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

[Yarrgh]

Better second half. A more savvy and better drilled team did a number on us and took the points. It will take a month or two of grinding out games in that style before we get to Villa standard.

Need that effort every game from now. Need to get scoring as well.

No idea who the next permanent manager will be but I'm very concerned about our league position with the problems we have.

 

[billyblue80]

The fans who cried Ancelotti isn’t good enough caused this.

He was too good for us

 

[Whiteandblue]

Unlucky, Villa had one chance, we had several.

 

[Papa Shango]

In a nutshell mate.

DCL or Mina should have slotted but it was only marginally better.

I'd give Gordon motm, at least looked to make things happen.

Gordon did well, I thought Pickford was excellent too.

Lots of effort throughout the team but a massive "meh" overall.

 

[Mark Bisson]

Come back Rafael all is forgiven…. That was dire

 

[Toffeelover]

Kenny shouldn't get another game.

I would have Ferg knew that, why the shreddies pick him?????

 

[chicoazul]

He was too good for us

And mostly too good for our fans.

 

[banno]

He's not good. We should probably acknowledge the full scale of the problem here.

Nothing to do with Pickford and you are blinding yourself to the bigger problems

 

[Milkman]

No problem with that performance – they gave it everything, just lacking quality as always. On another day something bounces in our favour and we win 2-1.

More of that intensity and we'll be fine.

We're so reliant on Gray having a good game at the moment. Shame he had an off day.

No idea why the hate for JJK. He had a decent game. No idea why the fans get on his back.

 

[ToffeeTim]

We didnt play well there. We deserved nothing. Only looked like scoring after 70 odd mins. Absolute rubbish

 

[buededw1]

Gordon should have started, no reason at all for Townsend to be in there, unless there was a five in midfield
Gomes was awful and Allen should have started
Kenny should be no where near the pitch, i'm not a fan of Coleman but he is twice the player of Kenny

Love Dunc, but I thought the formation and player selection was poor.

The players gave it all, but the quality is just no there at all

 

[Clarky cat]

Absolutely archaic tactics today. The crowd were up for it, the players were up for it but playing percentage football from the first minute onwards is relying on luck to be in your favour.
The shocking standard of refereeing won’t help Everton either this season and seems as if they are doing their bit to hamper any progress. The entire season, whether Everton will survive in the Premier league now rests on a decision to be made by the same imbeciles who signed Iwobi and brought you Ronald Koeman, Benitez and who interviewed Slaven Bilic and Cannavaro. As desperate times as I can ever remember and I’ve seen a shed load.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Who below is threatening us?

Norwich right now , 2 wins in a row including us, we haven't managed that since August

Watch this space about Newcastle, they get a win this weekend and play us next?

6 pointers for them on us

 

[stamullenblue]

I am a bit baffled on why Paterson isn't playing surely more quality than Kenny on the ball

Kenny is poor.

 

[kleew]

We need a real change. Play the young players and even we lose a game or two we are moving away from being repetitious and probing the possibilities