Match Thread Aston Villa v Everton - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Mark barnett]

At 1-0 we gave up unacceptable

 

[LeeCarsley]

referee is shocking

 

[PhilM]

Yeah but what annoys me is also the recruitment, no RB, no good striker backup, it just feels like a grind supporting this club

Which is a fair gripe and the real catalyst for today's performance. I'm not going to get too annoyed by today's result even though it's far from enjoyable.

Our lack of depth in those key and obvious positions will continue to be our undoing.

 

[Melchizedek]

Bit of Everton that if he comes on for ten minutes and destroys us then goes off

So "everton that" it hurts. Player we've been interested in for years. Comes on, involved in all three goals, out injured for the rest of the season. Someone up on high has a vendetta against Everton.

 

[hallamblue]

I'm just wondering if this is the most defensive/midfielder team ever fielded by Everton by a managers sub decisions. Rafael just needs to take gray off now.

Same as Ancelotti did last season.

 

[atypicalusername]

Unlucky Keane but you should have buried that

 

[Gilbert..]

Said it 100 times.
We havent a decent defender at the club.
Absolutely none of them fill me with any confidence. Not 1.

 

[Northeastblue]

Imagine not putting any blame on the manager when we have been humiliated by a bang average villa

Imagine being so stupid you can't see any mitigating circumstances.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Cos villa subbed a concussion sufferer

Why they got 5 subs?

 

[Blueclouds]

At 1-0 we gave up unacceptable

Did we? Thought it was the own goal mins later killed us

 

[Toffeelover]

It was 4 at the back, Digne, Keane, Mina, Godfrey.

Does not rad like that when only two in midfield.

Shows Rondon should have not been signed, said no way back on the transfer thread.

 

[billybeeru]

Link it.

Recruiting a successor to club captain Seamus Coleman has been on the club's agenda for a number of years but new manager Rafael Benitez was not prepared to sign a player this summer that did not meet his exacting standards.

Money was too precious and Benitez, who has only just inherited the right-back issue, was unwilling to risk squandering the club's cash.

The manager, club sources have confirmed, was not fully convinced on the merits of meeting the asking price for Denzel Dumfries, for example.

Inside Everton's search for a right-back and why one wasn't signed in the window

Everton have been searching for a successor to Seamus Coleman for a number of seasons but have yet to find the right player

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

 

[andy4efc]

We scored 3 in 9 minutes last game and everyone raved about us being class. Perspective.

Again, those who have perspective and see the big picture saw that we were awful for 60mins and not to go thinking we were class, like you seem to think we are if you think we should be sweeeping away teams with no challenge.
I repeat, perspective is everything

12 points from 18.

 

[Frenk]

Just think of who we could have bought and where we might of been with the money we have wasted. Morshiri is like I imagine Del Trotter to have been after he became loaded. The only hope is that he sells up after the stadium is built.

 

[mawders]

pfft. bad defeat, but move on. There's been enough positives so far to take this as a bad day at the office (or half a day b/c first half was OKish)