Everton v Aston Villa Match Thread

[paul_e]

Needed a slightly better touch there, surprised the ref didn't gift Tarkowski a free kick.

[VillaTim]

We can't keep carrying Diaby like this

[PeterWithesShin]

Half time. Dodgy opening 10 and last 10, totally in control inbetween. Which is decent as SJM, Diaby and Bailey have been very quiet.

[SoccerHQ]

Hopefully it will be the same like last year, pretty tight first half with Everton shading it and then we step things up from the hour mark.

[ChicagoLion]

It looks like a game between 2 lower league teams. We have rarely shown any style or class. We are allowing it to develop into the sort of game Everton want, scrappy.

[taylorsworkrate]

Everton are incredibly crap. We really should be beating these

[ChicagoLion]

We can't keep carrying Diaby like this

Contributing very little.

[Monty]

Both teams doing the off the ball stuff well, yet always look genuinely surprised when they actually get the fucking thing.

[Flamingo Lane]

So if Bailey was considered to be offside, why did they spend so much time looking at the frame that showed Moreno's shot at goal?

[Axl Rose]

Boring

Come on Villa second half!

[ChicagoLion]

Everton are incredibly crap. We really should be beating these

We are playing to their level.

[SoccerHQ]

It looks like a game between 2 lower league teams. We have rarely shown any style or class. We are allowing it to develop into the sort of game Everton want, scrappy.

You get those games at Goodison, always feels tight matches with them playing pretty narrow so not much space to open things up and in their present situation they'll want to make the game as scrappy as possible.

We had similar at Brentford and won that so no reason why we can't do the same this time.

[olaftab]

Over 70% possession  and by far the better team fails to gain an advantage in the first half so second half a scrappy 1-0 for the other team sounds right.

[Keeno]

Well we should be 1-0 up. Unfortunate.

In control most of the half. Its nice having the best player in the world at his position.

[Nev]

When SJM plays well, we do. He isn't but we're not too bad. The final ball isn't really happening for us. Step it up a bit ad we should have enough.