Aston Villa 1 Everton 0

Can we carry the cup form into PL ?
Will Villa be smarting after Barcodes game looking for a reply?

0-2 Everton
The season has started

Everton have drawn 9 of their last 9 games against Midland teams.

2-2

We go 2-0 up in the first half goals from Cahill and Felliani. There are post about us winning the league, the best midfield in the world, Beckford to score 30 goals this season etc. The in the second half we bottle it.

From Lawro

Aston Villa v Everton (1600 BST)

This will be the last game for more than two weeks for Villa because after the international break they don't play until the Monday. So it's make or break for caretaker boss Kevin MacDonald. It's strange because his first two games resulted in a comfortable win against West Ham and a decent performance with a shadow team in Vienna, but then they were completely taken apart by Newcastle and Andy Carroll.

They're playing an Everton team that have stuttered so far but they always give you a thorough examination. Home advantage could prove telling but it's a really close call. You wouldn't be too surprised if Villa won and likewise if Everton took all three points. I think the Villa players may be aware that it might be MacDonald's last chance to secure the job on a permanent basis and that may prove the difference.

Prediction: 2-1

1-3 Everton

We have got our scoring boots on again

The President wrote:From Lawro

Aston Villa v Everton (1600 BST)

This will be the last game for more than two weeks for Villa because after the international break they don't play until the Monday. So it's make or break for caretaker boss Kevin MacDonald. It's strange because his first two games resulted in a comfortable win against West Ham and a decent performance with a shadow team in Vienna, but then they were completely taken apart by Newcastle and Andy Carroll.

They're playing an Everton team that have stuttered so far but they always give you a thorough examination. Home advantage could prove telling but it's a really close call. You wouldn't be too surprised if Villa won and likewise if Everton took all three points. I think the Villa players may be aware that it might be MacDonald's last chance to secure the job on a permanent basis and that may prove the difference.

Prediction: 2-1

Got top be an away win then.

Villa thrashed by the Barcodes.
Dumped out of Europe last night.
Wonder how that will affect their attitude to our match?

We need to kick these diving, one-dimensional pretenders while they are down. 0-2.

Difficult match. We need to be up for it and play and score more clinically. Need to watch that diving little tow rag Hibby.

2-1 villa

3-1 Villa

Aston Villa v Everton
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Premier League
Aston Villa v Everton 16:00

Venue: Villa Park Date: Sunday, 29 August Kick-off: 1600 BST
Coverage: BBC Sport website, BBC Radio 5 live, full match commentary on BBC Radio Merseyside 95.8FM, live on Sky Sports 1 & highlights on Match of the Day 2

TEAM NEWS
Aston Villa forward Gabriel Agbonlahor should be fit despite being substituted with a tight calf in Thursday's Europa League defeat by Rapid Vienna.

Carlos Cuellar and James Collins are poised for their first league appearances of the season, while John Carew and Richard Dunne are available.

Everton captain Phil Neville is again doubtful with a foot injury, while Joseph Yobo has a thigh strain.

Yakubu could miss out through illness and a shin problem.

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Aston Villa

Doubtful: Agbonlahor (calf)

Injured: Delph (knee), Sidwell (Achilles), Weimann (ankle)

Everton

Doubtful: Neville (foot), Yakubu (illness/shin), Yobo (thigh)

Injured: Anichebe (knee)


MATCH PREVIEW
Trounced on Tyneside and then bounced out of Europe by rapid-fire Vienna, it has been a chastening week for Aston Villa and Kevin MacDonald.

I have never been told I was first choice and expect nothing to change until after the game on Sunday. It is not about me but how the players and the football club react

Aston Villa caretaker manager Kevin MacDonald
A new broom is needed at Villa Park, and the caretaker's chances of permanently replacing Martin O'Neill might depend on whether he can sweep away the debris from the last two results.

Amid this period of uncertainty, a fixture against Everton provides a semblance of normality. As every pub bore knows, the two clubs have met more times than any other in the top flight. Villa are a single win ahead, and nothing much seems to separate these two teams of late.

They have been side by side in the higher echelons of the table for much of the last three years, and there has been no shortage of dramatic encounters in that time. The previous three meetings have been drawn, with Villa coming from behind on each occasion, while a stoppage-time goal from Ashley Young provided the last decisive result in this fixture two seasons ago.

Everton have only managed a point from their opening two games, and must win to avoid their worst start for more than a decade. Having ruled out any interest in the Villa job, visiting manager David Moyes could now also end MacDonald's prospects.


MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head

• This is the most-played fixture in the English top flight. Villa have 71 wins to Everton's 70 from the previous 190 league meetings.

• Villa are unbeaten in their last eight league games against Everton (W3, D5).

• Everton's only league victory at Villa Park in the last 22 attempts was a 3-1 success in February 2005.

Aston Villa

• Villa have conceded 20 goals in their last 10 league matches. They had only conceded that many goals in their previous 24 matches.

• They have twice suffered a six-goal margin of defeat in their last 10 league matches: 7-1 at Chelsea and 6-0 at Newcastle. They had previously gone 24 years without losing by six goals in the top flight.

• John Carew has scored four goals in his last five league matches against Everton.

• Stewart Downing will be making the 250th start of his club career.

Everton

• Everton have not failed to win at least one of their first three league matches since 1999.

• They have not won in their last seven league visits to Birmingham, drawing the last four. Their last victory was 1-0 at Birmingham City in October 2004.

• Tim Cahill needs to score twice to register a century of league goals. He has scored three goals in Everton's last two visits to Villa Park.


LEADING GOALSCORERS

Aston Villa
Carew, Downing & Petrov: 1 goal (1 league);
Agbonlahor, Bannan & Heskey: 1 goal (0 league)

Everton
Cahill: 1 goal (1 league);
Beckford, Fellaini, Osman, Rodwell & Saha: 1 goal (0 league)

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mick Jones

Assistant referees: Andy Madley & Phil Sharp

Fourth official: Anthony Taylor

LAST LEAGUE MATCH LINE-UPS
Aston Villa (L0-6 v Newcastle, a): Friedel; L Young, Clark (Beye 89), Dunne, Warnock, Albrighton (Heskey 57), Petrov, Ireland, Downing, A Young, Carew (Reo-Coker 65). Subs not used: Guzan, Delfouneso, Lichaj, Bannan.

Everton (D1-1 v Wolves, h): Howard; Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Pienaar, Heitinga (Fellaini 82), Arteta, Bilyaletdinov (Osman 82), Cahill, Beckford (Saha 71). Subs not used: Mucha, Gueye, Coleman, Rodwell.

Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

we're away but I'll have what you're drinking.... it will only be 1-5

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

as things stand now, if we win by 4 goals we'll go 4th... 3rd if Manure lose to Wet Spam tonight

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

as things stand now, if we win by 4 goals we'll go 4th... 3rd if Manure lose to Wet Spam tonight

CL here we come {again}

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

as things stand now, if we win by 4 goals we'll go 4th... 3rd if Manure lose to Wet Spam tonight

Are you sure?

Statman wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

as things stand now, if we win by 4 goals we'll go 4th... 3rd if Manure lose to Wet Spam tonight

Are you sure?

as long as the early Sunday game between Bolton & Brum is postponed or abandoned... overwise if they draw they'll both go above us... or if one of them win they'll go above us...

The baggies mustn't stuff the shite & the shite mustn't stuff the Baggies & Citeh need to lose to Sunderalnd, but not by 4 goals...

so if all that goes our way... yeah I'm pretty sure

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Statman wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

as things stand now, if we win by 4 goals we'll go 4th... 3rd if Manure lose to Wet Spam tonight

Are you sure?

as long as the early Sunday game between Bolton & Brum is postponed or abandoned... overwise if they draw they'll both go above us... or if one of them win they'll go above us...

The baggies mustn't stuff the shite & the shite mustn't stuff the Baggies & Citeh need to lose to Sunderalnd, but not by 4 goals...

so if all that goes our way... yeah I'm pretty sure

Looks like our season is already balanced on a knife edge.

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Statman wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Sheep Flavour wrote:Everton 6 Aston Villa 2

as things stand now, if we win by 4 goals we'll go 4th... 3rd if Manure lose to Wet Spam tonight

Are you sure?

as long as the early Sunday game between Bolton & Brum is postponed or abandoned... overwise if they draw they'll both go above us... or if one of them win they'll go above us...

The baggies mustn't stuff the shite & the shite mustn't stuff the Baggies & Citeh need to lose to Sunderalnd, but not by 4 goals...

so if all that goes our way... yeah I'm pretty sure

But we have 1 point and Chelsea, Arsenal and Wolves had (at the time) more than 4 points.

We really need to get at them right from the off.
Early goal and I can see them colapsing.

COME ON YOU BLUES

Going to bring one of the lads nippers to watch his first Everton game.

Let the brain washing commence.

B'ham up 2-0 at Bolton.

Rodders to start