Aston Villa v Sunderland Match Thread

[Villanation]

Great flick on by Gabby,

[Mister E]

I'd be looking to bring Carruthers on for the second half; take N'Zog off. Get some youthful vigour down the right.

[Fergal]

HT 0-0 AM will be happy with that

[PaulWinch again]

Started well but we've run out of steam, I fear for us following the Mcleish half time team talk.

[Summers]

Carruthers is THE player we need to start giving time on the pitch too. He looks dangerous.

[DB]

Jesus, awful.
Another poor 1st half.

Really? I think we've played quite well today, certainly better than we have over the last few weeks.

I think we've got used to seeing sh*t so any improvent is seen as palying well. But, we can't put 2 passes together and have no direction.

We've put a number of good passing moves in this afternoon, though! And this is the most attacking performance we've put in for ages, so the first half showing definitely had clear intent (if not the ability to pull it off).

I've been happy to decry our performance this season, but today is far from terrible........so far.

We'll have to disagree, it's painful to watch. All I want is a goal!

[hawkeye]

Nzogbia is a wate of space he has talent but no conviction, get him off and soon

[Fergal]

I'd be looking to bring Carruthers on for the second half; take N'Zog off. Get some youthful vigour down the right.

What is more likely is Big Em on left wing

[SamTheMouse]

Looking better today so far, but bugger me we are missing Bent...

[l_mckay]

we need to go for it second half,another draw is no good to us

[Nelly]

Decent half with good intent to play football I think. I can't complain at that. We have been a bit toothless but at least we're in the mix. I hope we don't shut it down in the second half and keep playing.

Other than that, Lichaj looks a bit like the chap who used to play Felix Liter to me. And Cuellar a bit like Carew from a distance!

[Villanation]

Gabby has been outstanding, loads of work, loads of effort if he got more service into the box such as the Wiemann chance just now, that's the kind of thing we need to convert on

All in all, we aren't down, Sunderland look like they've already gone on holiday so we should be able to take that on board and win this.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

I want to see us play with width. Play N'Zogbia down the left, Albrighton down the right and try and make the pitch big. We're too narrow as Mark and Charlie keep coming inside into the bodies of players.

Our control, passing and movement is woeful

[Boz]

We don't look like scoring. We look like we are playing better than previous games, but that's because we have been playing rubbish.

If we don't get a lucky goal, I think we will lose by a single goal, as if they score, MON will tell them to park the bus and we won't have the guile to break them down

[Fergal]

Jesus, awful.
Another poor 1st half.

Really? I think we've played quite well today, certainly better than we have over the last few weeks.

I think we've got used to seeing sh*t so any improvent is seen as palying well. But, we can't put 2 passes together and have no direction.

We've put a number of good passing moves in this afternoon, though! And this is the most attacking performance we've put in for ages, so the first half showing definitely had clear intent (if not the ability to pull it off).

I've been happy to decry our performance this season, but today is far from terrible........so far.

We'll have to disagree, it's painful to watch. All I want is a goal!

We don't do goals. We don't do going for it either.
FFS this is a mediocre Sunderland we are struggling to keep up with, they are not a good side and we are a poor side.