Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Matt Collins]

The vlaar sub must have been injury related. There's no way he'd have taken him off and left baker on if it wasn't.

Need a win v west ham now or I'll feel nervous we're being sucked back into it

[Legion]

[mattjpa]

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?

Leeg, do you think he is good enough to be our manager? He fucks it up EVERY time we make any type of progress

[WarszaVillan]

Unlucky Villa, but we always compete every game, by hook or by crook.

[supertom]

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.

It's a shame after doing well against West Brom and Liverpool that we had to regress to this bollocks. I would rather we'd have been a bit gung ho and tried attacking, even if it meant losing 4-3 instead of 2-1.
We've got to move on from this piss poor anti-football.

[PaulWinch again]

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.

Yep the whole approach of the club is embarrassing at the moment.

[Rudy65]

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.

Hear hear.

Agree with this

Im too busy swearing to make such a top post

[Hampshire Villa]

very very poor and very disappointing!.
I had already written this one off, but looking at the early part of the game we could have had a go and done better. Everton were there for the taking today and we didn't capitalise on it. Instead we played a strange defensive game.
 We go again !  Tonights excuse will be interesting from Lambert!
Lack of flair and talent at the back, there is always mistakes in them and when you give silly free kicks away expect to be punished!

[ozzjim]

I have no issue losing games. It happens to every team. It's the manner of the defeat that always bothers me. If someone had told me that we'd lost 2-1 to Everton but gave it everything, despite being disappointed I'd have accepted it. Today was, aside from a brief happy moment exactly what we did not need after the high of Wednesday.

Makes West Ham at VP next week into a 6 pointer too. Win it, looking up again, lose we are in trouble. Vlaar going off is a big hit.

[Tuco Salamanca]

Sick. Of. Watching. This. Shit.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Slight over reaction today I think....yea we were poor but take away the Liverpool game and Wednesdays and we have played like this most of the season. No real surprises today for me, Everton are a good side.

Agreed. This talk of depression about the game and Lambert fuck off and aren't we clueless and isn't it a shame we have no heart and no guts and blah blah blah. I'm disappointed we lost too, but we've got four points from three games where most people thought we would get three. Fine margins, but we're not going down. The thing about having a young squad is they will be inconsistent. Today we weren't good. The last two games were good. It happens.

[supertom]

Today we defended quite well and lost.
Previous two games we defended pretty poorly and picked up 4 points.

Building from our defence will get us nowhere, we need to attack teams.

[Ron Manager]

Dissapointing. However Everton were only likely to score a second from a free kick and this they did!

[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?

Leeg, do you think he is good enough to be our manager? He fucks it up EVERY time we make any type of progress

Good question. I think he has the potential to be, but inconsistency is his downfall. I doubt if he will be replaced in the near future anyway.

[ez]

Everton were favourites to win but Lambert bottled it today. He looked at the stats and came for a draw.