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

[Cels]

Come on Everton! Heads up, keep your shape! I'm still on for my Thee-One prediction

 

[MKEvertonian]

3 awful things today:

1. Digne
2. Squad depth
3. Referee

Godfrey

 

[BlueStevie35]

Yet there are numerous posters saying its not on benitez at all and using injuries as an excuse. Yet we didn't even name a full bench.

You’re acting like a try hard Ancelotti fan boy, it’s turned into a bad night over a course of a what if moment, we were doing alright up till then.

 

[DanB90]

He’s got an injury? Haha serves him right, I switched it off at 3-0

I was tempted myself, but the cult of Benitez keep reminding us how he’s came from behind to win games.

Something no other football manager has ever managed.

 

[Marius57]

Imagine being so stupid you can't see any mitigating circumstances.

I can, but I've been pointing out that the same mitigating circumstances weren't given to ancellotti.

 

[allen]

Poor 11 to blame tonight, I think. No Richarlison, Coleman, Calvert-Lewin or Pickford. We just couldn’t put a good side out.

 

[blue to the bone]

I think we are seeing the answer to that question

Ya. We are average. But all teams capitulate at times. Its how you react. Liverpool conceded 7 here last season.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

If they put in traore on Everton win, that’s 5 subs

One villa sub was a concussion sub mate, that meant we could put an extra sub on as well above the normal quota.

 

[Dykovski200]

Do all football fans hate their club as much as Everton fans.

 

[Davidoff]

Why they got 5 subs?

No idea

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Mad how the game just completely flipped on its head after that Gray miss

 

[andy4efc]

At 1-0 we gave up unacceptable

We didn't though did we? We had an unfortuante own goal immediately after, it happens.

 

[Frenk]

Recruiting a successor to club captain Seamus Coleman has been on the club's agenda for a number of years but new manager Rafael Benitez was not prepared to sign a player this summer that did not meet his exacting standards.

Money was too precious and Benitez, who has only just inherited the right-back issue, was unwilling to risk squandering the club's cash.

The manager, club sources have confirmed, was not fully convinced on the merits of meeting the asking price for Denzel Dumfries, for example.

Inside Everton's search for a right-back and why one wasn't signed in the window

Everton have been searching for a successor to Seamus Coleman for a number of seasons but have yet to find the right player

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

More like he wasn’t given anything to spend.

 

[Marius57]

Imagine being so stupid you can't see any mitigating circumstances.

Also, no need for insults

 

[Mark barnett]

Digne and Godfrey were atrocious not buying a back up RB/LB is a joke