Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

dctid said:
Football is cyclic and teams come and go. Wenger was once golden bollox he in his time changed football and many teams changed too and eventually caught and surpassed Wenger. Wenger refused to change he would not compromise and eventually he became a dinosaur. That will be the fate of Guardiola, football especially the PL is not static, teams adopt tactics year in year out and sometimes from game to game. Simply buying new players to play the same style of tippy tappy shit I can’t see working, so he changes or he goes, doing the same thing is simply not acceptable
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Can’t really argue with this.
 
Lauz9888 said:
Villa are a decent side who have given us some good matches in recent years. No shame in a defeat, but the shame is in the manner of the defeat and the context of this terrible run.

Ortega put in a good shift and stopped it from being an absolute twatting.
Grealish showed some fight and had a decent first half but hardly saw the ball in the second.
Foden scored a nice goal.

Nothing to praise in anyone else (although Haaland has my sympathies for having zero service).

We're slow, casual and brittle. And far too easily overrun in midfield.
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I felt sorry for a kanji as he’s just back from injury and he’s trying to do his job as well as walkers. No way rico should be near our back line either
 
Stoned Rose said:
There’s lots to moan about but the glaringly obvious issue is the CM is a universe away from where it needs to be.

Gundogan is like playing with 10 men he’s that far off it. We are absolutely desperate for 2 proper CMs. Players with fitness, pace, desire. That 2nd goal is the result of an unacceptable lack of physicality. Rogers just rags about 4 players out the way and off he goes. Embarrassing for a central midfield.

For me, we fix that in January and we’ll be a lot harder to score against. The start point.
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This is what I don't understand ? Rodri is missing and not one player in the squad can play there ?
So what should any good manager do is change the system, pack the defence and midfield and become hard to beat and play against, So what if we stink the place out and look ugly, make us hard to beat at least
 
Boring, insipid, shit football we're churning out now and there looks to be no end in sight. You just don't see where the goals are coming from, Foden's today was lucky as it bounced up off a defender. We're a real fucking mess and Pep seems absolutely clueless how to turn it around. I think he'll walk soon if these players fail to show any more effort as it was woefully lacking today. Are they really playing for Pep anymore?
 
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Don't think the players are buying into Pep's ethos anymore.
Sad and to some exetent ungrateful, but they're human and eventually this happens on all organisations.
The dramatic decline here is astonishing though.
 
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