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Everton start the season off with back-to-back defeats for the first time in 13 years

August 13, 2022
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by Elliot Thompson
Five things we learnt from Everton’s first defeat of the season

After losing 1-0 to Chelsea on the opening weekend of the season at Goodison Park Everton were looking to bounce back away to Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa.

Frank Lampard made one change with Conor Coady replacing the injured Ben Godfrey for his debut whilst Everton’s other new signing Amadou Onana started on the bench.

First outing for the new third kit! 💛

Will we see debuts for Conor and Amadou today as well? #AVLEVE pic.twitter.com/sNXxYicU9J

— Everton (@Everton) August 13, 2022

Due to it being one of the hottest weekends the country has seen this summer the game started off in a slow manner with the heat beaming onto the pitch with neither goalkeeper being tested in the opening 20 minutes.

Everton and Anthony Gordon thought they had stolen the lead after the young winger poked the ball in from a corner.

He ran off celebrating then the flag went up for offside, VAR checked and agreed with the linesman.

No goal.

After that Everton did not make Emiliano Martinez work at all in the first half and on the half-an-hour mark found themselves one nil down with the goal coming from a very familiar face in Danny Ings.

Villa were quick in the transition with Ollie Watkins running at James Tarkowski and he drilled in a low cross finding Ings.

It looked like he had initially taken the ball off Philippe Coutinho but he created half-a-yard for himself getting past Abdoulaye Doucoure before rattling the ball with his left foot past Jordan Pickford scoring his seventh career goal against Everton.

A thumping finish by Danny Ings! 💥

Aston Villa's first Premier League goal this season and they lead against Everton…#AVFC | #EFC | #AVLEVE

📽️ @btsportfootball pic.twitter.com/vndFkYpwnn

— The Athletic UK (@TheAthleticUK) August 13, 2022

Whatever Lampard said at half-time seemed to rile up his squad as they started the second-half on the front foot finally forcing a save out of Martinez as Demarai Gray cut in and let fire.

Steven Gerrard’s Villa side dealt with the onslaught well limiting Everton to only half chances whilst making sure Martinez did not have to be involved too much.

With ten minutes to go Onana came on for his debut and he changed the game initially for the worse.

He lost the ball in the middle of the pitch allowing Villa substitute Emiliano Buendia to drive with pace and find Watkins who bent his run wide to find space.

Buendia continued his run and Watkins found him in the six-yard box for a simple tap-in to double the home sides lead.

That is a lovely combination between Ollie Watkins and Emi Buendía… 😮‍💨

Watkins unselfishly puts it on a plate for his teammate 🤝 pic.twitter.com/Jm9hloixJ8

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 13, 2022

It looked like that goal would secure the three points for the home side but one minute later Onana showed what he can bring to the Everton midfield.

He made a powerful run down the left hand-side before crossing the ball in trying to find Alex Iwobi but before the ball came to him former Everton man Luca Digne got there before him inadvertently putting the ball into his own net.

Lucas Digne's last two own goals in the Premier League:

◎ Sep 2021 – For Everton vs. Aston Villa

◉ Aug 2022 – For Aston Villa vs. Everton

Is he even now? 😅 pic.twitter.com/6gjz0qd9bF

— Squawka (@Squawka) August 13, 2022

So it was game on with a few minutes left and then came a proper onslaught from The Toffees but that didn’t happen until after Pickford denied Watkins with a brilliant save after rushing out to close the angle.

With five additional minutes the away crowd roared their side on and Everton came so close to getting a late equaliser on a couple of occasions but challenges from Tyrone Mings and Callum Chambers denied Salomon Rondon and Onana.

So in the end Villa just about hung on for the three points getting a 2-1 victory whilst Everton still look like they desperately need a striker with 19 days of the transfer window left.

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