Nothing has changed, we provide teams with lots of opportunities to score and they do.There is nothing positive to take from that game, we lost, it’s what we do.We are heading for Division 2.
Quote from: themossman on February 16, 2020, 05:20:03 PMWe’re very similar to Norwich. Play decent football on our day, frequently plucky losers, carried by a few good players, fatally lacking in football smarts, bottled too many big games.Totally agree.
We’re very similar to Norwich. Play decent football on our day, frequently plucky losers, carried by a few good players, fatally lacking in football smarts, bottled too many big games.
A bullet proof manager, no matter how we play or how the results are, a squad with no decent striker, five decent players,( Jack, Mings, Super John, Heaton and Reina), two of which are poxy keepers. I’m sorry, and kudos to you, but how exactly do people think we’ll stay up?And who, other than those I’ve named, are giving you that hope?
Very deflating end to say the least.I'm not sure what he was thinking. It's an horrendous and costly error. I'm reading about game management, but it's nothing to do with substitutions; get contact on the ball, whether you hoof it back down the pitch or shank it into the Trinity, it doesn't matter. I'm struggling to think of a more inexplicable, fundamental error as that.Mings being out today was costly. When you're newly promoted, the quality available to you is at a premium. Does Mings get out paced for the penalty? Does Mings switch off in the middle at the death? Does Hause start and so routinely and consistently give the ball away? Hause is a big problem for me. He so consistently recycles the ball that he puts our midfield under immense pressure. He must drop out the side.It was a very open and entertaining game. Spurs have quick forwards, not necessarily in straight line out and out pace, but with very quick movement. They also had the freedom to lamp any Villa player they like. Dele Alli is reassuringly terrible, while Son has all the physical strength of a plastic bag caught in the breeze.They caused us problems. We caused them problems. By the time they scored a volley that 9/10 is shanked into the upper tier, we ought to have been 3 up. I felt we showed some good bottle to set about them and get on the front foot. Showed good determination to get it back to 2-2. Open, naturally, but I felt we deserved a point. I felt we had earned that point.Sammatta impresses. Drinkwater still seems too slow, but not through lack of trying and actually was part of a lot of best interplay.I think a large part of our problem has been naivety. I don't think that was the issue today. We went at them as much as they went at us. We're clearly a lot better on the front foot and I'd never want to die wondering. What happened though at the end wasn't naivety, it was just. Well you'll have your own adjective.How we react is going to be important. I felt we reacted well after Man City drilled us at Brighton. We have to pick ourselves up for Southampton and have the courage to go st them. It's important to stay positive or rather those in the club do and those who turn up on the South Coast anyway.We're not going to grind our way out of this. We are where we are because of balls more than brains. So what has happened? We competed with a decent side and had a point, shot ourselves in both feet and wasted a free hit.12 games, 12 points likely needed. I believe we can do it. Important the players, air ball aside, still do.
Defence lost us the game, so many errors and we always looked like we were going to concede. Engels was the misfit today but they've all dropped bollocks during the season. We have the worst defence in the league and if we go down that will be the reason.
Quote from: Five Villa Tattoos on February 16, 2020, 05:34:43 PMA bullet proof manager, no matter how we play or how the results are, a squad with no decent striker, five decent players,( Jack, Mings, Super John, Heaton and Reina), two of which are poxy keepers. I’m sorry, and kudos to you, but how exactly do people think we’ll stay up?And who, other than those I’ve named, are giving you that hope?West Ham, Watford and Norwich, all of who are below us.
Smith is just a half soaked manager who is out of his depth in this league.Picking Drunkwaster ahead of Nakamba shows how stupid he is.