Villa v Everton

Well.... good night....

2-0.

Up until the first goal we had shaded it, but it's all over now.

Digne has struggled well before the goal he conceded.

We are falling apart here.

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:We are falling apart here.

We'll do well to keep this at 2-0

Gordon on for Allan.

3-0

Embarrassing

We look totally shell shocked.

That was 3 goals in 9 minutes and 12 seconds.

We haven't been awful but Villa have been a touch better. Not 3-0 better mind.

Our shirt looks like we have been run over by a car. Pretty fitting.

Armchair wrote:We haven't been awful but Villa have been a touch better. Not 3-0 better mind.

For me, high energy doesn't equate to quality. We have been toothless.

Oh well, a bit of a reality check.

The injuries didn't help, but we've suffered from our awful transfer policy here. Godfrey isn't a right-back, Digne is out of form, but there's no back-up. There will be more days like this to come this season unfortunately.

On the plus side, we have pace and skill going forward. With DCL and Richarlison fit, we would probably have scored.

I've not changed my opinion. Another 7-10th place finish, but with some more entertaining football. I'll settle for that for this season.

There wasn’t three goals between the teams and until they scored we looked more likely winners. I thought we really missed DCL today, and obviously had nothing on the bench today.

Not too worried overall. We ain’t gonna finish top four and below that it’s pretty competitive this season. Clearly we have a wafer thin squad but our first choice team seems to be very good and we have a proper manager at last

boooo and our shirts were fucking horrible too... I blame the waiter

One thing ~ Gordon doesn’t look premier league standard to me. There must be someone in the U23s we can promote to the bench ahead of him?

I have calmed down after that shitshow.

Not that we were that bad, to be fair, but I can't really think of many clear cut chances that we created either. Clearly it didn't work at all going forward today.

Defensively we were not that great either, where especially Digne was simply terrible more or less the entire game. He had been skinned or over-run a handful of times before the own goal, so I'm not judging him on that own goal - shit happens as they say.

Doucoure was good most of the time, arguably the best player we had today.

Begovic couldn't do much about the goals and he had a great save in the first half.

Gray tried hard, our second best player after Doucoure.

And we are back to reality.

Weird though - five games into the season and we have DCL, Pickford, Richarlison, Coleman, Gbamin, James, Delph all out injured, with no sign of any of them being available for QPR, Norwich or even Man Ure. What goes on at Finch Farm?

hairy cataract wrote:Weird though - five games into the season and we have DCL, Pickford, Richarlison, Coleman, Gbamin, James, Delph all out injured, with no sign of any of them being available for QPR, Norwich or even Man Ure.  What goes on at Finch Farm?

Harold Shipman is still our head physio.

Armchair wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:Weird though - five games into the season and we have DCL, Pickford, Richarlison, Coleman, Gbamin, James, Delph all out injured, with no sign of any of them being available for QPR, Norwich or even Man Ure.  What goes on at Finch Farm?

Harold Shipman is still our head physio.

You're probably not wrong. I just did a head-count of our squad and, in addition to the above, an unnamed professional is out indefinitely with a nonce-related problem, and Tosun is still recovering from a broken fucking everything. That's nine players out of a squad of 27 unavailable. Rafa must be wishing he hadn't run over that black cat on his way to Finch Farm.

Fucking doomed I tells ya. Makes me very sad, because I was loving watching this version of Everton. Goodison has been rocking and the football has been full of energy and intensity. Fucking Everton. The good times never last that long do they?

Oh well, at least I can start watching them now. Just in time for the season to turn to shit.

I've been in Nottingham today, my daughter's first day at Uni. That's it, the last of the Rotts brood has flown the nest, all three of them at Uni at the same time. A proud but occasionally emotional day. She's currently in a pub in Nottingham city centre with 15 girls she only met about 7 hours ago. Me and the missus have just been out for a few beers to congratulate ourselves on a parenting job well done and to plan the resurrection of our social life, which was last seen vomiting into a bush outside a nightclub in about 1999.

So forgive me if I'm a bit more "meh, whatever" about this loss than I'd usually be. Why do Villa always cause us problems? I don't know, but the injuries didn't help, and the back-up pantry is alarmingly bare. Like, we might be able to get by without Richie or DCL but not both, that's pretty obvious.

It's one loss, we move on. The experienced Evertonian in me simply assumes that both QPR and Norwich will turn us over this week, so I see this next seven days as a bit of a test of our resilience under Rafa.

It's probably a good result today on reflection. Listening to post-match interviews on Monday, I found confusing feelings stirring from with inside me. It seemed like he was talking sense and there were shoots of a likeable personality pushing through. I can put a lid on all of that for a few more weeks at least now.

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:Oh well, at least I can start watching them now. Just in time for the season to turn to shit.

I've been in Nottingham today, my daughter's first day at Uni. That's it, the last of the Rotts brood has flown the nest, all three of them at Uni at the same time. A proud but occasionally emotional day. She's currently in a pub in Nottingham city centre with 15 girls she only met about 7 hours ago. Me and the missus have just been out for a few beers to congratulate ourselves on a parenting job well done and to plan the resurrection of our social life, which was last seen vomiting into a bush outside a nightclub in about 1999.

So forgive me if I'm a bit more "meh, whatever" about this loss than I'd usually be. Why do Villa always cause us problems? I don't know, but the injuries didn't help, and the back-up pantry is alarmingly bare. Like, we might be able to get by without Richie or DCL but not both, that's pretty obvious.

It's one loss, we move on. The experienced Evertonian in me simply assumes that both QPR and Norwich will turn us over this week, so I see this next seven days as a bit of a test of our resilience under Rafa.

I went to uni in Nottingham, albeit in the mid-90's. Not sure if it's changed much but it was a great student city back then.

Congratulations on getting three kids that far. Mine are 7 and 5, but with almost two years of virtual classes and me working from home, I don't see us making it that far. I'm ready to put at least one of them up for adoption.

Mine have both just graduated from uni and are following in the great family tradition of lying in bed til noon and partying til 3am while putting off getting a job til whenever. Still, both of them would have moved quicker than Rondon.