Aston Villa 3-2 Everton
by Gene Sylvester
at Villa Park

IT WAS all a bit too familiar for Sean Dyche, 2-0 up to 3-2 down; he had seen this movie before, but didn’t expect to rewatch the same horror so soon after the first one.

For the second game in successive matches, the Everton boss watched his side surrender a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 at Villa Park as Unai Emery’s Aston Villa recovered from nightmare start to claim all three points following an epic fightback.

It was a game played at a franetic pace from beginning to end, and it was Amadou Onana who got caught napping on the ball in the 15th minute when Dwight McNeill dispossessed the ex-Everton midfielder and Villa summer signing before carrying the ball to the edge of the Villa box and striking a precise low shot beyond Emi Martinez’s dive into the far corner of the net.