Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

The premier league, the other 19 clubs, the media all want a new name on the trophy and I think the fuckers may succeed this season, however if we blues could just dream a little and see a fit again KDB lifting ol big ears @ Wembley and retain that trophy, we the fans and the club will have the biggest last laugh this century.
 
We need to go back to basics. There are teams playing "Peps Way" way better than we and there are too many players getting caught or making the wrong choices.

It'd been glorious to watch, but we don't have the personal to pull it off at the moment.

Let's trying something different; like knocking it long and picking up 2nd ball, actually trying to play Haaland through when he's made his umpteenth run behind the line and crossing the fucking ball instead of turning back (that was so frustrating by Kova in the last minute)

Not "Peps Way" but at least we'll become less predictable.

Full faith we'll turn this around, but some resetting and tactical thought are needed.

CTID.
 
Basically this was biggest betting of the year as Villa 7/2 to beat us at home which was an absolute steal .
 
From a posistion of strength we have weakened.How ever we are still good enough Pep will find a system that works.Gundo,Mahrez both wanted to go so thats that.Walker should have been allowed to leave.Nunes,Kovacic not good enough.The rest have not become bad overnight and the form will return.The big problem is the ready made excuse if Rodri is missing we dont win others need to step up especially Foden.Keep the faith!
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
Quote from Pep last night: “We said something at half-time and it was much better, the team had another dynamic but we didn’t find the players to make the assist, the cross, the pass.”

I can remember a decent 5 minutes after the restart but wouldn’t describe it as “much better”.

And not only could we not pass, we couldn’t fucking tackle or shoot either.
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Couldn’t find players to make a pass sums it up nicely.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
And Pep said he'd fuck off if he saw that in these players
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There wasn't any lack of commitment v Spurs . We dominated them. We are not far off it. But when you lose Rodri to suspension you lose a great player. We will bounce back Sunday afternoon
 
We had similar start last season, i think once KDB comes back we can start winning strike. In addition, we missed Gundo badly, but I am confident pep will sort out our problem. Even if we dont win the title this season I am ok with it. Lets get behind the team and create atmosphere that can lift up players.
 
No doubt we will hear today how the other teams have caught us up, no, we have come back down to them. Arsenal are no better, liverpool, spurs and villa have improved, but we are nowhere near last seasons standard.
 
blueabdi said:
We had similar start last season, i think once KDB comes back we can start winning strike. In addition, we missed Gundo badly, but I am confident pep will sort out our problem. Even if we dont win the title this season I am ok with it. Lets get behind the team and create atmosphere that can lift up players.
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Anything we get from KDB will be a bonus, huge injury to get over at 33 and for a man with a catalogue of major injuries.

Personally I think he will be gone in the summer.
 
Is this our weakest squad we've had for years?. We can't cope with a few injuries to key players now, we could've managed quite comfortably even a few seasons ago when our bench was full of quality. Last night's bench was awful, eight on it with two keepers present, how has it got so threadbare?. Three players on it who do virtually the same job ie Nunes, Phillip's, and Kovacic and all three haven't got a goal in them, absolute rubbish.
Nunes for 53m could be even worse business than Phillip's, why we paid that for someone who had a shit season at Wolves is beyond me. Still early for him though, do hopefully he can produce something.
I think we see big changes again next summer
 
Aston Villa played very well last night. Credit to them. They stopped City from playing. We looked poor for long periods. It's one game that should not define our season. I am disappointed. We have been very fortunate to see some fantastic football from City over recent years. You can't win every match. We did not get thrashed though. All our league defeats this season have been close. Arsenal only beat us with a deflected goal. Same for Aston Villa. We have drawn a few games too, but again should have won the ones against Spurs and Liverpool. All is not lost. The fixture list looks better for us over next several weeks. KDB is on his way back. Reasons to be cheerful. Come on City!
 
paulsimpson said:
There wasn't any lack of commitment v Spurs . We dominated them. We are not far off it. But when you lose Rodri to suspension you lose a great player. We will bounce back Sunday afternoon
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At this moment in time I wouldn't put any money on it. In spite of losing to Arsenal Luton were very unlucky. A small tight ground, raucous atmosphere, wet and windy conditions and we have lost our belief. It will be like a cup tie from the seventies. In fact I'm going to check the odds for a Luton win.
 
Credit to Villa, they were superb.

Whilst another day, it could've ended 0-0, can't say Villa didn't deserve a lead. We were so poor offensively.

Could've played another 90mins and we wouldn't score. We had 6 defenders out on the pitch. We were so concerned over covering Rodri's absence that we neglected to care for the attack. Villa's high line is there to be exploited, as Spurs tried, but other than Foden, we didn't have the personnel on the pitch to do it.

Thank god Rodri's back next game, but we really need to figure out a way to play without Rodri.
 
Bluearmy said:
He’s our best option to play with rodri. Im not saying he’s great but the rest are worse!! He’s played 36 mins in the last 4 games against Chelsea/Liverpool/Spuds/Villa and we've been wide open without him, suicide football. I’d go with him and Rodri and also stop this Alvarez/Haaland experiment, it doesnt work.
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Agree with the Garland/Alvarez stuff...needs ditching
 
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