Aston Villa 2-1 Excellent Ipswich Town Post Match Thread

[Ads]

Brummies for you.

[achilles]

We won..... garbage!

[GarTomas]

Brummies for you.

Except we're all from the shires or other such nonsense.

[Risso]

I think it's more down to the fact that streams seemed to be few and far between today.

[AlexAlexCropley]

A win! The score line flattered Ipswich, we missed a few golden opportunities to score 2 or 3 more.

Negatives

Chester and Taylor- that axis on the left hand side of the defence is woeful.

Taylor and his decision making, his absence of any attacking ability doesn't couple well with Chester.

Chester and long straight balls. It's abysmal. He needs dropping and time to recouperate from his groin injury.

The panic. In reality, bar the excellent strike and the daft long ball, they offer nothing. Yet we panic. It didn't last long and that's a confidence factor too.

Transition from the defence to midfield; back to you Chester. Absolutely chronic and shows how much we're missing Tuanzebe.

Positives

A win!

Elphick making me reassess of late. Looking a much better player of late.

McGinn. He's brilliant and could have had a few goals himself.

The confidence on two nil, the passing so sharp and quick.

Better. Left back, defensive midfielder and off to Reading for 3 more points.

Taylor played o.k.

[Brend'Watkins]

We’re not going up that’s what I deduced from that today.

I might rethink that when Grealish returns but as we are now no chance.

[andyh]

How can a win be so dispiriting?
We made very hard work of beating a truly crap team.
There are too many players in our team who are consistently shite and the end of their days cannot come soon enough.
Taylor, Elmohamady and El Khazi are the stand out wasters.
But close behind are most of the squad with notable exceptions of McGinn and Tammy.

The football today (and over the last few weeks)  resemblances the rubbish served up by Bruce, and while I am in no way calling our Smith, you have to wonder why the team has gone so far backwards from those first games under him.
And, I don’t accept it’s down to losing Jack and Tuanzebe.
 Yes, they are a major factor, but some of the negative decisions and negative play from some of our players is nothing to do with the players who are missing.
The free kick at the end of the first half where we ended up gifting them a chance from our free kick on the half way line sums up the team for me.
Safety (negative) first is creeping into our game, and we invariably put ourselves under needless pressure, and it’s happening too often.

[kippaxvilla2]

And he’s off.

🗣 "Their penalty is never a penalty. Our penalty is a stonewaller. It hit his hand."

A frustrated Paul Lambert spoke to iFollow Ipswich after the 2-1 defeat at Villa Park. #itfc

[andyh]

Does anyone know why Green wasn’t in the squad today?

[dave shelley]

And he’s off.

🗣 "Their penalty is never a penalty. Our penalty is a stonewaller. It hit his hand."

A frustrated Paul Lambert spoke to iFollow Ipswich after the 2-1 defeat at Villa Park. #itfc

What sort of reception did he get or not get as the case may be?

[Richard E]

From the Lower Holte ours was a nailed on penalty.

[mr underhill]

Just back. I suppose the only thing that counts was that we won, but as a team, we look far more than four points off the top six. He's hoping  some of the plates turn into players.

[achilles]

And he’s off.

🗣 "Their penalty is never a penalty. Our penalty is a stonewaller. It hit his hand."

A frustrated Paul Lambert spoke to iFollow Ipswich after the 2-1 defeat at Villa Park. #itfc

I actually tend to agree but I don't give a toss!

[PaulWinch again]

Does anyone know why Green wasn’t in the squad today?

Injured in a practice game midweek.

[Richard E]

And he’s off.

🗣 "Their penalty is never a penalty. Our penalty is a stonewaller. It hit his hand."

A frustrated Paul Lambert spoke to iFollow Ipswich after the 2-1 defeat at Villa Park. #itfc

What sort of reception did he get or not get as the case may be?

. None, really.