Quote from: Nii Lamptey on February 01, 2026, 08:24:32 PM

Kept playing balls into the box from the wings against big lumps who eat that up for breakfast. Should have kept it central and threaded through the middle imo.

If only that were true.

The way to beat packed defences is to go wide and get behind them and pull the ball back.

We did get behind them a couple of times on the left hand side and pulled the ball back but it was behind with no players coming onto the ball.

From memory the best chance of the second half was the ball to Bailey on the right, he had the defender back peddling and beat him but blasted the ball instead of going for accuracy.

There have been too many over these last few seasons. We're walking proof there's a Sky 6.

Carricks Man United winning first three games isn't ideal. OGS got a similar tune out of these for a short while.

OGS finished 3rd and 2nd in his two full seasons managing them. Not a bad tune.

Their manager got it right, long ball over the top terrifies Pau and Konsa, struggled with the long throw ins too. They were on top for most of the first half and we were out muscled all over the pitch. We lack the guile to break down packed defences and moving Rogers out to the wing where he was easily isolated was wrong. Tammy was effective first half and was unlucky a couple of times, he was lost against a packed defence second half. Luiz did okay but he is no Tielemans.
Thats twice in a couple of weeks we have been found wanting against teams we should have beaten which i'm sorry to say is very Villa.

That’s the most gutted I’ve felt after a loss for quite some time, probably even after coming away from Wembley against Palace, and still feel shit after 6 hours of the final whistle. Even though it probably wasn’t realistic I wanted to keep within touching distance of Arsenal but as our home form has gone to pot recently it’s really not happening now. A combination of that VAR decision and not breaking down 10 men for an hour is hard to swallow. I just hope we can go all the way in the Europa league.