Aston Villa 1-3 Everton
It maybe early in the season with just 2 games gone but alarm bells need to be ringing at Villa Park with their team really struggling. Their opening day defeat to West Ham made Villa look toothless, they didn't look any better here as Everton put them to the sword and showed that they didn't just fluke their victory over Manchester United.
The Villa defense looked awful last weekend and they didn't look much better here as Everton took them to the cleaners in the opening half. It took less than 3 minutes for Everton to open the scoring for the day as Steven Pienaar netted a real beauty from outside the penalty area. Whilst the shot it's self was near unstoppable Pienaar was allowed too much space and took full advantage. Everton doubled their lead a little thanks to a major mistake by Shay Given who let Marouane Fellaini's header go right through him. Whilst Given didn't stand a chance for the first goal, he should have stopped the second. Everton added a 3rd before half time thanks to Nikica Jelavic who escaped from his man to put in a Leighton Baines cut back and seal the points.
Things went from bad to worse for Villa when Ciaran Clark got sent off in the second half for a foul on Jelavic who appeared to be through on goal. With 10 men Villa did manage to show something and scored their first goal of the season as new signing Karim El Ahmadi opened his account, however in all honesty Tim Howard should have saved the shot.
Villa fans will be sick to death with their managerial merry-go-round that has plagued them in recent years, sadly however Paul Lambert isn't looking like the man for the job. Lambert has brought in a host of new signings and sadly it seems none of them have really settled yet, in fact it seems like no one is settled. Defensively Villa look awful and up front they simply have no penetration, in fact they only managed a single shot on target in the first 45 minutes. It may be early but Lambert may well be leading the sack race.
Before the season kicked off I really doubted Everton, I thought the loss of Tim Cahill would really make the team struggle. Instead however it seems to have really lit a fire under Marouane Fellaini who was once again exceptional as Everton dominated for the second game in a row. In attack Everton look genuinely scary, Fellaini, Jelavic and Pienaar all look like they will be bagging goals for fun this year and at the back Leighton Baines and Phil Neville look like they are having roaming up and down the flanks. This Everton team are already showing signs of a team going places. Despite their almost crippling financial position the team look brilliant and David Moyes needs to be seriously applauded for getting the usually starting Everton off to a fantastic start this season.
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