Watkins Continues To Rise Under Emery At Villa – Match Stats

It’s been a disappointing time of late for Unai Emery at Aston Villa. We went into today’s clash with struggling Everton at Goodison Park on the back of three straight defeats, and they had all been pretty heavy defeats at that.

The Everton showing was far from fantastic, and arguably the hosts had the better, or at least the overall chances on the day, but with the defence holding firm – including Tyrone Mings clearing off the line – whenever they did get through, they simply couldn’t best World Cup winning goalkeeper Emi Martinez.

That’s not to say we didn’t have chances of our own, and Ollie Watkins forced Jordan Pickford into a good stop of is own as he turned the ball onto the woodwork, but it came together for us in the second half and with John McGinn drawing a foul from former Villan Idrissa Gueye, Watkins made no mistake from the spot to score his fifth consecutive league goal, and with under ten minutes left on the clock, Emi Buendia made it 2-0 to ensure we returned home with all the points.

Level on points with big spending Chelsea now – few would’ve thought that a couple of months ago.

Everton				Aston Villa
				Watkins (pen 63), Buendia (81)
Pickford				Martinez
Coleman				Cash
Coady				Konsa
Tarkowski				Mings
Mykolenko				Digne			61
Gueye				McGinn
Iwobi			70	Kamara
Doucoure				Douglas Luiz
Onana			82	J Ramsey
McNeil				Bailey			61
Maupay			76	Watkins
Substitutes
Holgate				Traore
Keane				Buendia			61
Gray			70	Moreno			61
Mina				Chambers
Begovic				A Young
Godfrey				Duran
Davies			82	Dendoncker
Vinagre				Sinisalo
Simms			76	Zych

Game Statistics
15	Goal attempts	9
5	On Target	5
5	Corners	1
12	Fouls	12
2	Yellow Cards	1
0	Red Cards	0
47	%	53