Match Thread Aston Villa vs Everton. Saturday 14th August 12:30 KO

[Saint Domingo]

Coutinho surrounded by 4 players and somehow comes away with it.

Not enough aggression and decisiveness from Everton

 

[TheBigIguana]

There are a lot of non striker related issues here

 

[eurosrees]

I think our best chance of a goal here is to hope Mings is Annoyed enough with Gerrard to volley it into his own goal from 25 yards.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

The most galling thing about this is that this Villa team aren't even really that good..

 

[Saaby]

we lost Richey and replaced him with McNeil, absolute shambles of a club.

 

[GraemeS1980]

Why do we lose every 50/50

 

[andy4efc]

abysmal this. Also comical that Davies is on the pitch.

 

[Fansince1988]

This front 3 is relegation fuel.

No quality and no tangible effort.

They are all use to trying to find a striker, but he’s on the bench ?

 

[allen]

Get the Rond on.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Ings hadn't had a sniff for most of the game although all it takes is the ball to his feet and he will cause a threat. Apart from the goal, what had Pickford done?

I get that it's disappointing and in the final third we've been lacklustre, but overall I don't feel as if the performance has been as poor as some will now say.

We're just being shackled by not putting pressure on their defence and having a front three who currently look unable to put the ball near the net, let alone in.

A new striker and DCL's return will chance a lot, I'm sure of it. K'in ell, if Iwobi wasn't our best midfielder I'd suggest putting him up front.

I agree with this, we’ve got nothing in the final third, absolutely no dimension to play there with. We need to play for set pieces

 

[Bob Latchford]

we’ve been the better team to

Def wasn’t much in it albeit we’re pretty much toothless

 

[gianthogweed]

No physical presence up front is killing us

 

[Chegsy]

Bringing in a striker would help but it’s still not going to solve not having an ounce of creativity in the squad.

 

[Nyhus]

I'm sure of it. K'in ell, if Iwobi wasn't our best midfielder I'd suggest putting him up front.

If nothing else, he can at least deal with a slight touch without falling quicker than the twin towers.

 

[Jadubsee]

This is just hopeless. Tactics are cack but individually poor performances and dreadful decision making are compounding it.