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

[Walmley_Villa]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

[PaulWinch again]

Bent is not remotely one of our problems. Our back four is a calamity waiting to happen in every game pretty much, the full backs are beyond words. Also Clark was poor today and Petrov is beginning to look out on his feet for most of the game again.

[Chris Smith]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

He's had no problem with leaving out N'Zogbia on occasion so I'm mot sure that's necessarily true.

[Clampy]

Take away two stupid tackles by two experienced players who should know better, and we should be in the next round.

[Lobsterboy]

I've read some strange things on here this evening...

Someone suggested taking Bent off at HT? He's scored 4 in 5 and you want to take him off 30 seconds after putting us 2-0 up?

McLeish always plays the same back four? Cuellar at CB today, Clark at LB last week?

Also there seems a strong ground swell of opinion that McLeish should have made a change at HT. Realistically, had he done so while 2-0 up away at The Emirates and we had gone to lose 3-2 he would have got absolutely slaughtered!

Yes we fucked it up but the second goal was fortuitous to say the least and I am not entirely convinced Bent's challenge should have been a penalty.

Oh and there's the RVP elbow incident too... be interesting to see if there's any retrospective punishment.

Onwards and upwards and let's go and beat QPR on Wednesday and get this out of our system - in the meantime I'll carry on with the Stella and hope to erase this one out of the memory

[Somniloquism]

Yes we fucked it up but the second goal was fortuitous to say the least and I am not entirely convinced Bent's challenge should have been a penalty.

He took out the player before he touched the ball, so it was a pen.

[Risso]

You'd think we'd just lost to Walsall judging by the tone of this thread. Arsenal played very well in the second half, they're a good side full of good good players with the best striker in the league playing for them. Yes, we made mistakes with the goals but we're a club in the process of downsizing and they're in the knockout stages of the Champions League. That's not to make excuses for how we conceded but to put some perspective into events, they're better than we are so we need for them to have an off day or us to have all the luck going.

Let's just skip all the games leading up to the final then, and play it between the top two teams in the division.  Oh hang on, they've both been knocked out.

[saunders_heroes]

If we could just sort out our defence we'd be a good team. I've never known a Villa team with two worse fullbacks than we've got now. Warnock and especially Hutton are truly awful.
On the plus side we scored two fine goals. Sadly though we're out of the FA Cup again.

[PeterWithesShin]

We also got lucky as Dunne should have been booked for his pen and sent off.

[Risso]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

We don't have any other full backs, so as utterly useless as Hutton and Warnock undoubtedly are, we don't really have any alternatives.  The whole club is a shambles.

[PeterWithesShin]

How much longer is Lichaj out for?

[Greg N'Ash]

11 games this season we've let in 2 or more goals, and a couple of them we won. Don't need to be a genuis to see where the problems are.

[PeterWithesShin]

11 games this season we've let in 2 or more goals, and a couple of them we won. Don't need to be a genuis to see where the problems are.

Not scoring enough goals. If we were getting 3 every game, job done!

[Walmley_Villa]

Lichaj was on the bench

[ozzjim]

Buying a left back is a must.

Herd and Lichaz are both better, as is Cuellar than Hutton, who I hope is sold this summer as a mistake. Eck dropped Murphy at Blues for Ridgewell at left back, and has dropped NZogbia, so I don't think Hutton is immune.