 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Tottenham Hotspere vs Everton 5.30 kickoff on Saturday and yeah, tough, tough game. We don't have a great record against Spares home all the way so it's a tough one. Yeah, I was going to say about the team, there's a few of them. They are a team that we struggled to beat, we beat them once in 19 games. That was that, the Tottenham Hotspere stadium dons that a couple of years ago and that's been it for a number of years. I've actually knocked them out in the FA Cup them years well but in the league it's been slim pickings for Everton and in particularly away from home. We've had four wins against them in 14 years, 15 years or something like that at their place and we don't really beat them very often at home either. It's just a weird, a lot of it's rose but they've got a better record. Yeah, it's a strange one isn't it? I mean you mentioned the one with Dom there. That was the season we've seen to beat a lot of sides that we've asked all the way, Liverpool away, Spares away. We sort of reset a lot of records that season but I've seen it from to no fans. It's not got quite the same shine to it but it's always a difficult game and obviously Spares at the moment. I don't think Spares at the moment are in an amazing form but there seems to be a toughness with them now. Obviously since Conte came in and the back end of the season there's more of it. They're a little bit more resolute now. They don't concede loads of goals. I know they got beat a couple of weeks ago by Arsenal in the north London and Derby. Three goals to one but they don't seem to ship loads of goals anymore. They're a lot tighter, maybe they're a little bit less attractive on the eye but I think what they have done has made themselves a lot more solid than by doing that. Obviously claimed fourth place last season, got themselves in the Champions League in a position where for the money they've spent and obviously the money they've spent on the stadium they expect to be. It's funny isn't it because Spares are aside where we haven't spent the money and got sort of stuck in a cycle. They seem to be able to dig themselves out of holes I find really quickly when they need to. Last year obviously they brought new knowing and they had a terrible start but they remedy things really quickly and then seem to get on the up team a lot quicker than we seem to have done in the last season. Obviously run better, never not for sure isn't it. There's no doubt about that. The thing is well with Spare, they've got a well-class striker. You can very quickly train four and go one way into four and go one way. Harry Kane's unbelievable. He's been magnificent for Spares and they've got son as well who's brilliant. They were really good for the number of years they've been in the Champions League, got potosino, Champions League final as well. They did it a little bump in the road when Marina took over, they were slipping down a little bit even with the likes of Harry Kane. They made a terrible choice and knew now but like you said, they remedy very quickly and people might say fortunately for them, United didn't go through with the country thing and it looked like they were going home and Spares were able to get them. He was dead, he went and got them quickly before United decided what they were doing. He's come in and done a good job and he's won just one game this season. It was the North London Dabby. They're in third at the moment, plus ten goal difference. You've got a lot of goals in that side. Son, Kane, Culevrescu, Rytialis and Lucas Moru have been injured but he's another threat. I really like Ben Taker and Moffield. They've got obviously Huyberg, they've got Basumer who's in and out of the team. They've got a lot of good players. They're a team that's going to be for me comfortably in the top four this season. We go there hoping that they have an off day really. It's a difficult game obviously. The way they're called isn't terrible by any means. Just one defeat at Aston Villa and a game that we shouldn't have really lost. I think the difficult part is we're not scoring a lot of goals. We're not conceding a lot of goals but you look at them and you think they've got a goal or two hitting them off. That's our real issue isn't it at the moment? Anthony Gordon is out suspended. His performance of light haven't been great. I think at least in the away games he's got a couple of goals at Brentford and Leeds and has given us something a little bit different. That's the worry isn't it? That's the worry, the lack of goals. Yes Dominic Avalon will be more in contention, maybe play a little bit longer but it's whether you can keep space out. Ultimately they've had a lot of close games as well. The weekend, Brighton, things back against Wolves as well. They've been scoring a lot of goals from set pieces. So they've been just doing enough and that will be the interest in part warning. Can we do just enough? I mean I know we went to Southampton and we did but you just look at this and yeah it is a tough one. Just from that goal scoring point of view? Yeah I mean you can sit here and be hopeful. I think with your realism hat on you see a very good side that are in the top three and they've got a lot of goals in them against the team. That is improving but hasn't got a lot of goals in them so the owner shall be on making sure that we don't leave big gaps for them to play into. I think Everton last season when we went to space it was early on in Lampard ten years but we were so naive that night. We got done 5-0 and we were trying to defend on the half way line and they just ran in behind us. We've got to make sure we obviously avoid that. We're better physically to cope with that now than we were last season. But it is the goal threat. And you write them, you know spares have got seven goals off set plays which is the most in the Premier League. She's got off six corners. So there's a real threat there. We've got to be wary of that. So it's going to be a very, very difficult game for Everton. There's no question about it. Can we get something of course? Because game for team can get something in any game. But you've got to have to really, really dig in. Do you think there might be a change of, I don't know where the formation is. But I think there will be a change of emphasis on how we play because the last three goals we can see have come down to us losing the ball. It's just a game against Southampton then again against Manchester United and then again against Manchester on the counter attack. And although I don't expect spares to counter attack like Manchester United, they are well capable of it. But also the one against Southampton, it's in there half and then we've let them just get up the pitch, run on to us really, really quickly. Do you think there might be a change in that side of things to be a little bit more solid? How do you go about that? Be a bit more solid lad? Apart from doing that, is there any little change in formation you could possibly look at? You can change it by trying to operate with two sixes, couldn't you really? You could drop on on a little bit deeper and sit alongside guy and let a wobby. If you think back to the derby, that's kind of what we did. Out of possession we had two men, two sixes really, we had Tom Davis pressing. And then it flipped when obviously Ghana coming for Davis after now, we moved it around a little bit. A wobby could be the one that pushes on, but I haven't seen to use a tactic. Certainly at Southampton I've gone on a breaking into the box. The three goals that you've just talked about in the last two games where we've given, the transitions of course are South, the opposition have picked the ball up in their own half and it's ended up in our net. So are we not engaging them when they get the ball? Now okay, Casamero's pass to Ronaldo was brilliant, he won it and just played it and he went away. Can we do better to block them areas off? Do we not take as many chances maybe on the ball in there? We've got last Sunday Ghana looking at the play and it rolled under his foot and they've nicked it and they're away and it's ended up in our net. A wobby's a little bit different, does he just make sure the pass gets there? Maybe that'll take a bit more care of the ball, maybe sit Ghana a little bit deeper to try to know, be exposed in that manner. Do we just play the low block and hit them on the counter a track? Maybe you'll try that. It's a tough one you've got to try and come up with. Obviously the time we've got, we've got a European, we've got Champions League games as well, so it's fair the complicated for them and maybe we could benefit just from that if they've got it. Again you've got to win really, playing Frankfurt. Can we benefit from having the full week? You don't know do you? We thought that last week maybe Manchester United played in Europe and then come and beat us show. There's got to be a game and they're going to have to stick to it, but ultimately it's a big test. Just have a look at Everton's team from Manchester United. Obviously no Gordon available, so does that mean Dwight McNeill just comes into the side or do you look at Alton and say do you look at a James Ghana and have maybe a bit of a different shape in there and maybe have Gray coming off Malpie or Ghana maybe coming off the left hand side or is it just a case of McNeill just comes in simply for Gordon? Yeah it's a tough one because obviously I think against middle to lower places in the Premier League you could just go with a straight swap really and just throw McNeill in. Because these are a really good stride with a lot of threats it might actually be better for this one if flank lampard moves in around a bit. Maybe a 4-5-1 kind of thing, we know we're not going to have loads of the ball. And what matters is space last season counter-attacked us brilliantly and it's us in that respect can we do that to them. I think maybe James Ghana coming in will show a little cameo against United where he's got a lot of energy and likes to get on the ball. We could spread the pitch a little bit in a wall, we could maybe go towards that right hand side a little bit and have Ghana in the middle but then the ability is you can still have like almost a 4-4-2 or a possession then with that and block the hassle lanes off as they call and block them off and make it difficult for space to try to play through us. But also if we go into a 4-5-1 with the ball we can stretch the pitch as well and still have Amadou Rowan-Anna making a run through in the middle. So we might look at something like that which is basically to get more bodies behind the ball but it's a good opportunity to give James Ghana a start as well. So it'll be interesting to see whether he does tweak it just slightly just because of who we're playing and the nature of the way they play. I think I can build on Ghana's performance against United. We've still got the energy of a Wobie. We need someone to protect James Colman if we're going to be able to bomb up and down all day. They can be dangerous in wide areas particularly if Perisic starts down that left. You might want someone who's got the running power of him in a Wobie to go with it. Let's have a look at space aside as well from the Brighton game. So they've been using obviously the three of me, the three at the back and I hope some people will call them for maybe this at the weekend but the wing back's been, you know, doubty going in and obviously it was innocent Royal was suspended wasn't it? So doubty came in. Sesi on, full of pace down that side. You remember last season it was just crossed the key last home. Three tough midfield back players, you know, bent a core, knight on the ball, bashoom, a great engine, hwyl beig, does all on and on and on and obviously too well clashed forwards at the end of it. And it's difficult isn't it because when you look at that team you think oh well we do need the three in mid, we do need the three in there but obviously you're having the wide players as well. Unless you go to it, unless you went to it, a variation of a three, five, two and shame's common become the right centre back. I think that's, I think when you look at a team like that, playing three at the back against us they'll feel massively confident of having that extra, you know, just because our centre forward just gets isolated so much and we don't get the wide men up with them, it wouldn't be three against one at times. They'll feel massively confident I imagine, those three against, sailing against Malpie and then it's who can, you know, can we get some and can we get them joining in. And as you mentioned there, you know, setting on against shame's common is, you know, it'd be difficult just for the sheer pace of machine and last year that's a tough one so I think they'll be quite confident if they go with something similar to that. It does, the outnumber is, you know, easily at the back and then, yeah, it's a tough one, it's a tough one I think. You might, Frank Llanparba, probably look at it, you might keep the extra structure but you might look to just change the roles of some of the plays and how they do things but, you know. What would you do? Would you try and go like-for-like or would you throw Garnir in and go more of a 4-5-1 and try to just first sit in a little bit? It's difficult, isn't it? Because without seeing a hell of a lot of Garnir, can he come in and do that? Can he, you know, can he come in and do that? It's just being midfield though, wouldn't it? I know but then you're losing one of your wide players and the way they're playing there with us. You've lost one of our wide players already? No, no, but a Wobie it go up there, wouldn't it? But then you're losing one of your central players, so it's- It's what works, isn't it? What I'm saying to you is, what you're getting, as I just mentioned before, you play the two-sixers, where you'd have Guy and Garnir. Or Garnir Ai, if you want to call it, two Garnir's in the middle. Am a do o'n Garnir then becomes the fella that breaks into the box, you might want that, they've got big physical centre-backs. A Wobie does one side and Damari grade us, do you think? He does the other. Out of possession it's a five across the middle, it's a time block them. You can make sure you're nice and wide to stop the wing-backs. Yes, it isolates multi, but I'll be honest with you, it'll be isolated anyway. But then when we're gone the other way, you've got o'n Garnir's responsibility to break. My worry is it does it isolate our full-backs. That's more what I'm worried about. It's getting players to sit in front of them and track back. I imagine a Wobie would do that if he was shifted over slightly. It's whether the one on the other side does it. It's a difficult one and I'm sure there'll be variations on what they want to do, but it's going to be tough. Let's look at Harry Kane's numbers there. Games nine, goals eight, assists one, 3.4 shots per game. You know when you look at these every week, that's the big difference isn't it? Harry Kane takes more shots. He sends it forward and understands that if you take shots you'll score goals. His accuracy is better, but that's probably because he takes more shots. Practices, he's someone who does the hard yards. He's always tough. I've seen the goal he got last week. He's brightened a little flick off the back of the end. He can score so many different goals, anything on set pieces. He reacts so much quicker than other people as well. It'll be a tough day for Conacode and James Tarkowski, but that's what happens. You have to come up against these players, don't you? It'll be a tough one, but we'll have to cope with them as best we can. He's brilliant. He's brilliant. He gets shots away from anywhere. He can score different types of goals. He's pulled near free kicks. He's got everything, he's near right apart from any piece. He's weird to send it forward, that hasn't got blister in piece yet. He's shutting intelligence player and dropping the 10. Passing ability is incredible. He's a handful. With Rathialos, he'll be a handful if he's involved. If he isn't, he's a cool of esgid. I don't know whether he's fit. He's a handful. There's lots of challenges and tests for Evan this weekend. Harry Kane, keeping Harry Kane quiet will be the biggest one I am at him. Tough game, tough game. It always is. We've had a couple of decent results since they went down 1-0 through 2-2 with them. Lost 1-0 to them, which in a game you should never have lost really as well. It's only really last season, not the well-worthy of the win. Let's just hope for a good competitive game and see what happens. But it is going to be a tough one. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. How are you feeling going into this game? Obviously off the back of their feet as well. How are you feeling going to the Tottenham Hotspot Stadium? Let us know in the comments. Make sure to give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos. Join us over on Toffy TV. Premier the link is in the description and it will be coming up on the screen in a moment. See you later.