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

[BooksReject]

Yes and we paid Sergio to score goals and he did by the bucket load, but pep had a problem with that, because Sergio wasn't his signing, I think pep has a.massive ego problem, his decisions for the champions league final against Chelsea convinced me of that

Pep didn’t have an issue with Serge per se, he had an issue with his closing down in the Pep system. When he got it, and carried on scoring, Pep and the rest of us loved him.

Erling is a phenomenon…Pep will accommodate this, Erling is bright, he will adjust.

That’s the frightening thing for the rest of them

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Crap and still should have won, hopefully it doesn't become a theme.

Oof, now you’ve done it.

I mentioned XG last weekend and didn’t get away with it.

Good luck.

 

[waspish]

I know we come out take our time to open a game up but Villa would of been so low in confidence so pep for once should told them to come out and at them 100mph but but when we didn’t push on from being 1 up there confidence grew because they weren’t getting a pasting and in the end we were lucky there goal was disallowed

 

[urban genie]

Keep an eye on it.

Nah.. as long as the rag suffer I ain't arsed about other teams stuff.

I will care about liverpool when it bothers me, at present they mean nothing as with every year, we are not enemies or rivals unless we are competing directly which I don't think we will be this year.

So they are irrelevent to me.

 

[Lauz9888]

Poor performance all over really.

Ederson OK - nothing he could have done for the goal, dealt with everything else well.

Stones, Dias, Ake when he came on - decent. Thought Stones was the stand-out performer in defence even with the error for the goal.

Walker still seems off it. Trying too many risky passes that only seem to come off about 1 time in 5.

Cancelo, hard to know where he was playing at times as usual. Didn't do enough going forward to justify not doing more of a defensive shift. Moved centrally to help Rodri when Ake came on but not much discernable improvement in the team performance.

Rodri - slow, and passing off. Looks tired. A terrible time for Phillips to be injured.

Kev - lovely ball for the assist, but passing not quite right for most of the match, and shooting not at its best either.

Gundo - poor game by his standards, didn't help enough with controlling the midfield and didn't contribute enough to the attacking play.

Bernardo - looked lively and industrious but not much came out of it.

Foden - is going through a dip in form lately. Needs managing carefully though it, we don't want to destroy his confidence but he needs to be better or be benched. Didn't cause anywhere near enough problems for Cash and Young.

Haaland - did what he needed to do for the goal and showed some promise in his tracking back and link-up play especially in the first part of the second half. Let down by the team - no-one close enough to him, and passes to him not good enough.

Mahrez when he came on - should have done better with that shot across goal, and seemed to be drifting centrally too much, leaving a big gap on the right.

Villa played okay, scored a good goal and I thought their disallowed one probably should have counted too.

I think we needed to make more and earlier substitutions. Baffling that we didn't throw Alvarez on when we needed a goal.

 

[chickaroon]

Even with this info, I think the choice to bring Ake on, rather than Sergio Gomez (and move Cancelo to the right side) is strange to me.

Changing the formation with 10 minutes to go is not usually a successful tactic, especially when you are sending a player that has been off with his passing for most of the match up the pitch to be the deeplying playmaker.

I couldn't agree more. Stones looks uncomfortable at right back.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Probably get slaughtered for this, but when pep arrived he said Sergio needed to adapt and work harder, best goal scorer in the clubs history, yet haaland comes in and is there just to score, haalands work rate is piss poor, yes get a ball to him he will score, but in the meantime we are playing with a.man light,haalands work rate is appalling

Hahaha, you fucking moron.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I would say Eddy was at fault for Palace's first goal last week. Poor handling lead to the free kick we conceded.

That’s cool. He wasn’t as they scored from a different phase of play.

Its a bit like saying Stones was at fault for the goal. Sure he could have cleared it earlier, but he wasn’t directly at fault for the goal.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Yep he won them all on his own

Stop with the fucking wumming pal.

 

[wattle]

I have never been so sure that we’ll win the league. We are miles better than anyone in this league this season. Erling stays fit for 80% off the season and we win by 15 points