Martin O’Neill says that he has every intention of
seeing his Aston Villa side take the game to Everton in a fashion
akin to that which they did against Manchester United last
weekend.
Villa carved out quite a reputation for themselves earlier in
the season as a team full of pace and bravado but have since gone
off the boil since the race for the top four begun to hot up.
They now sit just one point clear of Everton in sixth place
after undeservedly losing to United on Sunday and O’Neill
is all too aware of the importance of the visit of David Moyes’
side.
“We are where we are with seven games to go,” said the
Ulsterman. “For us now, the Everton game is in front of us and we
have to go into it with all guns blazing to try to get a
result.
“Win the game and we’re off and running, but it won’t be easy.
Everton are a point behind us and pushing for the same thing.
“David Moyes is supposed to have said, and I don’t know whether
he did or not, that they might still be in the reckoning for the
top four. So we should take some sort of consolation from that.
“We went to attack United and did exactly that. We never sat
back. We took the game to them. It was enthralling.
“This is about us trying to win some football games. The best
way to do that is for us to stay playing as positively as we have
done all season.”