Everton vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[N'ZMAV]

this reminds me of Remi Garde football - he just didn't have any good players

[Brend'Watkins]

Little Emi did okay, big Emi was crucial when needed. Rogers, 3x I counted where he had an attempt at putting Watkins through and hit a shit pass each time.

[Jane]

The only team in all 4 leagues not to have scored - and not even looking likely to.

Extend it to all the British leagues and we still have Aberdeen for company.

YES! Losers.

[Steve67]

Sadly, we are where we deserve to be at the moment.   We need a scabby, lucky, early goal to get us firing again.  I don't like the tippy tappy, slow it down shit.

[Toronto Villa]

Gerrard level shite this season so far.

It really is. I never thought for a second we’d ever see this kind of performance again. But we have now for 4 straight games. I have genuinely no belief we will get anything in the cup in the week either. What an utterly shit start to the season.

[mrfuse]

We need a Duran style rule breaker because I feel like a lot of players are taking Emery's instructions too literally.

Ollie isint moving about the pitch because Emery has told him to stay central, which isint working because you need quick wide players if your striker doesn't have movement.

It would be nice if someone said fuck this control malarkey and smashed it in the net.

[Lizz]

I thought Emi kept us in it with all those one after each other Everton corners at the end.

[brontebilly]

Grim stuff, don't even think we deserved a clean sheet. Definitely didn't deserve a goal anyway! Positives, Martinez back on board, Mings was solid, McGinn much better in midfield.
Negatives, our start. A better team has us beaten early on. No sign of a new spirit in the team after the transfer window. Tactically, a mess really, Grealish given acres of space in first half. What are we even trying to do with the ball? Digne looks done

Martinez 7 - fortunate to get away with that dropped cross from KDH. But brilliant save from Grealish in first and the header in second half.
Cash 6 - no support when Grealish ran amock in first half and an idiotic yellow card. But solid second half.
Konsa 3 - soft as shite, asleep for that Beto chance, beaten by Keane in air for another and a better team punish that error late on that Mings bailed him out on
Mings 8 - average enough in first half but dominated the second half, covered errors from Konsa and Martinez. Granted Beto is rubbish
Digne 4 - awful first half, couldn't cope with their winger at all. Not getting forward and I fear he's done at this level
Bogarde 6 - lost in first half but battled well in second. Passing not his strength
Tielemans 4 - miles off pace and another injury
McGinn 7 - like Tielemans in first but miles better in second half. One great block on Garner
Buendia 7 - probably our best player in second half so stupid decision from Emery to hook him before Rogers. Lively
Rogers 2 - complete waste of space
Watkins 4 - might aswell not have played, not his fault really

Guessand sub at least cut the space Grealish had and supported Cash. But looks very limited on the ball. Elliot had a few nice touches at 10 but we were settling for the draw then. Lindelof and Malen ran down the clock.

Emery - worrying as he is struggling to get any kind of response from his players so far this season. Better side than Everton buries us early on. I fear we will see that when we play a decent team
Tolerance of Rogers has become a big problem.

[usav]

The only team in all 4 leagues not to have scored - and not even looking likely to.

Extend it to all the British leagues and we still have Aberdeen for company.

YES! Losers.

It’s actually the only team in the top 7 leagues, according to Rebecca Lowe

[Villan82]

Recruitment has largely been shit since Emery has been here. Still relying on the players brought in under Smith and Gerard is pathetic

We've signed some cracking players. The problem is a lot o them have already gone. Diaby looked set to be our Henry the first few months he was here, then Bailey pushed him out of the side as he became a world beater. Now both are gone.

It is very unusual. It's a bit bonkers. The revolving door of outgoings has left us with 7 starters from pre-Emery

[Monty]

Dominated in posession by famous juego de posiciòn aficionados David Moyes' Everton.

Honestly, the fuck is going on? Something is horribly wrong tactically. This extraordinary tentativeness, it communicates a message to the players, and that message is 'we're not good enough to compete'.

Of course, individual performances were poor (Rogers, atrocious; Watkins, absent), but there's something structural, because the chances of all of your players having a massive personal deep in form at the same time are vanishingly small.

One thought - we badly miss an in-form Torres. So much of our play in the last couple of good years has come from Pau getting the ball in the centre circle and making some space or beating a man or playing a sharp ball right on the toes of the attacker in the right spot to make it count. He's been bullied out of the defence (so to speak) by very obvious tactics we've failed to help him against, and without him we've got so little to offer when the opposition is set and we've got the ball at the back.

[Beard82]

Grim stuff, don't even think we deserved a clean sheet. Definitely didn't deserve a goal anyway! Positives, Martinez back on board, Mings was solid, McGinn much better in midfield.
Negatives, our start. A better team has us beaten early on. No sign of a new spirit in the team after the transfer window. Tactically, a mess really, Grealish given acres of space in first half. What are we even trying to do with the ball? Digne looks done

Martinez 7 - fortunate to get away with that dropped cross from KDH. But brilliant save from Grealish in first and the header in second half.
Cash 6 - no support when Grealish ran amock in first half and an idiotic yellow card. But solid second half.
Konsa 3 - soft as shite, asleep for that Beto chance, beaten by Keane in air for another and a better team punish that error late on that Mings bailed him out on
Mings 8 - average enough in first half but dominated the second half, covered errors from Konsa and Martinez. Granted Beto is rubbish
Digne 4 - awful first half, couldn't cope with their winger at all. Not getting forward and I fear he's done at this level
Bogarde 6 - lost in first half but battled well in second. Passing not his strength
Tielemans 4 - miles off pace and another injury
McGinn 7 - like Tielemans in first but miles better in second half. One great block on Garner
Buendia 7 - probably our best player in second half so stupid decision from Emery to hook him before Rogers. Lively
Rogers 2 - complete waste of space
Watkins 4 - might aswell not have played, not his fault really

Guessand sub at least cut the space Grealish had and supported Cash. But looks very limited on the ball. Elliot had a few nice touches at 10 but we were settling for the draw then. Lindelof and Malen ran down the clock.

Emery - worrying as he is struggling to get any kind of response from his players so far this season. Better side than Everton buries us early on. I fear we will see that when we play a decent team
Tolerance of Rogers has become a big problem.

Agree with all this

[LeeS]

I know we all love Unai, but I wonder if we need a fresh perspective. Iraola gets a tune out of these players.

Yes, that’s knee jerk and probably premature. But…

[PeterWithesShin]

9 of the starting 11 today were here before Emery.

[Mellin]

One positive is I thought they all worked very hard.