[Glanville95]

He's just horribly mediocre. No better than Vlaar or Okore in this Villa team and they are a lower league side.

Him and Fletcher have been by far our worst performers this season.

 

[fallengt]

How was he at fault for the goal?

Misjudged the cross, put himself in bad position, could not close down fast enough?
Benetke did a good job there though.

 

[Van Piorsing]

United level maybe under Moyes but not Van Gaal.

His shit needs to stop.

 

[Señor]

How was he at fault for the goal?

Are you being serious? Please watch the goal again. In fact, I'll try to send you a video.

Here it is:

And this is discounting the worst mistake of it all, his horrendous defending and misjudgment when the ball's crossed in.

 

[GledTheRed]

He's shit.

 

[Ekeke]

Did nothing wrong. Shielded the goal. Just an incredible finish. Scapegoating is over the top.

Did nothing, let the opponent control the situation and have all the time in the world to set himself

 

[bosnian_red]

He's just not a good player. People said he was good on the ball, but passing wise he fecks up more then smalling or Jones. Defensively he's not very good either. He won't be here next season.

 

[Amar__]

Forget his defending, his ball distribution(mainly down to his decision making) is dreadfull this season. He always has the simple pass, but no, he delays the passing and ruins the attack, only to run himself in blind street, and then panics it and puts someone else in danger.
He's very lucky that he is naturally left side CB otherwise I am not sure he would get much minutes this season on this form.

 

[MTR]

I'm always trying to defend him, but today he's just awful... Looks like an amateur.

 

[OneUnited24]

For all that think hes blameless look at the goal. He isnt tight enough to Benteke for one and misjudging the flight of the ball which he should be cutting out. He does that and theres no goal. At this level mistakes like losing the flight of the ball cost you and it did

 

[Van Piorsing]

To be objective, Benteke got him dancing there pretty nice.

 

[Señor]

For all that think hes blameless look at the goal. He isnt tight enough to Benteke for one and misjudging the flight of the ball which he should be cutting out. He does that and theres no goal. At this level mistakes like losing the flight of the ball cost you and it did

Actually this is a better one @Ole's_toe_poke.

 

[Ole's_toe_poke]

It's just a great finish FFS.

The only thing he did wrong was perhaps not winning the header. From there on Benteke has a lot to do and he does it brilliantly including finishing with his wrong foot. Evans had his angle covered and he came up with a great finish.

His passing has been shit though. Unquestionably.

Certain players will be crucified even if they make the smallest of errors.

 

[Joga Bonito]

Expected better marking than that. Hope he gets better in the 2nd half

 

[Sunny Jim]

Evans didnt cover himself in glory there. Great finish asaide he gave away to much space there.

 

[Ekeke]

If Evans had the angle covered, how did the ball end up in the goal?

Evans lost his bearings after getting caught under the flight of the ball. He never got his head back and into a good position to restict Benteke

 

[Nighteyes]

And again fgs

 

[gooDevil]

I'm tired of watching him, honestly.

 

[Freak]

Shit as usual. Can we just play mcnair or blackett instead?

 

[Van Piorsing]

He looks scared.

 

[Sam]

Who's bright idea was it to have Evans mark Benteke from set-pieces? Twice it happened and twice they nearly scored.

 

[Santos J]

Thought the criticism was a bit over stated for Evans recently(after the MK game mostly) but he really seems to be playing at a level below what he was before the MK Dons match. Confidence seems to be completely shot.

 

[stepic]

Not good enough. Move him on, or use him as a squad player only. Should not be an automatic starter post January.

 

[LeftyBlaster]

School boy. End of discussion. Move him on.

 

[Hed Zitin]

How long does he get until we can simply say he's shit?

 

[FromTheBench]

He seems to have lost it.

 

[FromTheBench]

Who's bright idea was it to have Evans mark Benteke from set-pieces? Twice it happened and twice they nearly scored.

Jones was taking Vlaar or Clark. Who else was left ?

 

[Skills]

Johnny Evans can't deal with big, strong, athletic strikers. We've known that for years.

Slowest of our senior defenders as well. So what can he actually deal with?

 

[Devil may care]

He's a walking horror movie.

 

[Red Shorts]

We need a one in, one out for CBs right now. Unfortunately we are not in a position to offload Evans until we get a replacement for him. He puts us into so much danger with wayward passing and being out of position!

 

[Kostur]

It's incredible how basically some lost cases upped their game with LVG in the driving seat yet a defender who I thought was our best defender before this season started managed to slide down so fecking much, painful to watch. He's been outplayed like three times in that one attack from which Villa scored and then he somehow managed to slow everything down, even when he was rushing at their goal he still slowed things down.

 

[Lynk]

He truly is shite.

 

[DevilRed]

Terrible today. Made benteke look like a world beater.

Needs to be benched once Rojo or Smalling are back.

 

[Sam]

Slowest of our senior defenders as well. So what can he actually deal with?

Not much.

 

[Godfather]

One of the worst CBs in the PL right now.

 

[kundalini]

No change in his recent form.

 

[Nighteyes]

He's not good enough anymore. Plain and simple. Getsme needs to stop defending this clown and see what actually happens.

 

[Bojan11]

Slowest of our senior defenders as well. So what can he actually deal with?

Supposed to be our ball playing defender. But he can't pass anymore.

 

[Isotope]

For all that think hes blameless look at the goal. He isnt tight enough to Benteke for one and misjudging the flight of the ball which he should be cutting out. He does that and theres no goal. At this level mistakes like losing the flight of the ball cost you and it did

It's been his problem for a long time to get bullied by physical striker. I don't know any good CB that look physically as weak as him. Why he's never thought of bulk up a bit more, thus a bit stronger as a CB, it's a mystery.

 

[OneUnited24]

He's not good enough anymore. Plain and simple. Getsme needs to stop defending this clown and see what actually happens.

Towards the end of SAFs final season i started to question whether Evans was United quality for the first time. Under Moyes i gave him the benefit of the doubt because everyone was rubbish under him.

But now i think i've made up my mind, hes NOT United quality and i'd be tempted to even replace him from the squad because i dont know if he can be called up as adequate cover for Rojo/Jones/Smalling. I would rather play one of the kids

It's been his problem for a long time to get bullied by physical striker. I don't know any good CB that look physically as weak as him. Why he's never thought of bulk up a bit more, thus a bit stronger as a CB, it's a mystery.

Completely agree mate, i mean i dont expect all CBs to be built like Ronaldo or anything, i mean Vidic was pretty lean but had good core strength which is a must for defenders. Evans gets out muscled far too easy for my liking