Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Gaylord du Bois]

That pitch looked very dry to me. I hope we put in a complaint about it.

 

[carlosthejackal]

That midfield was awful no physical presence bar stones. We look rudderless at present. Not being funny but I’m a little embarrassed by how Phillips is being treated absolutely no way he’d have done worse than Rico Nunes or Kovacic alongside Stones tonight. It’s actually humiliating for the lad to be sitting there seeing us struggle in midfield and to not even get minutes in a game like that

It’s obvious he doesn’t trust Philips , Kovacic or Nunes , no idea if he wanted any of them but it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the season.

 

[argyle]

That game just added £15m to Lucas Paquetá's price.

He isn't even good enough.

Why is the club targeting mediocre players?

 

[Indaparkside]

Fuck me I hope we finish 5th and win fuck all if it means that some of these braindead plastics piss off and ‘support’ somebody else for a while. All I’ve seen plastered over the net is bollocks all night and whingey, moaning pricks.

Was it good enough - no of course
Has it been lately - no of course

However if ‘fans’ haven’t got the belief in that squad coached by that manager then they clearly know fuck all.

Pissing me right off (if you hadn’t guessed)

As Pep once said… ‘we will be there’

People have a right to be annoyed on here they’ve paid good money for there Firestick’s to watch that

 

[bluetonium]

Worst I've seen us play in years. No balls. No adventure. No bite. Got what we deserved, a better team would have roasted us.

That pretty flowers moment had better be just around the corner.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Who else was going to play out wide tonight? Fucking Gomez?

Gomez is a decent left winger , he was superb in the U-21 championships , the problem is we are judging him on playing at left back in a blue shirt , its typical Pep square pegs in round holes at the moment , Gomez is never a left back in a million years.

 

[ArniArason]

Any c*nt starting with the "I voted lose and I was right", are you REALLY fans????

 

[makinghistory]

We’ve been blessed with some creative players in the middle of the park over the last decade. Silva, Toure, De Bruyne, Gundogan. We haven’t got anything like that anymore to add a bit of craft in the midfield. It’s a bit of a task to find any players of that calibre, you have to wonder how long they spent chasing Bellingham before panicking to what we have now.

Exactly this.

 

[meeesh]

It’s a sad day when fucking John McGinn runs rings round us.

Was made to look like a prime Zidane, fucking unbelievable

 

[Goldust]

It’s obvious he doesn’t trust Philips , Kovacic or Nunes , no idea if he wanted any of them but it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the season.

He signed off on them.

 

[Tolmie scores]

Absolutely gash, his form has fallen off a cliff. Start Bobb now over him, can't do any worse

Alvarez like Haaland are NOT foitballers..instinct finisher is Alvarez and a headless chicken..keep going on, but Kane oooh for Kane literally 10 x the player Haaland will ever be. We scored more in 5 of the 6 years before Haaland arrived. This focus has msde us a poorer team
We won the treble but honestly. We would have without Haaland. Stars showed this to be the case.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

How must Phillips feel watching that midfield and not even being told to warm up

It's inexplicable at this stage. What on earth has happened?

 

[r.soleofsalford]

It's great seeing us shit again. Hopefully lose some glory supporters.

This season reminds me of 19/20, where we dropped off massively after our best ever season at the time. Same again, Liverpool came back a wounded animal, this time the Arsenal have. Arsenal and Liverpool title race this year, they are 2 best teams.

Our only hope is win 4 or 5 in a row now and get Kevin back. Erling hasn't looked interested in ages, his body language stinks.

What a lot of cock

 

[DMA's]

The summer window was poor in hindsight. Two more midfielders signed that Pep simply doesn’t trust. What was the point?

Loads were saying it before the season started. Losing mahrez and gundo also was seen as a mistake. Didn’t need hindsight to see the players we where bringing in are a level below those who have left.

 

[Citycity76]

Lose on sunday and we are up the creek without a paddle.

 

[warringtonblue]

We’ve been blessed with some creative players in the middle of the park over the last decade. Silva, Toure, De Bruyne, Gundogan. We haven’t got anything like that anymore to add a bit of craft in the midfield. It’s a bit of a task to find any players of that calibre, you have to wonder how long they spent chasing Bellingham before panicking to what we have now.

And Rice

 

[chaddblue]

Aye, and Brighton only 5 behind ! Newcastle could be one behind if they win their game in hand tomorrow, which they probably will against Everton, and we'll probably be level with a depleted Spuds by tomorrow evening too.
But being so close to the swamp dwellers is genuinely depressing as fuck considering how utterly shit they've been. That one does hurt.

Hopefully after the next 3 or 4 games normality will be resumed if you check who we play and who they play

 

[I'm Blue]

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, it's a game we'll not fancy at all

They’ll be well up for it after that shit show.
It’ll be a long game if we’re not fired up.
I hope Pep has bollocked them after that.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Expected. We build our game based on Rodri, which is logical because the guy never gets injured, so I don't think is a flaw of our system. Despite being an awful match, I don't think is useful to get any conclusions in a Rodri-less City at the hardest away match in PL right now.

I feel there is gonna be tremendous overreaction here, so I just want to give some facts:

- Last season we were very fragile defensively before mid-January.
- We were 8/9 points behind Arsenal.
- Arsenal and Liverpool haven't played between them, so being 6 points behind is not true at all.
- From the next 11 fixtures, the only difficult one is Newcastle away (maybe Brentford away would be the second hardest). Perfect time to build a run and to reintegrate KDB to our team.

I understand the people who are worried (although I am pretty relaxed), but let's not overreact that much.

2 shots for and 22 against. You can't put that down to one or two players missing. We could genuinely have lost 4 or 5-0 tonight.

 

[ysmsa]

Why?

It's great seeing us shit again. Hopefully lose some glory supporters.

Erling hasn't looked interested in ages, his body language stinks