you have to go and win. Other teams we saw like the Crystal Palace last season winning eight away games and things like that, we're being able to play in the counter-attack. I think Everton in general over the last five, six, seven, even Moises era really but we just haven't won enough away games, it's one season it's a game, another season it's three. This team with the ability and the pace like you've just said on the break should be able to win half a dozen for me. I think one of the instant wins that we'll get with a manager like Ancelotti will be able to beat the teams who were supposed to beat. Because he's tactically astute enough to be able to close the game down like for example last week, one that left 70 minutes he takes Bernard off and you think in what's he doing that for but he's seeing things that we don't see. Italian manager 1-0 20 minutes to go, he's just going to close it down. I'd love to have seen Moise King come on but if you're two or three up then he'd probably come on but whereas Marco Silva probably would have made an attacking change and he wouldn't have closed the game out and we draw that game then because Glen Murray comes on and all of a sudden there's long balls, balls going in over the top, going to the back post probably the last 10-15 minutes then we probably would have drawn that game so having somebody who's able to be able to look at it from the side and go right I need to do that, I need to do that and draws into wins and losses into draws but that's what he'll do and some of the games that like a Bournemouth away this year we get to 1-0 then you know we throw the game away in the second half it's terrible. Yeah, there's been too many of them as in the bay and Lee was a poor result but they're brightening away you know we had that game 2-1 up with 10 minutes left you know that should have been a victory and he threw that away. There's been too many of them and we have to ensure really that Saturday isn't one of those days I mean the big one for me that we'll have to look after is Halle, you've already mentioned him. Jerry Maynab was superb against him at Godderson, he bullied him, he wasn't interested at all after that for now he was getting further and further back up the pitch. Say he was Philip Anderson at Godderson he was just bullied him out of the game, he didn't do anything to suck him off. He's a mood player. He's a mood player if it's not going the way he wants it so he can fall away from the game so everything do after win the battles and that'll be key and if we can keep Halle quiet you know and look after Anderson then it'll be great. I think we can go on and win the game it'll be a tough game by home you know every Premier League game is a tough game but I think for Carlo currently got a 75% win ratio in the Premier League which is lovely so it'll be nice for him to increase that to 80% this week with a win but let's get out there get the three points and see how far up the table we can go and it's about closing the gap on everyone at Godderson. A win at the weekend would mean that it'd be nine points then between Everton and Westam it would therefore fall from bottom so it's about creating that gap away from everyone. The sides below us as well they've got to play each other and they also play the top six as well so if we can get a result against Westam against Newcastle then we're playing one game a week now whereas Wolves Arsenal Chelsea they're all playing. United they've all got Tuesday Saturday Thursday Sunday Sunday. That's it I mean for this squad in particular and for Carlo Ancelotti because he's just come into the job and you know to bore everyone again I've just finished this book and he doesn't make a note in that book if he doesn't like taking teams over mid season for that reason but once you get to one game a week it's going to give him all of that time to assess this squad now to close the season now hopefully finish on a high. And start making their preparations for next season because listen we can still achieve something this season. It's almost like a long pre-season this where you're right he's going to weed out who he wants to keep, who he wants to go he can assess them all and work out then what he wants to do going forward but from an acclimatisation point of view then he hasn't got six to eight weeks to work with the players he's had almost six to eight months and we'd go into next season then if we can get into Europe this year it'd be the other season. I know a couple of people certainly on Payton of Keith and Keith on Payton is worried about us getting into Europe so we're not ready. I don't think we can pick and choose things like that I think the quicker this club gets into European football the sponsors and everyone else yes I get the point I get the point about the squad but if you're clever Wolves are above us and they're in your over league and won less games but they've used it well I think what you do when clopted at Liverpool is you use your other players this is the problem when we got in it last time in Coom and was in charge. I don't know if Roberto Martinez did it brilliantly negotiated that he didn't know how to defend in the league but he negotiated the other league quite well till he went to Kiev and then played Alcatraz. We made it and escaped from Alcatraz because he was woeful but what Coom and done wrong was he didn't trust the reserves so we played the wrong players all the time instead. I think someone like Antio Lottie with the experience they like to be ideal for Anthony Gordon. You know Moise Keane people like that you know one of your centre backs like the Gibson maybe even if they're just on the bench for the experience you use your squad like that maybe play your strong team at home and get the three own wins and then go away and use your other players and try and get a couple of you win three own games and draw one away game you threw in the Europa League ten points get you through and that's what Everton could do and develop into if they don't get into Europe fine but we've got to make a good run certainly at the top eight. And keep that that thing clearly in Antio Lottie's mind about where we want to go for next season. Lester did this last year with Rogers he came in in January. He had like you've just said he used that end of the season got them doing what he wanted don't forget he come in and they were above Everton and they finished below Everton. So even though he did well he wasn't amazing so he used it to see like how can I tinker this team get them my messages across and then they hit the ground running. They had that like you've just said a six month preseason so that when the august started they hit the ground running and they've gone from strength to strength and it'd be an absolute it'd have to take a disaster now for them to not finish in the Champions League places because the ten points ever whatever of people around them. So you'd expect they would finish in the top four now this season and that's because he's had the benefit of that six months. I think if we if we can get into Europe I think two of the biggest attractions Everton next season in terms of recruitment will be Antio Lottie for one players I want to play for him and you know we'll pay we'll pay good money we'll pay we'll pay a good salary. Of course we will. But if you've got European football on the back of that then you're going to attract probably you can be looking at players from like Leverkusen from Frankfurt from Ajax. The right kind of players. You know from Italy, Napoli and Lattio players like that so it's going to open possibilities to sign better players. Which then? That's what Liverpool did and teams like that have gone off and they've gone a bit better than what you've got, better than what you can go for and European football does do that. You write it, have an Antio Lottie and have the ability to say well we're in Europe in a players mind you don't go over that a team that finishes near the top that's where I want to go. They've got to move into a new stadium so you're showing a player perspective play look this is the stadium you want to move to. You've got Carlo Antio Lottie his arm and it's in European football. You've got a young squad and it makes you all of a sudden very attractive proposition because most players want to go and play for Champions League clubs. Of course they do because it makes right and everything else it goes in the back pocket and gives them a good wedge and they can judge themselves against the best players and whatever. But the next best thing is that you're overleag and it's European football that gives them not as good benefits but still benefits. And the other thing as well finally on the European football thing is that the involvement in the Europa League now if you can get into the group stages and stuff I think it's 12 million whereas when Everton got to the last 16 or last 82 whatever it was under Martinus last 16 it was something like 900,000. So it's a big difference especially to a club like Everton especially with FFP and everything else it is important and I know people can have that fear that all the season can be derailed but not in it this season and the season was almost derailed. So I don't think you can pick and choose personally I think you should always try to finish at the top of the league if that ends up being seventh and you get into Europe you take your medicine. If you look at the price of money disparity between finishing seventh or eighth, 14th or 15th then it's 12 million which is huge but I mean just going back to West Ham when you look at them as a club they've got aspirations like we have but they've never kicked on. If we can go there get an early goal Saturday they're proud, they're horrific, they'll be on their backs straight away. I don't think that they're delighted with the David Moyns appointments are. I think some of them share as a necessity and go alright at least he'll keep us up but I think the other ones who do want better from their club are looking at seeing loads when we were linked with them loads of West Ham fans going you don't want him. You don't want him and it's like well we know David Moyns we had him for a long time you know you had him for six months and he kept you up. So there will be that little bit and the first goal is key in a lot I think it's 71% of the teams who win the game of the team that scores the first goal so it's a high thing to get the first goal and that's what everything will look to do with the weekend. Just very just finally before we finish Anthony Gordon he's been in and around the squad there's more talking from this week obviously Marcel Brands at the ADM pointed out he's a player who's very very close. Is he someone you think you'd like to see on the bench at the weekend or do you think it's still a little bit too soon for him? No I think he'd be great to come off the bench I think Wood Bernard he sort of gets to the 65-70 minutes and he's tiring but to have somebody who's got ability like Gordon to be able to come and he's quick he's direct he can come inside then you're having somebody who's going to cause the same type of problems but who's going to be a lot fresher and he's going to be able to stretch the game and we've got to see him at some point he's got to play. I think he can make an impact for us. I think when we get to 40 points this season get that boxed off and we can see where we are in terms of the league whoever wins the league cup they're going to be in Europe. When we get to the quarter-finals semi-finals of the FA Cup then we'll know who's going to win that and how that affects the league places and perhaps we can start to give him full 98 or get him to start games then towards the back end of the season. Lewis Gibson as well I think he's back from injury now I think he's going to need to get into the team at some point just to see what it's like. He's got six months left on his contract, they're going to need to make a decision. I think Lewis Gibson is really interesting actually because the club are trying to get him to sign a new deal. He wants reassurance about his pathway to the team, it's just fine. A sure way of getting him to sign a contract is to include him. We're looking at you to be one of our centre-backs or cover at left-back because I know he's probably not going to be a left-back but you can start off as a fullback and move back inside. There's a couple of opportunities, I don't think Leighton Brains will stay beyond the season so there's a couple of opportunities for him to be in the evidence squad as either a centre-back or a left-back. The best way to sweeten a player up is to give him a couple of appearances at the end of the season so he's in my thinking. Unless I give God but another contract. He's getting a bloody test of money before he gets another contract, it looks like he's going to it but there you go big thanks to Matthew. Let's hope we can scrape a win. Actually, let's do what we did last year. Go there and attack. Attack from the first minute, put the game to bed and get three big points and then we move on. Beat Newcastle and we go into that FA Cup break shall we call it in a great position but fingers crossed. It'll be a tough game but fingers crossed ever and can continue the good run of form of Leighton. Make sure you give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't or join us on python like Matthew has if you want more videos. See you later.