Arsenal v Aston Villa F.A. Cup 4th Round Post-Match Thread

[kippaxvilla2]

Villa must be the only team that score a goal in first half injury time and it kills them off rather than the opposition.

[tarzansbrother]

Villa must be the only team that score a goal in first half injury time and it kills them off rather than the opposition.

I thought that. Really does show the current mentallity of our current players.

[London Villan]

A bonus two goal lead against an average Arsenal team with 45 minutes to defend. Did he not think to change it at half-time and bore the pants of them?

Take any one of Bent, Gabby, Keane or Ireland off and stiffen up the midfield.

Hindsight...

[Somniloquism]

Maybe the booing at HT made them have flashbacks to a Villa Park match so they played like they were there in the second half.

[PeterWithesShin]

Villa must be the only team that score a goal in first half injury time and it kills them off rather than the opposition.

I watched the game in the Strathallan and there was an Albion fan in there with his Villa supporting better half. Fair play he wanted us to win and cheered our goals with her, partly as he seemed to hate cockneys. However at HT he said well that's game over and I thought, you really don't know the Villa way do you.

Even at 2-0 I was shitting myself at the thought of them getting an earlyish goal in the second half and wasn't confident of us winning.

[hawkeye]

Lets face it, we are not good enough to have any chance of winnning anything, We cant defend, Today showed the best and worst of Bent, fantastic finisher but a passenger for the rest of the game. Nothing from the manager to capitalise on a 2 goal lead. Its just about avoiding relegation now

[kippaxvilla2]

Ive said it before and I'll say it again but this defence will get us relegated of not this season then next. Hutton in particular was to blame for the first two goals and it defies reasoning as to how he has plied a trade in the Premier League.

We should be in no doubt that this was an abject capitulation against a comparatively shit Arsenal side. 

[Small Rodent]

Bent's head did seem to drop more than others too.

[goldenjimi]

Why can't people accept that sometimes the oppostion have a good spell which is hard to defend.  We were shite for a good 10mins at the back, but it was alot of pressure.  I still think we are moving in the right direction,  Ireland, Bent and Keane in flashes were good.  Its not all bad, we do need a new defence tho!

[ktvillan]

How unexpected.  In 45 years of watching Villa I'd never seen us do anything like that, especially in the cup.  I mean honestly who'd have  thunk it?

Totally self inflicted with two mental challenges (Dunne's challenge was so late it was in another time zone) and a comical clearance attempt from Hutton, following a classic Warnock lunge.  Commit suicidal challenges and errors in and around your own box and there will only be one outcome.  We have a defence with less intelligence than plankton.  If Dunne, Hutton and Warnock were up against a row of cabbages on univesrity challenge, which set of vegetables would your money be on?

Shame because we actually looked half decent going forward, and our second goal was a peach of a move. Oh well if I live to be 100 maybe I'll see us win the cup.

[TimTheVillain]

A bonus two goal lead against an average Arsenal team with 45 minutes to defend. Did he not think to change it at half-time and bore the pants of them?

Take any one of Bent, Gabby, Keane or Ireland off and stiffen up the midfield.

Hindsight...

It's not about 'stiffening the midfield up' - It's about passing the fucking ball to each other as opposed to the fucking speculative HOOF and FOCUS.

Warnock and Hutton were dreadful today ( again).

15th Place ( I hope).

[tarzansbrother]

Ive said it before and I'll say it again but this defence will get us relegated of not this season then next. Hutton in particular was to blame for the first two goals and it defies reasoning as to how he has plied a trade in the Premier League.

We should be in no doubt that this was an abject capitulation against a comparatively shit Arsenal side. 

Warnock, Collins, Dunne, Hutton to start Wednesday. Oh and the transfer window will have closed so these 4 will be getting another half a season.

[Apyadg]

Why can't people accept that sometimes the oppostion have a good spell which is hard to defend.

If Arsenal had played superb football and beaten us with 3 quality goals that would have unlocked any defence in the league,. I suspect that few people would complain.

But they didn't. We gave them the win.

[nick harper]

Composure, composure, composure. If you keep giving the ball back to the opposition, more often than not, you will lose. 

If you don't give the player in possession an option and move off the ball, he will more often than not, give it away.

We are painful to watch most of the time.

[PaulWinch again]

Ive said it before and I'll say it again but this defence will get us relegated of not this season then next. Hutton in particular was to blame for the first two goals and it defies reasoning as to how he has plied a trade in the Premier League.

We should be in no doubt that this was an abject capitulation against a comparatively shit Arsenal side. 

Warnock, Collins, Dunne, Hutton to start Wednesday. Oh and the transfer window will have closed so these 4 will be getting another half a season.

It'll be longer than that, and Cuellar was dreadful today as well.