Villa Vs City Post Match Thread

[Tricky_Trev]

Haha Pellegrini world class? Which mentalist said that?

Nobody. Apparently praising Pellegrini when he deserves praise, and criticising him when he messes up is frowned upon. You have to form a narrative and blindly stick to it rather than use your eyes and analyse each game.

 

[bluemanc1994]

Baffling response from loads on here. Yes, it wasn't great but you can't blow every team away bottom of the table or not. How people criticise Pellegrini to the point of wanting him sacked is crazy. But then I suppose he did miss 3 clear chances, how could I forget? On another day, we bag those.

Can understand those wanting Kelechi on for Bony but Navas had to come on. He's been playing much better lately, should have started and everything in the 2nd half came down his side. Yaya should have come off earlier but oh well. We move on to the next one. You don't win anything in November

 

[Gray]

How the hell Bony got injured is a mystery as like the rest of the team he had barely broken sweat when it happened?

 

[Marvin]

Don't often post here, but a big fan for over fifty years. Just want to say that is not as bad a result as it appears, back from a great win in Seville, on the back of a great run of results, and a tactical Chang of plan thanks to Bony's premature exit. We should have won it but we were never in danger of conceding, against a team that was trying to bounce back after a managerial sacking. However, given that Micah Richards was arguably man of the match, I can't help but pity those sad fucker cultish Villa fans who booed Fabian Delph for making a positive career decision, I hope Villa go down and we win the EPL.

I think it's two points dropped.

Not the best timing to go there with a new manager but they really were there for the taking. They are going down for sure

 

[Dribble]

I had no problem with the starting line up or the formation, but the one thing I just couldn't get my head around was why Navas was brought on for Bony when Nacho was on the bench?

Tbh, I would have probably started with Navas anyway as I just knew Villa would come flying out the blocks at us and we'd need pace and physicality to combat them. Ultimately we had no cutting edge and that is what counted in the end. Aguero would have scored the chance Sterling had when put through. Sterling checked back inside to get the ball on his right and the chance was lost.

As for Villa, well done they did what they needed to and got a valuable point. As for us, I'm just fuckin gutted.........

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

The abuse that people give to both players and manager on this site is amazing

For people to take the time and make the effort to abuse people who play for a club they "supposedly" support is a joke

Its why I usually stay away from the site for a few days when we draw or lose

A lot of them dont know what the word support means, not sure some have the mental fortitude to support a big club and the pressure that comes with it. Some of them are rags wumming as well.

From the reactions on here you'd think we were in Chelsea's position, today could have been better of course, but its no excuse to lose the plot and abuse the players and manager so personally its bizarre in the extreme.

 

[Blumers Bloomers]

Navas trying to cross to a 5'6 striker - why?
Navas trying to cross - why - he's fkin back to his usual dreadful best.
Navas - the opposition's man of the match for a change - he won them most of their possession, well played
Their keeper had the most possession of all the players on the pitch
4 minutes injury time? 5 subs and god knows how much time wasted with diving.
Villa were desperate for a point and spoiled the game to achieve it - the ref was weak to allow it

Sterling needs to be fined every time he kicks the ball with his right foot in training this week. He can't have been worse than this at liverpool. I'd play him exclusively on the right

What was the point in bringing on delph?

No tempo, no cutting edge, no Aguero, no chance

In answer to your first question ....to carve out probably the best chance we had all game

Didn't bother reading the rest

 

[Ricster]

He's right though mate.

How is he right? Happy with the way we played?

Let me point out how we set up. We started the game with 2 DMs and Yaya playing boxtobox. Only problem with that is that Yaya's legs are gone and he can't play box to box, which means we played with 3 defensive midfielders for the entirety of the first half.
Our striker went off after 25 minutes injured and instead of bringing on our other striker, we pushed our creative player up top and telling him to run the line and work the channels when we had no midfield to link the play with him and by pushing our creative player up top it left us with no creativity.
Yep he changed it around in the second half, but by then his first half tactics had given Villa the belief they could get something out of the game.
Bringing on Delph and getting the home crowd up and even more behind their players gave Villa the second wind they needed, but to bring on a striker with 7 minutes of a game left, when his youth and effort would've lifted the whole team in the first half, well there is really no reason for that.

Liverpool lost the title we didn't win it, and this is probably a weaker Premiership than that season was and with a better squad than we had 2 seasons ago it looks like we are going to make this an even more difficult attempt at winning the title.

We were as bad as Chelsea were yesterday and that is all down to our manager and the decisions he makes. We got away with it against Norwich, but we weren't so lucky today.

Great performances by Otamendi and Kolarov, along with the other 2 in defence, but apart from that I'm finding it hard to pull anymore positives.

Also, Sterling didn't play badly, but he needs more freedom. Sticking him on the left is killing his game, he cuts in everytime and its all he does. With freedom he would be a far more dangerous player, as he was when he played in behind Bony and got that Hat trick. KDB's best performances have been on the left yet we set up with Sterling on the left and KDB on the right.

Should he be happy with the way we played? Should he fuck

 

[wattle]

Don't often post here, but a big fan for over fifty years. Just want to say that is not as bad a result as it appears, back from a great win in Seville, on the back of a great run of results, and a tactical Chang of plan thanks to Bony's premature exit. We should have won it but we were never in danger of conceding, against a team that was trying to bounce back after a managerial sacking. However, given that Micah Richards was arguably man of the match, I can't help but pity those sad fucker cultish Villa fans who booed Fabian Delph for making a positive career decision, I hope Villa go down and we win the EPL.

Er please don't talk sense on here. You'll get slaughtered

 

[GY.Blue]

What was the point bringing delph on for yaya,just bring nacho on for the last 20mins and batter fuck out of them,we'd have got something they was so poor,now we've got to hope Spurs beat Arsenal fuck sake.