 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, Newcastle United vs Everton, Frank Lampard's first Premier League game. I'll be honest, I don't know what to expect from this game. They've got new players, we've got new players, we've got a new manager. It's really difficult to call this one just because of all the changes from both sides. I am a bit nervous about this one because there is a difficult game. You don't know what to expect from Newcastle. Obviously they brought in people like Cairn Sryffia, Dan Bairn, who was doubtful at the moment but you never know what managers are like. Obviously they brought in Bruno Gomeres or whatever you say his name. He's coming as well. They've got targeting on loan from Villa, so they've got a new Chris Wood up front. They've got five new players there in that squad that have re-energised in the squad. Joe Linton's training again, he's been injured these back. So it'll be difficult to see and to know what kind of team he's going to put out anyhow. He's not going to use all of them, he said. So it's a tough one to call. We're the same. We've played the formation at the weekend. We've played 3-4-3, Wilflanc Lampard, stick with that. We've got Deli Alley and Donny van der Beik available. Now for the first time, El Ghazi's available again after it's been cut side. Dominic Calvert-Lewmans back in the squad, but we've lost Ben Godfrey, so it is it. It's going to be a little bit of a mix match and see what happens in the game I think. For us, I mean this and for us, some nice problems to have, isn't it? Some nice problems for us, especially from the attacking thing. I think for me it'll be the both sides will be similar in terms of not wanting to change too much too quickly. I can imagine now, I can imagine from their point of view, yes, you want to get your new players in as quickly as you can. They've got basically nearly an entire new back four available, but then that brings issues with it, doesn't it? That brings problems, you know, you're putting them all in at once, if you haven't had enough days training. They've had a couple of weeks off, two and a half weeks off having a bit more than us. They've been over to Saudi Arabia, some warm weather training and all the other stuff. They've got the new kid in Centre Midfield from Brazil, Willie B. Involved. He's been away on international duty, so how much will he have trained with them? Is he ready to go? They've got Wood, who was caught up in New Zealand with the COVID situation. How much has he trained? There's a lot of optimism from the Newcastle side, but there's going to be a lot of things up in the air for them as well. It's really going to be interesting to see how both sides set up. Of course they're coming off the back of a win as well, so that's going to... The players who played that game at Leeds will be saying, well, hang on. Why are you changing a win inside? We won the last game, we've been improving, we've been getting better results. So why are you instantly going to look for those changes? So a lot to think about, but for us, I think, for Frank Lampard, he's got to look at Saturday's performance to say more of the same, but can he integrate the new players? Does he need to integrate them? Does he need to bring Dominic Carver on the moon back? Does me in a start? So there's a lot of questions, isn't there? Absolutely. Two teams, like you said, both brought in half a team in the January transfer event. So it will be interesting to see, but just in terms of the game, you know, Everton have got to do more of what he started on Saturday, get older a ball, Newcastle's a difficult place to play, the crowd are excellent, they make a lot of noise. And the positive at the moment, aren't they? They've had an up turn in four, you know, I think they've took ten points from ten games, since Eddie Howe coming. They've had a lot of draw, so they've stopped losing games, they won the last game, like you say, it leads. And they haven't lost many home games this season, regardless of what's been going on. So it will be a difficult game for Everton, there's no doubt about that. And it's been able to stay in the game when things are going against you, that's what Everton have not been able to do this season, particularly away from home. We've won one away game all season in the Premier League, and that was in August, it was our second away game. We won a Brighton, it was probably our best performance, complete performance of the season. I think it was the last clean sheet we had away from home. So there's a lot of things gone against us away from home. And for that has been because we've been set up in a way that is negative, and what it does is it hands the initiative to the home team, and we haven't been good enough to be able to sit back and cope with that. I think the new positivity, the new manager, the new coaching staff are trying to implement a new way of playing, and it should be very positive, trying for us as well. But it is early days, you know, if you give me the choice out, I'd rather this game be equal. There's some other night with our crowd, you know, to give you that. That was in the game for me. Well, yeah, I mean, in an ideal way, we've had this week to just choke up the win against Brentford and letting a bit more coaching go into them. But it is, it's got to play it, and that's the way it is, and it'll be a tough game. Again, said it before, a win would be brilliant, but in my opinion, just don't lose the game. I'll point and move on, if that's the way it is. But the win's there, we can beat them, there's no doubt about it, but don't lose the game. Yeah, and ultimately, listen, this is a team that's won two Premier League games this season. I know we've only won, like, five, but this is a team that's only won two Premier League games, and yes, they are on an up team, and everything seems positive, and again, you know, there's more positive news to them off the field today. So everything feels positive for them, but they're still not a great footballing team. They're getting better, they're improving, but they're still not a great footballing, there's still massive pressure on them, and they've got to get the wins as quickly as they can, like we have to, and we've got to stay ahead of them in the Premier League, which means not losing to them, and building up results and improving, and for us, it's a case of going there and getting something out of this game. Don't get beat, don't get beat, which means don't concede stupid goals, don't make mistakes, make sure we're doing all the right things, and that's a dead simple thing to say, it's a very simplistic thing to say, but it's something that we haven't done all season. You know, when we've been beaten, the knowledge game, when we've been getting beat by sides, it's because we're making poor mistakes, really bad mistakes, and we can start cutting them out and having a bit more confidence in the way we play. And again, going back to what we did on Saturday, it's about control, isn't it? It's about getting a control of the game, you know, having better players, that's where it's from, like Deli Alley, or Donnie van der Beek maybe coming to the side, I imagine it was one of those, out of one of those, it would probably be Deli Alley, but it's about getting control, isn't it? Keeping the ball, something we've been so poor at this season, you know, our tactic was counter attacking football. Well, you can't counter attack if you can't defend. So that was the first part. So let's make sure things like set pieces we're doing better from, and let's get control of the game. Cos, you know, they started to try and get more of a grip of the game under Eddie Howe having more possession stuff. Well, obviously, by going from Saturday, that's something we're going to do on the flank plan part. So we've got to try and control the game, and if we control the game, we're going to face 20 minutes quieting the crowd down. Get rid of all that, you know, they're going to be well up for this game. As our fans have seen to be as well, they're going to be well up for it. They're going to think this is a big opportunity to beat this side and get right next time. We've got to make sure that doesn't happen and make sure we quiet them down and build some momentum. Yeah, I'm with a threat but a real threat going forward, aren't we? And that's what it's about. Get older the ball. Take the sting out of the game. You know, nothing cheap in the first 15 to 20 minutes. Don't let momentum build and do all that. And you've got someone in flank plan part who knows all of those tricks is played in, you know, huge games at 962 career games or something he played in. He knows when it's the big games and when they're important games. But I think his messaging is being really good and I think it's really important for us as a fan base to listen to what he's saying as well with that message and it's absolutely right. It feels like a huge game and it is a big game because you want to try and get momentum going but there's 18 games to go. The season won't be defined by these next two games even though they are big games. So we've just got to go out relax in that knowledge that it isn't this one game and it's winner takes all. You know, we've got to go out there do what we can, get on the ball follow his instruction pass the ball and create opportunities and if we do that we can come away with a very positive result because like you say they've only won two games all season so as much as improved as they are now there's still not, I'd rather be on to Newcastle and Man City put it that way so it will be a tough game. I thought that was really good in the press conference the way you spoke about the way you spoke about the two games and you just said they're not defining moments in the season and people have got a bit of optimism now it's good that we're back at Gooderson Park on Saturday to continue that and I suppose that's where what we're saying is don't lose the game, get something out of it but deserve something out of it. That's the main thing you take from every game is that far as a million times we've been taking nothing this season and going we didn't deserve anything from that game or kicking ourselves for even if we do deserve to lose in a way thinking but we shouldn't have lost I look at the Crystal Palace game and I don't think we deserve to win but we could have easily got something out of it we didn't deserve to lose that was the difference we could have easily got Villa Game we didn't really deserve to lose that's where we've got to win that's where we've got to take it round that's where we've got to start taking it round that's where we've got to control the game so I think the messaging is right he said himself it's half a season to go and it's about picking up the wins now and Saturday we're giving everybody a real boost that we can do that because we're going to play the very average Premier League team and we batter them forward and they had offered that very little against them it's not going to be like that against Newcastle I know that because of the fans number one we're not over old by it and number two if you set up as a game plan you make sure you play that game plan because what you normally find is or sometimes find is early on in a manager comes you get players they go back to the plan in their head or what they've been playing all season instead of following the instructions it's like a default setting isn't it the manager has asked us to do this all the way over doing this stick to the plan stick to the plan if the manager is the right manager and he's got a plan to win games of football because ultimately that's what it is it's not a plan to get us out where from where we are it's a plan to win games of football that's what Carlo Ancelotti did when he came in he looked at the situation when swing games of football he'll get out the situation and I think it's a similar situation having a plan to win and hoping that all the players are on board and seeing those attacking areas of the park we've got so many options and we'll see how good those options are but we've got a lot of options we've got a lot of options midfield options we've got Deli Alley who scored goals can sing your league since he's been involved in the Premier League so I'm not concerned that we haven't got goals in us it's how good defensively we can be that's the thing newcastle's old no matter where newcastle are it's always a tough game no matter where they are whether the bottom of the league or the top of the league or the middle of the table it's always a difficult game I've got a decent record there but we've lost a lot of games there as well so for us we've got to go there and remember the game kill it if they're getting a head of steam off be clever, take time Jordan Pickford's not got he's got to be calm he's being dragged into spat with newcastle fans before and it's cost them the game Markos Silver won a few years ago we've tuned it up and absolutely cruising and he started getting involved with the fans and then he made a couple of brass decisions and all of a sudden it's too true there's those kind of moments where you have to just let the thing play out we've got to remember newcastle even with the new shine on a brilliant side but they'll be invigorated and the crowd will give them energy and we've got to match that and we're not a brilliant side Do you think you'll make any changes in terms of the formation? I honestly don't know because he's only had one game it's dead difficult to see three tomorrow to try and have more control in my field but then he might look and go well we had lots of control of the weekend in my field in fact we dominated so it might be better playing and he might look at it and he said after the game didn't he why did you play trade the back and he said just looking at what we've got and where we are and wanted to have that little bit of extra security at the back maybe he'll adopt that same thing tomorrow but he did see on Saturday quite a bit was one of our centre back stepping into my field anyway and making that number up which was good to see that one and I think if Godfrey would have stayed on I think you'd have seen him joining in a lot more because of his pace because he'd already had one if he'd remember early on he went on a run and threaded one through to the charts and so it'll be interesting to see whether he does that but I look at it and think I don't believe that Ali and the bake will both be sure I think one of them will start so it'll be interesting to see how he changes that let's just look at obviously Newcastle I suppose Talisman absolutely 21 appearances he started 20 games he's got 5 goals he's got 3 assists he averages 2 per game he is definitely the Talisman he's definitely the one you look and think spark needs to try and make sure he doesn't get too much of a run at you he's lightning good drible and obviously in Chris Wood what he started doing I believe is playing St. Maxim and he was doing this with Callum Wilson to be fair as well playing St. Maxim just often almost in a 10 but in a free flow and that'll be dangerous because he is dangerous so it's all high and obviously not having been Godfrey's pace he has to defend a little bit deeper than what maybe we would have done but it's that difficult because both teams let's just look at their team last time out in the Leeds obviously playing on 4-3-3 John Joe Shelby in the middle of the park and obviously scored the winner on that deck but listen again they've got new signings they've got new centre back they've got Chris Wood obviously in there as well new centre midfielders so it depends how many changes they want to make and how quickly they want to they want to change things around so it's just really hard it's really hard to sit here I imagine like I imagine my target will play because he's season-prone so I think he'll come in at left back damn Ben like I say according to where he is he don't want to make it worse so he said the game might come a little bit too soon for him but I imagine Brunaw Gwmair I shall play because having a deviant like that who's got it good on the ball and got a big reputation it gives the crowd that boost he might try him for an hour and see what he's like and it's up to everything so make sure they look after that Chris Wood will play so you can plan for him which you mean the plan would have always been for him to start obviously being on the bench Wood's just such a awkward horrible customer to play against because he's quite quick he's big and strong and awkward and he's a threat and he's score goals against everything before so we'll have to be wary of him definitely I'm not reading that because that might change Everton have a higher win rate 43% on a higher points per game and 43 games played on a Tuesday then they do want any other day that's mad isn't it following their 1-0 win at Leeds last time out Newcastle looking to secure back-to-back Premier League victories for the first time since May they've won one in 11 home games this season won drone 6 lost 4 Newcastle having scored more than wanting any of their last 9 games since the 3-0 draw with Brentford in November just had a longer run without scoring more than one goal between August and October 2019 and outside there's more points in their first 4 Premier League games this season than Everton however since the trophies have picked up just 9 we've got 10 from 4 and we've got 9 from 16 fewer than any other team in the Premier League Newcastle have dropped the league high 21 points from winning positions this season while only West Ham 12 and Everton 11 have one more points from being behind which is mad isn't it Dominic Arddalun has scored in his last 3 Premier League appearances away against Newcastle and he's available the last opposition player to score 4 on the run was Daniel Sturridge and then the last trophies player to score the same as that was Kevin Campbell backing in 1999 and 2007 Dom is it he does like a goal against Newcastle he does a big opportunity to him and that will be an interesting decision as well you see the front 3 on Saturday was so fluid because it's the only thing that can go wide in Greek in that show you wonder if we'll ampat that I could have a down cut off the bench on it with like half an hour it would be lovely to see him coming on 3 with half an hour to go beautiful it's going to be interesting it's going to be fun to know what Frank Lampard is going to do and we've got new players and it's going to take time over the next few weeks to get an idea of what his what his favourite players are what his favourite formations are so it's really difficult at the moment what we can do is process that information as we get it so let us know your thoughts what would you go with for tomorrow's night at Newcastle United let us know your thoughts in the comments make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already join us over on Patreon where we do daily live videos the link is in the description and it's on the screen now thanks very much see you later