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

[Saint Domingo]

Get Onana and Rondon on in the second half

 

[ChesterBlue]

I truly despise Davies. Just leave the club you utterly useless crab

 

[LocalNative]

If Frank doesn’t change this at half time he won’t see Christmas as manager here.

 

[nsno-chris]

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 think the shape is fine, the game plan is pretty obvious: the only thing that’s causing us issues is the final third

Even if we tried to drag them out of position then ping balls over the top, but we’re playing everything in front of their defence and they swallow us up

 

[Parker]

Infuriating this.

These clowns just make completely ridiculous errors that no footballer should make.

 

[steven]

Jesus. Gordon - that’s just a pathetic attempt at holding it up. Forcing Davies into a booking.

 

[john jako]

Gordon and McNeil having shockers

 

[hktoffee]

Their defenders just bully Gordon.

 

[Kirkles]

Mykolenko comes back every time .. take the full back on!

 

[Fansince1988]

Don’t worry the new Viera hopefully will be on soon, no pressure onana ?

 

[Mozza1987]

Woeful Gordon

 

[JohnRoss23]

No physical presence up front is killing us

They are getting absolutely bullied all over the pitch

 

[TheBigIguana]

The lack of a striker puts pressure on other areas of the team as exacerbates their issues. It's not a magic bullet, however with a striker we'd play better.

The ball isn't going through the center. The striker can just watch it not come to him

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

On my stream, it just picked up dele saying "when I could be arsed with football I would have destroyed all these"

 

[Saaby]

Lampard not lasting at this rate, awful team selection.