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

[pfim]

Are you messing? Pickford has kept us in this..

He’s made a couple of good saves but Villa haven’t created any more than we have.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Bailey chance at the near post

Cool. One that I can think of too.

but... Martinez double save DCL & Garner.

if you read some of these you'd think it was us being pinned back with constant chances up against us.

 

[Tel001]

Doucs makes a significant difference to the side. Erratic but significant


I wonder if DCL missing that chance might be a blessing in disguise? Go 1-0 up with 50+ minutes to play might have roused Villa to greater efforts. Need to break the deadlock in 89th minute IMO

Missing one on ones is never a good thing. Especially when you create nothing and your striker hasn’t scored for 12 games

 

[blueboy72]

That half pretty much sums up this Everton team ATM...

Good defensive shape, industrious, made some good chances but no goal scorers, struggle to keep hold of the ball.

Garner took the latest direct Free Kick, as I was reminded on X, the last time we scored a direct free kick was Digne v Lincoln in 2019. So my question is why bother shooting? We haven`t got a dead ball specialist so why not stick it in the mixer, we are top of that stat, set piece goals.

The other thing, when was the last time DCL scored a 1 on 1, if that is the other end Watkins doesn`t miss, DCL is a poor poor Premier League striker. Before this game I saw a stat saying he has missed the most clear cut chances of any player in the PL, there is another one. About time he contributed something or it is time to cut our losses on him! I`m sure we`d get a decent fee which would go someway to helping the PSR situation.

We`ve had the better chances IMO, but this reminds me of the Utd and City game where they will just blow us away in the second half.

I’d guess DCL has had 25 one on one’s in his Everton career and probably scored 5

 

[Big Sams Undies]

Doucs makes a significant difference to the side. Erratic but significant


I wonder if DCL missing that chance might be a blessing in disguise? Go 1-0 up with 50+ minutes to play might have roused Villa to greater efforts. Need to break the deadlock in 89th minute IMO

Yeah you’re right.

Much better to not score golden chances in case it motivates the opposition.

 

[mikel_88]

Cant get over him missing that so poor

 

[Lob]

McNeil and Beto on very early in the second half please. None of this last 10 minutes bs.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Are you messing? Pickford has kept us in this..

He made two saves you’d expect him to make
I love Pickford but he’s done nothing worth getting excited about this game yet!

 

[DanEFC92]

It is baltic at Goodison.

 

[Milkman]

Gets worse the more you watch it.

That pretty much sums up how I feel about Everton, yeah

 

[YoboCopter]

Get dcl off for keane he strikes the ball well cleaner

And so does oscar pistorius

 

[lint]

His decision making is appalling
Sometimes Doucoure will see a pass and mess it up and you go ‘ok he’s not a technical player’ but Danjuma has all the talent in the world but just keeps his head down, runs and shoots

Was a good pass to put in Dom but that’s one moment in half a season

I mean tbf his pass was the best pass we made in the entire first half. I also thought his early run down the left and cut back for Doucoure was one of our best moves of the half. I'm not sure what more people expect when your wingers get it 3-4 times in a half due to how little possession your team has, and the rest of the side seem to soil their sheets and forget how to pass and try for killer balls they inevitably overhit every time they finally get a touch.

 

[PeregrineT]

This season has been all about finishing. The play on the rest of the pitch has been good, and we would be so far up the table not only without the points deduction, but just finishing a normal amount of chances. Really poor finishing continues to be the only thing holding us back.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Doucs. This is made for you. Be the hero we need

 

[BlueStevie35]

That half pretty much sums up this Everton team ATM...

Good defensive shape, industrious, made some good chances but no goal scorers, struggle to keep hold of the ball.

Garner took the latest direct Free Kick, as I was reminded on X, the last time we scored a direct free kick was Digne v Lincoln in 2019. So my question is why bother shooting? We haven`t got a dead ball specialist so why not stick it in the mixer, we are top of that stat, set piece goals.

The other thing, when was the last time DCL scored a 1 on 1, if that is the other end Watkins doesn`t miss, DCL is a poor poor Premier League striker. Before this game I saw a stat saying he has missed the most clear cut chances of any player in the PL, there is another one. About time he contributed something or it is time to cut our losses on him! I`m sure we`d get a decent fee which would go someway to helping the PSR situation.

We`ve had the better chances IMO, but this reminds me of the Utd and City game where they will just blow us away in the second half.

It was on the edge of the box so how were we gonna get it in the mixer?

DCL’s last one v one was at Villa Park