 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Liverpool vs Everton, the Merseyside Derby. The one we all love, the one we all wait all year for. It is, it is that time of year, it has been officially 22 years since we won at Anfield. But you know what? Will we ever get a better chance? Will we ever get a better chance at winning at Anfield? They're not there, those people are not there, those people. Liverpool have lost the last three at home. And yeah, I don't know how much more positivity I can put into this video than those. We're good away from home, we're actually good away from home. Like we're awful at Godderson, but at least away from home we're good. If you add all those things up, you can only mean one thing, surely? Surely you can only mean one thing. It's a great opportunity for us to go there and to get the win after all this time. Like you said, the crowd won't be there, so that's one less thing to worry about. And it very much is down to being able to keep them out I guess, it's a little bit. You know, the front three is fantastic because of any one problem. They've proved how good they've been over the last three or four years. But at the moment they're not a full strength, they're not playing very well really. You know, and Burnley and Brighton have gone there and proved that if you stay in the game and try to crowd them out, don't give them too many opportunities, you've just got to take your chance when it comes along. Both of those teams have managed to do it. The city beat them 4-1 and batted them, but they're the city and they just beat us. So, you know, I'm expecting Everton to go there with a defensive outlook but hope to play on the counter attack and hopefully nick something. Maybe a set piece because they're not great at defending set pieces. They've lost a lot of height in the team at the moment. We've got nothing Everton at the best. It's got the most goals from set plays this season. So, you know, maybe that's an area we can target them. The reasons for the defeat actually suit us down to the ground, you know, like you've just said, keeping it tight at the back and then nicking one. And I think that's what we showed in most of our away games, that we've got that ability. When we go away, we do tend to show the opposition a lot of respect and we've been pretty good or reasonably good at doing that. I know we've conceded a lot of goals recently and I think that comes down to messing with the personnel a lot. And I think that's what Liverpool have had to deal with. Obviously, with all the injuries they've had at centre back has completely disrupted them more than anything else. I don't think it's... I think for Liverpool, I don't think it's... I mean, obviously, the quality's been a massive drop-off. But it's moving players out of midfield. I think that's been the real issue for them. They are the real heartbeat of what they've done in the last couple of seasons. There's been that midfield winning the ball high and then giving it at that front through. You know, we know... You don't miss. We know Marnay and Salah are just incredible, absolutely incredible well-class players. The full backs get forward really well. But it's that midfield. And because that midfield's been broken up, it's just obviously caused them a lot of damage. So, you know, hopefully if we can go there and do what we've done in other away games. And, you know, we went to Old Trafford a couple of weeks ago and we stay in the fight. I know we can see the three, but we stay in the game. We'll tune it down at half-time. It's whether we've got that belief in our systems, whether the players have got that belief, because that's always been the thing missing, hasn't it, when there's a crowd there. Really, they shouldn't worry about that. There's no one there. It's a game of football. Liverpool aren't this impenetrable force. Quality, obviously. There's more quality in their team, but of life, I mean, Liverpool have just looked very human. You know, we sit here every year and do a preview. It's like, is this the year we can do it, and if we go and do this, we go and do that. And in some moments, it's work for us. You know, another times we've been beaten out of sight. But this year, going into it, you know, we're doing... Don't forget, however anyone wants to dress it up, we're in the fight for the top four still. But if we won the game, we'd be on the same point of the book. I mean, Klops already kind of pre-empted it and said, oh, to be on the same point of evidence, this time there isn't great. So he's already kind of put it out there, you know, self-fulfilling prophecy, that we beat them and go level with them. But we would, we'd be level with them with the game in hand. So we would be well in the fight for the top four, despite not even playing very well of late, our results of late haven't been really good. We've only conceded 11 goals away from home, and that's we're taking the three-year-old draft into account. So we're much better away to our own. We know we've led a lot of goals and we've been poor. But we're going to have to defend really well. You know, I thought for an hour against City, we stuck to our guns and we defended really well and then their quality, they stepped it up a little bit. We went a bit ragged at 2-1 and left it wide open and the subs didn't help. But for this one, we're going to have to maintain the defensive shape. You know, we've got to be wary of that angled ball, which gets mannau in behind our fullback or it gets solid in on the other side, because that's what Liverpool are very good at, that, you know, they get it to hand us and they play a diagonal and they run in behind you. If we sit on the edge of our box with not much space behind us, then that might, you know, it might have to be kind of the way we played at Leicester. We're very solid and don't give them room in behind. They're a better side than Leicester with more quality. I know Leicester doing really well, but I think overall Liverpool are a better team than Leicester when they're on it. But it's up to us to disrupt them and, you know, like you said, barely went there. Disrupted them, stayed in the game. OK, they needed Nick Pope to have a good day, so we're going to need whether it be Jordan Pickford or Robin Olsen to have a really good day. But Everton have got, you know, Dominic Calvert-Lewman's back, that changes our team anyway. Gives us another goal threat. If Arlon was back, that would be a huge boost again. But even just getting Dominic Calvert-Lewman back is a big thing. Obviously, Llewis and Gerry Meane is a bit of a blow, but... What does he do with the goalkeeping situation, because obviously Jordan Pickford played against Manchester City and I don't think he covered himself in glory for that third goal, but obviously with everything that's gone on in the last. Well, four or five months over the Vege van Dijk incident. No, obviously there's no fans there, so that shouldn't be really a problem. But obviously we know Jordan Pickford has had his moments at Anfield before anyway. So does he stick with him and, you know, just hope that he has a professional performance and gets through it, or does he not bring out the fire line, because I don't think that's the problem, especially if there's no fans there. But does he bring them out to get them out of his own head, or do you know what I mean? I think I'd play Olson Saturday. OK. I don't know, though, because Pickford's kicking's better. And they do press high, and we might need him, especially if Dom's back, we might need him hitting Dom. So there is that element. I'm just concerned that the spotlight's fully on him, then in the game. So everything he does in the game might say he has to come out, you know, the referee's thinking, I don't like that penalty over it. You know, there's that coming through. I don't know whether it will come into call on Antelott. He's thinking that's just my thinking, as I never told me. You're looking and thinking, oh, don't give anything stupid away. Don't give them an opportunity to be on the referee or whatever. So, you know, maybe Olson might be a little bit calmer in that situation, because if Pickford's on the bench, then that's one headache out the way. And Antelott, he might say it like that. Or he might say it like, no, we need his kicking. Yeah, tactically. Dominic Carver-Lewin in and knock on his back and mow shallers bearing down on you, then Pickford can strike it off. No, you're right tactically, you know, for my kick. Pickford's kicking is much better. And we've seen that he can drill balls into Dominic Carver-Lewin and get it. You know, when you're playing a good side and you need that ability. And don't forget, Trent Alexander-Annold, leaves the door open for a ritual. He's running in behind and might take a pick for that. And also, listen, if you ever play at the back, Dom's going to, I fully expect Dom to have the better of them. You know, because I don't think they've got that authority at the back. No. Cabax, if you come in, it's not quick. It's so kind of crisp on the red man. He looks at good play, but he's not quick. You know, and they've had Jordan Henderson who's not slow, but he's not quick. Plus he's at a position to lock this. Yes. Because he's a midfielder, you'd expect it. So there's definitely opportunities for him. You decide that there's a narrative for Jordan Pickford to be a hero in this game. Do you know what I mean? No, but there is always. Yes, there is. We sometimes play it down or play it up the wrong way. But what about Jordan Pickford being a hero in a game? To be incredible for him, I think, in his confidence, if he could go to Manfield, keep a clean sheet and have a really important game. I mean, I've ever won the game, and I've had somebody won the game, and he made a couple of great saves, but I'm just calm, nothing coming of it. It was just a calm performance, wasn't a ratic. And we got out with a great result, and he was key in that. I think it's calm, because don't forget, I think in everyone's mind, the Amfield woman he threw her in a riggy took his stock down massively and never told me his eyes. I mean, he's never properly recovered from it. I think it took his stock down everywhere. I really do. I think that was the moment where it was like... It gave them something, didn't it? Yeah, definitely. And then, you know, from then on, he never looked sure of himself, and then that puts the doubt in people's minds and stuff. Left five in there last season. Yeah, so it's, you know, I don't think, I don't think, say any from the last couple of performances of Robin Olson, you could go out. We've got to play Robin Olson, because you know that. He's a number two. I know he's Sweden's number one, but he looks like a number two. I've said this all the time. He's a competent goalie. Yeah, I buy him to be our number two, but I wouldn't buy him to be our number one. I don't know, there's something in me that feels like it could be a redemptive story for Jordan Pickford in this game. If there's any, if there's anything, and there's not enough between them. If there's anything for him, like any good stuff for him to come, he has been battered from pillar to post. This would be a nice story for him, wouldn't it, to go and have a really good game and a calm game and not do anything rash and get for evidence to get a big result, because it'd be nice for him, but obviously I'm sure a lot of Liverpool fans won't want him to play or if they do, you know, you know, it's one of them. It's where the Carlo Anciolotti feels like. The spotlight will be on him too much for this game, whether there's another narrative there because of him, or whether Anciolotti just goes, well, that's your goalie, he's round number one in his eyes and we need him because he'll get Dominic Hall that Louwen going or he'll get Richard Arlesen going, or he's, you know, I mean what, defensively what would you do? Because James Coleman never really plays at Anfield, if you've looked at things played there about Swife for us, but would you go more solid? Yeah, James Coleman's not playing for me, not yet, no chance. It's got to be the closest we can get to that solid and mean is not going to be available. So it has to be Hallgate, King, Godfrey and Dean. And I would have played all four in and played Dean at midfield again and gone solid, but I'd go with the three, definitely, and now Coleman not for me. Would you play Coleman higher up there? No, no, no. I'm just thinking of, what I'm thinking of is that obviously that side with Andy Robertson, we've got to keep him occupied as well, haven't we? So Hamers Rodrígue's out there might do that because he caused them issues in the Godderson Dab even though he was obviously banned. If there's a way to get, if there's a way to have Alan Tom Davidson, to Corey in the side, then I'd do that obviously. A lot of that relies on Alan's fitness, but that's what my midfield three would be. And now to what my midfield three would be for a lot of the rest of the season. So what would you front three be then? Let's say Alison Domin, would it be Hamers or would it be a Woby? No, I'm just asking, I don't know. Because Hamers can also make it a fourth midfielder then by dropping into that hole to almost get close to the top. I think with that three in midfield, I think you're getting, and you're looking at the Corey being the one who does break. I think you can rely on that three to create a shape and create, block out the lanes and get over. That's how he does that. Listen last time, straight off the bat, they targeted Coleman straight away because they knew Hamers wasn't providing any protection and they should go straight off the two minutes. And then when Godfrey come on, he's actually quieting that down at right back because of his pace. He had the pace, didn't he? And that might be interesting to see whether he goes and puts Godfrey at right back and put Holgate at the centre of his field. Well, I mean he went centre back. He went centre back against City, didn't he? I suppose he done all right. He didn't do anything wrong, did he? It might be interesting to see because Godfrey's got that pace out wide. That might be more of a... I think you'd like to see if we could go with that midfield if Alan's available. I think that would be a nice compact midfield for us and one that could compete because there is a key area and they did boss the midfield a little bit of good listen. Certainly for a percentage in the first half till we got grips with it after a bad half an hour. They had the best of the opening half an hour but it's going to be a big game and they're not playing well. That's all. They've had a win in the week. They've come off the back of a Champions League win and that takes... It's nearly a quiter. No, no, but it gives you... It'll give them a sense of confidence don't want it. We're coming off the back of two defeats. But what I will say is that Leipzig missed some good chances in that game to, you know... We'll get chances. We'll get chances. It's just whether we take them. It's whether we can take them, so... It's going to be a tough one. I mean, do we want the depressing stats? Have you got none depressing stats? Have you got like positive stats? Can you tell like how bad I want a weight on? Well, it's live up. I mean, this is a depressing app that's the longest ever unbeat none against us. 23 games. Yeah. It's just mad. 11 wins, swell draws. It's the longest win this run. It's the most drawn fixture in Premier League history. Is it? With 24 of the meetings between the two teams ending in draws and it's had more red cards than any other fixture in the competition. So 22 red cards. I'm just looking for something that isn't as... I mean Liverpool have lost five of their eight Premier League games in 2021. That's positive. Which is as many as they'd lost in 72 matches between 2019 and 2020. Ever... Go on. I was just going to say, we've had two Darby's behind closed doors, haven't we, Godderson? So it will just be dead way to see what it's like. Oh, it's like on the field, yeah. Listen to this run. Liverpool have only lost four home consecutive games once previously. That was in 1923. The last rain and tough flight champions to lose four home games consecutively was... Evan. Evan in 1928-29. Evan, they're unbeaten in each of theirs. We all know about the 28-29. That was a dodgy. We all know about that. We all know about that. It was cold feet a couple of games. Cut the plays were on rations. You were. You just didn't have the energy. Great depression, isn't it? That's what... It might actually be a bit better. Evan, they're unbeaten in each of theirs last seven Premier League away games winning five and drawing two. I don't want to talk about Mo Salas score. A million goals. Dominic Alvalun has scored eight Premier League goals away this season. The only Evan player to score nine on the road in a single campaign in the Premier League was... Macarthur. Yeah. Done it in 15-16 and 16-17. So, an opportunity for Dom to get two on Saturday and become the hero. The hero. The hero. Let's be honest that any Evan player who's scored a winning goal. Can we please have a hero? We need a name. We're holding out for a hero. No, but we need a name. Dabi. The hammer's Dabi. We all know what that... Who would you want it to be? What Dabi would you want it to be known as, this one? The Fabian Delph Dabi. Delph! Am adio ni? The Tom Davies Dabi. I love it. The Davies Dabi. I'd love it if it was Tom Davies, but I couldn't care less. Pickford drives it down the pitch. Alison Gove's charging out with Dom. They're both missing it. It bombs us in at the club. The Uncuncu Dabi. The Michael Keane Dabi. The Uncuncu Dabi. No, seriously. Tom Davies? Out of anyone if it's Tom Davies. Out of anyone. Out of anybody. Honestly. That would be my dream. Tom Davies going the winning goal on a major Dabi. Mati'n i'n ffrim. A'r scouser. Would literally just be. Be perfect. The greatest thing ever. Greatest thing ever. I think Dom's going the winner. Oh no, no. I'll be huge for him. I'll be huge for him. Take that next step up. But just be just. For some money. It would just be amazing. If it was. The tile on Yango Dabi. Come on. On Yango! It's time at 0-0 and he gets a tile on Yango. Like it. Where bro? He hit one. He hit one. Mati. We are only making stuff up now aren't we? We are just living out all our fantasy. Mati. Any Everton player mate. Any Everton play school. Oh my god. It would be amazing wouldn't it? It would be great to have. Like the Campbell Dabi. It would be great to have wouldn't it. The Tom Davies. Davies goes in for a block tackle. It's gone in! For Graham Stewart against Wimbledon. It would be lovely. But it's an opportunity. Without putting too much on it. This is the one. Because we went to an FA Cup game just over a year ago. Against their kids and everyone was like this. I'm not putting anything on this. This is the time. But what I would say is we're going in. Playing in an empty stadium. Against the team that hasn't got their best side out. They're struggling. And it's poor defensively. So it's an opportunity. It's whether Everton can turn up. See what happens. Display the bottle. And come out with the three point. I'm mad at you mate. I'm mad at you mate. It would take away the pain of Fulham and Man City. Quite easily. Take any. All the pains away. All the pains. You give me a pain. It's taking it away. That's all I'm saying. That's good. That's all we do it then. That's all we do it. There you go. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Not with any... Yeah. I can't wait for Sunday. I must admit. I can't wait for Sunday. I always love it when the Derby finishes. And you'd go. That's it for the season. And we can't get them in the Cup or anything. It's done. I think. Breathe for the next six months. But yeah. Let's win it. Let's just win it. There you go. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. 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