Sunderland v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday evening.

[Bad English]

Ouais, moi aussi...

[Monty]

I really don't understand how that happened.

[Goldie.7]

Not good enough!!! kind of guessed the result after the first 26 mins.

[PaulWinch again]

Terrible first half and once again goals are the problem.

[Toronto Villa]

really good second half performance, but the lack of a killer instinct is er...killing us. Very disappointed that we lost, but we need to address the last third of the pitch desperately. Downing and NRC were brilliant. Ash was massively disappointing.

[Salsa Party Animal]

crap we need to get the ball in the box more and with one man upfront it doesn't work for us.

[Dave]

I can only assume that Halsey and Dunne had both bet massively on the result being 1-0.

[pauliewalnuts]

Must buy striker.

[Rigadon]

Only saw second half.  Played some good stuff but couldn't score which is frustratingly par for the course.

Thought we were unlucky not to get a penalty. 

Heskey is back to his awful worst in front of goal.

Agree that Downing and Coker played very well.

[Dave]

Worrying just how poor Ireland was and much better the team played when he wasn't on the pitch. And why Cuellar isn't playing is beyond me.

[TimTheVillain]

Small Heath tougher than ever now.

[Olneythelonely]

Terrible first half, slightly better second half. They are a very poor team and we never looked like beating them. A very hard long season I reckon, but hey, at least we pass it around better.

Yay.

[hilts_coolerking]

Can't expect to win games, especially away games, by only turning up for 45 minutes.  Yes the ref had a shocker but not enough of our players had really good games, certainly not enough to break down a resilient Sunderland.

Ireland and Ashley were pretty anonymous in the first half, but we looked much much better after Ash switched to the middle and Albrighton provided some pace and penetration on the wing.  That seems to be the way to go for us, but where does that leave Ireland?

[hawkeye]

I cant stand Halsee, ok the bloke has been ill but he obviously hates us, a dodgy own goal inept refereeing and poor execution in the box, but i think we were the better team