Everton vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[darren woolley]

Disappointing first half we really need to do better in the second come on Villa.

[ez]

crap

[andyh]

Four more years of this

This is the most depressing thought of all.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Really poor first half. A typical Villa performance so far of sitting way too deep, no possession, hardly any attacks, sloppy throw-ins, control and total domination from our opponents.

summed up perfectly

Agreed. You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.

[myf]

Surely we'll see a villa goal today?

[VillaAlways]

Surely we'll see a villa goal today?

Have we had a shot on target yet ?

[Stu]

I'm watching a different game to you lot. It hasn't been fantastic, but I'm not ready to jump off a bridge just yet. I think we'll get a draw.

I'm not watching but I've learnt to assume we're playing at least 20% Better than the match thread suggests

We've looked ok going forward but invite too much pressure by gifting Everton the ball. This would be fine if we were making incisive counter-attacking moves but we aren't; they've been far too slow. We have had a couple of decent patches of play and won three corners, the last of which Benteke was a hairs breadth away from getting his head on. Overall though it's been far too easy for Everton who look way more organised and composed than we do.

[Tom_Mc9?]

We're on game number five of a five game run against last year's top five. We're missing our best player and have just had what many people would argue are the other two most important players back from injury - one long term. Whilst I'm not saying we've been Brazil 1970, there's been some glimpses of nice football, especially around the 30 minute mark. We can all tell Lambert to piss off and bemoan the lack of creativity all we like, but Everton are ahead of us at the moment and losing 1-0 to them is no shame.

Obviously I'd prefer it if we did a better job of defending against Baines - it's hardly as if he's an unknown quality.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Surely we'll see a villa goal today?

Everton haven't kept a clean sheet for a while. So no.

[CJ]

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but here goes........Hutton was about our only player who came out of that half with any credit.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think our fundamental problem is that the squad isn't very good and the manager sends eleven of them out there who somehow combine to look less than the sum of the parts

I can't believe Lerner was happy enough with that to give him a new four year contract. Mind boggling.

We defend slightly better in spells but other than that we look every bit as hopeless as we have for three years now.

Can't keep the ball, can't pass, can't create chances.

Grim.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Surely we'll see a villa goal today?

Have we had a shot on target yet ?

Yes.

[Goldie.7]

Surely we'll see a villa goal today?

Everton haven't kept a clean sheet for a while. So no.

I shouldn't be laughing at that but I am.

[Axl Rose]

boooooooooooo.

Lambert's woeful tactics evident once again. Please, please do the honorable thing, and fuck off out of our club Lambert, you useless turd.

should have gone for moyes then give him a contract

Sigh...I know mate. I'm not sure Moyes is the answer, but he couldn't be any worse than Lambert, surely?

[saunders_heroes]

Really poor first half. A typical Villa performance so far of sitting way too deep, no possession, hardly any attacks, sloppy throw-ins, control and total domination from our opponents.

Perfect summary.

I think that just about sums up Paul Lambert's Villa since the day he took over.