But Anwar El Ghazi scored for the second successive match with a brilliant curling effort 10 minutes from time as Villa won at Goodison Park for the first time since 2008. “I thought he was good tonight and difficult to handle. It's what we paid a lot of money for,” Smith said of the decision to sign Watkins from Brentford in the summer for £28m.
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