Match Thread | Aston Villa vs. Man City (21/12/24)

[Blue and true]

bro tracking back is the shit
mcfc ok

Ok. That was an engaging chat.

 

[Bald fraud]

Same 11 will start the second half. Some boring sideways passing will see us to the 60th minute.

Villa will score a breakaway goal.

Then the subs will be made.

Yep

 

[RayCTID]

We probably get one guilt edge in the second half.

 

[argyle]

I hope you're right mate, one thing is for sure some of the players playing on the pitch today have run their course here.

Yep. A season too much for them.

Although made to look worse without the best player in world in midfield.

 

[Nas_City]

The lack of fight in this team is alarming.

 

[jollylescott]

Doku and Kev have to come on now. We don’t have any creativity without them.

 

[1961_vintage]

You and the rest of the moaners are adding to the fucking mood - you blind bastard !

Ha ha fucking hell that tickled me!

 

[jamielowndes]

In all seriousness now, how, when he continues to set us up as we are, can anyone continue to support Guardiola?

Morgan Rogers, a player that didn't fit the Guardiola mold (just like all the others he never tried who are now ripping up trees) is making our midfield of Lewis, Gundogan, Kovacic, Foden, and Bernardo look like 8 stone wet weaklings. The goal we conceded was like a knife through butter and just pathetic. We offer nothing but sideways, sideways, backwards. Despite having over 70% possession, we generate less than nothing.

The recruitment in the last 2 years has been bad. This doesn't mean that the manager who just won his 4th title in a row is now deadwood.

Best case scenario is that this serves as a wakeup call to Pep and the higher ups. They've adapted to bad runs before (everyone was shitting bricks here when we were 8th in 2020 and when we lost to Brentford in 2022 before the World Cup) and they've earned enough capital to get an opportunity to turn this around.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I know but I’m sure it’s getting to lots of us-never saw this rapid decline coming-hard to see a way out of it either

Some posts on here are an absolute fucking disgrace from
" supporters "

 

[simon23]

Down to injuries.

Can't cope with a bad run?

Some if you need to learn how to deal with moments like this.

Sorry but thus is not a moment...this is the rnd of the cycle for this team. It's not even about the poor result's..its about the performances and some players being finished.....
Gundo is finished
Rico Lewis isn't good enough
Grealish has got away with the team carrying him for years - he offers zero attacking threat
Kdb can't be relied on anymore to play consistently or at the top level
Walker is finished
Ake and Stones are perma crocks which puts pressure on other players
No back up for rodri

None of this is sortable this season without significant investment in new players....the season was done weeks ago and this team is finished... we don't finish top 6 let alone top 4th...infact unless we go into the transfer market in January and get the right players ( and Bruno G is another Grealish size mistake) we will struggle to finish top 10