 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the final word, Everton Nill, Manchester United 2, it's a stripped back version, it's basically the equivalent of the game, you know, they're not going to have a go, we're not going to have a go, no it's basically Christmas Eve now, and you know we thought it's Christmas, we can't be spending our time in the studio when we can easily just do this, so Bras has got a bag of nuts and a box of aftereits, and he's got some bayleys, and he's going to smash it. Bayleys are there, the bayleys on the house is ready to go. That was crap wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, it was, yeah, I don't know what to say, it was disappointing wasn't it, it was a game that looked as though the players were naked in, the crowd, you know, all of the tried the best, didn't change the atmosphere, it was the energised the players, you know, and I think the biggest thing that I took away from it really was just the difference in the quality of the squad, you know, I think it's a big change, isn't it, the teams still look like a team, I could finish in the top six, you know, and we've, the bench they're bringing on, Marcial and Brasford and we're bringing on 1000, and that to me was the biggest marker of anything else, of the difference in the quality of the squad, so really. Yeah, no I've said that in me after my transaction, you look at the start on 11, you know, obviously he said he was going to change the goalkeeper, he brought Olson in, he brought Seamus Coleman back, which no real surprise by that, but I was a little bit surprised by starting with Gomez and Guilfe Sigarton, cos I just thought I feel sorry for the corey's legs, because simply he would have to do all their all their running really, and that's how it proved to be, and it's a squad, isn't it, you know, it's great just being tough and getting through games and celebrating three wins, where really we've dug in and we've raked really hard, but here as it takes a toll, it takes a toll, doesn't it, and if you haven't got the squad and you haven't got the players on the bench, it'll come back to hawn, you know man, you like to have changed nine players tonight, and you could see the freshness and they were all still, quality weren't they, they were all still quality players, whereas ours, we haven't really changed anyone apart from a couple of players, and we looked like it, we looked really jaded, really tired, players just couldn't go that extra bit and, you know, you look at that at first 20 minutes, Jesus Christ, ah, we escaped that first 20 minutes without conceding, I'll never know, it was like the Alamaldi through everything garras, but a lot of it was just down to our own sloppiness and our own inability to get into the game. Yeah, I said that on my, my maths reaction at the opening 25 minutes of the game, they just bossed it didn't they, they just looked, like you just said there, they looked more energetic than us, they looked sharper than us, and it was some of the, like you say, some of the problems were us just giving the ball away and players who, like Ben Godfrey's being excellent, and he still, he was out, you know, I thought he was decent again tonight, but just a couple of times in that first 25 minutes, one he started to let run out and the lads kept it in and you know, it wasn't decisive enough, another one he's under hitter pass and that was a theme in that opening 20 minutes, nobody for passable, Gomez was under it and everything, sick it, they all were every one of them done it and United were all over us and Dave Freshness really put us on the back foot and it was, it was a bit embarrassing really, the opening 20 minutes because we just couldn't get out of our aft and you're absolutely right that it was a little bit by hooking, a little bit by croak that we didn't concede, wasn't it? You know, Olson's made a couple of good saves and, but even he was at it, he tried to turn and it's a shame and he ended up having to put a tackle in, but I thought once we got through the first 25 minutes, the game settled down then and I guess from that point on, Everton nullified him really, he didn't really have anything after that, of any note, so if you're looking for, you know, you probably should always try to take a ball. So if you're looking for any kind of positive, the fact that it stays so tight until the last minute or so, it will, it's testament to Everton's being able to put a structure in place on where to that and nullify, nullify them and they got away with the couple, don't forget, you know, Bruno Fernandez, couple of nasty challenges. But I was, yeah, yeah, come on to that. But no, like, yeah, we got through that. I mean, it's funny because you just mentioned it. It was just so early on, you could see almost players straight away being really phagic in their play and they're coming across like not just, not just what they did in terms of their body, but their mind like really slow at reacting to things and seeing things that normally in those few games we'd see early. And I don't know whether it was because there was almost like a change of emphasis with just a couple of players not having that hold in midfielder, not having, you know, holgate it right back and having that right back so that he was going to start attacking and just sort of playing out from the back, no, and they were going to play in their counterattack. I think that just, I don't know if that change of emphasis hit some of the players and, you know, you're right, funny, no, Olson, I've just done the player ratings and I did it live and I've seen a couple of people having a go at Olson, but he kept us in that game in the first 20 minutes. He made a couple of really important saves that, you know, I'm not saying Jordan Pickford wouldn't have made those saves, by the way, not at all, but I'm just saying he made that mistake yet and that was, that was bad obviously, but he made, he made a couple of really important saves that kept us in the game. And you're right, it's settled down and sadly it's settled down, but we never really grew into the game with numbers and again I, and, you know, I look at that again and think the lack of ability to add players going forward was, again, was a real, is a real issue at times. I mean, it's, you know, we've got through the last three games through defensive ability and nicking goals and that's not always going to be there. We didn't, you know, when you're lacking players and you're looking for those solutions, that solution I thought just wasn't there tonight. We never looked like we were going to nick a goal. We never looked like we were going to get that little bit of luck we've had in the last few games where we've grabbed the goal out of something or off a set piece. United looked like they were a little bit too smart for that. At that, the hindsight of the three games, the scouted the three games and seeing where we'd nicked goals, they really done a number on Dom for a lot of the time, you know, putting a couple of players on him. And it stopped us just getting any momentum when we did get going forward. And really, we were, at some point, we were massively relying on Sigarton. And, you know, when he had the ball at his feet and if you're massively relying on Sigarton, then you know you've got a few problems really. Yeah, I actually, I give him man of the man. No, I don't, I don't he play well. But for the simple reason, what I said was, I think like, I thought Colman don't alright on his comeback. I thought, I thought defensively we were okay. I thought Keane and Mina were fine, awesome. But I thought the only way we looked like we'd do anything offensively was from the foot of Guilfee Sigarton. I thought that Charlotte was poor. He was poor, yeah. And obviously ended up going off injured. And I thought we really are, but offensively was just sloppy at times when he kind of do the hard stuff. And then when it became time to play that simple pass, he complicated or tried something else that wasn't on. And I found that more frustrating than anything in the final third. We did it three, four, five times in the second half. Players would do the hard work like Sigarton done one where he battled with Pogpin. He got away from it. And instead of just playing the pop on a simple ball off, he tried to turn him again, lost eight or something counter-attacking. You know, we've seen it with Shane Towson at the end of the second goal. You know, there's six men to pass in the hitter to the only United players. So, you know, it was frustrating like that, but it was. And I understand why the manager did it. We were talking, I don't know whether it was yesterday on the Christmas show or whether it was today on our live show. We were talking about like, do we go strong with the line-up? And you were saying, well, when does he change it then if it isn't tonight? And you can see that. And it's just frustrating because when we do change it, we are at that situation at the moment where the players who come in aren't at the same level as the other players. And therefore, we aren't like Manchester United. We drop considerably. And that's not, you know what that might be as well, just lads who aren't used to playing. We've seen it with a woby, the fact he's had five, six games now. He's looking like he's at it and he knows what he's doing. But when he was coming in once and going out again, he looks like Bernard, got nice little tricks, doesn't go anywhere because confidence isn't there. So he passes it back. And that to me was the biggest issue to me. Well, I said that the other day about Tom Davis coming into the side. And again, you get all the same noises about when Tom Davis comes into the side. What does he do? He's a joke. He's a championship player. I see all the comments. But it was so evident that that midfield needed him tonight, whether you like him or not, just the fact that he knows how to sit in front of a back four and be a thing, literally just be a thing, you know what I mean? Just stand there and be a thing. Whereas Andre Gomez has just lost any semblance of being a, of understanding what his one role is in the team. Do you know what I mean by that? Like, you know when he first came in and he was like this. It wasn't a box to box midfield. He was a get on the ball and he uses strength and he'd maneuver. People ran and he played a nice little pass and then he'd get up the pitch a little bit and kept on just playing in, playing in sorts of every 10, 15 yards. We're now a watchman listening. You know, he's had a terrible injury and I appreciate that. But this was coming in before he got the injury. Let's be honest. This, you know, in the second season, he was. He put we've so many times we said this the way he plays his own game. Like he plays in this little box where he doesn't think anyone can touch him or anyone can take the ball off him. And that was so evident tonight. The way people run just run past them is, you know, and that when you're watching him and Sigarton, you just think there's no way you can get away with both of them being on the pitch and it's no disrespect to Guilfee. Guilfee is, you know, playing now in his 30s and you only going to get so much from him. You know, it's only a few weeks ago that we were bemoaning and you're right again. Guilfee might be the type of player that does need four, five, six games to get up to speed with the Premier League. And it might be the same for on Jay Gomez, but I don't think I still don't think you can get away with both of them. And it's just crying out for some dynamism in that midfield. And of course we're missing Alan and beyond that, there's very little else. And I felt sorry for the Coray tonight because I just he wasn't involved in anything because it was hard to him to just get going and do one particular thing. It was like he was having to cover everybody else. Exactly. The one in the second half where he went and pressed the throw in the centre back and then the goalie. And I'm thinking that's not your job. Your job isn't to run 50 yards to do everybody's presence. But because nobody else was doing it, he thought he had to go and do it. And I think I think you're right with the time that you just think, listen, there's people who don't like him. And I understand it fine. You understand it. Everyone's got an opinion that's fine. But it's like we've said a lot of times and I see this with other clubs and I was talking to Cain who'd been a match before and he was like, obviously devastated and, you know, he's like, I've seen worse teams than us winning this cup. Why can't we ever do it? But the reason is a lot of those teams were worse than us. I have a framework and you look at players and go, I wouldn't have James MacArthur in the big field forever. Right. But he plays for Palace and they say he's really important. Because now some fans are like him someone. There's other factors players people said for years about Jordan Henderson. Wodd na fymur efo ni's crap i's this i's that. They all feel a role in a team. Tom Davis doesn't get in our best 11. Everyone would agree that we know that. But we haven't got Alan at the moment. And you know, just going back on your, so Davis is probably the closest player you've seen that. Exactly. Delph's never bit. Delph's never bit. So you can't look at him. Get back man, see Delph. So therefore if you look at, if you look at Davis, he's the only one that can go in there. And what you're saying about Andre Gomez is right when he came in, he had gone and put everything out behind him. So he didn't have to worry about that. He didn't have to care about what was going on behind him. Because gone and mocked it all up. So he watched them if he got on the ball and took it right and took it left and popped it off and got it back. And it was great because we didn't have that. So he was a real difference. Plus he had that confidence to go by players. At the moment, he's suffering with a massive lack of confidence. You can see that. That's why he's trying to force everything. That's why it's not on, you know. And then we've got the situation where he physically for whatever reason, he ain't at the level he was before the injury. And he might take him another six months to get there. I don't know, he might never get there. We don't know, do we? But just right now, you're absolutely spot on. And we feel that has him and Guilfini ain't going to function against people who can run up and down. Now, you looked at Guilfini Sigarton, like I've just said, I thought he was our most creative player, which is why I thought he was the man of the mat. But you looked at the direct comparison with Bruno Fernandez for that. Not younger, more mobile, dangerous. Snared. Snared, well, yeah. But the snared, the snared, and he is a snared. He's got all of that up. He pops into that. Now, okay, second half, Everton did the good number on him. He went out of the game, really. He probably went out of the game. But he'd shown enough by making those runs that he'd worried us, so we dropped deeper and deeper. Where we didn't have that, we had Sigarton. If you looked at it tonight, I was saying this to my dad earlier on, we were playing basically a 4-4-2. Sigarton was up front alongside Calville. They were not just trying to top pro a 4-4-1. But they had the three men in midfielder. We couldn't get near them because there wasn't the mobility in that midfield to get near them. Yeah, and you're right what you say there because they're bringing like Paul Pogwin into their midfield. You know, as a back, as coming off the bench, he's playing tonight. We don't have anybody and I'm not blaming anyone because it's because the replacements are. I don't forget we finished the season with with our sentiment field. I've like Tom Davis, Guilfee Sigarton, and on Jay Gomez, just the three of them going round in circles, rotating, playing in a 4-4-2. We've brought in obviously the Corey and Alan, as you mentioned Dean, Delft doesn't play and Gabbaman who knows when he'll be back. So now we need to go out and buy just players who are potentially better than Alan, who are potentially better than the Corey or on the same level. So you've got that competition. So when you haven't got Alan, you've got a like for like, or at least go into the 23s and try to grab someone. And maybe the back person's not. I mean, we hear names all the time and maybe that person's not ready quite yet. But let's hope that that player gets fast tracked into the squad so they can be the next one. So that when we're looking, we're looking for the next one. We've got the next one there. You can physically do the job, Alan, the Corey, because at the moment like we're saying, it's Gomez and Sigarton. And then I don't know where you look. Maybe after that, where the Wobby can be groomed for that sort of central position. But we just simply lack the numbers in the squad. You look at the bench and you're not, you know, a team that brings on Tom Davis, Towson and Bernard. You know, what are they going to do to change your game of football? When you, when it's, what makes it worse is when it's nil nil in the second half and you've still got a chance of winning the game. Like, do you know what I mean? That's like, that's the desperation, isn't it? It's like they're going to win the game. They bring Marshall on. They bring Rashford on. You know, Luke Shaw. I mean, everyone wants to bring on Luke Shaw when you want to, when you want a game of football. But that's ultimately the difference, isn't it? That's where we are right now. And I feel the same about that as it did before the last three wins. You know, you asked me after the Baylor game, you said, well, what are you talking about? My thoughts were, we need to go and buy players. We need to give this manager better players and it's exactly the same thoughts now. This squad is only going to get to a final of a carabau cup if all its players are fit, if Deane's fit, if Allen's fit. And, you know, and Hamasrodd's league is, you know, still technically one of the best players in the world, not available for tonight. No one even mentions that. We were so quick to talk about the pleasure on the pitch. We're not talking about the pleasure on the pitch, the pleasure could have come on, at least they made a difference tonight like Hamasrodd's league is for the last. Imagine if we brought Hamasrodd's league is on for the last 20 minutes tonight and we're nil nil. Exactly you've got someone suddenly who might just make that little bit of magic. You know, look at what he set up against like Fulm, the two, you know, pre-assists. That's what we're missing and it's because our best players are not playing. So let's not all be like doom and gloom. I'm saying you're not doom and gloom. I'm disappointed that we didn't win the game and disappointed we were out. In fact, with five minutes to go, I was preparing myself for which disappointments I was going to have losing with a late goal or losing on penalties and it just happened that it was a late goal. I mean, I was preparing myself for one of them. But that was it, isn't it? You know, we are, we are, you know, we are in a situation where I think I've seen an interview before with Michael Keane. I was doing an interview for Premier League Productions and he played a VT of Michael Keane and he just said we all feel like we're in the right place, but it might take another year. And that's sort of like where I'm sort of my mindset is at the moment is that you can see it's there, but it's not there because the squad is just, to be a top side, you've got to have depth. You've got to look to your bench and worry the opposition with your bench. You've got to be able to worry your own side. When you see, you know, plays are going to, let's be honest, like the Charleston run through brick walls for us. You can't, you can't, you know, you can't say, oh, he doesn't get it. Mad things happen like that tonight where he gets a concussion. The lads like once they go on the pitch, he probably doesn't know what country he's in. No, he doesn't know where he is. Everybody's like, oh, you know, you can't help that kind of thing. That happens on the pitch now and again, but when you bring Bernard on, you're just like, well, they go 60%. Do you think he should have bought Gordon on there? Do you know what I think it was almost? Do you know when you're playing Pears, right, and you get that option for the quick sub and you're always pressed the wrong button by accident? I think it was a bit like that. I just think he went, um, Bernard, you're the close. I can see you. I can't even remember the ginger kid's name. Um, I don't say I don't know. Listen, people have got, I've seen it again tonight. People are people have people where they're rightly or wrongly. People want to see Anthony Gordon. People are desperate to see Anthony Gordon. People think he could make a difference. I actually said in my funny enough, I said in one of my videos that I thought maybe it should have been Gordon. I was criticized for that because other people because we had criticized people for calling for Gordon. But I just thought we're 25 minutes to go at home in a Neil Nill Tye at Gouldersham Park with fans in there. I think Gordon's reaction would have been better than Bernard's. That's purely on emotion. I don't know whether football people factor in emotion. We do because we're fans. We always say we talk with our hearts and our heads. Does the manager factor in that emotion of what that kid could do? Because sometimes football decisions are made like that. Would Ben Godfordy have ever gone on our side at Leffbach if it wasn't for an injury to Delf and it just happened on that day? He probably thought I'll play your Leffbach. I don't think he would have. Sometimes that happens in football. You stumble, don't you? And maybe Anthony Gordon coming on there. That's the little thing he needs. I don't know. I'm not going to go against Carlo. I think that we're hyping Gordon up because we want him to be something that we haven't got. That's not always the case. This and we've watched enough football us now. That's definitely not the case. It's definitely not the case. I'm not. I'm certainly not having to go with Carlo for it. I'm just saying to think Gordon might have been a better option on Bernard and I'm someone who's defended Bernard and really like him as a footballer. I just don't. I just think even if you talk about Gomez in his first season and Goddy was looking at Bernard in that first season he was a real threat going forward. He was running, he was running. You get your head down and go. Now it's all safe. Everything's dead safe. It's get a touch, turn, pass it back, get a touch. We had one in the second half late on. So it's 0-0. We have the ball, it's worked out wider Bernard and he turns back which is fine and then it's like right throw the ball into the box now and he knocks it back and all of a sudden it's back with Olson in two passes because we've gone back to the half railing and then they press us and it goes back to the goalkeeping. You're like we had that on the edge of the box. That should have been whipped in to save Duncan get something on it. And you know, we've seen that in the first half. You know, we had, if you think back to once we'd survived that opening in 25 in that first half, Guilfeyd went on the first run and he went mad off four men. He just couldn't, I think he's shocked off a block. And then Michael came in on a great run and got us a free kick and you know, Sigarton, it's a crack on free kick for once. And the Henderson makes a great save from it. Brothers and that, we didn't really create anything of any note. I know, you know, after the 25 minutes, they didn't either, but for us as the home side. Yeah. Because too many times when we got in decent areas and you think and throw it across, we made the wrong decision. We had one with me. Go on. No, go on. Let's go on. Continue. I was going to say we had one where we broke into the challenge and it's like if you just lay it, Sigarton went wide and you think and thread it to Sigarton and carry on your run and he'll give it back. Do you think, do you think of a challenge on suffering from a confidence issue because he had one in that second half at the glarecite end where he had it on the left and he cut in and he got it on his right foot and I told you just did this and then he turned back again, but he had no way to go. And I'm just thinking you got it on because we were talking about this about the game on Saturday where he did the same thing, but he touched it too soft and he gave the defender a chance to clear it which he did for a corner. But he actually got inside the full back tonight and he just instead of hitting it, he checked back and I was thinking, what are you doing? That's not like you. So I don't know whether it is like a crisis of confidence with Charleston. I don't know. I really don't. I know he's not at the levels at all and knowing nearly the levels. Maybe he is confident. Maybe he's feeling. Don't forget, right? He come to us with, you know, Michael Silver signed him and he come into us and he scored goals straight away. You know, that first season at Wafford, he'd only scored five goals, I think. And I don't think he'd scored from Christmas onwards. And he come in and obviously he got two at Wolves Day one at the Grand Running and then we looked to him and he was really good and the man had to play him through the middle and everything was great. And then last season, you know, done really well. Dunk put him up front with Dom. He played in a 4-4-2 and he scored a lot of goals. And then this season, he started off playing well. You know, don't day one, he could have had two at Tottenham. He's just, you know, just hit the cover wide. But he was doing well, you know, involved playing really well, not getting the goals but doing well. And then obviously, the send and off knocked him a bit. He got a bit of an injury, he got the send and off. Don't forget he missed a month of football. Yeah, yeah, and he's just been back. He came back against Fulham, didn't he? But within a couple of minutes, well, within 40 seconds, we'd seen the 30 years when he set Dom's goal up. So there's a little bit. He's been coming back, but he's not at his level. And I think you're right, I think he's someone because he's now in the Brazil side. He's someone who takes not scoring goals as a, he's taking it now as if, like, a wonder if they'll think I'm not doing as well over ever. And I think he's piling pressure on himself. I think there's something there. I think he's still working as hard. I don't think he gets as hard. And for that, it's just that his end product just isn't happening, whether he doesn't like the position. I don't know or I don't know what it is. He just doesn't look happy with it himself. It's fine for everybody to see that, but he's fine to get back on the pitch and made up someone grab them and took them down the stairs, but it's mad. Let's just talk about. Go on. No, go on. Because we got in at half time. It was mill milling. You think you're right. OK. We dragged ourselves back into this game because 25 was one side at one. Yeah. Where did the storm? Yeah. I was saying to me that at half time. The best thing about that is I thought after about 10 minutes we were going to be 3-0 down at the break of the knot. And now, if we can make a goal, I'm confident we can defend. And we came out the second half and they didn't really do anything either. Everybody was just played in the middle of the park, really. They didn't really cause us any issues. It was getting niggly. We looked like we might have a counter-attack in us. That one you're talking about where the charlots can get it. You think let's get a couple more of those situations. There was just one over hit to Guilfee. There was one with a wobby where he couldn't get Coleman in. He should have played her inside. And then we had the Coleman one where he tried to play Domin and he should have gone to Guilfee. So we had those moments where it was almost coming off for us. And you're thinking if we can just get a set play or something, we might nick this. And I was even thinking to myself if we win it. OK, it won't be a great performance. And we can't. We're not going to get away with this. No. Week after week after week. But it's momentum. Yeah. And then obviously we lost the charlots and that changed the game a little bit. Although they still didn't really do anything. You've just nailed it though there. It was the last... This reminds me of last year in terms of when we had Dunk when we had those games and every game we just got a little bit less and less and less. And we had the less the game which obviously we drew 2-2 but then it beats on pens. And we get to the Saturday and we played Arsenal and we were... Both teams were just happy to get a draw out of it simply. And you've seen the last couple of games Arsenal the last sort of 15 to 10 minutes or whatever last five minutes. We were dropping off a little bit. We didn't have quite that threat going forward. And tonight we had day for long periods where the fatigue started to kick in you. Trying to play the same way but the fatigue just won't let you. I don't think or you've run out of ideas or you've run out of options from the bench or you haven't got rich arlasen. So they are the same kind of performances. And we're not kidding ourselves. We're not saying any of the three wins were amazing. They were good defensive displays going forward the way. We got our goals. But we haven't really like too much of a glove on them sailing in the second half of a couple of the game. So tonight it was just felt like they just had that little thing and we knew they had that little thing. Do you know what I mean? There's only had to look like when they brought up like for Solskjaer they must have been flying confidence wise. In terms of a way wins. So they're looking at it going. They never scoring against us here because we didn't look like scoring and if it being the other way around we'd be the same. We'd be thinking they never going to score and I've got these coming off the bench. We'll get this, don't worry. We hang on. We've got that mentality of a man United. You score like goals. Even when they got the goal just three minutes to go. Three minutes to go and we've got the ball. It's all rush, rush, rush, rush. They get the ball. Someone just runs into midfield. No one goes near them and he plays a ball to Cavani. His first touch is fantastic, by the way. Sends Ben Godfrey the wrong way and this is the problem when you have actually got people playing full back who have full backs is Cavani's whale class. He just shifts his body with one touch. Gets on his left foot and bang it to goal and that's the difference. There was no, they were in no hurry. Even with three minutes to go they were in no hurry because they had quality and they had assurance and confidence in themselves where with us we're blowing out of our ass we're down to the bare bones. They're not. They're bringing their first teamers on to win them a game with ten minutes to go. That's the difference isn't it? That pure having that little people, you know, people can scoff with Cavani but that's what you bought them for to have games like that, that little bit of class. Okay well, I'd love to have them. That first touch was unbelievable, by the way. Well it was, listen that I agree with you. I mean, I think the touch probably would have took everyone off because he just took it across from us. And what he does really well with the finish is he doesn't give anyone a chance to get set. It's inside and he's hit it so all the pushing can't get set and it's right in the hole. Oh it doesn't drop. So, no that sort of and what I'm saying with us is we had opportunities in the first half to get shot away on the second half and it's trying to get it almost perfect before a kick it whereas he's took a touch and gone bang and before you know it it's passing you're one mil down. And then we still, you know, five minutes injured each time. We had opportunities to put the right ball into the box. You know, I think we had a corner and we took a shot and shagged and floated it in. And they keep a takes instead of firing it in. Then we had the one with Bernard when he'd done a nice little turn and got brought down on him. Again the same thing. That ball should be fizzed in where it can take a flip and it could end up in the net. We've missed those opportunities and you're right they never want you. That was the difference and I don't know whether it's because you know, they've won 10 Premier League games away from home. They've won every away game this season and I don't know whether it's that confidence of like you said of knowing that you've got good players that he didn't snatch your things and he just went through the gears and gone to Marcia, Lee knocked it in Cavani scores and then he soaked up the pressure from 1000 gift of all away and very much like the league game they break down the other end and kill the game off. You're left to prove opportunities but to be honest pet I'm disappointed but I'm not gutted and I'll tell you why I'm not like totally like losing it because when I see you when you look at the squad today I just didn't have the belief that this team is good enough to win this trophy when city is still in it when they like to sit in space. Man, you're like a true city didn't you? Yeah, it is what it is. I'm looking at Saturday now with more you know, more like emphasis on it'll be difficult for all the reasons you said because those players are running on empty. Yeah, yeah. It's up to the manager, isn't it now to he's going to have to roll a dice on some of these players he's going to have to make decisions because is it what's the point of having a player who might be 50% when you could have an Anthony Gordon who's had 100% who wants to make an impression who wants to do something surely this is the time when you've got to start making those decisions about the squad if you don't fancy sitting players you don't fancy, you know, a tossing or you have to play tossing then getting out of Sims on the bench or and a young and young or someone like that whoever you know what I mean you know, you have to start rolling the dice this is the time we're in a nice little position in the Premier League you know, we've coming off the back of three wins there's no there doesn't seem any point in flogging players till you know they're gone and maybe that was the point or long maybe thought I'll play a few of the first teams tonight see what they've got left in the diavans then we've got three Premier League games coming up in the next week and we're going to have to move a few people round for that because it's very clear people are are struggling a little bit at the moment so and that might be again why he's left Hamas Rodriguez it might have been a case of like what we said when he played against Southampton where it was like you know, he was 75% fit played the game but didn't really make an impact whereas on Saturday against Sheffield United he might be 100% fit and makes a huge impact because that team tonight really could have done with her 100% Hamas Rodriguez but clearly he's not fit Yeah, no absolutely right and maybe Saturday will be play Mason Holgate missed out tonight but maybe on Saturday he'll add a wee back in a right back or he will try him in midfield and tackle some legs in there to compete so Yeah you're right, the manager's going to he's got some difficult calls to make now because obviously I know he said he's got no regrets about going out tonight for the way he played and stuff but if we can get a win on Saturday then we'll be sitting pretty then we'll be with sitting to come on the Monday because the games are coming thick and fast Just before we wrap up what did you make of like obviously we didn't have VAR tonight and I felt like the referee was almost like didn't know how to referee the game properly because there wasn't any VAR it was dead weird there was a few occasions where just things just seemed to stand out and yet he just completely missed them there was one in the second half of Cavani clearly and Baldic but and got through and nearly I think we had to make it safe for him it's like loads of really like stupid things that are in the old days would have been spotted I mean all right the Cavani one with his hand around mean his neck I mean I don't know what VAR would have made of that but there was definitely something in it wasn't there so I I thought that and I thought of a charlison incident I thought that was really poor by the left tonight Yeah definitely and you know what it is it must have been weird because they are they have been used to having someone else watching it haven't they and being able to to have their input in it and you see in Fernandez he could a bit of a note he tackled in on someone and then he shoves it to you and put them in danger How does he get away with it every game? You know and he gets away with it and then the Cavani one and listen there wasn't much in the Cavani one but he put his hands around mean his throat pushed him to the floor to red card he can't raise your arms you know not sat here going if only the ref had done this and that but it would have been very interesting with VAR to see how some of those decisions might have changed but listen we didn't have it and you know it's one of those things I think I just come out of it with you know just more emphasis like I say on Saturday now and just think if we can win Saturday then we keep going and until we can produce equal quality or near enough coming off the bench to like squads like United then there's a chance we will lose out in these big games because they can roll a dice and still have that quality at the minute we can't and he used to say with a fully 15 we wouldn't have beaten him we don't know that's the problem isn't it? squad, the squad, squad's much better the stats we had three shots on target they had eight three shots off target they had seven possession 39% today 61% four corners today eight I think they had five corners in the first ten minutes eight files each they got four yellow cards we didn't have any yellow cards so yeah just a bad night I know a lot of people believe you know Evan were beating in the tunnel and there wasn't and maybe there was a case of that maybe there was a case of there just wasn't enough just wasn't enough I don't know aggression from the start but I don't know I don't know I'm not in the changing room I don't know who dictates that where that comes from Might have just been a game through many might have just been a game through many at the end of the day big games you know it's not like we had a game where we could take our foot off the pedal we had we've had four big clubs with big squads in the last in the last ten days and we were three or four men down as well as you know so listen if you dip off of me three wins and I defeat him then four games add a truck them you know what maybe add a truck them in the order we got them in I don't know because I just feel like who did who did you get in the draw I got a city so that wouldn't be that comfortable to get a city there is a I know I know you have got them at home no no no no that's all I'm saying there's always a chance of course there is and listen to like Cain had said to me before we're teams and us have won it but I just feel like until until we can't call on people off the bench who are getting changes then these games will always be probably us at the minute relying on a little bit of the rubber the key rather than us being able to rely on our ability so yeah disappoint it is very disappointing there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments yeah let us know this has been a stripped back back vision of the final words due to of course it being Christmas Eve let us know your thoughts as I said give it this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more great videos join us over on Patreon there'll be a link in the description and there'll be a link down here as well nice one thank you for watching see you later