Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Phil1]

I wouldn't put much weight on what the medical team thinks.

That’s a shock. Same 11 every week eh.

 

[Scottish Cityzen]

A lot of understandable over reaction on here, and some comments that are way over the top.

Good start then we let them take control. Shite that their goal comes from a refereeing mistake.

We lacked physicality and being a young team we lack enough ‘personality’ to dig in at the moment when the going is tough.

We will get better but we always need to have Rodri or Nico G holding in the tougher away fixtures.

Despite being ‘under par’ we are still unlucky not to come away with a point.

Keep the faith blues.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Can somebody please explain to me how Bobb is starting games for City.

A fucking million miles off being good enough - he should be on loan at a mid table championship team learning his trade - starting games for City is mental.

His stats for shots crosses assists and goals must be the worst in the league for a player in his position.

 

[dadnlad]

Imagine not wanting Rodrygo because you have Bobb and Sav. Wtf!

Just madness.

been done to death but you seam to know the finacial package but moan about ticket prices ok

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

No heart in this team. Go behind and it's almost like an instant defeat. We've also replaced world class players and players who'd run through a brick wall for the club with average fucking bottlers who have fuck all desire. Arr well, top 4 fight is on.

 

[simon23]

Knocks and injuries dictated the starting line up but pep was too slow changing things around. We need to try and get as many technical players on the pitch as we can given the make up of the squad. Time to give Cherki a start and nurse roddders back

We also have to consider the very real possibility that Rodri might never full recover his full self. After such an injury and at 29 years old he might not recover his full power....There are so many players that have suffered similar injuries and never full recovered from it. ..

This needs to be considered now as we have no one in the squad baring Nico G that can play that 6 role

 

[jollylescott]

We've got a winger in the juniors (McAidoo) that would be a better option than our current lot.

Because Sav, Oscar and Doku have no output it puts so much pressure on Haaland to score.

Also Reijnders needs to pull his socks up quick smart. A ruthless manager would bench him.

 

[cookster]

33.3% loss rate after 9 games.
We're not a serious team anymore.

 

[B\connellblue]

next two PL games Bournemouth home who seems to be flying high, and then Liverpool home , can see this anything between 6 points or 0 points.

Haha Brilliant.

 

[Blue Coop]

I rarely criticise Pep because we owe him so much, but for me today was down to the wrong team selection. Not things that can only be seen in hindsight, but glaringly obvious selection errors. Savinho shouldn’t be playing a single minute on the left while Doku is fit, and the midfield 3 selection missed Nico a lot.

 

[hertsblue]

I can’t believe Arsenal are better than us.

Proper defenders in their preferred positions, pace and energy in midfield, score from set pieces nearly every game where we can’t even take a corner and goals and assists from their wide players. As a team they are miles ahead of us atm and will finish at least 15 points ahead of us

 

[nico04]

A better line up wins that game for me.
Imo, Nico Gonzalez should have started.
Tijjani Reijnders needs to be dropped, he's simply not ready for the big games.
Not impressed by Bernardo Silva playing so high up alongside Erling, if he's not dropping deep and linking play Cherki should start. Bobb is fine because he retains possession well, Savinho was to careless with the ball.

 

[bobbthebuilder]

Didn't understand pep changing that back four at all. Gvardiol is a centre back and looks much better there and o'reilly has been solid at left-back

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Bobb is not a winger and Savinho is just shit when he's shit.

Win a couple of games and some rave about Savinho and Nunes!

Well today, when we needed someone else to win the game apart from the usuals they are fucking nowhere.

Tossing the fucking shit league away this year!

What is Bobb? I just don’t see it with him at all.

 

[paulchapo]

Going to Villa Park is never an easy place to get a result. So It’s not the end of the world.

But some of the decisions by Pep have been fairly odd to say the least.

We went through a section of games with a fairly settled team, Nico O at Lb and bit more structure, where relationships have slightly been built up.

Today’s team was a carbon copy of the pick and mix selections of last year, players pushed together without any obvious reason.

Gvardiol is a much better cb than lb and had formed a relationship with Dias. o’Reilly and Doku seemed to compliment each other well, as had Nico with Reijndeers.

You can’t really say the changes today made sense and just seemed like pep massively over complicating things.

I think the team v Swansea could be a really fun team though so not long until we can get back to winning ways.

He had to have picked that that side for no other reason than the players who didn't start weren't 100% fit. There is no other reason for it otherwise.

 

[richards30]

75% of the squad isn’t good enough and the manager is picking shite starting teams! Absolutely abysmal

 

[i8rags]

115 we get the best, the team selection is not even close to the best. Savinho will never be good enough to start

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Hinchcliffe is one fuckin bitter Bertie, you’d think he’d played for the rags all his career with the way he despises us, we were seriously shit today but that doesn’t excuse his hatred for us which I’ve always found baffling? considering his header that glorious sept afternoon

 

[wolviedinho]

A lot of understandable over reaction on here, and some comments that are way over the top.

Good start then we let them take control. Shite that their goal comes from a refereeing mistake.

We lacked physicality and being a young team we lack enough ‘personality’ to dig in at the moment when the going is tough.

We will get better but we always need to have Rodri or Nico G holding in the tougher away fixtures.

Despite being ‘under par’ we are still unlucky not to come away with a point.

Keep the faith blues.

Keep the faith is an opinion just like an over reaction opinion.

The problems exist and it’s why we get beat. The facts back up the problems with the amount of defeats already this season.

Under par is another opinion.

Crap would be another one!

poor recruitment another…

On and on it goes. Only winning football matches will settle the debate.

Currently the team is mediocre with a few stand out top talents.

 

[dubblue]

Just as shit as last year.

No fight in this team. Bunch of fucking wet blankets in midfield.

Our wingers are dross. Savinho should never step foot on a pitch for us again and only giving Cherki 15 minutes is laughable.

Pep fucked us again with his shocking team selection.

Haaland: if you’re going to have 3 touches a game you have to score your 1 v 1s. And not turn your back when defending shots.

Fucking fuming.

Level on points with United. 6 off Arsenal. Gonna be a long fucking season.

Fuck off, Pep, again. ‘It’s gonna be different this season’… bullshit. Just as fucking toothless as last year.

Pathetic.

Agree with all,we won’t be anywhere near the big trophies. Level with that Rag team even though they have had a tougher start. It’s not good enough after last seasons pitiful campaign. So many average players.