Aston Villa (H) - Post-Match Thread

[akrh215]

4-3-3 on Wednesday. Dias and Laporte at centre half, Ake left back, one of Walker/Lewis. Keep Akanji and these notions of three at the back in your head, please, Pep.

Lewis is not up to prime Walker level yet, why should he start in one of the most important match?

 

[marco]

Great result,a win against arsenal would be nice but not the end of the world if it's a draw

 

[WallyA]

The primary objective is securing the three points. Nothing more. Yes, a 90 minute performance, where we score 7 or 8 goals would be wonderful. But let's be honest here; how many of them have there been this season, particularly since the 6-3 derby win? Precious few. It appears that this is not a 90 minute team. As long as they get the job done I can live with it.

Well sure thats fine, but I want better games than I can live with it, we can want more.

 

[paulchapo]

A decent first half but we are still so so. We are in the mix but we will have to improve a lot to win this title. Second half, I know we made a few changes and took our foot off the gas but Villa, without doing hardly anything, could have got a stuffy draw.

We need our strongest first eleven as often as possible, especially in defence. We still look about 20% off it and a few players struggling for form. We can't keep a clean sheet and when we concede, even at 3-0 up, we wobble. Win on Wednesday and it could change everything . When are Arsenal going to play this bloody extra game they seem to have had in hand all season?

 

[Nellies left peg]

So we've slated Eddie and akanji and bernardo today and we won 3.1 wow some proper wet wipes support us

How many times have the opposition had one shot and we’re 1-0 down, can’t fault his distribution but some of the goals we’ve given away this season have been unbelievably poor

 

[PabZabb]

Not seen a replay of the Haaland Martinez collision, for those watching on the box was it the right call? Looked a 50/50 at the time, not sure it’s a foul either way, just a coming together.

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Any other day and that finishes 3-3, got lucky second half.

And we score a possible 3 more first half and ?

 

[MichaelBBack]

Fabulous first half. God if only that sensational Grealish volley had gone in, I'd have loved to see some closeups of the Villa fans' faces. Shame big Erl seemed to have a knock but hope all is well.

Second half a bit of a non-event really, but fair enough if we were saving energy, we're gonna need it in a few days to go top of this damn league.

 

[homerdog]

Norman Collier, not Norman Wisdom, you silly cow!

 

[RayCTID]

Every game is a potentially tricky…..

This was one of the trickiest after the week the club had.