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

[longers]

Do all football fans hate their club as much as Everton fans.

The ones that frequent forums tend to

 

[Vortexgaz]

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

Couldn’t agree more

 

[arch stanton]

just one of them where first goal changes everything. That and Gray spins the CB to be clean through except the cb clearly holds him bk making no attempt to play the ball and another awful official decides to use the light touch rule to bottle a clear red card. 5 mins later englands political strong cb makes a high late reckless challenge and also for some reason is treated like Tarkovski was last week.

this is probably the sensible review, I'm going to lash out and shout abit about other shizzle for a bit first though

 

[TrixyStevens]

Too many injuries unfortunately, Gray’s miss a turning point in the game. Hopefully we have a few first choices back next week as we’re terrible. Need to buy in January.

 

[hallamblue]

Come on Everton! Heads up, keep your shape! I'm still on for my Thee-One prediction

I said 3-1 as well.

 

[MKEvertonian]

Do all football fans hate their club as much as Everton fans.

No, cause we are unique, we’ve had no excitement for years, just fluctuating around midtable every season the same mistakes, going no where

 

[BornBlue76]

Nice elbow from Ings on the back of Mina

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Why do we get 4 subs?

Because one of the Villa subs was a concussion sub mate

 

[Chewbacca]

Good sides dont capitulate

Remind me how the dark side got on here last season

 

[PhilM]

I repeat, perspective is everything

12 points from 18.

Add to that, a solid win against Norwich and tonight will soon be forgotten. There'll always be bumps in the road, but hopefully this is one of a small amount.

If it's one of many, well that's when things will get interesting.

 

[Papa Shango]

He offers NOTHING when off the ball.

He's remarkable when ON the ball.

As you can see, the reason our system is working so effectively is because we're not giving our opposition a second on the ball.

James is a player that 'pretends' to be doing his part off the ball but you can tell he has no real desire to win it and is half ass-ing it.

That's not going to cut it.

I'd only bring him on when we're ahead unless he can improve his stamina / attitude

Absolute nonsense. (no offence)

He offers a pass when he is off the ball, every single time. Need an outlet? He will be there to take the ball.

People get "hard work" confused. It's not just about bombing around like an idiot tackling everything on the pitch. It's also about clever movement, getting into space to receive a pass and then doing something with it.

Our system has "worked" so far in a very small sample size and that's great (I am ignoring what is happening on the pitch right now) but you need other options too.

Stamina maybe but that probably aint going to change at his age. There is nothing wrong with his attitude on the pitch, certainly no less than some of the chancers we have had playing for us for years and still have now.

 

[Vortexgaz]

Digne and Godfrey were atrocious not buying a back up RB/LB is a joke

And letting our other LB go out on loan Luca thinks he can doing anything and will be playing week in week out

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Seen enough of this Gordon. You can see why Scotty Sinclair got a game ahead of him for Preston

 

[arch stanton]

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.

id take him off to make sure he doesn't get crocked too, we aint getting anything here

 

[Blueclouds]

No, cause we are unique, we’ve had no excitement for years, just fluctuating around midtable every season the same mistakes, going no where

We could be Norwich