Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[decmancity]

Same shit, different day. Pep has no interest in even trying anything different.

 

[yeseye]

I hope Everton beat us 10-0 and then he may change something.
Absolutely useless.
Boring dross anti football.
Merry Xmas!

 

[sir baconface]

Abysmal.

 

[ancoats]

Let's hope this breaks the camel's back. Something has to give

Players or Manager

 

[Double R]

Broken team.

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Wouldn’t blink an eye if 10 players were gone by next summer. January is an opportunity that must be taken.

We go 1-0 down and I already know we’ve lost the match because this team has no fight left

 

[TonyBookEnd]

He's one of the most successful managers ever using his principles of play.
If he changes then we should sack him

This and only this. Pep is far from the problem

 

[MadchesterCity]

 

[denTTony]

Same old failings, moving ball way too slowly but worryingly too many not challenging. Lack of confidence or heart gone from team?

 

[adrianr]

Said in another thread that I'd have been happy to have a transitional season if there were any signs of an actual transition. We're currently sacarificing points and results for zero upside. Bonkers for a club that has planned for the future as well as have under our owners.

 

[Silva&Silva]

I'm so so happy....

 

[why me? Blue Manchester]

Typical city

 

[tweety]

I rate that as the worst performance in our slump. The squad needs gutting and a complete reset. Can't see our next win.

 

[willipp]

Kovacic and Gundo in the middle. Who’d of thought it pep.

 

[Asa's left peg]

Another ex academy player tears us apart. James needs to get away asap.
Sooner or later he's has to trust Wright or Simpson P or Nico, because the guys who have given us so much now can't do the basics.
If we don't buy this window it's going to cost us a lot of money.

 

[grandsolo]

It's on Pep and yet it's the "players that don't look arsed, dangle their foot in challenges and are petty when they're losing?"

How is that not on the players????

I think the point is Pep keeps picking those players even though they aren’t showing any fight

 

[skillman]

It's on Pep and yet it's the "players that don't look arsed, dangle their foot in challenges and are petty when they're losing?"

How is that not on the players????

Aggression stems from the manager. A coach/manager is there to pump up their players. If they’re finding themselves backing out of tackles then it stems from one man.

Plus the fact he’s comfortable playing the same shit every week.

 

[journolud]

We won the time added on, something to build on

 

[Tb1981]

I don’t think January fixes this, even next summer. The players have checked out, that was at best, cowardly. Can we replace them all? At the moment I fucking would.

Nah
Out of form players will come back like foden, gvardiol and haaland
But 4/5 of them have to leave

 

[Mr Blue Moon]

The problem with playing “high risk, high reward football” is that when it isn’t ultra precise we’re open to basic grunt tactics,
The number of matches where the other teams just sit and wait for us to make a mistake is like watching us play lower league teams in a cup game.
At the moment we are beating ourselves