Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

Hopefully Villa can beat the Arse at the weekend. Luton away, I see a man in a dog shit brown suit dancing at the end of the game and it aint Pep!

 

[makinghistory]

Very poor show regardless of missing players. Yes it doesn't help with the quality missing but we have to produce better than that. Villa were superb so no excuses. Anything can happen going forward but I do feel with our best players fit we should look to retain the CL imo as much as I would like a 4th straight PL title.

 

[Dewey6]

Better to be spanked now than in April. The team was always going to struggle losing Gundo and Mahrez on the back of the treble, then lose De Bruyne and essentially Stones for long periods. Not sure what we expect from these players, Nunes and Kovacic will need to improve but it can’t be easy settling into the midfield at the moment.

 

[bluemonkey71]

Back home from a funeral, saw the score.

Christ.

 

[stan bowles]

Get Alvarez and Gvardiol out of the team. Lewis looks like what he is - an undersized 19 yo playing against men. Too many small, weak players in this team getting bullied by hardened professionals and lenient refs.

 

[Gundoggin]

That was a fucking horror show .
Things can only get better .

 

[Ken92]

Villa are a very good side, but that doesn't make our performance tonight any less embarassing.

The worst we've played under Pep. We did one good thing in 98 minutes.

Physically and mentally weak. Squad might be the same size as last season, but with a noticeable decline in quality (and hunger).

Walker, Dias, Bernardo letting us down right now.

Taking Foden off was bizarre.

Kovacic and Nunes looking like a cheap backup and a panic buy respectively.

Gvardiol is being badly exposed playing out wide. Play him inside and put Ake on the left.

Time for another tactical tweak, because playing this system is suicidal when we're second to every ball.

Why you guys keep defending Foden??cause he is young and English??he was as bad as everyone else or even worse...he isnt a much better player than he was 4 years ago.

 

[Blu1]

No pep we didn’t play with desire.
We didn’t even have a plan which made it easy for villa

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Which one gets dropped though?

I mean that’s a question.

It'd be Alvarez, but there’s an argument for Haaland in certain games, for sure.

 

[BlueMoon_Phil]

2 shots the whole game. Lewis is so lightweight. The amount of times he was knocked off the ball or gave it away was ridiculous. Nunez was shite. McGinn and Bailey were great for them.

No one had a good game for us, bar Ederson who was decent. Lewis defo needs to gets some muscle on him tho!

 

[minimalistic]

2 points from 4 games is not good enough. This was the worst I’ve seen us play in a long time. Only 2 shots on goal as well. Summer transfers coming back to bite us. That’s what happens when you get your 4th choice midfielder.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

That game just added £15m to Lucas Paquetá's price.

 

[DavidWhitesUnderpants]

A bit wank. Sure we always have a first half of the season slump. We could kick-on after Xmas like we usually do, but this season there's way more teams breathing down our necks to afford shitty performances like that. Previous seasons its more-or-less been a two horse race by Xmas. This season it feels like a 5 or 6 horse race. So to expect all of them to fuck up feels like a tall order.

Anyway, not depressed overall, just by that awful display and last Sunday. Get back to me in March/April.

Got to say though, I do doubt a few of Pep's signings and dealings. Especially getting rid of Palmer who's fast becoming a Chav favourite.

Anyway, onwards to the mighty Luton. They gave the Arse a bloody good game by the sounds of it, so let's see. A loss there would blow the brains of many on here.

COYB.

 

[Beanhead]

We won't this year.

Dissgree.. key players to come back and being enough points of the top to lump the pressure on them but with more than ample time to reel them back in. All depends on us. If we can find a quick turnaround. Absolutely zero reason to think we couldn’t be within 3 points by Christmas and top by end of Jan. it all depends on us though.

 

[Indaparkside]

Good job some of yous wasn’t around at maine road they’d be no room left in the mortuary

 

[KingGeorge]

We already have as many losses this year as we had all last season.

 

[Gabriel]

So much anxiety amongst the players. Don’t think I’ve ever seen us have so many players run offside, and none of them were marginal calls.

 

[paulchapo]

Looks like a scrap for top four this season. I can't believe the rags are only THREE points behind us. When we beat them it was nine. Losing Gundo and Mahrez and adding Kovacic and Nunez is a massive drop in quality and experience. As for Gvardiol he's been terrible whether he's playing left back or not. The team.looks tired, stale, lightweight and devoid of ideas and confidence. Rodri and Kev coming back I fear won't make a lot of difference and in Kev's case it may be too late to make a difference. I'm not looking forward to Luton away after tonight.

 

[daztrueblue91]

Got to give Villa credit, they were excellent tonight and the 1-0 margin completely flatters us.

It’s astonishing that a club with the players we have seriously lacks creativity without KDB and cannot win a game without Rodri.

 

[CambridgeExileBlue]

2 shots all game- when was the last time that happened if ever…..