Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Gabriel]

Villa are superb at the offside trap. I think they're the best in the league at it statistically.

They’re also very good at set pieces.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Outplayed by a Villa team that is in a rich vein of form and they will give the Goons a game at the weekend , just one too many injuries and suspensions for us ,and at the end of the day we lose to another deflected goal. This result only confirms that our squad is paper thin and we are carrying players like Phillips and Nunes £100m wasted.
If we can get our strongest team on the pitch then it will be game on in 2024 , but we are just going to concentrate on keeping in touching distance of the leaders until then , we have a nice run of games coming up and even with a depleted squad quite sure we will be within a few points by the new year.
Impressed with Villa but i dont see them challenging , they f*ck up at Bournemouth and then play their game of the season against us , bu tthey will take points of our challengers

 

[peter.evans]

Kovacic and nunes just not city players, we got worse when they came on, so slow and predictable

Summed it up in stoppage time when twice Kovacic could have crossed the ball and doubled back to re cycle the ball. Just cross the fucker you clown !

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Won’t go down well here either but again another game where haaland is basically a passenger. For supposedly the best striker in world football I expect more from him. There is more to being a striker than just scoring.

If mahrez played with that effort he would be slaughtered

He did nothing wrong.

What exactly do you expect from him when his teammates forget how to play football?

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Radio/tv/media silence ensues, only way I can cope with such a lacklustre display by every outfield player… Eddie man of the match ..!!

I've been doing that since the dippers game.

 

[paulchapo]

When is Kev back? Can’t be far off now.

It's going to take more than Kev sadly.

 

[eyalluvitt]

By far the worst performance under Peps tenure with us.

Paying the price now for letting a plethora of world class players leave (Laporte, Cancelo, Gundo, Zin, Jesus, Sterling to name a few) and bringing in sub standard replacements.

Reap what you sow.

Arrogance, tiny squad, poor recruitment, selling more than decent players for net spend glory

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Really……we were shocking…..only surprise was it was only 1-0

Sack the board.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Is/has Pep dressed up that performance then?. My money is on a definite yes

 

[willipp]

He created our only real chance in the whole game. And he's the only creative player we had available tonight.

It doesn’t detract from the fact he was absolutely shite though.