 Welcome to ToffyTV, it is the match preview, Sheffield United vs Everton on Monday evening, Everton's last away game of the season as they look to finish strong. And as Sheffield United battled it out to try and get in that Europealy, which is not what I had been thinking at the beginning of the season, I think we would be the one in mid-tail of mediocrity and Sheffield United would be battling out for the Europa League. But you know what, fair play to them, they've been brilliant this season. And I've got to say, I love their manager Chris Wilder, I think he's great. I would have, not that I won any more new managers at Everton, but I think he'd be a great fit for Everton, I just love his honesty. I absolutely love the way he talks about football, the way he approaches football and the way he does things. And I think he has been the real star, because the man think of what Sheffield United is for as well as they've done. I can't pick out a star of their team, I can't say, oh he's been brilliant and it's all because of him. If you stop him, that stops Sheffield United. I can't do that and I just think that shows how much of a team they are and how they've done everything together and how they have to do everything together. And I just think we know from our years under David Moyes how important that is. And it almost feels a little bit like that. So I've got nothing but respect for Sheffield United and what they've done this season. Yeah, they've been incredible. He has done great. I mean he plays like John Egan who's done really well. He's got Oliver Norwood in the field who's done really well. You know, even people like John Lundstrom who has done well and you know, McBairn, he's got some goals. You're right though, you've got good, honest players. Henderson and Goals being excellent. But it's the team, you know, that's the thing. And he is very much like you said, like David Moyes was at evidence that he's almost the most important person at the football club. You know, the two points behind Wolves. People lord Wolves and rightly so Wolves were being great again this season. But Sheffield United, the two points behind Wolves at the moment. You know, and haven't spent any money. They haven't got an agent who's sliding players into the club. Definitely not. And things like that. So they've been absolutely brilliant. And Wild Dead, love them. Listened to his interview after he obviously lost to Leicester City this week and his interview was just brilliant, you know. Even when the reporters were almost trying to make excuses for their players he just shot them down and I was like, I don't care if we just beat Chelsea. I don't care if we beat Spurs. We were rubbish then and it's about this game. It's not about that. I mean, it's terrible and blah, blah. I'm just so honest and as a fan, if you've got that honestly you must just be like, well, he's saying everything that I'm thinking. So, you know, I can't have a government because he's saying it in an open forum. Obviously, he was annoyed, something that annoyed him because he was more frank than he normally is. But I've seen him on things. I remember seeing him on Kees and Grey when lockdown, not been long being on him. He was just honest and he was like, there should be more people like him in football. When he got promoted he was like, he was like, I'm having a baby. I remember a baby and he was like, listen, we're going to get bounced all over Premier League rounds. And I said, but he cares. They haven't. That's the irony. They haven't. You've had a couple of defeats. That's because they came up and they didn't whip it all up. They had faith in what they were doing. They had faith in their hard work because they'd come up through that hard work, through the system, through the overlapping centre backs, which is the maddest thing I've ever heard. But it seems to work. It seems to work. And he came up and he had full faith in it. And where others have come up and ripped up what they've done, or you have some of the knowledge you come up, who try to do the same thing, but because they're soft. Like, you know what I mean? They play a certain way and they're not going to play that way. Well, that's it. They're soft. They're soft. For the Premier League where they've got that edge. They've got Jags as well. I mean, you love Jags. Please season. Please season Jags. I mean, he's in pre-season Jags now. That's what I love. Full peroxide. And he's in pre-season. He's tanned. He's just great. Sean Bean's your greatest fan. You know you're doing well. Bond villain. You know that Bond villain. Game of Thrones star. And Saturday comes. I mean, anyone who's ever watched When Saturday Comes has always got to have a little affiliation for Sheffield tonight. Anyone who completes a semi-final at their own ground is, you know, anyone who lets a drunk Irish, sorry, who's gale from his Irish, Sheffield, lad, come on and take the responsibility of a penalty where he hadn't played for weeks. You've got to hold your hands up and say, that's a club I want to, you know, enjoy. You've got to have nothing but admiration for the Blades. They've had some, listen, Howard Kendall was the manager there. Donald Tishen played from Davey Weir was there. Graham Stewart. Graham Stewart. Michael Branch had been there. Did he? No, not Michael Branch. Jon O'Connor. No, the other kid who's in Memphis, not Jose Baxter. Oh, Baxter. That well-great Everton Great. Oh, yeah, that great, yeah. They're throwing all the names out now. Not what I'm saying. My point is, there's a link, obviously Carl Tyler, Mitch Walker. I mean, two of the greatest. Two of the greatest. Two of the greatest. There's link stuff between the two clubs. I mean, I'll be honest. I like Sheffield. I think that, I like, you know, I think it's about them and Sheffield Wednesday. It's about, you know, fans who've stuck with them through. It's been more thin and thick as in the last 30 or 30 years, whatever. But I like, you say, Chris Wilder, I think he's just brilliant. Well, in lockdown, I've seen a message on loan. They really haven't, they haven't now. No, said they've had a message on loan. They're still at them at first aid. No, no, that's what makes you laugh. They saw a message on loan and took jags on a free and they've just been better than us. Both of them being in our team. They come back from lockdown and it didn't start brilliantly. Rob De Ville. Rob De Ville. Luckily our goal line technology was working. Rob De Ville. And then I can quite disconnect it. Then they had a couple of defeats, I think, on the bounce. And then they hit a nice little patch, you know, they beat, they beat space. And then they obviously, they beat, and then the Chelsea game was obviously massive game for them. I watched that one and knew it. What was mad was Chelsea had loaded the ball, but just didn't do anything. They just couldn't, couldn't do anything. And Geoffrey and I just sat back and every time, it was almost felt like every time Geoffrey and I just wanted to do something, they did it. You know, they scored. All right, well it was a nail nail, it was a bit, even, but then they get the goal. And then, but like in the second half, two and a half, there wasn't any panic. It was just, just wait, wait for that opportunity and when I counted, they took it, it was three and a half. And it was just like Chelsea were like, what? Like they couldn't do anything. It was such a weird game. And then obviously this, and they've just come off the back of a poor defeat at least. Like he said, they got beat 2-0 and, you know, he was scathing off them. And as you said there, there was obviously, there was obviously something else that annoyed him because he was someone who plays contracts and there is a, there is a particular player with an Everton link that may have upset him due to a contract. But you're right, because what he was saying was, well, what's the point in playing briefly in that game and then going, oh, see how boss we were there and then coming and seeing next to him. Every game's worth three points. So he's looking. And he said, he had lamp art, he had said those Eichel Davies, he had said United's a player, and he said those Eichel Davies, Leicester players. And that, it's, he reminded them very quickly, though he said he's a champion sitting in the league, one place, playing in the Premier League. He reminded them, it was a slap back down. You think, oh, you think he's a Premier League and you can just do whatever now, do you? No, that's not what we do. I thought that was great, really good. I thought that was great because he was basically saying, we're the Premier League team, I can replace you. Now, dead easy. So I thought that was a really good put down of like, I give you a chance. I didn't rip up this team when we came up. I, like a lot of teams do. We've seen Villa do it, we've seen Fulham do it. Having me to now avail, you know, spent, then two clubs alone, spent £265 million. Two summers run. Villa combined money, that is. You know, Villa 140, Fulham 100. And both went down, well, Villa haven't gone down, but they're struggling. Fulham went down terrible. And yet, Geoffie, the United have brought Sanda Bayesian, but a couple of plays in the last summer, but not for big money. But Sanda Bayesian, the January window, which is a good sign, by the way. Smart and done well. And like you said before, you know, I'm not going to sit here and criticize Geoffie, the United have been brilliant enough. It'd be a fantastic story, actually, if you go into Europe, really, they're going to have to beat us if they want Europe. Oh, that'll be difficult for them. Oh, you're going to have to beat a motivated, a motivated Everton, and you're going to have to get through our midfield, which, oh. Well, David, don't forget, they've been saying to beat us, they've got us in six months when he beat us. You know, we'd spank a lot of other clubs, and they come to go to us in September, and, okay, they got away with it. Let's be honest with them. Chris Wilder come out after the game. Have we only been beaten at home by Sheffield United and Norwich? Sheffield United. And Man City. Man City, yeah. 300 feet in two with them, and, you know, Norwich are down, bottom. Top middle of bottom. Yeah, that's what I'm from eating. I'll have one off the top right, one off middle and one off bottom, please. But now they come to go. No, I know. And Chris, I remember Chris Wilder coming out, and I don't know how he won that game. He beat us 3-0, he had one shot on target. Let's be honest, any team that is winning 1-0 away from home without a shot on target at half-time, you've got to have admiration for it. But what he did that day, he defended absolutely brilliant. He just funneled us wide, and when we three crosses in, he just did it in a way all day, and then he hit us on the break. We should score. Was that the game, that was the game that afterwards Michael Silver said we didn't need to play with two strikers because we played with two strikers in that game. He put the two striker, he put the shank tossing on. No, the pace. He put Moise Keane on. Who's a kid starter, Moise Keane. Left them isolated with three centre-backs for half the game. Then he brought on that pace and power that is shank tossing, instead of Dominic Albert Lewin, who's a blade who would have wanted to get at them. But yeah, no, he got lucky that day, but I was impressed with the way he defended. And they carried that through season. I think now both goals came on the counter attack. They soaked it up and it's going to be interesting. Listen, we've got a chance to go to Sheffield and do the double low. Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. Don't we have? Not many teams do that in a season. That's the glamour patch. It'll be tough. I'll be honest with you. I'm not overly confident here. It's going to be tough. It's their last home game of the season. I know without fans that doesn't seem to mean as much, but it will mean something to them because they're still fighting for Europe and they're still trying to get in. So everything has got to be motivated. What I love about this is we went to Spades the other week after they had a dressing down from their manager and we were the recipients. It seems like we're going to be on Monday. What I will say is if everything don't match then, but desire and battle, they will walk all over. Do you think we might change our style? Either way, we did the walls, but we probably haven't got another centre back to be able to do that anyway. Have we got another style? I didn't mean style. I meant formation. I didn't mean style. I meant formation. We've got no style at the moment. We've got another gear to go into. Reversed. Reversed, yeah. We've each stuck. Now listen, it's going to be a very tough game because obviously players have got to get themselves up for it. It's two games to go on out for us. But who knows? We've just come off the back of a game where we had absolutely nothing to gain from it. Really, apart from we didn't want to lose a decent home record, not losing since November, playing the team that were in the bottom three, trying to get out, fighting for the lars. I mean, this is slightly different because these are an actual good team and we're away, but they're going for you. They're putting it on. They're putting it on. Listen. Well, some of the... Go on. Give us a thousand three-match. Three-match, brilliant stats. Sheffield United are looking to do the first double over a trophy since the 92-93 season. There you go. Everton haven't won an away game against Sheffield United in the league since October 1972. So there you go. Although six of the eight visits since have ended in the rows. Sheffield United are looking to secure five consecutive Premier League homers, something they've not done since. You're not exactly filling me with confidence here. I'm giving you... I mean, this, you love this one. Relax. Everton haven't won their final away league game in any of the last four Premier League seasons. We've lost three and thrown one. What was the last one we won? The last away game we won, which was the last game of the season. So we haven't won any of the last four, so that takes you back straight away for a few years. Four and none. This is because I've got to turn and count. Was that Koeman? No. It's four Koeman. Four, it's not Koeman. It's four Koeman. No, it's not. It's before Koeman. So Martinis... West Ham 2-1. Rom. Don Luton, man. Given the Delafayou sign. 2-1, we're getting beat his score in the last minute. Sheffield United have conceded just one goal in the last four games, Premier League games, Premier League. Everton have lost 11 away Premier League games this season, equaling the most we've lost ever in the Premier League, which was 11. Sorry. No, equaling the most we've lost since, sorry, since 2003-4. The Toffees haven't lost more than 11 since we've lost 13 under Walter Smith in 2001. Luka Deane has created 70 chances in the Premier League this season, at least 23 more than any team-mate. Only Trent Alexander-Arnold, better than in the league-wide thing of all defenders. 45 have come for remote and play. Everton have managed it, Carlo Ancelotti has never lost the Premier League game against the newly promoted team. Wish I hadn't said that. Sheffield United's Dean Henderson is looking to become the first goalkeeper to record 14 clean sheets for a promoted side in the season since Michael Vaughan. Michael Vaughan did it, Edmond van der Sar. Michael Vaughan? Vaughan, for sure. And when I said that, you meant the England cricketer, then? Well, he probably had no clean sheets, because he never went in goal. Edmond van der Sar. Edmond van der Sar at 15 for Fulham. And Ender Stevens has played a part in 101 open-place sequences, which have ended with Sheffield United having a shot in the Premier League this season, the most of any blades player, and 30 more than his wing-back partner, George Baldach. And the team is very good at Goddison Ender Stevens. They're just like a team, again, well-drilled, know the way they play, and have executed the manager's instructions brilliantly. There you go. I don't know if there's any more to say about this game. You can watch along with us on Monday if you want. We'll be on YouTube watching the game if you need company. It's on Amazon Prime, isn't it? If you want a bit of company to laugh at us, and have a laugh at us while we get angry and storm around, then please join us and throw cushions. The links will be on YouTube on Monday. There you go. That's it. Give us a like. Share this video. Subscribe. Check out our interview with Jan Balasi. If you want live videos, we'll be probably live before the game. Over on Patreon. If you want to check that out as well, it's patreon.com forward slash toffeeTVESC. Thanks for watching. See you later.