Match Thread Everton 0-1 Aston Villa - Wednesday 15th January 19:30

[BlueStevie35]

Moyes begins his second reign the same as the first, with a victory buoyed by a fired up Goodison, written in the stars

BTW it’s been slightly longer between his last and return game as it is between his first spell in charge

1st game - March 16th 2002
Last game - May 19th 2013

Time span - 11 years, 2 months, 3 days

Last game - May 19th 2013
Return game - January 15th 2025

Time span - 11 years, 7 months, 27 days

 

[If You Know Your History]

Hopefully Goodison will be rocking. It's the only way we will beat a team as Goodison as Villa. We really need to that 12th man that Howard used to talk about.

 

[ganistuk]

i swear if ross barkley scores against us......

No need to worry. Out for three weeks with a calf injury.

 

[BlueTX]

Arriving Liverpool Monday with MrsBlueTX and will attend our first ever Everton match at Goodison v Villa.

Grateful to have this opportunity.

 

[johntmorgan67]

Old manager bounce 1-1 draw

 

[daza_1973]

1-0 Everton Landon Donovan with and assist from Idan Tal - coyb

Unless Collina comes out of retirement to ref it....

 

[allen]

I like that us and West Ham both get to try out our new managers against this decent Villa side.

Solid test. I can see an unexpected, scrappy win to get the ball rolling.

The real question is who will be our Unsworth, scoring in the first 30 seconds?

 

[Igrok]

2-0, Arteta and Cahill scoring

 

[toffeemeister77]

Is Beto the only striker we have for Wednesday?

 

[Roachey11]

Feel like we might find a way to win this now but still no real idea where the goals will come from

 

[Buzz Lightyear]

My Grandaughter is the Toffee Girl on Wednesday, looking forward to it , it’ll be bouncing

 

[PhilRegan]

Lots of similarities, ability wise with the 2004 1-0 experts . Moyes just needs to install that never say die workhorse mentality he established here .

 

[Chegsy]

Not an easy first game. Still expecting a tough 5 months unless we bring some faces in. I rate Moyes enough to get us clear of trouble but not with this team alone. Hopefully he gets to bring some players in this month.

 

[davek]

Villa have gone right off the ball.

We need a win badly and this is a great chance to get it.

In fact there's 8/9 winnable games coming up.

 

[Caolam]

This is a tough game for us. A draw is a good result, a score draw is a very good result, a win would be the dream start. I don’t expect David Moyes to come in and immediately make the players we currently have into a top six side, I do expect him to come in and set the team up to try and score and to try and win. We will lose games with this strategy but we will also win games. The next big test for us as a club is to see who we get in over this window, hopefully we are a more attractive proposition to forwards now that Sean Dyche has gone. We need a forward looking midfielder and a right winger to balance up the team. It will be interesting to see how David Moyes goes about addressing our obvious weaknesses.