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

[ForeverEverton]

We desperately need a goalscorer, but we more than matched Villa today...

How many points do we get for that?

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Glad someone mentioned the ref, thought he was awful, unbalanced and unhinged and was clearly enjoying that.

Use the word we all know the display merited; corrupt!!!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Well that was miserable

Have to be winning games like that

Utterly toothless up top

 

[longers]

Don’t know how some of you survived the 90s

Drugs

 

[maccavennie]

Don’t know how some of you survived the 90s

Drugs

 

[DualityNSNO]

While I still think the lack of Iwobi changed the dynamic, I completely agree Maupay doesn’t have a place and Simms should start. He seems a much more natural fit but doesn’t have enough time.

It changed it, so did Davies being some weird right winger, as Gray instantly went to the left wing so he can run into McNeil lol but when the things were going well we needed someone to do the simple thing - apply a finish or at least contest it. Maupay receiving that low cross near the 6 yard box and his first touch going so far away from him that it posed absolutely no threat just sums him up really.

 

[Bedfordblue]

How bad was it?

Somewhere between the worst performance since football was invented and an industrious slightly unfortunate loss with McNeils best game by far, which with Calvert Lewin playing we most likely would have won by a similar margin.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

How many points do we get for that?

Zero; but it does not take away from the fact we played well.

We just needed to take one of those opportunities in the first half.

Still cannot understand the penalty as it looked like he clearly got a nick on the ball.

 

[ForeverEverton]

Simms was available and did more in 3 min than Maupay in 70.

I was asking for Simms before the game, got a sarcastic remark and now everyone is in my camp, this is getting all too familiar.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

I'm usually fine with defeat but that was hard to take. Until the penalty I genuinely thought there's no way we could lose that game. Not signing a striker in January is absolutely criminal.

It's not just that, as mind boggling as it was.....its repeated mistakes...its signing Rondon!....its Maupay...its Tosin...its not selling Kean when it was clear it wasn't gonna work, to open up funds for someone else..

Years of not being able to sign a decent number 9 (and not a world class striker, just a decent one that would keep us safely mid table)

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

It changed it, so did Davies being some weird right winger, as Gray instantly went to the left wing so he can run into McNeil lol but when the things were going well we needed someone to do the simple thing - apply a finish or at least contest it. Maupay receiving that low cross near the 6 yard box and his first touch going so far away from him that it posed absolutely no threat just sums him up really.

Any half decent striker traps that, swivels and gets a shot away. Man couldn't do all 3 of those things in a row to save his life.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I was asking for Simms before the game, got a sarcastic remark and now everyone is in my camp, this is getting all too familiar.

Which is weird because people are judging him on the one RS match where we barely even played a ball forward to him lol

 

[Saint Domingo]

If we weren’t creating anything and getting run through I’d be worried. That’s not the case though. They didn’t have many chances and we could have put a few away. It was arguably a better performance than the Leeds game.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Any half decent striker traps that, swivels and gets a shot away. Man couldn't do all 3 of those things in a row to save his life.

I'd be shocked if he can do 1 of those things tbh

 

[terryefc]

Awful performance again. If Calvert-Lewin isn't fit for all our remaining home games we are down.
We'll probably need to nick some draws away. Not looking good.
Another stupid mistake puts us on the back foot. Those penalties are always gonna be given. What was Gueye doing.
and as for Coady on the 2nd...both him and Tarkowski seem to have grown lego feet. We cannot play them both.