Everton 1-1 Aston Villa post match thread

[mr underhill]

Samatta and Wesley have cost us around £32 million combined - we could have got so much better.

[RamboandBruno]

Well that is a sickener.

Felt bar the first 15 minutes we dominated the game. Lack of quality out wide in Tezuguet and up front in Samatta stiffled us.

But the midfield 3 were excellent and Davis made a difference when he came on.

It was there on a plate for El Ghazi and you suspect its going to cost us and it did. Theo Walcott has never headed a ball so well and Konsa can't get contact. Ergh. Football makes you sick at times.

Have to beat Arsenal and hope West Ham win tomorrow. If those two things happen, then with a Man City score on Watford inbetween, its time for the defibrillator come a week Sunday.

Man City are on the beach. They were lucky to win against Bournemouth. It's by no means certain that they'll beat Watford. Troy Deeney is on a mission to relegate us. I'll stop now I'm winding myself up.

They've scored 12 in their last 3 games and conceded 1 playing no centre halves yesterday. That's some beach!

Watford might get a result. But they're more likely to get twatted 4 or 5.

Last night against Bournemouth some their players were wearing sun glasses and flip flops.

And won.

By all means convince yourself of Watfors doing them. But Man City are the absolute last side I'd want in the run in.

By the skin of their teeth.  Bournemouth battered them for the last 15 minutes. It was not a performance anywhere near City's usual standards. Obviously i'm hoping it was a one off. Well see.

Basing the fact that Watford might beat Man City on city’s performance last night, is choosing to ignore a couple of important facts. This Man City side under Guardiola don’t often put in two average performances in a row, they could bring back De Bruyne who makes a difference to any game, they played poorly for them and still won and Watford are essentially shite. They scraped to a win over Norwich and beat an on the beach Newcastle like we beat palace. Let’s no big Watford up to be some top side.
Let’s see what happens tomorrow but I would guess if one of them loses they will be looking at their next fixture like rabbits in the headlights

[CT]

I’m just gutted.

For about 15 minutes, I had so much hope, my heart was fucking racing.

...and then we do that.

We’re done now, turn the lights off and then we can have another massive rebuild over the summer.

[JJ-AV]

Samatta and Wesley have cost us around £32 million combined - we could have got so much better.

Agree. Smith wanted Rodriguez for £8m in the Summer aslongside Wesley. He'd have kept us up.

Anwar, Trezeguet, Jota, Wesley, Samatta and Baston have been our forward aquisitions this season. It's clear where the issues are and who the problems lie with.

[wolfman999]

I can understand people saying EL Ghazi should have chucked everything at it but if he had clobbered Pickford, the goal would surely have been ruled out anyway.
Crap defending at the end of a game is what killed us (again).

[colin69]

El Ghazi should have scored no doubt about it but coward, really?
Samatta was no where to be seen up front all game, no way is he better than Keinan.
We played well until we scored then backed off and let them play.
Only one person to blame for that and that’s Dean Smith.....fucking useless!!!!

[brontebilly]

so much hatred for El Ghazi. bad miss but where the fuck are our strikers for these chances?

Grealish missed a good chance against Manu last week but no one cares.

Got to stop making scapegoats. He is a big factor in us getting promoted last year and is still young with lots of potential

It wasn't anywhere near as bad but McGinn had a very good chance with a header about 8 yards out, pretty much missed the ball. Shocking. Samatta's effort from the header in the first half was woeful too. An in form Grealish I think scores at least one of the chances he created for himself to be fair in and around the edge of their box. Dragged one horribly wide just after half time.

It does feel like a momentum killer tonight but if we played anything like that in a number of games earlier in the season we would be nowhere near the bottom.

[hilts_coolerking]

I can understand people saying EL Ghazi should have chucked everything at it but if he had clobbered Pickford, the goal would surely have been ruled out anyway.

Who knows?  Get the ball in the net first and worry about VAR later.

[themossman]

There are plenty of players to share the blame around but el ghazi is the only one that had a clear chance to bury the game, which he definitely has the ability to convert.

[Ads]

so much hatred for El Ghazi. bad miss but where the fuck are our strikers for these chances?

Grealish missed a good chance against Manu last week but no one cares.

Got to stop making scapegoats. He is a big factor in us getting promoted last year and is still young with lots of potential

It wasn't anywhere near as bad but McGinn had a very good chance with a header about 8 yards out, pretty much missed the ball. Shocking. Samatta's effort from the header in the first half was woeful too. An in form Grealish I think scores at least one of the chances he created for himself to be fair in and around the edge of their box. Dragged one horribly wide just after half time.

It does feel like a momentum killer tonight but if we played anything like that in a number of games earlier in the season we would be nowhere near the bottom.

I agree.

If they want to stop up they've got to have got rid of all that gutting disappointment about half an hour ago. Somebody needs to have had strong words about belief and gee them up. All the swearing, shouting, petulanceall gone. Laugh and a joke on the way back, relaxed and fucking bang up for Arsenal.

Has to be.

[ChicagoLion]

I can understand people saying EL Ghazi should have chucked everything at it but if he had clobbered Pickford, the goal would surely have been ruled out anyway.
Crap defending at the end of a game is what killed us (again).

he connects with the ball before he connects with Pickford, he took his eye off the ball.

[dave.woodhall]

It seemed as though he was trying to get an accurate sidefoot rather than a put your laces through it net-buster because of the height it came over. But, it's not the whole reason we didn't win.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Can't knock them today, we controlled midfield for large amounts of the game, but we switched off defensively in the last 10 minutes. Smith's substitutions had an impact and I actually think Davies looks better when he comes on as sub.

The frustrating aspect of tonight is the fact that in the last 10 mins when we had to see the game out we should have given the ball to Grealish the only player who can hold onto the ball, instead we kept booting the ball to the touchline and gave possession away.

Unfortunately I think that's the final nail in the coffin but we're going down not because of El Ghazi and tonight's performance but pitiful displays earlier in the season such as Southampton at home and Bournemouth away.

[gpbarr]

Not a lot has changed for me.

The loser of the game tomorrow is IMO going to go into the last game of the season no more than 3 points ahead of us - MU and MC will beat them both in their penultimate games. Even a point against Arsenal would set us up for a last day chance! That’s all we could hope for.

[wolfman999]

I can understand people saying EL Ghazi should have chucked everything at it but if he had clobbered Pickford, the goal would surely have been ruled out anyway.
Crap defending at the end of a game is what killed us (again).

he connects with the ball before he connects with Pickford, he took his eye off the ball.

And if there was any contact with the keeper, the goal would not have been ruled out by either the ref or VAR? I have my doubts on that one.