 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the three things from Manchester City to Everton One today at the Etihad, the blues beaten for the first time under Carlo Anciolotti, first defeat in six as well since the Anfield Derby, first thing I'm going to talk about today is the basics that Everton just don't do very well, the kind of thing that had Carlo Anciolotti turning his hair out on the touch line, just simple things, you know, messing around with the ball at the ball, at the back when we're under pressure from a team who presses brilliantly like Manchester City, they used to do, and we're taking chances at the back, you know, you can see Anciolotti throwing his arms up and screaming at them to get it forward, and there's just lots of little things we don't do well, but just basic stuff, you know, when we're under pressure, just get rid of the ball, don't take chances, you know, stop trying to pass through people, you know, especially in dangerous areas. Trying to do it in the final third, okay, you will take risks there because that's how you break these teams down unless you've got a third man running, but other than that, you know, taking chances at the back and, you know, inviting pressure onto us, we did it so many times today that, you know, what you could see was getting frustrated on the touch line, you know, there's time to play and there's time to maybe go long when you've got something like Dominic Albert Llewman who can get on the end, there's stuff on knock it down and I just thought there was, you know, there's time to play and there's time to maybe go long when you've got something like Dominic Albert Llewman who can get on the end, there's stuff on knock it down. I just thought there was just basic things we didn't do very well today, you know, we're under hitting passes and allowing them to stretch us and spring an attack on us and we've got to get that out of our system, you've got to get a way of playing where players will do the basics, you've got to know how to win football matches or how to stay in games. It was like when we conceded the first goal, shut up, shop for the next 10 minutes, get yourself back in the game or at least stay in the game and we didn't, we were all over the place and it's little things like that, I think that he'll be working on most definitely about getting that shape. But just do the basics, right? Do the basics, right? Don't take chances, defend properly, get goalside, get organised and at the other end, find the shit or have a shot if it's on. We just try to overcomplicate the times and I think it just causes us issues but these are all things obviously, you know, anti-lotty and his team will be working on but it's just frustrating the times that we seem to cause ourselves more problems than the opposition do at times and today was evident because when you're playing against the team, you've got the movement of Manchester City and you can attack at pace without even having a guard or stealing, you know, real proper top players but still cause us problems. You can't give the ball away as cheaply or make the same basic mistakes we did today without getting punished and we were punished. That's my first thing today to take away from that. Second thing is VAR. I've got to talk about it because it's nonsense. It's absolutely nonsense. It's ruining the game, the way we watch the game. I've always been a supporter of VAR because of what it should be and let's have it right. VAR literally just shows you what's happened. The people who interpret it are the issue, absolutely the issue. I don't understand how you can have referees doing it personally because it's the mate of a referee and everyone sees it very differently. Some referees will give something, the week later they won't give it. I feel as though in Germany I think they use an independent team who does their VAR but some of the things, you know, there was decision today, the Mares, Raid Mares, mong ball over the top, he's offside or the lines and post a flag up, he carries on, he handballs it twice in the thing and then him and Dean come together and he goes down. Now, the referees blew his whistle so everybody stopped. He didn't get the ball anyway, picked for that. So they're looking at the offside, then they review a penalty but the referees blew his whistle so that's the end of it if he's blown his whistle. Nothing can happen from it but yet they're still looking at a penalty but then showing the double handball. And the game stopped for about three minutes and people inside the stadium are like, you're taking what? It's just nonsense, we've seen it all over the weekend, we've seen goals choked off for a heel, there was one today asked a villain how he went on and won the game but the lad's heel, I don't know whether it was Grealish or Wesley, he's won them back and it's his heel that they've given offside and a goal this lad now barely could have gone on and won that game. And Villa would have been struggling maybe and ultimately could cost them the Premier League status so the interpretation of it is pathetic and it needs to be sorted immediately. We've seen this over the last few days, absolutely crazy decisions and something has to be done. The Premier League have come up and said they're not going to change anything at the moment and it's like you need to because the offside rule and things like that are just nonsense when you're talking about millimetres, it's absolutely nonsense. We need to be some kind of middle ground or we need to be given the advantage to the attacker or maybe your feet or one foot's got to be onside so to speak something like that, something where we can look at it and go he's off because of that. In that situation cities go over the stud today but that's fine, that's fine if the goal that was chalked off Phil Foden's goal, that's fine because we know the rules. I just think it's bizarre and I think it's bizarre that there's different interpretations every week it's nonsense. The final thing for me today is that again today showed us where the squad is thin and it'll show Carlo Anzolotti that we do need plays. Players like Guilfee Sigarton just isn't quick enough, Delphi isn't quick enough, that make up doesn't wear, shame is cold and coming to a time when he'll be moved on I'm sure or certainly he'll become the understudy to that right back. Obviously Carlo Anzolotti's got to play what he's got to play at the moment injuries will dictate that but today shows you when you play against the top team and it's even a team that's got three youngsters in like your adult three or four young players in and we're still knowing it. What this squad needs is power and pace, it needs people who can get about the pitch in important areas, that being centre of midfield I think. Obviously we're missing John Philly Gabbaman but we don't really know much about him do we, but he's a big lad who can get about the pitch so hopefully he'll be like a new sign when he comes back. Obviously Andre Gomez we're missing someone with that creativity and craft on the ball, we're missing him as well but today in games like this I think Carlo Anzolotti will have learnt more today than probably what he has done in the previous half a dozen games, the ones that he's watched and the two that he's managed as well. I think today shows you the difference in quality and where we need to get up to speed and it was highlighted again today, the minute you've come up against a team who's got movement and ability we can't get near them. Now okay, maybe week to week and maybe if we'd have had a week's rest we might have been able to get a bit closer, the will have been fatigued there today but you can't use that as an excuse. They had better players than us in the middle of the park and that's the level we've got to reach and we give the ball away far too cheaply going back to point one given doing the basics properly, we've just given the ball up cheaply. So I think today will have been a good lesson for Carlo Anzolotti in terms of what the squad requires and I think we've seen today that younger quicker and more powerful players are needed to, because in general this squad is a decent squad it really is and obviously we're missing players and we need those players fit but there's still those holes in the squad that would make this team better and certainly midfield such a key area in the Premier League that you have to have players that can compete and we were just far too slow in there today so I think it'll be a good learning exercise so to speak for Carlo Anzolotti today. Right that's the three things that I've taken from today City 2 everyone disappointed but we've had a good run since the Anfield game we took more points than probably people expected and so we have to start again now and certainly in the Premier League we've got Brighton at home next and I'd fancy us to get the three points there, tricky games it'll be I expect us to win that and then carry on moving up the table and station everybody above us. Make sure you subscribe, give the video a thumbs up, join us on page and if you want more videos check out Peds, Matt's reaction and play ratings should be very interesting and other than that have a fantastic 2020 all the best wishing you all a great new year. See you later.