nepal_villan Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, briny_ear said: Blimey, I need to have a lie down during half time! That was exciting stuff. Villa on fire. No idea how we are 1-1 after that 45 minutes but I guess this is the “Villa way”. My only slight negative is Douglas Luiz. We need an upgrade in that position this summer. Nah - Dougie just needs to return to form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Like a few have said, if we lose I'm still happy. When we play like this, we'll give anyone a game, not sure why it's so inconsistent. Blows all the bull out the window, Covids killed us, the players are poor, 1 man team. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: This is my moment of the first half, no mistake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 We've been great and we will probably lose now I say this but it's clear why Everton are only a few points ahead of us. Their midfield is as bad as ours and their defence is a shambles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry'sboots Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said: Not bad considering the same old boring team selection. Even a broken clock is right twice a day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummybloke Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Apart from a 6 minute spell where he didn't track for their goal and handing them the ball 3 times in 4 minutes to attack, Berkley has played well. Traore has used the overlap today far more than ever before so now doesn't look predictable. We should be 3 - 1 up at half time. El gghaziis really the only one not firing properly but sill managed to smack the crossbar. Luiz will drift out the game now he's on a yellow that never was. Maybe claret and blue tinted glasses but the ref is really giving us pretty much nothing. Traore helping in defence wins the ball and gets flattened and ref plays on ? But luiz gets a yellow for shoulder to shoulder by the by line ? Well done ollie on making your own goal, could and probably should have had another, add in Berkley post, el ghazi cross Barr and traore lob plus a couple mgginn blasts saved, we could have easily got 4 or 5 so far. Can see mgginn having to take luiz place and Ramsey coming on after 65 mins so luiz doesn't get tricked into another yellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted May 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 1, 2021 Should easy be 2 clear by now. Harsh to call it a konsa error for the goal but he was uncharacteristically flapping about. I'd probs take Luis off, not been great and on a yellow. Really good half, more of the same please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Unfortunately I can't see us keeping this pace up second half and Everton will be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Just now, foreveryoung said: Like a few have said, if we lose I'm still happy. When we play like this, we'll give anyone a game, not sure why it's so inconsistent. Blows all the bull out the window, Covids killed us, the players are poor, 1 man team. I did want to say, but was saving it till after. If we played anywhere near this most the time, and drew/lost, most of us would be happy. Now obviously would prefer to win, even ugly but you get what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 I always enjoy our matches with Everton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Barkleys been great (barring the poor defending) for Everton goal Where the he has this barkley been the last few months? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Just now, VillaAlex said: We've been great and we will probably lose now I say this but it's clear why Everton are only a few points ahead of us. Their midfield is as bad as ours and their defence is a shambles. And they've spent hundreds of millions and have one of the most successful managers of all time in charge. It's why I hate it when people can't put things into perspective regarding where we are currently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa87 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 We have been excellent - the stuff we were playing up to new year. It makes the last couple of months all the more frustrating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 There's nothing to suggest Everton will improve defensively, I don't see them bringing on two centre backs, either. There's a lot left in this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted May 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 1, 2021 Unfortunately we all know how this will end. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 1 minute ago, foreveryoung said: Like a few have said, if we lose I'm still happy. When we play like this, we'll give anyone a game, not sure why it's so inconsistent. Blows all the bull out the window, Covids killed us, the players are poor, 1 man team. Why can't we play with this energy in every game? I just don't get it. This has been awesome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, nepal_villan said: Would be quite annoyed if I were an Everton supporter. Seems as though they just thought they needed to show-up to get 3 points. Had a quick look on twitter to see what was being said about Ollie and pickford Everton fans look a lot like us... But saying that their £25m midfielder from Barcelona isnt good enough... Or their £40m player from arsenal... Or their other £40m player... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 6 minutes ago, villa4europe said: What? Why would he change anything?! We've created so many chances we just haven't taken them, played well Half time sub would be madness Because Luiz is on a booking and he has another booking in him. AEG isn’t clicking. We have a squad, let’s use it, Smith is always too slow change it up. Get Davis on for AEG in the forward line and Nakamba to let McGinn get more forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-R Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Much better. That’s the team of the first half of the season even without Jack. Just a shame about the scoreline. Because we're doing what I've been saying we've been lacking since coming back from Covid which is being less passive and going after the team. You can't just be sending Watkins to nail players down and take there balls from them, you have to send as many in there all at once to each player and intercept those balls bigtime . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphouneso Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Barkley covered more ground than any other Villa player in that half. Did I wake up in the Upside Down? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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