Aston Villa v Norwich City Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

You do have to wonder if Delph is ever going to begin to look like justifying his fee.

Not a chance in my opinion. In every aspect of midfield play today he was dire.

[eastie]

Bennett tweeted' sorry I let the fans and my teammates down today".

Norwich reporter tweeted " villa easily the worse team we've played this season and that includes Scunthorpe and Doncaster".

Very bad day indeed.

[ez]

Norwich deserved to win 3-1

Yes we were very lucky today. God help us when the lucks against us.

[PaulWinch again]

Bennett tweeted' sorry I let the fams and my teammates down today".

Norwich reporter tweeted " villa easily the worse team we've played this season and that includes Scunthorpe and Doncaster".

Very bad day indeed.

Fair enough just learn from your mistake Joe and never get sent off so stupidly again. In any case his sending off just gives an excuse, we were awful well before then and it is essentially because of the wrong formation and a horrendous midfield four.

[ktvillan]

On a positive note we can relax for four games because anything we get is going to be a bonus.

[midnite]

You do have to wonder if Delph is ever going to begin to look like justifying his fee.

I agree with you there. His first touch is more often than not very questionable. He puts himself under a lot of pressure. Then he does that body check/ turn thing as the ball comes to him, not seeing what's around him and finds himself turning right into a player from the opposite team. It's the same trick over and over again. I don't think KEA and Delph can play in the same midfield either.

[5ft811st2 Durham]

The central midfield is so poor that I would say based on his performance at home to Bolton last season Stephen Warnock is probably the player at the club best equipped to play there.

[ez]

Bennett tweeted' sorry I let the fans and my teammates down today".

Norwich reporter tweeted " villa easily the worse team we've played this season and that includes Scunthorpe and Doncaster".

Very bad day indeed.

Stephen Fry tweeted "Finally!! Phew! Got through the Villa wall"

[midnite]

Who played that long hopefull ball to the forward when we had a good chance to break away? It was just before they scored. Annoyed me that did.

Albrighton I think it was

[Bernie Gallacher]

Really didnt understand the decision to hook Benteke for Bent today - from that moment we had no outlet whatsover and we rarely got out of our own half

[eastie]

Reading and Wigan winning at the moment so bottom 3 it is then.

[VillaAlways]

Reading and Wigan winning at the moment so bottom 3 it is then.

Soon to be bottom

[ktvillan]

Bennett tweeted' sorry I let the fams and my teammates down today".

Norwich reporter tweeted " villa easily the worse team we've played this season and that includes Scunthorpe and Doncaster".

Very bad day indeed.

Fair enough just learn from your mistake Joe and never get sent off so stupidly again. In any case his sending off just gives an excuse, we were awful well before then and it is essentially because of the wrong formation and a horrendous midfield four.

I'm not so forgiving, his stupidity possibly cost us two points that were desperately needed given the run of games coming up, and which, unless things change soon,  could make a huge difference at the sharp end of the season.  But Herd was just as idiotic and extremely lucky to stay on the pitch.  We have enough to deal with without players leaving their brains in the dressing room.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Utterly dreadful again.

You're going need to be very persuasive to convince me that this is in anyway better than last season.

The midfield is absolutely powder puff, strangely lacking in ALL departments. No creativity, No guile, No umph, No pace and No width. Ahmadi is very nice and comfortable but he gives the ball away a LOT. Delph, well I just don't get him at all, offers nothing to my mind. Holman goes from good to completely anonymous every single games. So much so i forgot he was on the pitch at times yet again. Albrighton, given an extended run to get his form/fitmess back I think will be invaluable at some point due to the lack of any other wide options (where on earth was N'Zogbia today?)

The defence worries me too, I think Lowton's settled in fairly well but it'll take Bennett a bit longer judging by his performances so far, That said, should either of them be automatic starters at this stage of their Villa careers anyway ?

I thought Vlaar and Herd did well in the main, and Guzan was immense.

Gabby didn't do much for me, and I can see it being another year before he scores a premier league goal again.

Best i've seen Benteke play so far, I just wish he'd been played alongside Bent

Lambert, well i'm sorry to say it but i'm starting to have a lot of doubts already. The whole Bent situation is beyond puzzling. And to top it off when he does eventually bring him on I couldn't understand the reasoning. Benteke holds the ball up far better so should've stayed on. Bent is a goalscorer and we weren't in desperate need of a goal today. We were desperate to keep the ball above all else.

Truly dreadful start to the season and the biggest worry is we don't look any better or clued up now than we did against West Ham on the opening day. There's very little else to be said.

[saunders_heroes]

This is easily the worst Villa team since '87, and we look like relegation fodder. Any team, doesn't matter who they are, sell their best players and replace them with lower league rubbish is going to struggle. Lerner hasn't got a clue about football, and the man is dragging us down to the Championship. We were absolutely abysmal today, and absolute embarrassment to the club.
What's the solution? Well we've just got to struggle onto January and hope that idiot Lerner opens his chequebook for some panic buying.