Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

Invisible Man Fan said:
I used to say that Peps tactics had been found out, but he seemed to be able to alter and adjust things to get the best out of our players.

Now it seems like that isn't possible. How we have 4 of the best defenders in the world and the best striker in the world, but yet still look so shaky at the back and awful going forward is crazy.

Losing Gundogan was crazy, replacing him with Kovacic is criminal.

If this continues to the end of the season I can see people becoming disillusioned with Pep. I hope he can get us out of the slump
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Pep is a great manager but he isn’t a miracle worker. He still needs the tools to do his job. As he always says the players are what makes a manager and right now the players we have aren’t as good as they where 2 seasons back
 
Winter has come in all its soul-freezing beauty. Pep has just managed the worst game of his coaching career. I don't remember anybody turning us into marmalade for the past 12 years like Villa tonight. Two shots in the whole game, and that was one attack of 10 seconds, no corners, nothing. If our U21 played tonight they would not be turned over like supposedly the best team in the world. Where the feck do we go from here?!?!?

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Cant help but think that Pep gambled tonight - didn’t work as you can’t afford to go into a game like that with only one midfielder, and play him wide right.

We had decent pockets of composed play but yet again nowhere near our usual levels of control.

Unforgivable the number of times we failed to clear our lines, gave Villa all the time in the world all over the pitch but especially in the final third. It’s like we’ve forgotten how to jockey / hold up a player or make a fucking tackle - we’ve got players running at speed towards the man in possession and we just sell ourselves time after time and give them an easy overload.

Pep needs a rethink - Gvardiol will be great in time but not a full back and too many errors at the moment.

Akanji isn’t the answer moving into midfield - he was ponderous tonight.

Get back to basics and give ourselves a chance.

The most damming indictment of tonight was that at 80 mins I just didn’t feel we’d even create a chance let alone score.

Rough run, we need to dust ourselves down and get 3 points on Sunday by hook or by crook, start the process of finding some form.
 
Every player gets a four or less out of 10 for this game. Insipid, abject, impotent just about sums it up, a total lack of cohesion, zero creativity, shit backwards passing 90% of the time, offside continually. Just a massive fuck up of a performance where we did absolutely nothing right.
 
Can honestly say tonight we got schooled by a villa side from start to finish who without doubt wanted it. We were all over the show. some really bad performances tonight. The 3 he took off especially. Nowt good to say. it’s showing how much we miss the players we let go, gundo comes to my mind first. Bad day at the office, we’re on a really bad run of form. However, we should have won the last 3 But our finishing is shite.
 
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