Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[ysmsa]

You know, ordinarily I'd dismiss that as wild conjecture but the whole Walker story has been really fucking strange, and unlike City/Pep.

He's gone from being dropped for disciplinary reasons and struggling to get back in the side - to the point where he had one foot out of the door - to one of the first names on the team sheet (and captain).

Frankly, after a decent start, he's had a poor season.

Was Walker the problem tonight, really?

Akanji, passes all over the place.
Bernardo, all over the place, literally, but not in a good way.
Foden, ineffective.
Stones, well off it early on.

3 subs that were terrible.

Overall a terrible team performance but he was no worse than anyone else.

 

[ancoats]

KDB will make a massive difference.

You hope so, But a long layoff can be hard to find your form again and his age is not on his side when you are looking to recover quickly,

 

[bluwes]

He only played 5 minutes at the weekend.

I thought that when he said it

 

[Tolmie scores]

So bloody what. He's not here so get over it

You cant when this was obvious from day 1. Love Haaland but him and Alvarez on together ...as starters up top..

So bloody what. He's not here so get over it

it was obvious from day 1..Alvarez and Haaland on together...top 8 forward line ill give you that but makes the team no better than a top 8 side

 

[paulchapo]

FT: Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City

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Former Manchester City defender Gael Clichy on Amazon Prime: "City played one of the worst games we've seen from them.
"When you see two centre-backs playing number six, you could see with the ball, in possession, there was no fluidity. Usually that's what we like to see from City. We did not see any of this tonight.
"Tonight they're lucky not to concede two, maybe three or four."

 

[BlueMonkey79]

I don‘t think the club or Pep has settled for anything and are probably bamboozled by what’s happening..remember didn’t we win the first six games and the world thought everything City was sweet.
Imagine getting Newcastle in the last 16 Champions league..
Keeping silverware ”rolling” in or otherwise will be mighty difficult this year in my opinion.

Bamboozling is replacing Gundo and Mahrez with Kovacic and Nunes and expecting the same results.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Villa were shooting from anywhere. Until 60 min (McGaun action), they didn't have a clear goal action. After that, yeah it was a mess.

Second, we had 3-4 starters missing, not 1 or 2 + another coming back from injury.

Third, we had our 2 most important and best players out.

Fourth, Villa are the best team at home this year.

An awful match, but not a useful one to get any conclusions.

Can we draw conclusions from conceding a combined 7 goals to Chelsea and Spurs?

 

[Goodlove]

And if they had gone in we would have won, I am claiming a moral victory.

Yesssss. When’s the parade?!!

 

[ysmsa]

Tonight is already history. We move on...and hopefully have fucking learnt from tonight. Rodders and Jack back, hopefully Doku, I've not seen whether he's likely to be back or not. Win our next four, Arsenal got to go to Villa and Liverpool. Let's see where we are in early January with Kev back.

Bet Villa will be prime shite against Arse!

 

[Rammy Blue]

And, we all have opinions.

Shame we didn’t have Dinho, Silva, Kompany and Yaya too.