Everton vs Aston Villa match thread

[Chris Smith]

A lot of big blokes in their team, we need to deal with corners etc much better.

[BC Villain]

Going to be a really difficult game.  Expect a wound up Everton than they looked under Benitez

[Villa Lew]

That's the team I would have picked, great to see SJM back. for them surprised to see Anthony Gordon not starting, whenever I've seen them he's looked one of their best players.

[ChicagoLion]

They are a lot stronger than they have been for most of the season.

[brontebilly]

Looks our strongest team. Ferguson has gone all out attack with that Everton line up. They look very weak at full back and in CM. We should have a 3v2 in CM. Dominate midfield as we should and we dominate the game.

[caster troy]

Strongest XI (and bench!) for us since… the O’Neill era? Come on Villa, please win today.

[TopDeck113]

That's the A team!

[olaftab]

Have any team wasted quite as much money as Everton in recent years?

Us.

First thing that came to my mind too .

The first thing that came to my mind was O'Neill collecting multiple sets of back four.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Just hope we can stop them scoring early on, especially with the crowd behind them. Glad McGinn's back. Come on Villa!

[SaddVillan]

Carney on for Coutinho on 70 mins to finish them off?

[Percy McCarthy]

A real tough test this. Bad time to play them. The old ‘earn the right to play’ cliche seems more apt than usual.

[Bobby Boy]

They are certainly going to come out strong. Need to match their intensity.

We are not going to have much time on the ball so worried a little that Buendia and Luiz in particular could struggle with the pace and physicality of the game.

Hope we are ready for it.

[SaddVillan]

Cam Archer not in the squad?

[ASHTONVILLA]

Good team on paper.

Take out Luiz and put in the mythical top class DM and it looks like a team that could compete for top 6.

Think we will win this comfortably.

[ROBBO]

Everton will be fired up can't afford a first half like last week.