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I see Gemmill has wisely refrained from commenting on Everton's fortunes recently, but their demise could still be one of the fun things to look forward to these last few weeks. They play us, City and Brighton, and have a couple of 6 pointers against Bournemouth, Leicester.

That's the beauty of football and sport though isn't it, come the last few games it could be confidence, momentum, bad luck with injuries etc. that could be the deciding factor. Agree with gloomy on Brighton. Incredibly well run outfit, play good attacking football and can beat anyone on their day. More worried about them than Spurs, as they're well...Spurs. If we beat them next week that could be that for them.

They were not better than Arsenal or City man! They were very good but we were also very very poor. Huge spaces in midfield, Bruno and Joe completely off it, Willock looked clueless. CBs failing to deal with balls over the top, Trippier having his worst game in months. I get Villa playing so well made them look like that, but had we been at our usual performance levels it would have been a much closer game. Like Arsenal away was. It was a bad day at the office, and its a very tough league. Villa are in fine form with a good coach. They'll be back down to earth soon though as multiple teams in this league over the years have. And once they run into a bit of bad form, the lack of cojones on Emery will come to the fore. Not a club we need to be worrying about in the coming years, they can kid themselves all they like, they are in the Everton category more than anything else.

Wow, speechless about today's performance. Bruce levels here.

Atrocious stuff. Absolutely shocking.

This is shite. Bruno, Willock and Joe all look off it.

Over to you Eddie. I can see Miggy coming on soon.

What was Murphy doing there ffs?

Better last few minutes. No cutting edge up front though, need to get to half time and then hopefully improve last last week.

I'm hoping Villa will be just about confident enough to try and play expansively at home against us, leaving spaces for Isak and co to smack them silly.

Botman is young, he will learn. He's been immense on the whole, think how badly some established defenders have struggled after moving to this league. I'm more worried about Pope. His shot saving continues to be superb no doubt. But its heart in the mouth time almost every single time he gets the ball at his feet. Isak is something else like. Far from the finished article, he lost the ball in good moments today for instance, but he just has so much to his game. A very complete player who has the ability to do something special out of nothing as well. Stunning finish again today. The strange part for me was that as Wilson rolled the ball to him, I thought he's going to score, he's got the ability to score those week in week out. Henryesque in the way he moves and takes the ball on.

Thought our decisions were bad, but the ones against Brighton were absolutely scandalous. How can anyone get them so badly wrong? They talk about respecting the refs but ffs you have to be at least reasonably decent at your jobs then .This league has a bunch of farcical clowns officiating.

Or not. Get in. Brilliant result without the best performance

Watch the refs find a few extra minutes now

Ah poor from Isak there had more time than he thought to find a pass

Great save from Pope there. Squeaky bum time

Trippier having a go at just about everyone here. Not sure what about

Giving away silly free kicks now.

Eddie's all class but someone needs to have a real go at them for today. They've just needed the smallest excuse to rule against us.

Just need to keep our heads here and control the game now.

Great. Chalked off. Idiots

VAR will do their best

There it is amazing

Uff brilliant save should have been 1-3

Brentford well and truly rattled