Villa Vs City Post Match Thread

Manchester33 said:
Considering we'd played on the Tuesday night, against one of the better sides in Europe and given everything, it wasn't that bad. If anything I thought Pellegrini should have changed a few more players to add more energy into the team.

On the other side, we've just gone through a period without Aguero/Silva. In that time we've got through to the quarter final of the League Cup (something United/Spurs/Arsenal/Chelsea couldn't do), we've qualified for the last 16 of the UCL and we're top of the league! We're going to add those two into the Christmas run, as well as Nasri, Clichy and a fully fit Delph!
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One of those days unfortunately and on just about any other day one of the KDB and Sterling chances would have gone in.....just wish they had tried a couple of shots early on when it opened up to test Guznan. We lacked conviction in the last third, first half especially and were probably slightly unfortunate that it was Garde's first game so they were a bit more organised and gave it everything. Sterling needs to work on his left side as despite his excellent finish against Sevilla he still seems far too reluctant to go that way so hope that he and the coaches are working on it as it would make him a far more dangerous player. Bottom v. top, 7 successive losses or whatever, so yes perhaps we 'should' have won but the longer it went on and after the Fernando header I could see them nicking it so I'm taking the positives as best as I can
 
I wish Kolarov had just wellied that ball that came to him in the box right at the death. With a left foot like his, why not just knock the skin off it? He tried to place it, and I was screaming at him to hammer it in
 
SWP's back said:
I'm not doubting you're a blue but anything but a win and you throw your toys out.

We didn't win yesterday through lousy finishing. Any other day and it's a professional three nil.
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True, I posted in anger more than anything and I'm prone to petulance, I admit.

Maybe I should take a few minutes before posting after a game where things don't go to plan!
 
Len Rum said:
A lot of what you say makes sense but no way can I accept a 'Tired team'. We had four full days to recover from the Sevilla game. How on earth do teams cope with Europa League combination of Thursday/ Sunday? Spurs didn't look particularly tired yesterday. I accept they were at home but they only had two full days to recover.
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Fair enough, we can agree to disagree there, but I'll elaborate anyway...

We've just been through what I would deem an 'injury crisis.' The fact that we've been unable to freely rotate means that fatigue has been accumulating well before this week. So with this mind, if you take into account the occasion of the Sevilla match... the high adrenaline, the atmosphere, our high-energy playing style and the fact that mentally, we gave it everything we had too...

Time-difference, plane travel, then an away game later that week. It's hard work for the lads, even in spite of them being top physical specimens. For me, this has to be taken into consideration, even if we should've won anyway.
 
If the game had of been for 100 minutes we would have won easily and this thread would not be 100 pages long.
 
BucksBlue said:
If the game had of been for 100 minutes we would have won easily and this thread would not be 100 pages long.
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After the hysteria , isn't it time to put this post to bed ?

The game is gone and the result will not change, and still plenty more to come.
 
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