I honestly expected Aston Villa to actually win against Everton. After all Aston Villa is really fighting to stay as much at the top as possible. Meanwhile, Everton is literally fighting to stay out of the relegation zone. So, I thought Aston Villa was going to win this match pretty easily. But of course, I was wrong. Though I have to say Aston Villa was able to dominate the match. However, they were not able to win. I also think that this might very well be the start of their inconsistency. Not unexpected for them to be really consistent. But I honestly did think that probably they will be able to bring in really good results. Which is still definitely possible. But not if they are inconsistent.
Aston Villa again failed to get full points in this match, because in today match both teams were unable to score goals and the match ended in a 0-0 draw. Both teams share one point from today match, where perhaps Aston Villa are not too satisfied with the results they got because they again failed return for second place in the standings. Yes, this failure means Aston Villa is stuck in third place where Aston Villa has collected the same points as Manchester City. In today match, Aston Villa performed better than the hosts, but they had difficulty scoring goals in this match. Even Watkins was able to fire off 6 shots but none of them turned into goals.
If you look at the top 4, of course Aston Villa is not very safe in being in third place because Arsenal will be able to move them if Arsenal wins the match against Crystal Palace. The points difference is so close to each other that there will be changes that will occur in the top 4.
It is even possible that if Aston villa starts to lose the balance of their best performance, of course the teams below their ranking will take advantage of the opportunity to disturb them in the top 4 rankings.