Match Thread Aston Villa 0-1 Everton. Sunday 18th January 2026 @ 16:30

[Andy McGurk]

3 games with JOB and Tarks centre back

Away wins and clean sheets in all of them.

Keep them together

 

[Rob17896]

MOTM Garner, in a match where very few stood out, we caught Villa on a bad day for them, they lacked any spark, maybe to do with McGinn going off early, though that doesn't take anything from an excellent result, thought the ref was poor, he was almost blowing for fouls as soon as any Everton player approached one of Villa

We were fine with McGinn on.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Patterson must remain right back and O'Brien simply can't be moved from centre back. Sadly though as soon as Branthwaite is up to speed it'll be Jake at right back, inexplicably

 

[Mase]

Now we need to follow it up with another win.

 

[tommytowne]

Hands up if you saw that coming ?

My 4-0 drubbing took a battering.
My Villa pal yesterday mentioned that because of behind the scenes goings on at Villa Park when he said there is friction between players, he said he was going to put a sneaky £20 on us to nick it.

 

[Thesouthallarms]

What a difffernece a win makes just 3 litttle points

 

[Tony’s Carp]

MOYES HATERS, EAT IT!
BARRY HATERS, EAT IT! (whats that? 4 in the last 8 for him?)

Barry was tireless and got the goal, MoM for me.

Garner very close behind!

Credit to Dwight and Patto for a decent showing, Myko and JoB excellent

Grealish was anonymous for the most part but so valuable winning the Fks in the last 20 or so.

Overall - brilliant and shockingly good performance given what the manager had to play with!

EDIT: forgot Pickers!! What a stop!

Nightmare day for the haters all round: Moyes outwitting one the best managers in the league and Patterson, Rohl and Barry all played well.

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

Strange season. We struggle against teams we usually beat, but have ended 3 or 4 bogie-teams runs against us. Perfect away performance today. Just need to sort out terrible home form.

 

[blueloon]

He made a clear attempt to play the ball. It’s clearly offside and bizarre people don’t see that.

Agree. It’s an irritating rule in a situation where you can argue he didn’t affect the game but it’s the same reason why someone clearly offside doesn’t attempt to play it .

 

[wellillwill]

Rohl and Barry both starting to look like PL standard players.

 

[daza_1973]

 

[billybeeru]

Call me old fashioned but I like it when Everton win football matches.

 

[Joey66]

He made a clear attempt to play the ball. It’s clearly offside and bizarre people don’t see that.

Never rubbish VAR decision! See those goals given every week!

 

[jazzy]

Maybe Dibling for Dwight but that’s it I guess!

Not today , not on that display...and I can't stand Dwight but he was very tight and disciplined today.

Sadly Dibling can't be trusted

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Hard to believe we hadn't beaten Villa in the league since 2016. Long overdue.

There was a cup win in there, also they weren’t in the Premier League for 3 years