Everton 1-2 Aston Villa Post match thread

[paul_e]

Fanbloody tastic. I managed to watch the first half with one little eye on it and the whole second half. I enjoyed that. Good game and a brilliant result.

That’s two games on the bounce we’ve looked good again and look good on the ball. Very enjoyable and good on the eye.

I think the signs were there for few games that we were turning things around, we were unlucky against Liverpool and did a good job of stifling Man City who had to play superbly to beat us. The shame was that we had those 2 straight after the Fulham game so building some momentum from it was tough.


There was clearly a lot more confidence tonight though and that was great to see.

[Proposition Joe]

That's more like it, much more like it. What a goal by El Ghazi to win it.

Nobody had a bad game.

The only slight downer is that Martinez still doesn't have his clean sheets record.

But other than that: yes! Just, yes!

[Deano's Mullet]

Fantastic result. 13 points and five wins more than after 38 games last season. Great stuff. I hope Barkley has a spell of good games now.

[Ian.]

Barkley MOTM

   LOL

Why, he was quality tonight.

   see the pre match thread

Ha ha, get it now!

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Missed 1st half due to bt connection problems again for the 2nd game running. Not a fan of bt sport.
Great goal by El Ghazi.
I take it the 1st half was better than the 2nd?
Traore (good assist for El Ghazi goal) had another quiet 2nd half. Barkley improved when Villa and he had the ball. A spectator otherwise.
Great win, really pleased with that. UTV!

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Get in! We might just end up in the top 10 after all!

[Allan C]

For me, the best performance since the Covid break. I don’t like picking MOM’s but special mention tonight for Luiz Barkley McGinn and Emmy. The second goal was back to early season stuff. Lovely to watch again

[Uknowthescore]

Thoroughly enjoyable game tonight. They all played there part and it’s a good job I’m not the manager as i would have taken el ghazi off after 70 mins.

[olaftab]

Fantastic first half, second half not so much.  Smith once again guilty of leaving it far too late to make changes, but got away with it

I honestly don’t get your second half assessment. The quality of the game in the second was not as high as first but we were still better than Everton.

[manic-road]

A very good game to watch and we deserved the three points. Barkley was my man of the match but overall the team performance was very good.

Everton could have gone in at half time two goals down and after taking the lead at 1-2 we saw the game out well.

[dave shelley]

A great result, well done boys, more please.

[Villa Lew]

Fully deserved win, best we've played this year, cracking winner from Anwar.

UP THE VILLA

[Ian.]

Our Doug has looked more like his old self in the last couple of games which is promising.
When he’s on form he’s a proper decent player.

Fine goal by El Ghazi, thought he looked sharp tonight. I hope we keep him to be honest.

[darren woolley]

Great performance and great win so happy with tonight.

[Ian.]

Fantastic first half, second half not so much.  Smith once again guilty of leaving it far too late to make changes, but got away with it

I honestly don’t get your second half assessment. The quality of the game in the second was not as high as first but we were still better than Everton.

We had about 70% of the ball?