Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[silhillvilla]

I'm sure the ref punched the air when Fellaini made it 3-3, did anyone else notice that.

[damon loves JT]

I really wish people on here would stop snapping each other's hands off.

[Mortimer's Bear]

I'm sure the ref punched the air when Fellaini made it 3-3, did anyone else notice that.

Can't say I did to be honest, I was too busy banging my head off the table.

[Dave Clark Five]

I really wish people on here would stop snapping each other's hands off.

It's not too bad as everyone gets back from the match. The thread seems to settle down then.

[Brend'Watkins]

I tried as much as I could again to avoid the game today as watching or listening to it would have been torture, I wouldn't have enjoyed it. Having seen we were 3 - 1 up I thought, please hold out for a draw.  That's how much faith I have in our defence. So I suppose, well done.  But I reckon had we scored a fourth or even a fifth it would still have been a draw.

Not adding experience in this area when given a chance to do so will be our undoing. 

[olaftab]

Nice quote fail Matt!

It can easily happen.....bloody iPhones!

[silhillvilla]

MOTD now saying kind things about us!
A sure sign we are down 

[villajk]

Just got back and whilst it was disapointing to throw a 3-1 lead away, i'm encouraged somewhat. I personally think we've turned a corner or we're turning it slowly. There looks a lot more fight about us, we scored 3 really good goals but unfortunatley again the defending let us down. I don't think a win is far away.

Oh and the ref was absolutley abysmal. He made Phil Dowd look good.

Tell me if I'm being stupidly biased, but I thought Guzan didn't get much protection from the referee.

I did'nt notice at the time but now you come to mention it, no he did'nt. The ref was just shocking all over the pitch. The 6 minutes added time just summed him up.

The referee was indeed shocking but the six minutes were what I guessed.  There must have been 3 to 4 minutes for fellaini's injury, plus the subs, goals etc.

Our goals were good our defence wasn't.  Overall I thought it was a good game.  We go again.

[KevinGage]

If ever you were 3-1 down to a team, you'd want it to be us.

[Des Little]

If ever you were 3-1 down to a team, you'd want it to be us.

All day long.

[BC54 VFC]

I really wish people on here would stop snapping each other's hands off.

It's not too bad as everyone gets back from the match. The thread seems to settle down then.

It certainly does; generally speaking, people who've been to the game seem to have a more balanced view.

It's a sobering thought, though, that I've seen Villa score more league goals in Liverpool (6) in less than two months than I've seen them score league goals at Villa Park (5) in the past four months!

[pauliewalnuts]

On a side note, my mate sent me a picture of Wolfy at Goodison!

Post it up then

Pic

Why the obsession with this bloke ?

I saw him today as well....... and so what? He's just a bloke at a football match

I feel bad about it.

I know he's a legend (for past things he's done) and I too get excited when I spot him, but sometimes I think he's going to come on here and see this sort of stuff and get really upset.

He's quite clearly a person with certain issues which make him vulnerable, and whilst I thnk mentioning him in reminiscences is ok, posting pictures and what not is a little bit too far, he could probably do without it.

That's not me speaking as a mod BTW, it's just a general reflection that it makes me feel a bit uneasy.

[villan from luton]

Lets  take the positives from the game. Just seen it on sky. Going forward we again looked good, Benteke is a potential world beater. The goals were excellent team play. Clark has to do  better with Anchibes goal, really poor. Second goal was poor as well, we need to be stronger there and Vlaar lost his man for the third. We need to stop these stuoid mistakes and I think we can still get out of this

[Mortimer's Bear]

On a side note, my mate sent me a picture of Wolfy at Goodison!

Post it up then

Pic

Why the obsession with this bloke ?

I saw him today as well....... and so what? He's just a bloke at a football match

I feel bad about it.

I know he's a legend (for past things he's done) and I too get excited when I spot him, but sometimes I think he's going to come on here and see this sort of stuff and get really upset.

He's quite clearly a person with certain issues which make him vulnerable, and whilst I thnk mentioning him in reminiscences is ok, posting pictures and what not is a little bit too far, he could probably do without it.

That's not me speaking as a mod BTW, it's just a general reflection that it makes me feel a bit uneasy.

That's fair enough, there was no derogatory intent towards him in posting the picture though.

[olaftab]

The defence will be the reason we go down- 7 scored in the last 3 away games and not one win.

And not one loss or you want to ignore that?

Aftab, fair point, there have been some positives in our attack in the last three away games in the league ( I am trying to forget Bradford and Millwall away). Like you, I am trying to get some positivity from our horrendous run - we have been shit for 6 weeks now and yet are not completely adrift.

The trouble is our home form is so shit that drawing away games just sees us drop further adrift of the teams around us. We need to capitalise when we are ahead going into injury time, or when we get a two goal lead.

Please don't take the following as a dig at you and your comment above as we need to believe right now. But a really big issue for me this season has been how we have justified poor results. For example, at W Ham on the opening day I heard "at least we kept possession better than last season", and " playing a promoted team early on is never easy", the latter amazingly being trotted out for the Southampton debacle. The collapses against Man City, Chelsea, Man U and Spurs were because we were playing Champs League teams. Losing 2 goal leads against Albion, Swansea and Everton were "results we would have accepted before kick off". The latter would normally be true, if - a big IF - we were winning games against Saints, Wigan, Norwich and Newcastle at home. Failure to win these games means we have to protect winning positions in difficult games.

One of my biggest worries this season is our lack of character. QPR, who have been poor, have sorted their defence out since Harry arrived. Luckily they haven't started scoring yet. Southampton have worked out how to score and gather points in difficult games. Reading have decided that being 2 goals down against anybody is the time to show a big pair of grizzly bear cojones. Wigan just think this is a normal season and are probably nonchalant about life.

I am trying hard to believe, to hope that our attack shall keep us up, but usually the team with the worst defence in the league goes down. I hope we can break that particular habit.

One final point: if we can maintain the attacking flair from our recent away games and somehow find a way to replicate it at Villa Park we will definitely be in with a chance of staying up. All we need is a few 5 goal leads to defend in the mast 10 minutes....!

Agree with all of your comments. I see all the signs is our play that gets teams relegated however there is a very good team in there if only we can survive this season. I would just like people to recognise that yes they have had some  horrendous  results but not losing at Swansea, WBA and Everton is actually very good.