Aston Villa vs Everton post-match thread

[Yeltzbagger]

Perhaps Unai shouldn't have been in such a hurry to bring Pau back when Lindelof had been playing so well. Pau was having a very poor game even before the mistake for their goal, and his passing added nothing today.

[PeterWithesShin]

Brighton to seal Europe
Arsenal away 2-0
Bayern home
Arsenal and ManC home
Quarter finals
PSG home
ManU home

There's plenty of big wins as well if you look for them.

[PaulWinch again]

Perhaps Unai shouldn't have been in such a hurry to bring Pau back when Lindelof had been playing so well. Pau was having a very poor game even before the mistake for their goal, and his passing added nothing today.

Yeah but he’s fantastic this season so it’s hardly a huge error. The mistake was poor, but Emi should still be easily saving it.

[Chris Harte]

No complaints about the result today.

We could have played all night and not scored. It didn't help losing McGinn early in the game. Add Kamara and Onana and that's three first choice midfielders unavailable.

Too many passes went west, nothing come off for us.

Since returning home I'm hearing that someone should have had a second yellow card but it's balanced by their first goal that I didn't look offside to me.

Bad day at the office. We don't have many of those at home.

[kippaxvilla2]

Brighton to seal Europe
Arsenal away 2-0
Bayern home
Arsenal and ManC home
Quarter finals
PSG home
ManU home

There's plenty of big wins as well if you look for them.

I know mate.  I just cannot believe today.  It was such an opportunity to put us virtually in the top four.

[KevinGage]

If Jordan Bowery and Rudy Gestede had a love child, it would be better at football than Guessand.

Said to a pal during the match, the Guessman is the only one of the current crew who makes the 2015/16 vintage.

The only issue there is Bacuna, Westwood and the rest were largely signed for bargain basement fees. At a time when Lerner was losing interest.

[not3bad]

Vila were all over the place today I felt. It seemed in the first half that we could win pretty comfortably if only we applied ourselves and played with more urgency. But that much needed touch of organisation never arrived, probably because we lost McGinn so early. Very disappointing.

[ChicagoLion]

If Jordan Bowery and Rudy Gestede had a love child, it would be better at football than Guessand.

Said to a pal during the match, the Guessman is the only one of the current crew who makes the 2015/16 vintage.

The only issue there is Bacuna, Westwood and the rest were largely signed for bargain basement fees. At a time when Lerner was losing interest.

I just do not understand, if our manager is so on the detail, analyses the crap out of everything, how the fuck do we sign this bloke? But worse than that actually play him.

[Clampy]

Disappointing all round really. I honestly think had we got the equaliser, we would have snatched it.. He didn't have a lot of options on the bench to make the subs he usually likes to. Having four players out is bad enough but all in the same position is a killer.

[kippaxvilla2]

I didn’t watch it.  However in anyone’s opinion is it the start of a bad run or a one off?

[AndyB6]

I am a bit worried that we are running out of options and steam again.

We never got hold of the game in the middle when we really needed to.

[PaulWinch again]

I didn’t watch it.  However in anyone’s opinion is it the start of a bad run or a one off?

Depends on two things - severity of the midfield injuries and also quality of the players we get in.

[eye digress]

If Jordan Bowery and Rudy Gestede had a love child, it would be better at football than Guessand.

Said to a pal during the match, the Guessman is the only one of the current crew who makes the 2015/16 vintage.

The only issue there is Bacuna, Westwood and the rest were largely signed for bargain basement fees. At a time when Lerner was losing interest.

I just do not understand, if our manager is so on the detail, analyses the crap out of everything, how the fuck do we sign this bloke? But worse than that actually play him.

Absolutely.

Thing is, it's not just Unai.

[Beard82]

I didn’t watch it.  However in anyone’s opinion is it the start of a bad run or a one off?

I dont think we need to worry just yet.  It was like the Shef Utd games a few years ago - on another day we would win it with a similar performance.  Everton played well - but Youri couldnt find his range, Rogers finishing suggested we were playing Rugby and Martinez / Pau combined to give away a soft goal

The squad is looking thin, but we often struggle against the more physical teams

[john2710]

If we'd taken our chances we'd have won comfortably. Rogers being the main culprit.

The only people in the stadium who didn't the two handed push on Rogers were the officials. A staggering decision, if you can't see something as blatant as that then you shouldn't be an official.