Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[CJ]

TSM-type set up to try not to lose. Hardly strung 3 passes together all game. Constantly just hoof from the back inviting more pressure on. Got what we deserved

[Matt Collins]

I don't have a problem with playing deep and being direct on the break, when it suits. I do have a problem when we just don't play at all, as we did for forty minutes of the second half.

The goals were well deserved and somewhat inevitable for Everton

It's hard to do player ratings because for much of the game our players were just filling in positions.

Terrible second half performance

[Rudy65]

An embarrassment of the highest order.

That is anti football

Get that f in scottish tw@t out of my club

[pelty]

Please explain why Vlaar was taken off in that scenario. I did not see that his leg had fallen off and that is about the only reason I would accept. Stupid.

[Fergal]

Owner not good enough.
Manager not up to the job of managing a championship squad into the top half of the premiership.
Players not good enough.
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Shit shit shit.

[saunders_heroes]

Why did Vlaar go off?

[mattjpa]

Lambert is completely responsible for that result. I don't understand why people can't see through him

[PGW]

This was very very disappointing, we were always gonna concede at some stage and when they got the 2nd our mindset was too negative and we
couldn't change it.
Was Vlaar injured - he walked off OK didn't he....if not should have kept him on the park.
Some strange decisions by the manager.

[Matt Collins]

It was very much a Mcleish style performance that

To be fair we did play like that a fair bit under O'Neill. We were just better at it and more dangerous on the break

[Legion]

An embarrassment of the highest order.

That is anti football

Get that f in scottish tw@t out of my club

Were you saying that on Wednesday evening?

[PaulWinch again]

We got what we'd deserved that simple. I have two issues with that display and they're related. Firstly I've been banging on about this for ages if you have possession stats of 40% or less on a regular basis you will lose more than you win, and considering we have less than 35% possession quite regularly that balance will be even more skewed. Lambert really doesn't get it.

Secondly I find it embarrassing that Villa as a club have become so small time. It's one thing for a team who get promoted to regularly play with their backs to the wall, but it's frankly embarrassing that we go to clubs and desperately try and cling on and offer nothing. That coupled with our transfer strategy is just not good enough. Aston Villa are a much bigger football than we look and play like at the moment.

[VillaAlways]

I wish Poyet was our manager. Lambert just doesn't learn.

[pauliewalnuts]

Utter horse shit.

Negative nonsense I thought we'd left behind with McLeish.

Week after week 30% possession, it is just awful to watch. Embarrassing in fact.

[bertlambshank]

Clueless management I'm afraid.

Bollocks. We flooded them first half and were on top. If Vlaar stays fit we take a point, they just looked shattered to me.

We flooded them first half?
No we didnt.

[supertom]

No attacking intent (or ability) at all in the second half. We frustrated them first half but playing as we were, it was just a matter of time.
Quite why we have to play the most godforesaken football in the history the game, I don't know. Woefully unskilled and unsightly at times. Travel back a million years and you'd see cave men kicking rocks with more skill than some of our players at times this season.

Next 3 games are key. Get Gabby back, be adventurous and beat the teams we should be beating.
Today we just have to write it off as playing a side which is far, far better than us. We made them work hard for it, but absolutely no complaints about the result. Everton deserved it. We're a country mile away from their level right now.

Bacuna and Bertrand played well. Delph did pretty well. Our front men couldn't get a sniff.

KEA and Westwood remain woefully inadequate at this level.