Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[come-on-barney]

we been much better than last two seasons here, thats the positive for me.

For balance, they were much worse.

 

[bladdered]

I don't care if I get pelters for this, because I'm convinced events are proving me right

Does that apply to your view that we're still waiting for a replacement to be found for Masters for the 115 case to be announced? Utter bollocks.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

To be fair we still have a lot of fucking injuries. I wonder if Guardiola even knows what his best starting 11 is.

Probably - but he'd refuse to play it.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Well, that was dispiriting.

 

[cookster]

Pep Post-match content is getting tiresome.
The nonsense that we played well is an insult to the fans that went to the game.

 

[East Level 2]

Reijnders is crap, Gonzalez is really crap, Savinho is really really crap, Nunes is really really really crap!

I think Savinho is more crap than Nunes, though Nunes is always likely to drop a major bollock.

 

[HellasLEAF]

Felt would be a draw 1 - 1 not our day.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I really want to see Cherki playing on the right wing as he did for Lyon soon, hope he gets a game there midweek, and shows what he can do.

 

[marc wagfy]

The thing is there is no limit to the mistakes he is allowed to do
He experiments in our biggest games and no one can chat to him alvarez lw in anfield ......
If it goes right it is because he is a genuis
If it goes wrong it is not mentioned and we critique the players
how is this fair to the players when pep set up a bad formation from the start ?

 

[HelloCity]

Pep Pre-match content is getting tiresome.
The nonsense that we played well is an insult to the fans that went to the game.

Tbf…

“I’ll defend you in the press conferences but in the dressing room I’ll tell you the truth”

 

[GaudinoMotors]

We need to stop playing certain players, in the blind hope that they'll somehow come good.

 

[cookster]

Does that apply to your view that we're still waiting for a replacement to be found for Masters for the 115 case to be announced? Utter bollocks.

Stop being a dick.
Two completely different topics.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

If we keep buying players that aren't used to winning, it's very difficult and time consuming to get them to change that mentality overnight

Marmoush, Reijnders, Cherki, Nunes, Ait Nouri, Savinho, Gonzalez of late, all coming from clubs that arent regularly winning trophies; and then couple that up with players like Doku, Bobb and Rico Lewis, who have been getting a lot of minutes over the last few seasons, but are way below the required standard

All of this has resulted in a squad now that is devoid of winners, and the desire to win every single game

Donnarummaa, Dias, Bernardo, Rodri, Foden and Haaland all have the right mentality to be at the club, but are being massively outweighed by a large group of players that wouldn't have gotten near the squad 3 or 4 years ago

Yep.

In the teams gone by, especially the quad and treble teams. If 2 or 3 players had an off day the quality of the others players around them made up for it.

Nowadays 2 or 3 go missing and we haven't got that same quality to pull them out of the shit.

Until we start buying top top quality like Walker, KDB, Sterling, Mahrez, Gundo, Bernie..

We are going to come up short.

 

[fathellensbellend]

Hundreds of empty seats in the top tier, thought Villa had huge support?

 

[Gumzy97]

The club has bought mediocrity instead of proven quality players these past windows and its showing . Look at Bayerns buisness they were behind Leverkusen then they've bought in quality and with Bayern they are showing what that can do to a team. If you want to stay at the top you've got to buy elite players not squad players. You can't stand still otherwise you get overtaken.

We've had elite midfielders under Pep in the middle now our Midfield is a project rather than elite. Rodri is the only world class elite midfielder. When before we've had Kev, Gundo , David Silva , Fernandinho, Yaya.

We've had elite wingers under Pep where the only stats that matter are goals and assists now we've got two projects players , that are inconsistent and can't be relied on.

The only elite players in our squad right now are Donnarumma, Rodri and Haaland. Dias on form maybe.

Instead we've bought project and potential rather than proven players at the top and its starting to show.

 

[come-on-barney]

Not sure, maybe Andoni Iraola

Well, don’t tell anyone, but I believe he’s at the Etihad on Sunday.

 

[makinghistory]

The worst thing about this match was our miserable puke looking strip.

 

[cookster]

blind

TBF it's not working.

 

[East Level 2]

Replacing the legends we had here was always going to be difficult, will take us a few years to get back to where we once were since there's a shit load of deadwood here that needs moving on asap

True, but we've won titles since losing legends like Sergio, David Silva, Yaya and Vincent.

 

[makinghistory]

Shite loss that.

That's not the good Villa side that beat us in the 2 seasons prior. They were there for the taking today. So to beat us playing like that is shite.

So disjointed in the final third, outside of Haaland we need to pull our finger out in the final third.

Sadly we were also there for the taking and they did take us.