 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview. Everton versus Leeds United and this really is a huge game of Goddison Park on Saturday now. Both teams in the mix for relegation. Both teams not in any kind of form whatsoever in terms of long-term Leeds United. You have to go back to November the 5th since they won a Premier League game of football. Picked up four points since football came back after the World Cup. They've sacked a manager like us. They've appointed Michael Scuballa as their interim head coach who had been there under 21s coach. And this Ned is just a game that Everton just have to win. I don't think we picked up much more points if not the same. A point at City, three points against Arsenal. The forms aren't too different in terms of picking up points. Obviously they'll be craving that win. They just sacked a manager. That's the thing. All teams are sacking managers around us. Only West Ham around us that haven't a season. Southampton have sacked another one. We've got to start looking at teams up front of us now and see who can be catchable. They're picking up points. They're improving. Forrest are improving. West Ham, I think some people will still say they are picking up points as well. But some would say they're too good to go down anyway. I think all the teams you look at in terms of having the quality to stay up, I look at Leeds and I think they've got necessarily better teams than us. Yeah, they've got players like Rodrigo who scored 10 goals a season. He's out injured for a couple of months which could matterly determine whether they stay up or stay down or go down. So for us, I think this is a must win. I don't think a draw is going to be good enough for me to get in front of them. No, I don't think a draw is good enough. I think you have to, Everton, have to start now picking up points. You know, obviously Sean Daish won his first game against Arsenal a couple of weeks ago. We were all on a high from that. It was a great win. It was a good day at Goulderson Park and Everton needed another one of those days. We've obviously just come off the back of a maze side, Derby, and we're a lot different. People have seen it in different ways. People are like, well, it's done now, it's over. I appreciate that. For me, the performance was awful. I think Everton are going to get out of trouble by it with hard work, not with massive amounts of skill and talent. It's hard work that's going to get Everton out of this. And I expect Everton to work hard every single game and match the opposition because they're going to have to, because to get the points against teams, we're going to have to beat teams that are better than us. And there's a lot of teams in the Premier League that are better than us. And we can't be writing away games like a maze side, Derby, and go, it's all right. To me, yeah, you lose a maze side, Derby, fine. I understand. You lose because they're a better team than you, but not because you didn't match them. And Saturday, the first thing that's going to be required, of course, is hard work and commitment. Leeds are not a good side, whether that was down to Jesse Marsh. They look like on paper. They've got a few decent players now, a lot of young squad. But they've been poor again this season. There are points above us. Their away form is actually worse than our away form, which tells you everything you need to know about them. They haven't won a Premier League game since November the 5th. They've picked up some good draws, picked up a good draw last weekend. So it could be tough to break down, but this is a game, everything has to win, because these are the games this villa, forest away coming up. These are the games that are going to dictate where we go. For me, I can't stomach another second half of the season, like last season. Even have got to get themselves out of the bottom three and more into the mix, into those mid-20s as quick as possible to get round the likes of Leicester, get round the likes of Crystal Palace, get round the likes of Aston Villa, get amongst the pack above the bottom three as quick as they can. Get that little bit of breathing space that will come from back to back wins against Leeds and against Villa. And I think we'll all feel a little bit better and I feel like the pressure will be off then. The pressure to win every other game will be then like we've got to win every third game. I think this has got to be a win and I think if we turn up and play like we did against Arsenal, then we've got a great chance. If we turn up and play like we did against Liverpool, we're going to be in trouble because I know people will say, well that was Liverpool and it was at Anfield. It's all going to work right. Leeds United will work hard in this game and if we don't match that level, then we could find it being another very disappointing day like the Southampton game was and like the Wolves game was. Well, we've played these games before where the teams had exactly performed before me for one game and 12 and it was against us. Or two and 12 actually and they're both against us in the same week. Southampton were the same, they've sat the manager after just one win and it was against Everton. Everton at a scene, that jumps on the back of other teams performing poor and I think we set a standard against Southampton after the performance and I said going into that game, we said the result for me isn't necessarily important. I'd be much, if we went into the derby and put a really good performance in a lost, I wouldn't feel as bad as if we put a good performance in Leeds and lost because that's what you think. Well, the five points above now, whatever they are, the four or six, I think they're on 18 points or something on 19 points. So if they gave them further away from us, then you're going to feel a bit more hard doing that and especially if we put a good performance in instead of losing. So I think these are the teams you have to start picking points up against. It is a shame because I look back at it, I said I'll give it down and I said at the time I think the performance is more important. I don't think if we got the three points in that game then we'd be on 15 points now and I mean we'd look a lot worse, I think we'd be 19th. So it is important to pick up teams against the big teams as well, but these games now, Villa and Leeds, these are teams that we could look at and try and suck back into the relegation. So with those Villa, I think on 28 points, so 10 points above us, so they're in OK form and I can't see them being dragged back into it, but they're certainly not seeing if we should be losing against that home. And unfortunately, I'll see something I've been losing against these teams. No, and as I said, for us it's now about picking up. It's about picking up back-to-back wins, getting a good run of form, getting a good habit. I'm just looking at the table at Wolves. They're up into 15th now, 23 points. They've won four games since the break. Come back, obviously start with us on Boxing Day. They've lost a couple, they've drawn a couple, they've got into good habits, they've got into that winning habits. Went away last week to Southampton and went down to 10 men and still won the game. They've got a confidence and you can see them driving up the table. Now they're on 23 points and are five points away from us whereas we were above them on Boxing Day and it's those kind of runs, that kind of run we've got to get into now. The target is still always going to have to be 40 points. That's 22 points we need and that means winning, getting it back-to-back. If you got into a back-to-back wins and then went to, obviously we face Arsenal and then we go to Forrest. The confidence then is flying. Look again, Forrest, there's another one there on 24 points now because they've strung a few wins together and that's what we've got to do. We've got to make sure for this game what hugely important it is, but playing a team, as you said, they're playing a team just above us. If they were to win that game and go four points ahead of us, then you're looking then at where do the wins come from and that's why this game is hugely important. Now I think even then, obviously the points are important but I think you mentioned teams like Wolves and Forrest. They've found ways to win games and for Wolves it was finding a way to, they were conceding a few goals, but they weren't scoring at all. They found ways to score goals now, they've got three pass, they've got two pass Southampton with ten men. I think the reason they had a man sent off was stupid as well by the way, but they're finding goals in every game now and that's one of them points. Forrest have brought new plays in, they've found a system that suits them playing the 4-3-3. So they're getting wins now, they're looking more solid and they're starting to gel and more as a team. For Everson, we've still got the same problem all season and it just makes me worried that we've got not enough games to sort it out and we've given Dyche not enough games, certainly not enough games in January. That's where we think about whoops, I could lamp out earlier, have we got enough time to find a way to win games because I asked them what they're going down to set piece, you're not going to score them every game. Liverpool, we got closer to set piece but we didn't quite get it and we still couldn't find a way from open play to score a goal. That's obviously, that's why hard work is the most important thing because if you get into the habit of working hard every single game then that's a great habit of being and then you graft on top of that what you need, all the other things start to come and the thing for Leeds, Dyche strike me as a team that works hard every game and it can be just the quality and therefore they've gone to old traffic last week, they've got a nil nil draw, they've been beaten late on against Manchester United, obviously a home but I don't think anyone can have a go at them for the hard work. The game before that they got beat by Forrest and that obviously left Jesse Marsh in a situation where he got the sack. They do seem to be a team that everyone, when people watching they go, you're hard done by in that game or they should have won that game. That's not always the case for us and that's got to be at least the bar hasn't it? Get to a point where you're like, oh everything deserves something out of that, they work so hard or whatever I know that doesn't always seem like a comfort to people but I've had to be sitting here and getting beat in the maze that I'd be going oh you know what, we had a good go and their quality was just too much for us. It should never be, oh we didn't work hard enough or we gave in over through in the towel. That's just not going to be acceptable for the second half of the season, it's certainly not going to keep us up. I'm telling you that right now because we haven't got the quality and certainly with the strike and situation as well it's a real issue. Let's just have a look at the evident team that faced Liverpool in the Mesaad barbie. Obviously, Ellis Sim started that game and doesn't seem like from what we've heard from the manager that Dominic Harrelin is going to be back to this game shortly just by what he said in terms of he wants to give him a rest. What would you do in terms of the striking situation? I'm not confident it's going to win your game but he's picked Sims now, he's had an hour to play with him. He's always been working with him so I'd stick with it, you wouldn't have had a game so keep going. Well that didn't work, we've worked on it for a week, let's pull it out and try something new. If he takes Sims out and puts Malpie in, he hasn't started Malpie yet as a lone striker, Sean Deitch. That would be trying something completely new in terms of him playing up front at the start of play we want to play. So if that doesn't work, is he going to keep playing Malpie or is he going to go back to Sims? You've got to find a way or a system to stick with it until we get done back and we can get him back. That's the one thing we can't do as well as go. There's only three weeks and we'll get Dominic Harrelin back, that's not a guarantee. Find a way that can suit us at the end of the season. If that is Sims, keep playing him and he might come good. He might take four or five games for him to score a goal or to have a decent performance. But then by that point you've got what, 13 games left where you might find something that works. If you keep changing everything all the time, you're just going to keep running out of games. I think one thing they have to do is find a way to create chances without Dominic Harrelin and try and play to Sims' strengths. For me that's to get someone closer to him, to be honest. Whether it's going 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2, I don't know. But I just don't think Sims can play as a lone striker. I don't think Malpie can play as a lone striker. So maybe getting both together or put D'Cory on as a number ten maybe. I'm not sure. It's hard because whatever formation we play this season or line up, we haven't really created a lot of chances without Dominic Harrelin. I think the problem is, as you mentioned, is that we don't make a lot of chances. So, therefore, as we saw against Arsenal, we have to be a lot more direct and we need someone up front who can hold the ball up. So, I mean, Ellie Sims won quite a few headers against Liverpool. But a lot of them just went no way. That's not his fault. It's a play the way Dyche wants to play or the way he sees it. We saw this on the derby in terms of trying to play the ball out the back and playing through the midfield, and then Nicknick, I mean, he scored the second goal. Another first goal was Pomecona, but it showed our frailties. Those frailties continued, obviously, with the second goal, which is something that we suffer from this season more than anybody else. He's been caught in transition. And then, you know, we've counter-attacked them. We haven't got the speed at the back to cope with it. We need someone up front who can hold the ball up. I don't think that's particularly Ellie Sims. I don't think that's the strength of it. I think whatever we do on Saturday, we have to stick with. If he decides Ellie Sims is what he wants and he can work with them and he can work with them week-on-week out and he can give them 60 minutes of the weekend on Monday and he gives them another 60 minutes at this game or whatever. If he can see something in there where he can start helping Ellie Sims understand the position, and I think it'll be a lot easier for him being a cul-de-samparch, then you leave Ellie Sims in there. But you're right. If he doesn't and he puts Malpine in there, then you almost have to look at Malpine and go, well, that's got to be left. You can't flip-flop. I hear them after the match on Monday saying, well, we've got dick with my tradition. You've got to come up with the solution. You're the manager. You've got to come up with that solution. One of the big reasons for beating Arsenal was Dominic Carmel. People can go, well, he didn't score. He was massive in the game of football. Anyone who watches it understands that, that we could go long. When he wins his header and it wasn't just flick-ons, it was... It brings it down and keeps going. He can flick it. He can knock it into space. We're fantastic in the air. He can hold on to it. He can create a couple of yards and then other people come in. Don't get me wrong, at Gullison against Arsenal we were braver. We pushed up higher and we were a little bit braver in the midfield and it was different because the way we played that day and we have to play it like that in this game. But that's the proof is that we had to change our style of playing and go into a different game. We can't. We won't win games playing like we did against Liverpool. We just won't because that's the way we've played all season. We will not win games by trying to play this passing football. It doesn't work. This is where Lampard got it massively wrong and this is why we haven't won enough games this season. We have to come up with a way. And as I said, if Ellison starts, no problem because I don't see... I can understand why he starts them because of his physical... The man has just clearly looked at him and gone, I might as well give him a chance because Mopai is not going to offer anything. It's a very worrying situation but we can't be waiting round for Dominic Carmel. I think the players have got a second bit of responsibility for that. I watched the Derby about five minutes in. It was an awkward ball, a second or third ball when it goes to kick it. Completely misses and it's awkward but we didn't continue to try and make it awkward. We didn't try and make it a second ball game. We lost our second balls when there was some and we tried to play football. I watched this Leeds team and they're quite good on the ball but they're quite nervous as well. They played well on the weekend but United had many opportunities to go in for it. They had one just before halftime where they would just faffin on the back and they'd give a mistake away and the keeper kept it 0-0 to be honest. He had a pretty good game so we're just going to make it awkward, get up the pitch, get at them. We're at home, we've got the crowd on top of them as well so just make it awkward, make it a second ball game, make it scruffy and they'll probably make some mistakes. They're not amazing going forward either so just be brave because they've got injuries, they've got plays like Roger Biego out, they've got one goal, they've got some decent plays but they're not amazing so we've just got to be brave. Before we come on to them, do you want to talk more about the Everton team because obviously we've had the same sort of back four in the two games under Baish but I would look at that back four and look to try and change it now. I think there's got to be a position in that back four for Ben Goffrey because I don't think Ben Goffrey is an amazing defender but I think what he's got is I think he's got at the basic level things that you need which are power and pace he's got the right attitude and I think whether it be at left back or right back or even centre back I think he's got to find a position for him and the other player I think that maybe Daish needs to look at and this might determine if Goffrey will play is Jeri Mina. I still think Jeri Mina is our best defender I think he's a better defender than Connor Cody I do think Connor Cody is a good defender I just think that I don't know I think when you look at him the more you look at him in a two you can see why he suits a three more I think Jeri Mina is a big personality I think the fact that you can play I have five subs the fact that we've got three centre backs four centre backs who could come in if he got injured means that for me I don't see it as a risk playing him I think you know if Jeri Mina is sitting on the bench and Connor Cody is playing and there's no Michael Keane and there's no Mason Oggy then it's a risk I don't see it as a risk and I put him in the side knowing that Connor Cody can come on for him and play and I just think that's the kind of risk that you need to take at this stage of the season he's a big presence in our box he's a big presence in their box suddenly if you've got Jeri Mina and we're relying on set pieces suddenly you've got a massive weapon to utilise there and I just think I know we've said it loads of times he's had loads of false dawns and I know we've seen him go off it's annoying but at the same time we've got loads of cover and we're having five subs it's not like you're wasting a sub we don't use five subs ever we don't ever use five subs so the way I look at it is you get two centre backs and you say give them the game plan you go you're playing but you might be needed and to me that makes that's a no brainer because I think he's still our best centre back and him sitting on the bench I just think is a bit pointless for me same as Coleman is well was sorry on Monday running a little bit ragged but that doesn't happen every game so I'm not like massively over concerned about that saying me enough normally does well against pace I just think he got pace and strength the other night and he got caught it's the other side for me I've said it again I just don't think Michael Enco's good enough and I'd have Ben Goffy at left back there's a question mark over both full backs but we have got Paterson coming back hopefully he could be back maybe for Villa maybe for Arsenal maybe for Forrest but start left back position I think it needs addressing because a lot of people have just buried their head in the sand about this the kids not good enough and I think we have to start looking at getting some pace in the back line I think that's where it's coming I think Sean Ditch he comes across as a type of man to play a left back at left back but I think Michael Enco he doesn't offer going anything forward what are you offering there and he certainly is a great defender you're putting Godfrey in there you've got your recovery pace for whatever centre backs you do play because none of them are really fast to be honest I think I quite like having a partnership play together every week to get better and better but when you start having performance like Southampton and making mistakes like did in those games and against Liverpool then you've got to start asking questions and if you've got someone ready to come in like me I don't understand if it's like you were taking Cody out and you say what does he give a great character leadership, he talks, he commands but if you've got someone coming in like me he does all those same things he's a big presence, he's a big character he fights in both areas he's so dangerous at pieces then I don't see why and I don't think he it's not like he had a port game in his last game against Wolves he'd looked good against that obviously we conceded a couple port goals yeah it mean it is a tremendous tremendous centre back his problem has and will always be that he's made of play though I don't think I think if that wasn't the case I don't think it would be out of this no he probably wouldn't but he is and I would, I just think with the amount of centre backs we've got now I'd utilise them, I think you need a bit I think it's time for characters and it's time for leaders and it's time for people to stand up and I think I just don't get me wrong Cody is a big, I just think that there are times when you just need something to change a little and don't get me wrong with this whole at home game we obviously play really well against Arsenal but for me he's someone I'd love to get in but Godfrey is definitely someone who we need power and patience at the back it can change the way you defend as a team if you've got patience you can have a high line under lampire we just kept dropping back and back allowing pressure on the keeper allowing shots but I think different against Arsenal we were pressing up against the pressing intimate field being more aggressive trying to win it back early at left back with a pace he allows you to do that because you've got the pace of winning behind and I think if you look at the derby twice they got us on the counter attack especially the first one I think Godfrey's got the pace especially at home you want your team to push up you need that recovery pace and I think that's what Ben Godfrey gives you and these have got a few you've got some these have got some decent plays with a little bit of patience the player in the right wing is really really dead let's just have a look at the leaders team from the last game against Manchester United Banford so Banford up front he went off of the awmach so it would be interesting to see whether that was an injury or whether he's had the same trajectory as Dominic Cavill in the last year or so he's been suffered a lot of injuries obviously Summerville has been fantastic we'll talk about him a little bit more in a moment Jack Harrison obviously last few years has done really well they've brought McKenney in from Juventus who's like a little bit well you get him right he's a little bit like a Tim Cale Tarah Adams okay Harrison has been in the number 10 he's been underperforming to be honest no he has and he nearly left but they've got what I mean is though there's a lot of like youthful exuberance in there there's a bit of pace there's a little bit of like a discipline I think in there and that cost him a time I don't think they're great at the back but they've got they really do have a you know let's just have a look at Summerville has been you know there you go 15 games four goals one assist one chopper game but he just he just seems to pop up and create things they've had to rely on him at the moment in terms of numbers he's not scored a huge amount of goals but Rodrigo's not long been out injured but he'll be out for a few couple months now at least two months he was the one who relied on score a lot of their goals he was on double figures in the Premier League so they've got to find another way to score Bamford's not getting them in the net he's poor at United so they'll look at their wingers and try and get the most out of them so that's where we're talking about full backs Meekleland goes man marking him he's going to have a better game than Godfrey because he's really fast personally I'll have Godfrey in there I don't be awkward because you're playing the left on the other side you've got Noto he's another pacey young player can't come and keep up with him will come and um it as well man marking a play like Wilford Towers and many times other players like that he didn't quite get it right with New Eners on the weekend but like you said New Eners is a big powerful pacey centre forward so it would have been a bit awkward for Cormans but I just look at that Everton's left hand side up against Somerville I'd rather have Godfrey there because it's an interesting for Leeds because I think it's it's very attacking you know what I mean having Weston McKenney in there you know as I said he's sort of like a Kyle kind of defender in midfield I personally haven't met a Harrison playing that's what I'm saying and Jack Harrison's awake I think that midfield it's box to box as well isn't it it's a young side it's a naive side they make quite a few mistakes they've got a young goalkeeper you should always test early on we don't do that enough but like I said you've just got to make it altered for them that United did that at times and they made mistakes in it obviously a couple of Leeds of Goals but they could have had a few more I think if we do the same because they're not terrible defensively they're certainly not as bad as they were under BL circle a few years ago I've been struggling to find a way to score goals from open play so we've just got to make it scruffy as we can try and get one on they're not amazing on set pieces but like I said you're not going to score them every game so the biggest thing for me is just got to find a way to break them down because we've been so poor doing that to the team this season Played he wasn't on there he played the game before with Sinestre Sinestre his name's like something out of a comic book he scored and the other game he can be a threat as well he's quite lively as well he's another young one but as I said their away form is mad I think the week after that he went to Tottenham and they were 3-1 up and they were losing 4-3 that's the kind of team they are they are they're all on nothing in a way where they'll throw everything at you but then it leaves them exposed and we're almost the other way we don't throw everything at you and then we can see a scruffy knotting goal from our own inability to get at teams because we're not brave these are almost too brave at times these are almost go too far the other way so that's where it's going to be a really interesting game and I think that's why no one should be sitting there thinking oh this is an easy win they're above us in the table but they have gone on a way so for us I just think it's a must-read game they'll work hard so the one thing we've got to do is work hard that's the one thing in every single game we have to work hard I'm sure the players know they'll have managers watching them because the Scoob Island has been giving a few games in the past few games they've looked a lot better I think United were just too good for them I think United's away form has been really good this season so it's not really a game that you can look at obviously at Old Trafford they went to and up didn't they so they went to and up at Old Trafford and obviously again that shows the flip side and they go tune it up they score an early goal and then they get a second and then there's an inability to hold on to it I think that's the naivety that's what I'm saying, they're a young side and there's a lot of naivety in them I think just before we finished that was almost like the problem with Jesse Marsh he probably encouraged that going cow thing and that's what we else have given them as well Marsh was supposed to be this fellow coming in like stop that but I think he didn't and he was almost that thing we'll just keep playing, we enjoy I think you need some for them if they found someone who was a little bit in between who just calmed them down a little bit I think they'd be a decent side and that's what makes Satti that's what makes it interesting so there you go, it's not going to be an easy game because no games are easy especially when you don't score goals like us so let us know your thoughts in the comments it's going to be a tough game it could be a set piece again for Evan but Leeds are going to work it's really really hard and we have to be on it Saturday we're going to take those three points and we get those three points then that'll get us out of the bottom three and that should be the number one goal ultimately so let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more videos the link is in the description and the QR code will be appear on the screen in a moment see you later