Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[l_mckay]

crap again,1 win out of 12 is shocking!! nervous for tuesday night already!

[Lambert and Payne]

Well, that wasn't the best, and Bburn result doesnt help. Does a win v Noblot keep us up?

[Toronto Villa]

Can anybody tell why that we play a right footed winger on the left and a left footed player on the right? This is a serious question I don't get it !!

so they can attack the full back on their weaker side. When it works as it did with Ash and Downing it is very effective

[Nelly]

So nervous watching that. Fulham, I could kiss you for scoring again. Things are so tight at the bottom though. Heskey did well when he came on, he set Weimann on his way with a frankly lovely turn and pass. But overall, scary, scary stuff.

[ozzjim]

We have the linesman to thank for not being even closer to the drop tonight.

Weimann looks a good player, and he and Heskey posed a really good threat second half. If NZogbia and Albrighton could help Ireland out a little it would be nice wouldn't it!

Ireland was magnificent today. The kids are doing us proud. But the manager, he simply has to go. His record is the worst you could dream of. Next game is the biggest mustn't lose of the season now surely.

[citizenDJ]

A shame we didn't win, because I thought we were the better team, just barely though. Some good stuff played, with special mentions to Weimann, Lichaj and Ireland (who improved a lot in the second half) and Heskey when he came on was impressive, too.

I know it's been said before, and will be again, but if we'd played like that on a regular basis (ie going for a win) then we wouldn't be in this mess now.

If we do that against Bolton, we'll win.

[Fergal]

Nil nil draw, I have nothing else to say!

AM will think of that as the perfect result.

[The Left Side]

Got out of jail, they had a good goal disallowed!

This

[Axl Rose]

yawn-mcleish still has not been able to get the team playing properly. Good effort by some of the team. The highlight was gardner getting sent off, and that is pretty pathetic when considered as a highlight. Why was their goalkeeper not punished? It was a free kick-so for what exactly? Absolutely ruined my night. Cheers Alex you knob

[ozzjim]

Can anybody tell why that we play a right footed winger on the left and a left footed player on the right? This is a serious question I don't get it !!

so they can attack the full back on their weaker side. When it works as it did with Ash and Downing it is very effective

It does not work though at all with these two, has not all season, both end up looking shit and we look tactically stupid. Get them down the propper sides and give them a chance of hitting form. I have not seen either of them play well on the WRONG side!

[Louzie0]

http://www.eplsite.com/stream2.html

Thanks for that, really good stream.  Shame no goal!  Perhaps you could arrange one (preferably for us) next time?

[VillaAlways]

To be honest I'm just really relieved that we didn't lose heavily as I would have felt we would be on a real downward spiral. Hopefully they'll take some confidence and go on to beat Bolton on Tuesday and we can relax. Could have been so much worse.
Very nice touch from Craig G with the support Stan shirt
We really need Spurs to do the biz against QPR

[Archieavfc]

Yawn, anyone really expect any other result or performance.

On a side note fair play to Gardner with the support Stan shirt, was cheering when he got sent off but a touch more respect when he displayed it.

[paul_e]

Let's get 'em in singles.

Alex, is that you?

typical performance, didn't do anything wrong, but never tried to win it, happy to just not lose, again.

Oh, and left winger nzogbia and right winger albrighton played on the wrong sides yet again.  We have no options when we have the ball and big part of it is we play with the wingers tucked in but then give the full-backs no licence to create width by going forward.

[PaulWinch again]

Reality is that they had a perfectly good goal disallowed, so we got lucky. The manager has to go, we just don't have a clue going forward.