Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the final word Everton won for Brighton and Hove Albion, nil. Okay, just speaking. I think we both were saying... No, no, no, no. I just mis-said it. You completely got it wrong. And actually, you actually got it wrong in the titles as well. You actually done it wrong in the titles. You actually put Brighton and Hove. No, Brighton, Hove and Albion. So you've done well, so I've done it.  Brighton Albion and Hove. It can be anything about you. I mean, listen, it doesn't matter. We won. It's your big Patrick. He is here to give us his knowledge. Oh, well, that's a pity.  Built him up to his massive knowledge. First time as well. You know, he's ready to make his debut. He's eager. Off the bench, ready to go. From the resides. That's it. You want your start. He's ready for it. Nice to come in and talk about a win now. I mean, if there being last week, it was a little bit more solemn. Very solemn. But this week is better. Per team, there were changes as expected. Although there was groans when it was Guilfee Sigurds, there was the captain. I've seen a lot of people not happy with that decision. Yeah, to make changes, didn't he, following the debacle of Anfield six days before? Yeah, I didn't expect too many changes. I expected just maybe a couple of years old there. What was the biggest change that shocked you? I mean, if that's a tactical decision. I genuinely don't think mean has been fit for weeks. I honestly don't. I don't think he's been fit since November. I think he's been carrying something for a while. I think you watch him and you look at just his general... You shed the wigs, don't you? Just his general demeanour. I don't think he looks like someone who's fit. And I don't think he would have dropped mean for any other reason. I just don't. Have you seen what he shed about it? Yeah, I haven't, no. He said Keen had been training well, didn't he? And he'd seen how Keen had played in training, then you'd have played him, too. And he needed me and he needed a break. I think that's a second bit more. Yeah, I can't remember what exactly game it was towards the end of December, but mean had definitely went down towards the end. It might have been the Chelsea game, maybe, I don't know. Well, he got an injury and he... I remember seeing him at self-hunting and he struggled through that. And I've seen him a few times just... Just... You watch him when he goes off for a corner. He almost like hobbles up like an old man. Yeah, so maybe it was just thought, you know what, this was a good opportunity. He's done threatened that much of an aerial. Yeah. The way they are, you know, I know they broke a Murray on, but they've trained... But then he brought meaner on, didn't he? After it, right. They've changed the way they are, and that's not the worst thing in the world. But now, like, the Siginson thing, you're going to make the captain, they're all, they were all the same, really. I mean, you know, listen, I think, said this before, and I think we'll pick this up more as we talk about the game, is that you've just got to let them get on with it and he knows something that you don't. I haven't always felt like that about every manager, but this fella, I sort of do.  Okay, we can pick up little bits and pieces and go, we don't understand that, but it doesn't mean he doesn't understand it. And I think for the first time in a while, I think that's the way... I think that's the key as well. And, I mean, in the derby, I thought, like you said, there were a few things that he got, maybe he's not got wrong, but it's like, I'd have liked to see, because I know the team and I know this one, I know these players, but I don't know them as well as Carlo Ancelotti will have done in these last few weeks. And I think it's fair to maybe pick up on the things and that's not saying you're going to be massively critical of the manager. I mean, I'm absolutely thrilled that he's here. We've got a world-class manager, and unfortunately, not at the moment we haven't got a squad to match, but you've got to let it... It's a process, isn't it? We've got to let it build up, so... Yeah, I mean, I think the more we do that and the more that spreads throughout the fan base and everyone just calms down a bit and just goes like, let's... It's not even calm down, it's trust. The more we just go, right, he knows what he's doing now, so let's just get behind it. Everything will stop spinning as fast and we'll all go. Right, all right. I think what people have just got to... Sorry, what people have just got to remember is don't let your dislike of certain players influence how you feel about the manager. That's the only thing I would say. I know there was certain things said last week about people going up to Finch Farm and all that kind of thing and saying, oh, he's only been here a few weeks and people already doubt him. I don't think that was necessarily true. I think sometimes it just bleeds through. Yeah. The people that... People that actually do things like what happened last week are more of an indication to me that people are starting to realise that it is the players. Yeah. And therefore, but don't let that taint the manager. Just let the manager get on with what he wants to do. I also think last week was a bit of a perfect storming that we'd had the kind of how it... Obviously, with Ferguson's time in charge and the upturning results and then Ancelotti coming in and two wins on the bounce. And we had, after the Newcastle game, it's like we've won an away game. Carvillouin scored two goals. You know, this doesn't happen. And we were all kind of going into that city game on a high. And then the city performance was a bit underwhelming.  And that isn't necessarily the manager. It was just one of those things. And then obviously the derby happens. So we kind of go from right up there and then you crash back down in the most evidence now possible. And then we avoid everything that's come before. It was kind of just a big melting pot. And Ped mentioned about trust and the best way to get trust at the moment is winning games like the one at the weekend. Build up those wins and then hopefully the next time we face a city on a Liverpool or Man United or whatever, we can, you know, we can go and beat them because that's the best way to do it really. I think you made that. I mean, that's a really good point. You know, we were at our lower step after the first hand field and we went lower last week. But after that 5-2, you know, and Duncan Ferguson did a fantastic job in picking us all back up. Not only the team, but picking the fan base back up.  I mean, this is what Mina, players playing through. Injury for Duncan. Yeah, of course. Mina was injured and didn't say for a few of those games and played. People were hobbling now and were played and then we got the win, Carlo coming, we got the wins and you write everyone was like, oh, we can match people now. Because you do get carried away when you're winning games. You have to feel good factors there and you think if we can take this in, what we have to remember is we're not at that level yet. Also, we haven't got a full complement of players and he doesn't know his best team, obviously, because he's just laying. I mean, last week was the first week he's had training. Tom Davis said that after the game. But we've got to define as well, like the difference between a poor performance and whether someone isn't trying. And this is why last week, people were having to go with T.O. Walcott. I was like, I wasn't going to sit here last week and go, oh, T.O. Walcott, this one, T.O. Walcott was that. He started the game last week and I thought he played well and then just went really, really bad. But at no time would I go. I saw people saying that, yeah, Alisson didn't try. He's lazy. And this is why I have this problem with kills, with Sniadlin. It's because I generally look at him and I just think you don't care. But there's other players out there that you can look at and go, you're doing either the best with your limited ability or the best through the pain barrier. And it is the way it is. Or it's just not happening for you.  You do not care about this club or you do not care about being professional for this club. And I think it's just important not to fall down. It's someone like Guilfee Sigarton, right? His legs have gone. I don't think he's happy about his legs being gone. I'm not even sure if his legs, I don't think he's ever had the legs. The thing is, it was mass blast season. I mean, honestly, I've backed Guilfee a lot since he's come in because he's got that quality that I don't think we have. I don't think we have another player who can do what he does. Icelandic statistician. It's not me. We'll have to create another 20-way count now. But not to that extent of Icelandic statistician but I do genuinely think when he's good and when he's on form we haven't got another player or we haven't had another player that can do what he can do. This season he hasn't done it nowhere near enough and he's not been good enough and honestly, if we sold him this month, I couldn't care less. But you look at last season and when it all clicked and when it worked and I know it's been a big thing about Ghana going and we can, whether it was a mistake or not to let him go, other stuff's happened, the injuries to Govamin and Gomez haven't helped but having that player in there who pushed Guilfee 10 yards further at the pitch so he can do his pressing against his pair of centre backs rather than midfielders who can run around him Of course it's going to make him look like his legs are gone where really he's probably not actually saying maybe he's getting older and a bit slower but not to a massive extent because he's never had the pace. And that's what's funny, when we had Holgate in midfield I think that's what he did really well. He pushed everyone 10 yards further at the pitch because he got about. Now there's a good point. Personally, I just think Shriggins is best as a sub now for the last 20 minutes. But the one thing I will say about Guilfee Shriggins and I have been critical of him because I think he's been poor this season is that I don't think he ever doesn't try. I think he tries, he just might be quick enough for it. And the other thing is players and we all do it but we have to step back a little bit and just go Sunday's players just don't play well for whatever reason. It just doesn't happen for them. But the one person in our team who I think you can never say doesn't give everything is Ritialis and I've seen people the other day saying he doesn't try and he's lazy and he's this and he's that. I saw a comment, I can't remember what it was. The only one he gets in the top 16. Saying that he'd gone off the boils in silver and left and he's like, if anything, I think he's getting better. Honestly, he's like I said, he's a world-class talent, he really is and he's by far our best player but I've technically been out. I think the problem with, it's not really a problem, it's more about getting. I've said in the past how sometimes you look at him like sulking about, but getting to know his personality and understanding why sometimes he looks like that doesn't like not having a good game. He doesn't like not trying and I think sometimes if anything stops him from doing that he's not happy.  I see, isn't he in the top six for tackles this season and he's a forward player. Last week I did the stand 11 and I actually started him on the right but my thought process was he'll score wherever he plays. He's that kind of player, he will score wherever he plays and he'll work hard wherever he plays and he likes picking up the ball and he likes running the people and he gives us something and actually him and Dominic Alvin Lewin are a very, very, very good partnership just because one, he likes to drop off and Don likes to be obviously the proper centre forward and it's starting to and it's starting to bear a little bit of fruit now so it's about putting other players around them so the idea that he doesn't side people are just mad. Yeah, I'm the only mad. There's that thing that you're only as good as you last game and in the derby he ended up playing left wing in that 4-4-2 and I know there's been a lot of discussion about whether he's a wide player or whether he's a striker I mean really he's a wide forward isn't he if you play 4-3-3 he can play anywhere in that front three but we don't play 4-3-3 we haven't got the players to do it at the moment I don't think you can stick him out there for a whole game like he was in the derby because then he does track, because he does work so hard he does spend his time tracking back he does get frustrated you need to get him up top around players and then he can do what he did the other day Andy, the pivot on a thing on him in the summer about is he a number nine is he a better centre forward people were like no he's better he's a better player in and around a penalty and he sniffs goals out more than anyone in our team I think we like to pidgeon old players now but he's just a forward he's a forward then he can play anywhere across the board we started the game alright I thought decent tempo it was a weird atmosphere because someone mentioned someone messaged me going oh can you do a show on the atmosphere it's the worst that's been we've been here before we were here last season no one backed him up the club never backed him up but Saturday was more like the players were coming out I just sat there I couldn't be bothered I was just like I'm just going to sit here I cannot be bothered I'm not going to react to anything whatever goes on I'm just going to sit and watch the match today I just can't be bothered so there was that weird atmosphere of like do you cheer them do you clap them coming on because it was very and that followed through into the game a little bit I think this is when I was watching I was watching it obviously I wasn't at the ground but I could kind of feel that sense of and you get with that a lot of games at good distance sometimes it's kind of there's such anticipation then it just falls flat and this isn't a criticism of Ancelotti or even the plays to an extent it's just in that first 5-10 minutes I'd like to see us we do this in a lot of games I want to see us turning teams because what gets the fans on side get a chance get a shot off I know we had the wall cut penalty issue which we'll get to but it was just straight away the first 5 minutes every time I looked at it it was whole gate pick for me and it's like just get it forward I thought I mean we come out I thought we got a good reception decent reception when we come out people were behind them it wasn't as vociferous as it can be and rightly so the natural stuff a lot of people in rightly so but I just thought we got older the game immediately it's been really getting a real chance but we had the older the game because they are the possession team and all that we had the people let's not stress it off we had the ball we knocked it round but we did get that penalty incident it was a brilliant ball it was a lovely move one pass touching inside the full back inside Lewis Duncan wall cut away he dragged back he's stumbling it's the most clear cup penalty you'll see and yet the referee doesn't give it and then VAR checked it because you know they're gone out and you're thinking well I've got monitors by me from where I sit so you could see immediately it's a penalty I'm pretty sure it was Michael Oliver Michael Oliver is honestly I mean I'm with you that the referees are abysmal genuinely over the last few seasons I've always thought of Oliver being like I thought he was actually decent he was on Friday night when it happened with the handball with West Ham and I genuinely do think and they've done it all season they just like get in their heads and I know we keep talking about it and it's just covering the tracks now covering for the mates and like well it's pathetic now the foul I've kind of seen other people say that we'd be angry if that got given against us but it's going off the precedent of what gets given they're not to bring it back to them but like the Salah won early in the season against Arsenal Arsenal Salah and Salah the man who he spends more time diving than an Olympic diver he didn't even go down for that but he knew he'd get the foul and they knew they'd go back now you watch it again woke up basically it twists them and he has to twist back and get a shot off in the time it's a clear foul so therefore it's a clear penalty and what I don't get about it is it's a clear penalty number one put it this way right people keep talking about VAR two referees fail to give that two referees that's how bad the rest are in this country for me what you'd have happened was that was a perfect opportunity to go and use the screen that was the absolutely pair back yourself up go and have a look and you make the decision you're going to make the decision you're going to look at the screen and like you just said there we're using these refs that have been doing something to die before or the week before for me the VAR team should be completely I've said this loads of times completely independent from going on the field they shouldn't even know their referees they shouldn't know them should be like that bloody mass singer they should all be dressed in duck costumes but it just the first thing you ate I watched the Charlie Nicholas was doing Sky Sports and he says he's just covering his mouth he just said the first thing he said he was just covering his mouth so everyone's getting on to it now just covering his mouth and this is the other thing about it you shouldn't have to go down to get a penalty VAR should eliminate that as well because if you start eliminating that then you start eliminating the needs for people to die and then the cheat and the VAR that foul and all the rest of it and again that makes it if the referee can distinguish what to foul from what isn't a foul by someone staying on his feet his job all over the pitch is going to be made easier then and that's how VAR is supposed to make it better and I remember when I remember when you shot the two men behind the goal with the sticks and I remember watching a thing about it and they were saying why don't you spring goal line technology and he was like well if they're there then someone will resist a habit the temptation to pull someone in the box they see that goal line technology is not there for that so I did some of the time and they were like oh yeah yeah stop something happening stop something continuing happening and that's what VAR should be for as well is for people to say I can't, I don't need to dive or whatever anymore because I should get the penalty if I'm foul and that's amused the saddest thing about it it should make Dunk as well, he was Dunk who pulled him out one that he think I can't do this because I'm going to get pitch spun it we had it a few weeks ago and I think you mentioned it the Sadibi one at Newcastle but again it being soft but why is he putting his hand on it to be fair though, to be fair to be fair on that point there's a referee on the pitch you would never ever foul anyone would you you know fouls are players will always make an attempt to touch a player to put them off we had one at Newcastle a couple weeks ago it's not actually too dissimilar to this but he doesn't actually pull his hands on it he'll just get his body in the way of them this lad gets older and pulls him back not once, twice but one of them does that and because he's running he spins him you can see when he's spinning back it's a clear penalty and it's just every part of it though is wrong every part is to get it completely wrong and that's what drives me mad in reality all he should do is go I check this game I might have got that wrong I go and check this game and he'll walk over and go yeah I got that wrong it doesn't need every time to go upstairs do you think if he didn't have fear he'd have given that and what I mean by that is because I think what's happening now in some games as well is they're not sure so be kind to go well if it is I've stopped giving decisions because and that's okay that's okay in some part we were moaning in the beginning of the season of like Christopher no, Villa at Christopher Palace perfectly good goal he didn't allow the play to go on Villa score it gets this round afterwards and then people blown the whistle I don't mind the game getting carried on and then looking at it afterwards but why not just say and we said this for the meaner goal at the time why not just go over and make the decision yourself why are you allowing someone to make that decision for you it just breaks the trust again and again and again because everyone look at that and go that's a penalty and the worst thing is we're sitting here and we don't have an explanation of why that wasn't given we don't have an explanation they don't need to back themselves up two referees have seen that the explanation has been given well it should have been like it should be blasted all over the world well the echo has done it today it should come it should come apparently it hasn't come and it wasn't it wasn't enough to for it to be considered being the foul that was what he said there was a penalty and a red card well that's the other point I feel he's disagreeing with what the referee said you can't get any Gallagher never gives it Gallagher said things he was fine today Andy Robertson his board is on psychedelic or the ref watch you've got people like Michael Owens saying well it's ridiculous because it means now Walcott's going to have to dive the next time he's going to go that's what you said we're trying it we should be saying to players you don't have to throw yourself on the floor because you'll get the decision if it's a foul because the contact that was made and I agree that he was a foul and he was a penalty twice that isn't enough contact to make someone fall to the floor but like you said they think they're going to have to for one they're getting pulled back so how are they going to fall forward he'll have to do that what he should have done was throw his arms up pick the ball up and the referee would have had to make it this year I've seen one last night I was watching PSG vs Monaco and they got a penalty and there was less contact but he ran past them and the lads over leaned into him and because it looks like he I mean he's a foul, it fouls him but because it looks like he hits him like on the knee and he's going at speed he falls out it's a penalty he hasn't dived but at the same time at the same time he's done what he needs it to do he's exaggerated the contact I remember, I didn't know what and I've said this loads and this is like the first thing I ever remember Davis and Ola came into the Premier League and someone said you've got a reputation for diving it's not diving it's showing the referee that you've been fouled not everything will take you down because we are grown men physically fit if you push me now I wouldn't fall over but if you push me I'll fall over because I want to show the referee that you've just pushed me and that always stuck in my mind of the way people think of things we've taken that from no someplace but that's the problem that's the way that's where you shouldn't have to do that now we've got the technology to show people to show people that it's a it's just the whole thing is just wrong they just keep making it they keep ruining what should be a good tool and they don't know what to do I was fully behind it because the refs aren't good enough that is why we needed it I know there's some that isn't just the refs aren't good enough they are really hard decisions and I've got the argument as well and especially now that you can't have a game that's got to be 100% right because then you get these stupid lines on the picture arm pits and things like that but again it's people using it VAI is just a replay it's still got to be a person using it and making that decision the other one that's what VAI has for yeah exactly we got away with that wasn't we it was the right decision and it was ruled out anyway we moved on from that one player who I thought certainly in the first half got us everything we did well come through Bernad this thing that Antielotti's brought in to the play of him coming off the left and getting sent to him picking the ball up so he could be in a bit more space in the fullback there's no where to they didn't know where to stick or go in the first half but it created a lot of space in that and it used our frontman correctly it meant Dom could run one way but Charles could pin them back suppose this is the the good thing about having two strikers it suddenly is that you're midfielder now so can drop into that role and with Bernad we've got the perfect play instead of always going down the line and joining up with the fullback suddenly we are coming in central because it has been one of our biggest issues all season everything goes wide you get to like October November time you look at all our goals all from crosses and that makes it easier for that makes it easier for the opposition and when you're playing against the likes of Sheffields United at home none of your home and they'll just keep following you outside because they know what's coming so Bernad playing in there now it's showing his real ability and he can go through the gears he's the only player we've got that can go between the lines and it's something we've been missing for since Ross Barkley left Evans to be honest and it's now just about the next stage of it is that what you've just said is other players understand them what they've got to do when he comes through where they run, how they open up space for him he's got a big part in it as well because I think one thing I still it's still slightly new about Bernad is that there are opportunities to just have a correct control I know this sounds stupid even the goal when he Bernad passed the lady off to Dean because the pass were actually it really should have been in front of him he kind of came behind him and Dean did well to kind of side foot it at the time I was like why are you over playing there luckily it worked out for the best and in the first half he was brilliant he was our driving force and it was the Burnley game he did the same role and Burnley couldn't handle him tired again in the second half and I think that's what type of player he is I think it was right to take him off when it was because there was a few times when he'd got into really good positions and his touch had just let him down and then suddenly we're on the back foot again but because we don't have any other options at the moment it will be his unfit he doesn't think Gordon's ready or whatever he's been on Delf and then that would be interesting to know what I would love to see is though I would love to see a Gordon on the bench and you play and listen it might be a bit early but I would love to know if in training that's almost like the role preparing for because this is something we spoke about loads of times is not having younger players coming through who have a specific role in the team to take over someone else's role and we spoke earlier in the season with Andy about why wasn't someone like being trained up to begin a replacement you know you're going to buy someone but just have that second player and I would love the idea of someone like Gordon being readied in training and saying like it sounds stupid isn't it but you look at something like American football right? I don't like American football but I watch a lot of documentaries I just love the idea of what goes on behind the scenes and you always have like the player and then his back up because it's like that that's the kind of sport it is and they have their own meetings and I find it fascinating the way they do it but it's something we don't necessarily seem to do in football yet we are a week from we are a week from watching aside beaters because they had kids who come in who were just the next standing so they were the replacements replacements and I think that's something they haven't got to get better at and it'd be lovely to have someone like Gordon getting trained up and the manager saying that's what I want you to do because I know you can come in off the left and I know you've got the pace and I know you can go through the gears and they are already terrified of that all I'm doing is I'm bringing the next one on but he's fresh and he might not have the talent as talented as Bernard but that doesn't matter because they are tired and I think if we that's something that it makes more sense doesn't it I think the perfect example of that is the city game Bernard was a massive miss as soon as he was going to be key in that game because the way he played against Burnley he didn't play against Newcastle and really the game against Newcastle not that we didn't need him he probably didn't suit that style and getting it forward quickly against City we desperately needed a player as an out ball that wasn't just trying to hit it long and get wall caught or rich yards running wide in a straight line or Calvert-Lewin holding it up we needed a player to get on the ball 40 yards from our goal and run with it 30 yards we don't have anyone who can do that when Bernard doesn't play because we didn't have another alternative on the bench it would have been hard to throw in a Gordon for example against Man City I think he's going for a rough patch of form but all players do he's got a lot of positives to his game Davies I know will come on to it later but out there on the left and in that role you can't do it you can run with the ball maybe 5-10 yards and like you've said before he's turning to Jack Wilsh he's just running into the floor all the time when he gets it and then in that position he's kind of probably thinking do I need to go with the full back do I need to go with the winger and do you know what was the perfect indication of this, no early on the season we play Ville and Bernard had a brilliant sort of first half maybe first half or maybe to Leicester and then he runs out of steam he's just the way he is he's not small he's not necessarily cut out for 90 minutes of Premier League football but if you look at him and go he is our most technical player or he might be our best player but he's definitely our most technical player why wouldn't you want a replacement for him so that you look at the bench and you go oh god you've got that kid you can come on and actually do something similar to nail home the point and I think that's maybe something that I think that would be a perfect role for Gordon just last 20 minutes of games if this is something we do with Bernard it's an important part of the way we play we have to it has to continue the whole game and it has to be until we've got a player in the middle and we haven't got any midfielders at the moment because Gomez is out who can get on the ball and drive us 10-20 yards up the pitch with the ball we haven't got any players like that and we need really we need a world class but we need a really really top midfielder one of my chants would be like Hackems I asked someone like that of that level who can just get the ball forward at pace either with a pass or running with it but we haven't got that and we haven't got that luxury so we need to rely on the player like Bernard to do it maybe it's a flaw it will be and Silva said well we actually want to play him on the left I think Silva's thinking maybe in a flawed way I don't know if it was Branser's thinking as well I can just switch Bernard and it will be out now again I like it will be I just think he's a bit too erratic for that role he needs to be in the middle kind of buzzing about getting on the ball and just running with it and having quick into turns of passes Bernard can operate with a bit more time and when he just gets his head down and he's got that ability to weave in and out and then link up with Dean so it's like we may be signed a replacement and it hasn't quite clicked the most important part of all that though has to be if you run 30 yards of the ball you've got to make that decision at the end of it so he thinks that's there with Bernard and that's something he needs to work on and again that comes down to fitness if you've just run 30 yards with the ball and you've run into space it's that decision Barclay used to be terrible at it that's what you used to fall down on and we always thought that was always going to come with time over it but it's intelligent and if you haven't got it you haven't got it you look at De Bruyne I know it's a bit different but I mean he runs he doesn't change speed it doesn't matter if he's going with the ball without the ball he's just at constant speed and he always makes the right pass I mean well 99 times out of 100 but you need that play you need someone a lot of that comes through instinct of knowing where people are going to be as well though and that's where our centre forwards have got to start understanding that and start picking up better places on Saturday he played through your balls that way and even on and got us in round the back because he's got that ability he opens the space shop he opens the space shop and he can have a go and I think if he starts putting his foot through it people will pick rebounds there was one maybe just before the goal he kind of cut him from the left and he basically there were four like the two centre backs and two central midfielders and he skipped in between all of them and it opened up the defenders who were having spread wide because he had Richard on one side Khaled living the other they made good runs and he tried to play with Charleston it was a good pass where Charleston then had to cut across it and I think Matt Ryan made a pretty decent save but he was always going to be one of them that were like use with Charleston as the deco just have a look at some of his numbers because he was absolutely key for Everton 63 touches 35 successful passes 17 in the attack and third which is a lot successful passes into the penalty area finish in the game finished with 74% pass four ball recovery three successful dribbles that was the other 100% successful dribble two successful tackles as well I mean that just highlights that he was quite pivotal he did run out of steam after 65 minutes but again that shows how good he was those four chances created were the most just because I know because I did the opted stats yesterday and Dean was the second with three so it was all down that side and he played 65 minutes if you look at that and you go well who would be Everton's most creative you'd pick those two probably because that's where it normally comes from but like you say we got the goal and the goal was a cracking goal it really was, it was a good move breaking through again just based on through and your writers passed the team wasn't expecting Dean to go and Dean started going I think you just wanted to use the defenders as a decoy I think with them too I find it sometimes so frustrating that they worked together so well but it's because in my head I'm just thinking of Ben's and Pina you know and that was always inch perfect Pina's little back heel it doesn't matter they knew where each other was those two have kind of got it up to a stage but this season don't forget they haven't played together a lot and again that's probably where I've been at the 60 minutes or whatever and Dean's had a tough week family issues and he's had a couple of days training and what have you he put a good ball back and then Natiala's got a lot to do but when he hit it back I was thinking that's not a very good pass at all and Natiala's makes it a good pass getting there first and then the touch and I'm right behind it the minute he left his foot on you because it could sweep my mind with no chance that's the goal wasn't it? I've got to think of the koalas though haven't I that's what you've got to think of although he made the most saves I think to be honest there was a couple of saves in the second half and I was like I'm glad you've saved that you've just kept a couple of the one he saved from Keen on to the bar just kept a couple of kangaroos you know what I've noticed this in the last few weeks actually I've noticed a couple of times well no more than a couple of times both him and Dom coming short and almost like the ball is put in just to tempt the defender a little bit I've noticed that that's something I don't know whether it's been done on paper but I've just noticed this thing of players just maybe them being a little bit sharper or just two of them buzzing around and just getting there first and once you get there first the defender's lost he's gone well that could easily on another day as well like if that Brighton defender can beat to the ball took a swipe exactly as I'm saying it's clever play but it's just the way you know what when you talk about the difference between like top players and good players it's that composure to have that many touches in that little time but to basically move your body around in a whole circle and then get the shot off and the shot is it's fantastic it's almost like a training ground finish but without actually moving your he's kind of scooped it up the touch to like set himself on top of the ball and then in one movement he's kind of scooped it up and like you said the curl off the post at least just give it the out like you said for the penalty pad like we have these moments and we have them under silver and you know for all his faults when we like turn it on for that 30 seconds we are really good and the goal came from actually a really bad pass from I think Sadeeva but he, him and Walcott press comes back to Sigurdsson for once and there's actually if you look at if you listen to the replay of the goal the crowd is an ironic cheer because Skilford just hits it straight through to Rich Ellison he's on his bike, he runs, picks out Bernard and follows it into the box and when we play at pace like that we are a good side that's the problem with Everton, there's the consistency if you can play, we do our best work when we do things quickly because we've got players who can't be instinctive so we're down with no good because the movement's not good enough but I just thought his feet in that tight area to get the shot away was fantastic he'd had one like you said before Matt Ryan made a good save from we threatened a few times we had the Dominic Albert Lewin cross that almost went in it was just too far for the Charles and achieved the post and we had the other one where Bernard played it round the corner similar to the run he made a bright and blocked it and it hit him and went off so there being moments in games where we played some nice football cut them open and we just needed that second goal but we go in at half time come out in the second half and in the second half I thought Tom Davis played really well because we had to get a grip of that midfield at the start of second half and he did, Guilfe was Guilfe was Guilfe off the ball I think he played fine Guilfe again he's that the thing with Davison it's whoever we have there in the moment and I think again it's just because maybe I'm comparing it to when we have with Garner they always seem to get to the player and the press them within that two three yards but then all it needs is one of two passes from the opposition and I think in the first half and he's not really a player that I've ever rated when he first came but that David Proper played really well for Brighton and I noticed that they did it more than us because we haven't got the midfields we could play through midfield we didn't and when we did try to there was one point in the first half where we had Guilfe's studs in front of Holgate and then Davis was stood in front of Keane and they were in like a five yard space and it wasn't that they weren't showing for the ball they just weren't moving and there were no mobility isn't it? One of the big things that I might feel is the lack of mobility I mean what Guilfe did do well in the first half while giving credit for was he was the one showing to take the ball off the centre back the problem I have with him is like in the second half he started doing that thing again where he's pointing for other players to go and do the work instead of him you know go and do it yourself and he didn't have that but I thought from Davis to act us through in the second half he really he got about them and he got stuck into them I saw someone said that he'd run the show and I don't think we had anybody I don't think we've got a player who can run the show in midfield the thing with Guilfe is when he does drop like he did in the first half again I don't think he's ever had he's not really got a passing range he's a good passer in the sense that he can put an eye on the needle through ball through 10-20 yards but he's not someone who can pick it up and spread it 50 yards to a winger or fullback he just doesn't do that and because he hasn't got the legs or the pace to drive up with the field we've got to have players dropping him around him Davis at least in the second half I think he just was like right well I'm going to get to grips and that's what he did and he stopped them he stopped them playing the only thing I'd say with Tom is just just sharpen up with your pass and make the decision earlier if you go buy one player just pop it off, do it simple and the more he simplifies his game the more effective I think he'll be he was late on and he did it twice I think you mentioned it in one of your videos but he did it twice the first one led to the marry chance and we'd cleared it and Rich Arleson it wasn't even a good run but he just made a simple run down the line it came to Davis who was then shifted to the left all he had to do was hit it straight and I know it sounds to me simple me saying this I'm not a professional footballer but I can I know in that situation and he knows I'm sure Tom Davis knows that that was the right thing to do and he had that split second hesitation he tried to quit inside and they were through and that's where it came from and that's where the frustration comes from it's Tom Davis is that he's still doing it and in games where you just want this and sometimes he can be very very good where he draws a foul late but at times there's times when you just need it we've got loads of plays like this, Pickford's another one and I said it again and just there's times in a game where there's nothing wrong with going long but put it in an area where someone's got to go and get it if that makes sense if you kick it straight and it goes to the goalie he's going to bring it back to the corner then suddenly that gives some like Domino Cavalini opportunity or the Charleston and this can be the centre back, this can be Pickford this can be Tom Davis the stages in the game where there's nothing wrong with knocking it into a corner I've said this so many times and the thing is it was there's this big thing about us playing safe and we do it, we entirely do it we play safe but our safe is dangerous to us because we're not a good possession safe we're just not and we get ourselves into bother we pass from Davis tried to choose the safe option by not being brave, if he'd have been brave that was the simple pass down the line get them turned where's the least dangerous place on the football pitch because the thing about it is though it's not when you play it as well you put a ball into a corner and you know where Charleston or Domino Cavalini are going to chase that ball if it had been tossing making that run it'd still be chasing it it's still chasing it now the eagle would have got it before and that's where people people just remember those moments they don't remember all the other good things let's have a look at his contribution shows poor energy in midfield they have 57 touches 33 successful passes 17 forward passes which is the thing which is why I wanted them to come on an amp field because an amp field we just went like that never pull Harry does, we had no one to take the ball forward he does that he tries to drive us forward nine successful attacking third passes created one chance finished with 80% pass and accuracy five ball recoveries, we used to have Lord Garner forgetting seven and eight so doing the work right there four successful tackles one, two of his aerial duels and one interception in midfield he did put in a good performance but you're right it is those moments when he'll do something when he's done really well and remember against, was it Chelsea he'd had a brilliant game I think it was Chelsea, he'd done everything right and then near the end he started hesitating with the ball and chaining into it instead of just going you know what, I've gone past the first man I'm just putting it in the corner and we'll go after it and the unfortunate example of that is Leicester Leicester and he done well in that game as well as any other player I know we were in a dreadful situation at that point and then he makes the two mistakes and ultimately leads the goal it's just those moments that you remember and I'm sure it'll come it's just that my only worry about him is he's still making those mistakes that he was making three years ago even though I know he's only 21 or 22 it's just that in that three years you think Tom, you're making those mistakes then learn, just have that bit more composure but then again it's when the game's getting you know, it's late on and people are tired the other thing what I'd say is the last few weeks he's been I know he's had a couple of games out of the team but he was carrying the team alongside saying he can't run and doing a lot of pressing but also, the other thing what I look at is you've got a fella now in charge he's worked with well-classed footballers and given them advice and they all say he's helped them so it's up to Tom now to take every little bit of advice he can of and he'll look at that and go listen just be, you know, he might be saying just be safe there, you've gone past the face and put it in the corner for now, anti-loss he's come out after the game and said eventually I want to be possessive, we want to dominate it but at the moment we've got two lads who will run after everything so nothing wrong with putting it into the course the thing is with the fans at the moment we don't mind that, we're not asking for possession because we know at the moment we're not there and you're better off being quick at the moment because we've got the players that work better at pace like you run after it when we're one little up after anger and all that I mean the example, the other time we actually did it is Calvert Lewin in stoppage time did it himself he picked it up on the halfway line and for once Calvert Lewin doesn't do this enough for me he just got it and he knocked it past the fullback and he went come on then and what he all he did was managed to get to the line and then from the goal kick there went short and with Charlie's someone there and he I think it was Elza too, he'd come on for them and he just nicked at him and just stopped him getting away for 30 seconds then he fouled him perfect, broke the game that's for the Trossard chance that they had early in the second half I know that before that it was offside and he should have been blown up but the Supercopper last night Valverde's tackle right, I mean I amazing but Calvert Lewin was next I think it was Duffy who played the ball to Trossard and Sidibe shouldn't have let Trossard cut in and didn't put enough pressure on him but there I was just calling for Calvert Lewin bringing him down because there you've got a centre back you know, whatever you might be a limited footballer but you can pick out a 30 yard hoof to a winger and there was under no pressure, Calvert Lewin there should just be getting across running to him it don't matter if you get a book in it, just stop that had he been booked at that time I don't think he had no he was early in the second half he got booked for the goal didn't he but I mean we had opportunities to kill it I mean they did, Brighton did have that that was like the first million full chance on Trossard and I think apparently if it had gone in it would have been disallowed because it come from but that was even when you talk about people using the brain the lad was miles off the lad went to put it up Pickford should just stop because the lad was going like that, he kicks it straight to them and they wake and come inside then I suppose you get the thing chef United about it one of them isn't it, he's got a player as he sees it we had the goal disallowed which was rightly so before him we'd had a couple of chances the one they had been at touches him in the front the touch is incredible the other one was long ball wasn't it he gets caught in the air, Don looks like he gets fouled does he get again dunk but then he gets round the other side of him you know what he does, everything right everything he studies it brilliant the only thing I would say is he's probably got time you know what you said about Rich Alisson earlier it's the difference what Matt Ryan has done there I think if that's Rich Alisson going for a goal Matt Ryan runs out and he gives Rich Alisson the opportunity to have a dink it or knock it past him or run him around him think of Lukaku, the amount of time he'd go through I know we're talking different levels of finisher but Matt Ryan, a goalkeeper if Lukaku's running, he did it for an interval last week when the goalkeeper came out and he just rounded him it forces the goalkeeper into a situation he's like, hang on this is one of the best finisher Rich Alisson has just scored that amazing goal and he's their best player he's going to do me if I don't run out all Matt Ryan has done there, he's said to Calvert Lewin you can't beat me from 18 yards and it's not it's not really criticism of Dom there he's like, he couldn't have taken that extra touch but it swings around about you taking an extra touch and the defender suddenly stops you or whatever the very very best the very very best he sticks it on the other side he just takes that touch and he just whack it to the other side Calvert Lewin did it against Cardiff in March that's the only other goal I've seen him score like that when Garner did that run through and then Lady and Calvert first time he's done the textbook there he's put it back the other way and he's not really hit it low he's not really hit it high and he's not really hit it into the corner and it's a perfect height and the keeper's got enough time to see it but that's one where you're like you've done everything right and again it's that thing of forgetting about all the good things he's done in the moment or what everyone's going to think is he never got his goal that's why I was more disappointed that the goal was this hard because I wanted Dom to get another goal I've got a shot and he and Rich Arleson scored nine of our last 10 goals now I think it is the only ones that own goal which I mean we are relying on him a bit but you want to see that at the same time when you're with Emily and listen I've criticised Dom for missing chances before but I think he done most things right there he hit the target the keeper made a good shot like I said I just think the keeper's forced Calvert losing to a decision and if Calvert losing maybe was that type of striker that regularly runs through when scores goes like that Matt Ryan's going to have to have a different thing and hopefully he'll get that because he's scoring different types of goals and we had the other one with Rich Arleson done brilliantly with another ball and he went through and took the money I think it was Louis Duncan brilliant bluff and it looked over the goal but we've got those two players that can stretch see I don't think Dom I think about like you enough run a piece quick make defenders think I'm going he can run me here because I think he's one of the quickest he had the other one as well remember the one where the ball comes from like penalty spot and he's trying to and that was another way people were just saying you're the centre forward spin the other way and have a shot they had another brilliant block as well I think it was might have been Luca Deampold I think it was Rich Arles and someone put the foot away in it and again it was in because Matt Ryan we were on top for that first 20 after they've had that thing where they hit the bar they had a bit of 5 minutes we settled it down did they play like relaxing Spanish music but they came out we got back into it and then we were on top and then I think like I said I do think Bernard started to tire so I do think we have to make that change I wanted to come on to the subs because I've seen a few criticisms on social media and a couple in our comments about this sub like what was he thinking with the subs I'll be honest I actually thought I literally didn't have an issue with the sub I don't think at that point in the game you can take Bernard off which I do think he was tired I don't think you can chuck Moise Keaton on and expect him to do a similar type of role the only thing he could have done definitely was put the Charleston on the left and put Moise Keaton up with Dom which is what I think he might have been thinking because Moise Keaton was warming up I think the thing that surprised me was when he did the first sub and when I watched it through again we went with 4-3-3 as soon as Delph came on and so it meant that Brighton the full batscump was going to show this way and Walkup was still tracking back and doing his work I don't think he had a particularly good game but the sub that surprised me was the Coleman one when it happened the 75th minute and it was like I think that put us obviously a bit more than we'd have probably ended up on the back foot anyway I think what was happening to Moise was that Sidderby who has some great games and has some very indifferent games he was all over the place him and Walkup were losing their shape and what was happening Brighton were tucking in it was right below me and Sidderby was following their player so there was a big gap Walkup was tiring so the pair of them weren't doing their job but when they would go wide to that Bernardo they left back no one was getting out quickly but with a put Coleman there and I've Sidderby in front I've got that insurance I don't forget the Atrosard I think Coleman played well when he came on for what he needed to do but he still doesn't get out quickly enough either twice the switch was on and it let it go Pickford blocked him for it properly because he let one in fact it was the Murray chance he let the ball go over his head and he didn't go and close the hand down to get hold of the game in the midfield and just try to offer some control Davis went out to the wing to just help Luka Dean out to literally just stand in front of him because I think Dean was tiring and I think Coleman was putting on to show the right hand side up so I was like alright fair enough he's gone with that then I was thinking the next one will be Moise Keane and it will be Tom Davis going off Moise Keane coming on and then obviously they put Glen Murray on and it was the right one then because Murray had had one he'd flicked just wide which I thought was offside but when I seen it again he wasn't and it almost ended in and then obviously he has the header which he put me in the run but he has the header which Pickford has to make his only real meaningful save in the game so I thought the subs were I can understand why he done it it's about preserving the victory but just on Jordan Pickford because I know you've been very critical of him rightly so but I actually thought he was decent on Saturday in terms of he didn't have much to do but I thought to stay focused for the save I thought was important and I thought I thought the only thing I criticised him for is those silly kicks down the middle of the pitch when it's late on in games because there was a few times people were running just going and I was thinking right he's thinking about it and then there was one where he took it and just booted it straight back to Matt Ryan and he was like do your little wing kicks there he's going to do it aim it because he puts you I'm not like I don't want to over criticize me what about the one where there was a chance for him to just grab the ball in the box and he came out like wing kicked it and he went straight to them and they all looked out he'd done well and there was a couple he switched brilliantly but I just thought considering he wasn't involved in the game he'd come up big when he needed and see for himself and that is what you need to go keep us to do I agree he really didn't have he didn't have another save there was that horrible moment where I thought he'd snuck in he did what he needed to do well but he doesn't quite get the power on it it's just in the corner it is a great save but it's one I expect from him now I'm hoping what I'm saying is for me I don't think he needs to be highlighted he's had a week where people thought it's because he's been shite let's get it right there's no point you don't need to build players when they're shite they need to be told they've been shite but it was a normal everyday with performance apart from kicking the ball back which is my main problem with him whether he should have saved something or whether he shouldn't have saved something I'm not a goalkeeper I can't make that it's when he keeps on giving the ball back to the opposition that's my problem with him and he did that a lot on something I just wish we'd stopped we'd moved away under dunk from the 2 defenders standing in the box you need a midfielder to come and take the ball off or you can switch he showed he showed enough but he doesn't turn and switch the ball he doesn't go through the gears the mad thing was I honestly I honestly I thought the other Glenn Money chance was better than the other and that's because Meena hasn't got a clue where he is and that's where I didn't understand taking Dean off because I was looking I was buying up in Baines on them I looked at it and I said I'm not, as I said earlier the manager has a right to what he wants to do now I can't, I just didn't understand because if you look at the Glenn Money chance which he should have scored Meena hasn't got a clue where he's supposed to be and that's my only worry it doesn't deflect on its way through to the amount of time the amount of time and the second half all they did was play a straight ball over the top was slightly worrying but what the manager's got to realise is do the players have the mental capacity to understand what he wants that's the only thing I would worry because honestly you look at that goal and Meena doesn't know where he is Holgate doesn't know where he is and Murray just basically is on his own and has a chance to score bad finishing and a bit of wind takes it just wide because everyone in the grand held the breath I thought he was it, because it was such an Everton goal to concede as well because we'd already made all the changes and we'd have the opportunity to get it forward and it's just that moment of hesitation then a little deflection to take it through everyone's out position, Glenn Murray there we got a bit of luck which we don't always do but we deserved a little bit of luck because we're not getting the VAR the goal I got this allowed it's mad because the corner, the wind takes it we should really score was it keen? I thought it was Coleman at the time and he should bury the goal I think Ryan got another kangaroo saved a tiny little flick onto the bar but then I said to him you've got to score from there I've never known a defender who can't hit a ball in the direction, defensively or attacking sometimes he should score so many goals and then really Dom's just trying to get something on it and it's mad because if his arm's not there it'll probably hit it after his arm if that makes sense and because he's so desperate to get something off it I know Webster takes a flick at it I don't think Webster's getting it when you look at where the ball is because Webster's foot misses the ball so he's probably going to go Dom, but he is doing the right thing it might go in it might not go in I knew straight away it was on ball I know everyone else in the ground doesn't have my view but I knew straight away so that stopped me from being overly it would when he were laying on the floor because the cameras obviously I wasn't there but the cameras you might see the zoom we're writing on Davis and Holgate over him and he was like it was mad it was the right decision the way it is at the moment you're never going to get those you're never going to get them they're going to look at that arm and if that wasn't if that had been a girl's score by Glenn Murray it would have been fuming he locked the rim and his arm can't complain I don't know I mean it's the rule but it's not a book it's just through his body you've got to give him a book again that's where the rest of us don't understand the game the centre forward is trying to score a goal and it's just happening to it it could have hit him literally anyway when it went to Michael Keane obviously I'm only up above and I've seen him on his own and he had the goal and I was waiting for the net you look at the net don't you you're looking for the net and that added a little bit that added the whole tension because you think we could have killed that against Brighton again another VAR decision again that's the thing if we if we win that game 2-0 and everything that happens in it is the same everyone goes very comfortable good performance it's 1-0 and they've had a couple of chances everyone's like oh it was a bit navy because when you don't get that second goal and you know what these things happen remember this time last year we played we played Bournemouth didn't we we won them up in very similar circumstances and don't get through late on and he hits it and it takes a little ricochet off the defender and it takes it over the goalie and sometimes that's all you need that little bit of luck to win the game we just didn't have that luck to get us the second goal but we deserved to win the game we weren't fantastic we did what we needed to do we were clearly the better side we'll need a little bit more and games coming up by a managing book it's just building it now we've got the weeks in between games apart from when I was in Newcastle some mid-week game but then we've got the rest for the cup unfortunately and then the winter break coming up so we've got that time now on the training pitch we do, we are going to need signings that's maybe I don't know if it's the top run of a show but the one thing now is I want to see I know we've only just had that meeting between brands and Ancelotti but maybe this has happened anyway obviously I don't know but it'd be nice to think that in that meeting it was as much of a case of if you want them as well we'll see what happens with it obviously I know it's a tough situation I suppose the thing right now is without talking about it too much what is actually need and what is the end game for this season do we believe we can get Europe it's still there, it's not that far away 4 points off 6th still there, is that achievable what do we need to get there or do we look at it and go we'll stick with what we've got for the rest of the season maybe a loan or two we've got players coming back and that's the decision we've got to make right now and this is why brands I think has always opted against going into the landfill window in January because the value is not there I think what we have got now the difference is Ancelotti's name and it is I think I've been fairly critical of brands I think he's done a I'm sure we've got the right man behind him but I don't think he's beyond criticism definitely mistakes that he's made and I think in a way that maybe it's been made harder in some senses but it's been made a hell of a lot easier by having that name of Ancelotti there to attract that level of play whether that's January or the summer brands is real problem is it's getting people out and every time you feel like he's just got rid of some you look and go there's another 7 there there's not even that we're having a world-class manager and what we've seen last few weeks he's got to get rid of these players in the team the first team is now you go if they're on that much money they can't be sitting on the bench we need to get rid of them the thing he'll say is that's three clean sheets on the run and the game before that was a 3-1 win against Ancelotti so we've seen the one goal in four games of Goddison in the league and then one goal in the league in Ancelotti in the wins that we've had as well so obviously we can see the two you have to look and go we're moving on, dunking started that process of tightening up and if you are tight and you can get clean sheets then you've got the opportunity to win games so we've won eight games this season five teams have won more than us the top five Wolves are one of them Chef United are on eight and Southampton are on eight wins because Danny Ings is the best striker but for one how poor the league is but two like you've said before earlier in the season it was turning those draws that we were going to get into defeats like the Brighton away one and then not turning I think we've only drawn three or four games as well normally our draw one is in 2011 we've got four or five defeats so it is if we can beat the draw in this league and there's plenty of it and honestly I count those amongst it a lot but I do think we're the upper end of the draw because we've got that level of play and now a much better manager if we can get those wins and it needs to start being away from home as well we need to take it's going to be a tough one because it's moist really that's the only reason why but we've got to now we've got to go into those games thinking these are blowers we've got to beat them it doesn't matter whether it's home or away it doesn't matter about picking up a point it's got to be three points we do that we're in a good position to build from let's see what happens a couple of loans will help as well there you go let us know what you think in the comments section below good win for Everton we didn't go anywhere we've got a gap between people below us and we've closed the gap on 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Hello, I'm Sarang Hamasahid, Director of Middle East programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. As the coronavirus has been spreading around the world, we have been monitoring its effects, especially in fragile states and conflict zones, where displaced populations and refugees are in a particularly vulnerable situation. In this brief video, I will talk about Iraq and how the coronavirus affected Iraq's political situation, the state of conflict and peace fair, and tensions between the United States and Iran. So first question is how the pandemic affected the political situation in Iraq. So it has greatly affected the political situation by pushing the demonstrators off the street, those who have been in Baghdad and south of Iraq, demanding reform and better jobs and services, and an improvement in their overall conditions in Iraq. And that relieved the pressure on the political class. But the political class, and to respond to JP's questions on the constitution, they've tried to remain in the constitutional process. So the Iraq now has a third attempt at forming a government. On April 9, President of Iraq, Barham Saleh, tasked Mr. Mustafa Al-Kazmi to form a government, and he has 30 days to do that. Should he be successful, his first task would be to respond to the immediate need of the COVID-19 crisis and also respond to the demands of the demonstrators, deal with the U.S.-Iran tensions, the continued threat of ISIS, and many more complex issues. And so to the second question, to ask basically ourselves, is that how has the conflict affected the state of peace and security in Iraq? And there is a positive and the negative in how we answer this question. In a sense of a positive, and also to respond to Siruan's question about the KRG-Bagdad dynamics, is that it brought a common purpose that's not exactly like ISIS, but in a similar way, this is a common enemy. It gave people a common purpose. And there are ways where there is collaboration, whether in terms of medical and security and procedural coordination between the KRG and the government and Baghdad, or the people helping each other out. So that has been good. However, on the other side, the COVID-19 crisis is coming at an environment where there was a deficit of trust between the people and the state and the political class. And so that's why, as in many societies where the pandemic was not taken seriously, the Iraqi people did not necessarily trust that their political leaders would be able to respond to this pandemic closely, or they did not heed the advice and the instructions for people to go home and exercise social distancing. So the government had to put in stricter measures of curfews and bring in the police and other security resources to enforce that. But moving forward, this will be a continued challenge for Iraq because now they have the additional complication that dropped and oil prices that Iraq has less resources to deal with ongoing issues. And now COVID-19 has just been added. So as this challenge continues, social pressure on the government will continue just for economic reasons, let alone the continued need of reconstruction in areas liberated from ISIS. And if the government becomes unable to pay public servants, that will just complicate the situation even more. On the question of U.S.-Iran tensions in Iraq, the coronavirus has basically resulted in both countries being more inwardly focused to deal with their own pandemic situation. However, that did not stop both of them from signaling publicly and privately that they continue to pursue their interests and objectives in Iraq. For the U.S., they want to limit Iranian influence and limit the role of the popular mobilization forces and a variety of other issues. On the Iranian side, they want the U.S. troops out, limit U.S. role and strengthen the role of the popular mobilization forces and others. So these tensions will continue. The U.S. has consolidated its troops in a smaller number of bases due to changing circumstances out of protection due to the coronavirus and also an adjustment of the mission as things go forward. Strategic dialogue between Iraq and the United States has been set for June of this year, so that will be a great opportunity for the country, the two countries to work their issues through dialogue. On the role of the international community, it is really important for that to continue. Before COVID-19, Iraq needed a lot of help from the international community for the political reform, for dealing with its governance issues and rebuilding in areas after ISIS. That need has been compounded and the role of the international community through technical expertise to respond to the pandemic, but also in the political space to address the grievances of the people who will remain to be important. In the end, I would like to thank you for your great questions and engagement with this video and social media. Please continue the discussion through the COVID and conflict hashtag and check out the USIP website, USIP.org, for more resources on Iraq and the pandemic and other conflict zones.