Everton 1-1 Aston Villa post match thread

[rougegorge]

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.

Yes, £32m plus the money spent on Nakamba or Engels should have easily have secured 2 decent forwards; e.g Maupay and Benrahma if Smith wanted them would definitely have been an upgrade on what we ended up with.

[Legion]

Was Woodward commentating yet again? If so, I blame him.

[RichardBatchelor]

Carbon copy of our early games. Smith has not improved one iota as a manager. Most of the players have gone backwards. El ghazi is a c***.

He really isn’t. He missed a good chance in football. Adolf Hitler was a c***.

[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.

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.

So you are not allowed to have any contact with the keeper after putting the ball in the net?
I will remember that.

[David_Nab]

AEG miss is big , he scores we win however the big issue all season is this
No clean sheets away from home
Most points dropped from winning positions

That is why we are where we are whilst some better players would help ,especially a regular goal scorer .Shef United have scored less goals than us and have been safe all season because they are coached well enough to be hard to beat.We are not and IMO it's a coaching problem more than personnel

[RichardBatchelor]

Tim Cahill called El Ghazi a coward for that miss. Can't argue.

No, I think that’s ridiculous.

[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.

So you are not allowed to have any contact with the keeper after putting the ball in the net?
I will remember that.

I didn’t say you weren’t allowed to have any contact,  I said most likely it would be ruled out judging by how games seem to be run these days.

[Steve67]

The game was there for the taking but Grealish tried to do it all on his own.  El Ghazi must have taken his eye off the ball and I had that horrible feeling that it was the games turning point.  Our set pieces, other than the goal were awful.  Game management in the last 10 was awful.  Mings is not commanding enough in the box and the cross for their equaliser lacked bottle from our players. 

I think Konsa and Luiz are going to be really decent players.  SJM was better tonight I thought.  Samatta is absolute gash, complete waste of money.  Trezeguet was back to the competition winner that he has been all season other than on Sunday. The game was there for the taking but I think we bottled it.

[aj2k77]

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

Obscene waste. The scouting, yet again, abysmal.

[Sexual Ealing]

AEG miss is big , he scores we win however the big issue all season is this
No clean sheets away from home
Most points dropped from winning positions

That is why we are where we are whilst some better players would help ,especially a regular goal scorer .Shef United have scored less goals than us and have been safe all season because they are coached well enough to be hard to beat.We are not and IMO it's a coaching problem more than personnel

I'm largely in two minds about keeping Smith, but I can't disagree with any of that. I could cope with the blancmange defending if he was some latter day Ossie Ardilles and we were piling them in up front but we're toothless in attack as well as supine at the back.

[London Villan]

Not many of our striker purchases have been great... hogan, mccormack.

[Steve67]

AEG miss is big , he scores we win however the big issue all season is this
No clean sheets away from home
Most points dropped from winning positions

That is why we are where we are whilst some better players would help ,especially a regular goal scorer .Shef United have scored less goals than us and have been safe all season because they are coached well enough to be hard to beat.We are not and IMO it's a coaching problem more than personnel

I'm largely in two minds about keeping Smith, but I can't disagree with any of that. I could cope with the blancmange defending if he was some latter day Ossie Ardilles and we were piling them in up front but we're toothless in attack as well as supine at the back.

I also think that Wilder says it like it is.  Which has to be done sometimes.

[Clampy]

Such a disappointing way to drop two points to say the least. I wasn't that impressed with us first half but we came out and gave it a go at the start of the second and deserved the lead. As for El Ghazi, he should have done better but their keeper and defender did well to put him off. Coward? No, that's nonsense.

[hilts_coolerking]

I'm largely in two minds about keeping Smith, but I can't disagree with any of that. I could cope with the blancmange defending if he was some latter day Ossie Ardilles and we were piling them in up front but we're toothless in attack as well as supine at the back.

What are the pros?

[The Edge]

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).

It was Tim Cahill who called him a coward. Dion Dublin agreed. They weren't talking about fouling Pickford. The point they were making was he should of made sure of contact with the ball first. If he takes it into the back of the net along with the keeper that's not a foul. It's being determined to put the ball in the net. The enormity of a second goal meant he had to everything physically possible to make sure he scored. He failed to do that.That's the point they were making in the studio.