Everton 2-3 Aston Villa: Ashley Young snatches dramatic win for Villa

Talk about entertainment. Talk about drama. Even the introduction of witchety grubs couldn't improve this Premiership classic.

It had everything. The fastest goal of the season so far, good old fashioned blood and thunder, and then, just as you thought it couldn't get any more dramatic, an end to the contest that even reality TV makers would think was ridiculous.

As the dust settled, it was the Everton players who were left saying 'get me out of here', and visiting striker Ashley Young annointed the celebrity for two sublime goals that left his manager eulogising about a "world class footballer".

It is hard to know where to start - though Aston Villa did that rather spectacularly with an opening goal after 34 seconds - but in the end, it was the final 34 seconds that proved so decisive, as, incredibly, Everton equalised in that period and them, somehow, the visitors won the game. Remarkable.

Both managers were stunned as they attempted to explain afterwards what just happened, and you have to feel sorry for David Moyes, because his Everton side had done everything to take the point their relentless performance, and the timing of the winner was cruel.

The clock read 93 minutes and 32 seconds when the ball entered the net to burst the celebratory Goodison atmosphere inspired by Joleon Lescott's second equaliser which had arrived in the 93rd minute.

But the referee had played to letter of the law by adding the time taken by Lescott's shirt-waving celebration, and anyway, Young's finish as he burst through on goal following a mistake from Mikel Arteta and a good ball from Gabby Agbonlahor, deserved to win any match.

Even Martin O'Neill was moved to admit "There's just no time on the clock", but it was still plenty enough in a game like this. But then, we should have known it was going to be special after Steve Sidwell's opening goal even before everyone had taken their seat.

Given their patchy home record this season, David Moyes had asked the supporters for an intimidating atmosphere to put opponents on the back foot, but, well, that lasted precisely 34 seconds. There is nothing like a goal to shut the fans up, and Goodison was well and truly silenced.

Mind you, it was a goal to stun even the ardent Everton faithful. From the kick off, Villa won a throw on the right, Mikel Arteta lost the ball, which was swiftly and crisply moved from Luke Young to James Milner, who, standing on the edge of the box, set for Sidwell.

The technical phrase, for what the Villa midfielder did, I believe, was to fair blatter the ball into the back of the net, from 28 yards. Everton keeper Tim Howard barely saw the shot as it screamed past him, and the fans, still settling into their seats, were left wondering if the game had ACTUALLY kicked off.

In truth, after that devastating start, the home side didn't really kick off for another 25 minutes or so, as they staggered groggily onto the ropes and clung on for dear life after such a bone-rattling blow. But when they were finally roused, by a borderline penalty decision not given by referee Martin Atkinson, they did so with some passion.

Victor Anichebe galloping eagerly into the penalty area, and as Ashley Young challenged he seemed to strike the man and not the ball, sending him crashing to the turf. Cue a malevolent sense of simmering injustice from the fans, and a charged air around this crumbling stadium.

Villa withered in the heat of that fine spell for the home side, and Everton were level on the half hour when Arteta delivered a viciously flat free kick from the left, Leon Osman flicked on and Lescott found himself unmarked close in to bundle the ball over the line via his knee.

From there, the excellent Marouane Fellaini saw one header cleared off the line and another brilliantly tipped onto the bar by the excellent - and enduring - Brad Friedel, but of course, that fire couldn't last.

It was a horrible mistake from the usual immaculate Phil Jagielka that turned the game Villa's way again, as he passed back blind, and Ashley Youngt stole in to finish with some style.

From there, it was fire and brimstone Everton unashamedly launched long balls forward, and eventually it worked but only after Villa had heroically headed away what seemed like 500 hundred deliveries into the box, with increasing desperation.

The referee had indicated there would be three minutes of stoppage time, and in that third minute, another corner from Osman, Jagielka headed back and Cahill headed on, then Lescott finished with an amazing overhead kick.

Perhaps it would have been justice if the referee had blown his whistle then, and given that Everton had scored at the end of 93 minutes, but he didn't, and Villa were gifted another goal by sloppy Everton defending that could yet define their season as Young finished in similar style to his first.

If Villa go on to finish in the top four, then they will not forget this afternoon, and those two remarkable goals from the kick off. And neither, no doubt, will devastated Everton.

Everton: Howard 6; Neville 6 (Van der Meyde 85, 5), Yobo 6, Jagielka 5, Lescott 7; Fellaini 7, Arteta 6; Osman 7, Cahill 6, Pienaar 6; Anichebe 6.

Aston Villa: Friedel 7; Cuellar 6, Davies 6, Laursen 7, L Young 6; Petrov 6; Milner 6, A Young 8, Sidwell 7, Barry 7; Agbonlahor 6.

Referee: Martin Atkinson 6

Hero: Ashley Young. What a cool finish in the 94th minute to win this game, "world class", according to his manager.

Villain: The unfortunate Mikel Arteta, who gave the ball away 30 seconds in, and 30 seconds from time to cost his side the game

Match stat: Martin O'Neill has never lost at Goodison in 11 visits as a player and manager

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