{"id":154808,"date":"2025-09-13T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154808\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:58:07","slug":"everton-0-0-aston-villa-sep-13-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154808\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton 0-0 Aston Villa (Sep 13, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa<\/a>‘s search for a win continued as a goalless draw at Everton<\/a> did nothing to improve their sorry start to the Premier League<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

Two points from four matches without scoring kept them above only midlands neighbours Wolves in the table and left head coach Unai Emery with a number of questions still to answer.<\/p>\n

An afternoon of reunions, with Jack Grealish<\/a> facing his boyhood club, and reintegrations — as Emiliano Mart\u00ednez<\/a> returned in goal after his failed move to Manchester United<\/a> — offered little in the way of entertainment for the 52,000 inside the Hill-Dickinson Stadium.<\/p>\n

There were few memorable moments in a game which had more bookings (six) than shots on target (three) and while Everton extended their unbeaten run to four matches, manager David Moyes will view it as a missed opportunity to lift his side up to third against toothless opponents.<\/p>\n

Not even Premier League player of the month Jack Grealish could find a breakthrough as despite his efforts, Everton had no cutting edge up front with Beto<\/a>, after scoring in his last two appearances, squandering their best chances with a clumsy performance up front.<\/p>\n

\"\"Aston Villa’s poor start to the season continued on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Villa will take some satisfaction from limiting Grealish’s influence — visiting fans delighted in singing “You’re not super any more” — but it took a considerable effort with at one point in the first half John McGinn<\/a>, Lamare Bogarde<\/a> and Matty Cash<\/a> all tracking him back to nullify his threat.<\/p>\n

However, had the hosts had a number nine with better anticipation and sharpness, they could have had the match won before half-time.<\/p>\n

After just two minutes Beto kicked the ball against his own leg from Iliman Ndiaye<\/a>‘s cross, setting the tone for what could generously be described as an untidy 75 minutes.<\/p>\n

In fact the closest he came to contributing to a goal was when he headed Jordan Pickford<\/a>‘s clearance back into the path of Emi Buendia, who tried to embarrass England<\/a>‘s goalkeeper with an ambitious low shot from 45 yards, only for the ball to swerve past the upright with Pickford still trying to make his way back between the posts.<\/p>\n

Michael Keane<\/a> had three chances to score with headers from Grealish crosses, two going wide and the other tipped over by Martinez, whose outstretched foot blocked a deflected Grealish shot in the first half.<\/p>\n

That Keane was Everton’s most potent threat told its own story as Moyes is still operating without a centre-forward in form.<\/p>\n

But his issues pale into insignificance to those of Emery, who does have a recognised Premier League goalscorer in Ollie Watkins<\/a> but one who appears to be a shadow of his former self.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Live updates: Premier League latest<\/a><\/p>\n

The closest Villa came to scoring was when Buendia’s optimistic attempt from 25 yards looped up off James Tarkowski<\/a> and dropped out of the reach of Pickford but wide of the far post.<\/p>\n

Both teams debuted new signings; for Everton it was Merlin Rohl<\/a>\u00a0— on loan from Freiburg with an obligation to buy for \u00a320 million ($27m) next summer — and for the visitors, former Liverpool<\/a> midfielder Harvey Elliott<\/a>, who emerged off the bench to a chorus of boos, and ex-Manchester United centre-back Victor Lindel\u00f6f<\/a> but none were game changers.<\/p>\n

It was four years before Goodison Park witnessed a goalless draw. At their new ground it has taken just three matches and a smattering of boos at the final whistle showed how high expectations are at their shiny home on the banks of the River Mersey.<\/p>\n

Villa will have been happy to escape with a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa‘s search for a win continued as a goalless draw at Everton did nothing to improve their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-154808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}