 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is The Match Preview. The Maisie Side Derby at Anfield. Oh joy, oh joys. Can't wait, favourite game of the season, honest. I don't even know whether I want to do a match preview for this. It just feels like, it feels like we're just going to hate ourselves. Got an inevitability about that, but you never know. Michael Silver's last game has never managed it possibly as well. Could be. There's a lot of factors. Everton could go into the relegation zone if they lose the game and... No, they could, I think. I don't know, I don't know. Knowledge plays off at home, yeah, yeah. So if there's a winner in that and Everton loses them and in the bottom three as well. Joy of joys, I am sure. Going to see Jürgen clop running on the pitch. Sure, going to see Jürgen running around, beating his chest. If you haven't seen it, by the way, Adam Partonton has done a video for 888 Sport. Just watch this a minute. Jürgen clop is the biggest ego maniac in world football. Not just the Premier League, world football. What are you thought on that, Jürgen clop? Is he a ego maniac? Yeah, he is a ego maniac. He's a very good manager. Do you think Pep's better than them? I think Pep, yeah, because he's done more. But I mean, Adam's said 100 times, I don't think he's 100 times better than Clop. But I think he's a better manager because he's done more. But Clop is a brilliant manager. Yes, he's a ego maniac. And he does whether Liverpool fans like it or not. He does make a lot of the stuff a bar in. The cabinet always for the cabinet, isn't it? Do you think we'd like that though? Do you think we'd like a manager? Because we're looking at, obviously, talking and looking at managers at the moment. Do you think that we'd like that kind of stuff at Everton? I think some people would. You would. No, I would. Listen, if you want to watch more of that video, go and check it out on the 888 Sport. YouTube channel, the link is in the description. Make sure you leave a comment as well on it, whether you agree or you disagree on the matter. I know, one thing I'll say about you and Clop is, is that I think we would love a manager. We'd all love a manager who identifies as one of us, but shows a bit of passion as well, but it can't be phony. I suppose that's the thing with Clop, is it? Do you think it's phony or do you think it's real? I think, listen, a lot of what he does is real because he did it at Dortmund, but maybe that's his way of engaging. Sometimes I just think he plays up to the cameras. But isn't that just a motion? Listen, I think our current manager is like an Android, honestly. I think you'd have to plug in an emotion chip into the back of his head. He is what he is, and Clop is what he is, isn't he? Whether you'd prefer one or the other. Well, I'd 100 million times prefer a manager who shows emotion than one that doesn't. Because I know what you're saying. If you think it's fake, that's fine, it's a different argument. If you think it's fake, but I don't think it's all fake. I've just seen him do it at Dortmund and gone down to the crowd when he scored and all that. I'm not saying that, you can get caught. I don't like when he ran on the pitch in the derby. I didn't really have that much of a problem with it. I mean, you don't like to see it, but it was an emotion. Listen, I'd settle for anything with Michael Silver. We used to go to the Ninjas. Michael Silver runs down slide on his knees to the Everton fans on the pitch. And take the three, Matt Spanner wouldn't that. I mean, you'd have to take it somewhere else. Not a big money, wouldn't you? But you know, that's the way it is. So like I said, the real stuff and some of the stuff he does is genuine because he's in the game. But things like when they had a penalty and he turned and faced a stand and all that, that to me is just an overplay. But it works. Listen, what he's done is create a unity at Liverpool. What he's done is take Liverpool and I apologise for, but I'm going somewhere with this. What he's done is he's taken Liverpool from being a team that were around the same places as Everton and made them, you know, the European Championships and a team that I pace and he will go on to win the league very comfortably this season. And that shows you that if you get the right man in and he's the right fit for the club and he's given the right resources and it's done in the right way, that you can achieve what you want to achieve. It depends what you're trying to achieve, of course. But it does prove because Liverpool made a decision on Ben and Rodgers when he was at the club and he was finished eight because Klopp was available and they brought him in. But it proves that if you get the right man and he's the right fit for your club, Jadon Klopp might be the right fit for our club, let's say. But, I mean, I don't know. But what it means is if you get the right fit for your club and it fits what you want, then and the conditions are right, anything is possible. I suppose that's where we are now, isn't it? We're going into this, it's a tough game, but I suppose everybody is looking at that. There's Marko Silver, the right man for it with 18 months in. Results don't suggest that he's the right man. I've just lost a game at the weekend. If we lose this, it's going to be another three defeats on the run, another block of games. It's not like you said, we could go into the relegations zone with a defeat. That's where the club's at and the club has to make a decision on that. As far as the game's concerned, the toughest game we could have without a shadow, without the toughest game we have anyway, but particularly at the moment when Liverpool are absolutely flying. OK, they're not smashing teams, they're a sight, but they're durable, they're winning games, they're getting through games and doing what they need to do and they're going into a month with a lot of games. But, you know, I suppose from our perspective, you can take half from Brighton, almost nicked the point at the weekend, all Alison being sent off for Brighton. I'd probably rather have played them maybe in two weeks. Yeah. You know what I mean, maybe we'd be more sorted. I'd rather have played them in the ring cata and they let the 20-year-old. I'd rather have just shed his a 3-0 win. See you later, take the points lad, sit fine. I don't need the heartache, I can just take the results. The three men's centre off and just call it a 3-0 difference. Yeah, just call it that. But you'd listen, a Darby is a Darby. 20 years since we won it. Listen, we did a thing last week for the Premier League. One of the questions they asked us was, anything can happen, it's a Darby. And I just looked him in the face and went, no, it doesn't. The phone goes out the window and it doesn't. It doesn't go out the window. And one of the reasons why it doesn't go out the window for me anymore is because when this 20 years ago, 25 years ago, 25 years ago we played Joe Royal's first game and we won 2-0 and we were down pretty much where we are now and Liverpool were at the top, I think. And in those days the conditions were completely different. You could go round kicking each other for an hour and no-one would get booked in a Darby. That's the way it was seen. Now you can, now football takes over. There's no eveners in Darby's anymore. The pitchers are amazing. They have been for like 10 years. There's hardly a foul. Hardly any yellow cards anymore or hardly any red cards in them anymore and if they are they'll come to us. There's no great evener anymore in a Darby. This thing about phone goes out the window. I don't think that exists anymore. It's been the last few years that we haven't coped with them. We just don't cope with them very well and we've seen that last season where all we had to do was just see the game out and we couldn't do that because Jordan Pickford's worried about putting a ball over the bar because he's worried about us having a corner in the last minute. You know all these little things that mentally play their part that we just don't seem to be able to deal with? I think they're always tight affairs because of the night you're off them. It's like you go and look at the last 30 years that haven't been four nils at the end. No, but I'm not. I'm the last eight. What I'm saying to you is we went there on the Sam Alladys and we were letting five, and they were scoring sixes and sevens and we drew one one and then we went there back three weeks later and the FA Cup ended two one. You look at it, last year Liverpool were playing well and we made the drop. All right, we were going into a decent form. You know, we could have been tuning up by the time we conceded that goal. Okay, they had loaded the ball. Andre Gomez with a header, a yard out, that was not good. See, he doesn't hit the post from me. We had Jerry Meener there. One way Theo went on a keeper and couldn't get his feet sorted. We had Bernard Chanton on the second half. We had opportunities in that game and a game when people felt Liverpool would be too strong for us. In those games, now I'm not saying they won't be too strong for us in this game but what I'm saying is there isn't even it. There is a level it. It's how players cope. The two four nils, the first one, we were gung how for no reason. We had the players in who weren't fit when gung how and got destroyed and the second time we played and we were dead and buried and we played Brian of the Aether right back and everything and we just destroyed us that night. The absolute destroyed. Does he go for the same kind of tactics that he tried at Leicester? You know, depending on the personnel, of course. We're not blessed with plays at the moment. He started on the bench. Do we go with that and say, well, actually, that worked for a while? Or do we... I don't know. I'd go with... Listen, he's playing the best team in the land at the moment. He's only dropped two points. That was a roll traffic and he still nearly ended up winning that. He could have lost it and he could have won it. So, you know, you've got to try something. I would go with what we played at Leicester cos we just played it and we don't know right with it. What the manager has to do is react better. Now Liverpool haven't got Alasen and they haven't got Fabinho. So it might only be 8-1. No, but... No, I'm messing. So, therefore, the nor is not at full 100% strength. And I think we don't know right against the second best team in the land at the moment, which was Leicester. We've done very well, which is another point. So I don't see any point in riffing that up and going, let's go back to 4. I'd do the same again. Make sure we fill in the spaces like we did. Liverpool are a real threat from the wide areas, but if we've got 5 at the back or a wing back, then you might cancel each other out. And I think what we do is, we have Retialasen, maybe Dom again and say to him, get in the game and we knock a few long balls and get them spinning into the channels and just try and make it difficult for them because what else are we going to do? Are we going to go and match them up and try and play 4-3-3? Well, we haven't got our best midfield. So their midfield is better than ours. So it's difficult then. So I think what you'd have to do is you fill in the spaces and then play down the channels and try and get people running in behind van Dijk, get Retialasen facing them up or get Dom to get a little bit of it. I think you might play Retialasen off of this one and bring Snaddle into that midfield as well. Honestly, I can. I can see Bernard playing to be honest. I can see Snaddle playing but I think Tom might come out. Tom Davies might come out but I'd take Sigarton out to midfield because he's... basically. I'd have Snaddle in midfield by the Wolverine Davies who can get about the pitch and then I'd go with the two off-front again. Because you've got it. It's sad that this game is just being written off where I don't get me wrong, we never look forward to them but you're always sort of looking at them and go, could we do it? And I'm sure there's some, there's not all, some Liverpool fans out there thinking this is all going too well. This is all going too well. Ever and it's terrible. We're flying at the top. This is all going too well. Wouldn't it just be that moment? But as an Evertonian I find it hard to buy into that. Well I think we've only won five in my lifetime at Amfield. So we don't win there anyway even when we've been good. So although we did the 80s we won back to back games but what I mean is we've been good in the thing and there's been times when we've been better than them and they've beat us. The 46 games I'm beating at Amfield and they've won. It's the second longest ever. 13 on the run at the moment. So the going for... Oh it's Amfield that. It beat you before you get there for a lot of teams. And us. Quite a lot of time. It beat me when the fixtures come on. So what we have to do is we have to go and that's why I think playing of the three, five, three or the five, three, two or whatever you want to look at it I think that's the way to do it. Is that the way to do it? But I think that's... I suppose I mean I do... Listen, they've got their fullbacks of such a big strength of theirs but what we've seen from Siddi B on Sunday was actually maybe someone that could utilise that space. It's just whether you take... and he is a player that can get up and down on the pitch and maybe you say to... maybe you say to Dean on the other side be a little bit more reserved trying to get Richard Oesson to pull over onto that side to help him out then maybe you've got an outlet there where maybe if... Siddi B it goes up and we can't get back that back... if it is a back five containing to a back four with King filling in the space on the right but Siddi B he can get up and down at least and if he can utilise that space I mean it would be almost like us getting pressing them if we can catch them on their counter attacks by hitting that space that Robinson leaves that maybe we could utilise that space and we've seen that on... we've seen that on Sunday there's only to lay rental three at the back so it could work it's still that midfield that I find is the big problem it's not even the... it's the combatedness of their midfield because obviously that's what they're in there for they've got good players but it is their job to win back the ball and get it to those players up front that's why I think if Snidlin just sits in front and protects you can get Davis and Woby to press but also Woby to carry the ball and then I just think that gives us some energy I do think it's a big game for a Woby in terms of carrying that ball forward getting us out of those and that's where that's where he's got to play and a Sigurdtson would have to come out because he can carry the ball into the spaces Sigurdtson and Tom they get caught far too much in possession in the deep you need that player who can ride a tackle or two, can buy you a file can get you up the field and I think that's what a Woby would give us if we can get past that sort of first block that first tackle I mean that should keep it down to weight we just got it listen it is a one-off that I'd have to treat it last year doesn't matter the year before doesn't matter no but none of it matters does it what matters is just that 95-96 minutes you know that's all that matters when you step out of that field and it's a difficult game because of that but listen the record today to be broken out listen the expectations are so low of Everton fans at the moment that you know that might be amazing but if we ended up you know with the first team to beat them on their own path first time in 20 years the expectations are so low that might play into our favour as fans because none of it is expecting anything all you got to hope is from the mental side of things is that maybe they I don't know take the game too lightly us not even take the game too lightly just you want them to get tense that's what I'm saying they almost feel like and that's where maybe the first 20 minutes are really important shutting them down we know if we go behind early on it's game over we know if we go behind at any side of the game the game is over that's the problem though isn't it we have to score first we've got a goal threat you know on the break the danger is on the counter attack that's why if he's got any sense he'll just go with what he did the other day but he'll take it because he doesn't want to put a smile on it and let's top it out higher just go with you two get around a pitch you protect and you two fullbacks give you with and listen try to just see what we can get out of the game it worked really well last year although we had a goal there wasn't anything in there and gone it but that's what we have to you know we have to just go with what we've got and see what's what and play it as we find it we might get a lucky break or whatever I think what's interesting as well going back to last year last year with them winning that game it gave them that belief that they could go and win the league whereas the flip side this year is the 11 points clear in Man City or whatever it is there's no real there's not looking at it as you know if we get over this hurdle or a mental thing it's actually it's gone the other way now it's like winning it so comfortably that it's like oof it's not about getting over it it's like you know you can't sleep up here because where this last year it was like oof got through that game could get us the league it's a pressure thing now I'm speaking to a couple of us the other day and Shane is not enjoying the scene because they feel like they have to even out of the head they feel like what they've pulled fans they feel like they have to win every game I mean do you know what I'm starting to feel like that I just said I'll swap you no problem no problem I'll take the pressure having to win every game feel like having to win a game every now and again with just what we're suffering with at the moment see what the Liverpool fans I think loads of the Liverpool fans will be thinking this is the perfect season for them right they win the league Everton could could be you know in a relegation fact but you've got to think about this if you're a Liverpool fan right that would be like having your birthday on Christmas Day wouldn't it nobody wants their birthday on Christmas Day you only get one chance to celebrate right you don't want that you don't want that you don't want that it's two occasions and it's all going to get you can't have two parties so you don't want that you do not want that so what are you saying you can only pick one let's just get out and have a go go and see what happens and who knows who will be I don't know who will be who will be it's either it's one of them it's like for Evertonis who will be the Kevin Campbell on Jake and Chelsea's or who will be the Thun's Murray I hope there's no Thun's Murray I hope there's a Kevin Campbell or a Gary Stevens in 1987 I don't know big deflection it's a winner oh well you know what if there's any if there's any justice or any luck or anything we are due massively to my landfill even just after last year of course we are but yeah fingers crossed everything crossed listen whatever happens happens it's life isn't it yeah it's life it's life we move on we will have to move on we will have to move on very quickly there's no use thought in the comments on this one yeah we'll see what happens if you haven't checked make sure you check out Adam's video as well for 8x8 sport the link is in the 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