Match Thread Everton V Aston Villa. Sat Sep 13th. 3pm

[Somerset Blue]

Good performance, just lack a finisher…take the draw and move on.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

Tad disappointing. But good teams like Villa coming to HD stadium being very very happy with a point is massive progress. Must not forget how far we’ve come in such a short time.

Certainly isn’t a new stadium hangover.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Easy to say now, I realise, but I’d much rather Moyes take the risk and throw on Dibling and Charly if we’re the better team and looking for a winner.

I know he’s scared to do it and then lose, but that’s the game. We buy these players to make a difference and they’re not being given the chance.

Even in my own head I’m like “yeah but it’s Moyes and you know he won’t” but I credit the guy with enough self-awareness to know what’s required to change, and it isn’t doing the same stuff you always do. That’s the big frustration from me today.

 

[Number_25]

Happy with that. Some players Villa got.

 

[southbluey]

don’t get why Alcaraz wasn’t brought on. Game was calling for him

 

[matty1878]

Should have won, didn’t lose. Should have replaced Ndiaye with Dibling at 70 minutes as he was goosed. Going to need to have an extended look at Barry as Beto cost us two points there.

Ahh well, we are clearly a far superior team to any we have put out for the last four or five years. If the bad results are frustrating 0-0s then we’re in for a good ride.

Frustrating game we could have won but it is clear we are in a far better place than in recent seasons. We will have better days

7 points from the opening 4 games.

Complaints coming in that we should have won by at least 2

Nullified the opposition attack which included Rodgers and Watkins missing half the defense

Sounds alright to me

as it’s annoyed me we’ve drew

all
this is the bigger picture

but goals we still need!

 

[JohnRoss23]

Difficult to vote for a motm today, no one really stood out much more than the rest

Thought Keane had a great day.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Id rather he didn’t play like that

Preaching to the choir, there, mate.

 

[matty1878]

Happy with that. Some players Villa got.

we look far better mate this season

 

[Yankfootball1]

Shut up mate, and the rest of you moaning bstds

Listen I can express an opinion without getting personal, at a minimum you had two players that could have injected life offensively. I love Ndiaye, but I thought he faded in H2. And Dibling or Alcarez could have been brought in and Barry could have come in earlier. We only used 2 subs we have players that can actually make a difference on bench.

 

[BigBeto1]

Not too sure why we've only used 2 subs when we've got Alcaraz, Dibling, McNeil who could have come on and tried to give a different creative look outside of get it to Grealish and let him get doubled all 2nd half.

Thought a few didn't really turn up today but even then Martinez made a couple of saves that kept them in it.

I think any one of those coming on potentially changes the shape slightly. I can understand it to be honest, we had momentum Moyes probably didn’t want to risk that

 

[ValBlue]

Happy with that. Some players Villa got.

Villa were shocking

 

[stretford blue]

We are a bit like past moyes sides we look a good balanced side missing a decent centre forward

 

[hashbike]

Frustrating. I would have liked to see Alcaraz for 20 mins at least for KDH.

One of those where one of the early chances go in and we smash Villa

 

[maccavennie]

Surprised he didn't utilise the bench more, he had options at his disposal.