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

[deipnosophist]

Like every team we play, Norwich will have no fear playing Everton next w’end and I get the ‘Everton that’ feeling that this will be one of their very rare wins this season.

Anyway, I’m going back to sleep.

 

[Zatara]

1: Gray was through and was fouled (not given).

2: Gray missed when you'd expect him to score (based on last few games)

3: We dont have a RB and they do

4: Lots of injuries

5: Salmon Condom and Iwobi

6: 50p head Keane missed 2 headers

7: Leon Bailey looked like a left sided Kanchelskis.


Mina MOTM

 

[zukai12_]

Big picture we need FFP scrapped so Mosh can keep pumping the cash

 

[BlueStevie35]

As I said earlier if Richarlison is injured how come he was training yesterday and running around with all of the the rest of them I don't understand why they should lie but they do.

The video won’t have been filmed yesterday, he had strapping on the knee in that

 

[andy4efc]

Villa subbed McGinn and it counted as a concussion injury, which is now considered a free substitute (to ensure clubs and players aren’t pressured to remain on the pitch if they aren’t able to do so)

If a team uses a concussion sub, the other team also gets an extra sub to use, to ensure there is no unfair advantage gained.

Which is fine but I'm still struggling to see where villa made "5 subs"?

I assumed we got a fourth for that reason.

 

[Connor]

Shame the ref bottled it on the Gray foul and then they scored moments later

Get lads back fit and put Norwich to the sword next week

 

[Saint Domingo]

The 15 lads we stuck out today cost 170m though mate. Did we just come up against a better team, who took their chance to score, and we wobbled a bit.

We missed our 1st team players today.

We’re always without first team players. We always have one of the worst injury lists in the league. Teams always finish every half chance we give them against us. Sick of it. We’ll finish mid table again and trophyless no doubt whilst the top 4 just have an arms race between themselves.

 

[Zeitgeist]

Didn't quite go to plan..

Rather than be completely negative I actually thought villa were just very good tbh

 

[thebluebullet]

Like every team we play, Norwich will have no fear playing Everton next w’end and I get the ‘Everton that’ feeling that this will be one of their very rare wins this season.

Anyway, I’m going back to sleep.

They have won their last 2 trips to goodison 2-0. They will see it as a free hit.

 

[andy4efc]

1: Gray was through and was fouled (not given).

2: Gray missed when you'd expect him to score (based on last few games)

3: We dont have a RB and they do

4: Lots of injuries

5: Salmon Condom and Iwobi

6: 50p head Keane missed 2 headers

7: Leon Bailey looked like a left sided Kanchelskis.


Mina MOTM

1. Baffled me that wasnt given as a foul (and would have been a red card too)

2. hard chance when you see the replay, had to try and bend it round two players.

3. Agreed, can't be expecrting Godfrey to be playing well as a RB, if he does a job great but he is not a RB.

4. PEolpe forgetting.

5. Clever attempt at humour, failed. Was alright untilm we went 4-6-0.

6. Keane's still crap

 

[luuk_deventer]

Would love an industrious full back like cash.

Not for his goal but his intensity

Goal aside, I thought Cash was awful tonight. Crossing was terrible and lost a few 50/50’s.

He’s got bags of energy and Villa play a system which affords him lots of space and lots of the ball in advanced positions. We lack both a system that suits our full backs and full backs with genuine intensity.

Digne is a solid full back but, as we’ve seen for a while, he’s so inconsistent and can have lapses like tonight.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Which is fine but I'm still struggling to see where villa made "5 subs"?

I assumed we got a fourth for that reason.

We did, not sure why @MrGrumpy seems to think they made 5?

 

[luuk_deventer]

Which is fine but I'm still struggling to see where villa made "5 subs"?

I assumed we got a fourth for that reason.

I don’t know where is reporting Villa had 5 subs, both used 4 IIRC

 

[wellillwill]

Its the same every season. No matter how our manager is, or who plus for us, we’re complete and utter rubbish, whilst we live in the same city as a group of fans who have never known football disappointment and now have a team that barely ever even drops a point.

We're fifth.

 

[Drico]

Like every team we play, Norwich will have no fear playing Everton next w’end and I get the ‘Everton that’ feeling that this will be one of their very rare wins this season.

Anyway, I’m going back to sleep.

With our depleted squad, I don't see why any of us should assume we will beat Norwich or anyone in this league. The squad is paper thin. Squads decide league positions and ours is very shallow outside the first 11. I suspect we'll draw next week.