Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[homerdog]

Foden needs a rocket or benching

Maybe, but Grealish often plays like that on the left wing - I suspect they are under orders.

 

[HelloCity]

Villa had a perfectly good winner chalked off. We can’t be moaning about the officials today.

Ederson also don’t fully go for it because the whistle had gone.

 

[Cricket Blue]

United win tomorrow and 2 behind us and there shit

 

[jimharri]

We haven't played anyone in the Top 10 to put in perspective.

Glass half empty type of guy, yeah? That's okay.

 

[deano ou812]

Can’t get my head round taking Bernardo off and especially for mahrez probably Alvarez should have been the change if any,but then again I’m not a coach/manager..

 

[Mariosfireworks]

Walker seems off it, he needs to be dropped, put cancelo on the right and Gomez on the left

He needs to be dropped? What about the other players?

 

[homerdog]

About 40 seconds past it.

Because Villa were attacking!

 

[argyle]

Walker should not be played in midfield. It isnt working as he's not good enough on the ball. That's not his skillset. If Pep wanted a rightback who can go into midfield we should have bought one or play Cancello there.

Also Foden has settled into being a system player.

Gets the ball and immediately passes backwards. No creativity, vision or drive to his play anymore.

I suppose it means less chance of losing the ball which is what Pep wants.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Disappointing but had enough chances to win. Interesting g to see how we will do against spurs

 

[bondsman]

Cancelo looks like he can’t be arsed defensively this year. Disappointing to drop points against them from a winning position. Why change the shape from Weds?

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

But if we had scored our chances and won 3-1 absolutely no one would be questioning Pep. All on the players today.

The only thing on Pep, is that we sometimes find it hard to understand how he allows people stay on the pitch, who are consistently under performing.

We all would have loved to see something more urgent and direct up front. i.e. Alvarez.

I don’t think Pep is sacrificing the league for the CL as someone suggested. I think he just looks at the overall situation with the squad and has a whole season picture in his head. We just look at the game we are watching, but I think he looks at the the season and calculates how he will win the lot. That’s his use of the squad.
He hasn’t done it yet (won the lot) but he’s not been too far off.
We’re always there or there anouts at the business end.

It’s frustrating watching us drop what seems like unnecessary points to Villa and Newcastle but who would bet against us winning the league come next May.

 

[FantasyIreland]

So did Bournemouth.

Forest arent great,i get it....but the system of play we employed allowed him to do what he does best.Today it did not,and the same goes for Bernie and Gundo.

 

[hinchcliffes bulbous conk]

Very sloppy - look very tired.

Spurs will probs do us next week too.

They will with that attitude.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Villa had a perfectly good winner chalked off. We can’t be moaning about the officials today.

Haha! You might hook a few with that!!!

 

[Silva&Silva]

Proper bizarre not taking Alvarez on, can only imagine he'll be starting on Tuesday night.

 

[bellsouth]

The left side was poor today, Cancelo and Foden not on it. Very surprised (or maybe not!) that Pep didn’t change that side instead of the right side.

 

[Tb1981]

We haven't played anyone in the Top 10 to put in perspective.

We have won four out of the last five leagues
That’s a bit more perspective

 

[Fordyboy46]

Poor performance in the end I don’t get why he didn’t bring Alvarez on when we needed a goal.

Mahrez was the obvious answer, oh wait

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Is it me, but every time the opposition shoot at Eddy I think it's going in. The goal that was wrongly given offside, he was so week wristed it was a pathetic effort from him.

It’s just you and a few twitter trolls.

He had no chance with their goal, saved a one on one and didn’t save an offside goal because the whistle had already gone.

 

[MellowJoe]

A point away...