Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Irish villain]

A point at Goodison is usually a decent result. They had a poor attendance today, shows that it's not just us suffering in this climate.

[berneboy]

How did we get a point from that?

Because there was some real fight from a good few players in the second half.

Bent was off the pace and not surprising as he has been injured. Bannan looked worthy of a place and Dunne picked up where he left off from the Ireland game.

[gallen321]

Where in the past we would lose when playing crap, we got a point out of this. A step in the right direction. Dunne seems to finding his interest again!!!!

[john e]

lucky to get a point, but we will take it, least it wasnt 0-0

1st half performance was as bad as it gets,

[taylorsworkrate]

Absolutely dire performance, with the exceptions of Dunne and Given, without whom it would have been a huge defeat.

Two moments of reasonable quality (petrovs goal obviously real quality) have given us a point that is impossible to make a case for us remotely deserving.

[Gerrin]

Poorest performance from Bent that I've seen I thought. Great goal from Stan, Hutton was anonymous, Dunne was excellent I thought. Very lucky to get a point.

Bent is clearly not 100%, he had no pace to run on to any balls.

[Muscle-Dolphin]

A few more games like this and AM will be in the "hot seat".  Totally uninspiring performance.  We had horseshoes up our arses today.

[barrysleftfoot]

  Outmuscled in the centre of midfield.Great goal by Petrov, but at times was woeful.Delph is brilliant one minute, and shite the next.N'Zog is our link player nd needs a bit of help imho.

  Bannan has to start the next game.

  I thought the 2 FBs were ok, not sure about Hutton, but their biggest threats were Coleman and Baines, that was the main difference between the 2 teams if you ask me.

  By the way that 17 year old who came on for them looks a good player.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Overall, we were lucky to get a draw.

Positives:

At least Hutton can't have another debut like that.

Barry Bannan will start the next game.

[PaulTheVillan]

Bent wasn't fit, but I agree it was worth the gamble in starting him.

We need to play slightly wider, we gave Everton too much space down the flanks. Warnock especially.

Dunne & Given were good.

Very happy with the result, not the performance.

[richard moore]

It's better to be lucky than good.

Disagree completely, 'played awfully but lucky' will always catch up with you...

[sonlyme]

Awful Villa performance yet we battled our way to a draw - all credit to the players - and very little to the manager.

We only started playing when AMC's hand was forced and he had to bring on Bannan for Heskey.  Then later Albrighton - and we started to look like a team again.

Dunne is a warrior alright - but his positional sense for Everton's first goal was abysmal.  They played without any strikers yet every time they approached our box they looked like they were going to score.  They played some lovely passing football while we simply hoofed it forward from the back in the hope of a lucky bounce.

If this is what AMC thinks is football - prepare for more of this stuff.  Everton controlled this game and we could have lost by four or more.  The two in midfield were overrun again and we couldn't hold onto the ball or create anything.  We were set up completely wrong.  Forget big names Alec - play horses for courses.  We need to see Villa use their midfield strength not this awful long ball hit and hope shit.

Everton - an inferior set of players with a superior coach

Villa - a superior set of players with an inferior coach.

UTV

[Vanilla]

Desperate at times, with a backs to the wall mentality you would usually see at places like Old Trafford. They were obviously up for it because of their recent troubles.

Bad Points: Our defence looked like it did last season at times, the way we let them stroll through our midfield was shocking, got undone by another stupid penalty, we made an average team look good is worrying, N'zogbia, no service for Bent or creativity.

Good Points: All credit for Gabby for making that 2nd goal, Dunne's performance, we were playing Everton aka The Elbows and we rescued a point.
 

[Nev]

Tripe

[JJ-AV]

I love Gabs. Our Gabs.